Even as job growth remains weak, a tightening labor market is contributing to a general heating up of inflation.
Does the increasing length or strength of a bull market actually make the next correction more imminent?
The debt ceiling has, yet again, been deployed as a political football in the last few months.
Going forward, we expect confidence and spending to revive as the latest pandemic wave wanes and reopening continues.
As this happens, a focus on valuations should be more rewarding than has been the case in recent years.
While the pandemic will demand increased attention, the general transition to a reopened economy will likely continue.
Even if output growth decelerates in the months ahead, it should remain well above the economy's long-run potential.
This supercharged recovery has been characterized by strong economic and productivity growth.
There are two broad possibilities for why this is happening.