Economics
Coloration Is Not Causation
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on March 28th, 2025
People like concrete explanations for phenomena. For instance, virtually daily financial headlines are filled with reasons various markets behaved the way they did that day, up or down. These explanations are more compelling to readers than something along the lines of “buyers were more urgent than sellers today, so markets increased after the opposite was true yesterday
Clarifying the Tariffying
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on February 26th, 2025
Tariffs are essentially taxes imposed by a country on goods imported from abroad. They serve multiple purposes: generating revenue for the government, protecting domestic industries from foreign competition, and sometimes as a tool in trade negotiations. When a tariff is applied, it increases the cost of imported goods, making them less competitive against domestic products.
How Did We Get Here?
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on January 31st, 2025More Positive Attitudes
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on January 31st, 2025
Growing positivity seems like a good idea most of the time for most people. While the definition of what is and isn’t positive remains subjective, most would likely agree that there ought to be more of it. According to this survey from Gallup, there was an uptick of positivity for the first
Positive Trajectories
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on October 29th, 2024Copper Age
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on September 18th, 2024
Growing up there was a guy in the neighborhood who worked in some form of construction. He would often come home with copper wires, the type used overhead for transmitting electricity. I was in elementary school, so he never told me why it was in his possession, but he would strip the wire coating off with a large knife in his back yard and recycle the copper.
I’m Fine. This Time is Different.
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on July 14th, 2024Owing for Yesterday’s Pleasure
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on January 31st, 2024Spending borrowed money can be fun, but paying it back rarely is. However, that is how the financial system works in America. A person looking to spend more than they have available borrows money from another source which has more money than it needs at the same moment in time. This can go on and help fuel an economic expansion for a while but not forever.