by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jul 1, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s featured chart shows a reason why we probably won’t see inflation come crashing down any time soon. The chart, shown above, shows the ratio between home prices and rents. When it’s rising, it means home prices are growing faster than rents; when it...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 24, 2022 | Chart of the Week
It’s getting a lot harder for the average American family to afford a house these days. As shown on our featured chart above, the Housing Affordability Index (blue line, top clip) has fallen off a cliff. Compared to last year, the index has dropped 44 points...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 17, 2022 | Chart of the Week
This week’s big news was the Fed’s announcement that it’s raising its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points (0.75 percentage points). That was the Fed’s biggest interest-rate increase since 1994. This surprise move was in direct response to the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 10, 2022 | Chart of the Week
What do you get when you combine dirt-cheap funding with a preference to invest in companies heavy on intangible assets? Two words: zombie companies. According to a new research paper by the University of Minnesota, the percentage of U.S. public firms with zero...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Jun 3, 2022 | Chart of the Week
There’s a saying in economics that the cure for high prices is… high prices. In other words, as the price of a commodity increases, it incentivizes producers to produce more of that commodity, but the increased supply then leads to lower prices. That’s the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | May 27, 2022 | Chart of the Week
The U.S. stock market has had a rough couple of weeks. Well, more than just a couple. Our Chart of the Week above shows the weekly returns for the S&P 500 this year. The index has now closed lower for its seventh week in a row. You would have to go all the...
