Are Things Getting Better For Businesses? NABE's Outlook for 2024
What are business owners' biggest worries and how are they feeling about the economy? This week, the National Association for Business Economics, or NABE, is expected to release its first survey of th...
21 Jan 202418min
Will Home Prices Drop in 2024? What Zillow’s Co-Founder Sees Ahead
Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff joins us this week to talk about housing and the state of tech and investing in private markets. Although mortgage rates have fallen from their peak in 2023, there ma...
14 Jan 202418min
What the New Year Holds for Small Businesses and Big Banks
Investors are bullish on big companies, but what about the small ones that drive almost half of U.S. economic activity? Arlan Hamilton leads a venture capital firm that invests in these small firms an...
7 Jan 202418min
Take On the Year: What to Expect in Markets and Money in 2024
The new year is upon us, and this week we’re telling you what you need to know to make sense of the markets as we head into 2024. It’s our final episode of 2023, and what a year it was: a long-forecas...
31 Dec 202318min
Interest-Rate Cuts Coming? Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee Has Thoughts
The financial markets seem convinced that interest rates are poised to come down next year. But officials at the Federal Reserve aren’t committing to rate cuts yet. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsb...
20 Dec 202325min
Still Have Inflation Concerns? Spending Data May Offer Insight
This week, we’re getting data from the Federal Reserve's favored measure of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures report, or PCE. While surprisingly strong consumer spending has helped boos...
17 Dec 202318min
How The Fed Is Moving the Markets Beyond Interest Rate Hikes
This week, we’re getting the fourth-quarter earnings from Photoshop creator, Adobe. The company’s announcement in October of new AI tools and services led to a five-percent jump in its stock, solidify...
10 Dec 202318min
What the Jobs Report and Consumer Spending Tell Us About the Economy
This week, we’re turning our attention to the jobs report. The Labor Department is expected to release their monthly jobs report this Friday. The report is arriving at a crucial time as recession conc...
3 Dec 202322min
