http://www.exec-wealth.com Independent Financial Professionals Tue, 15 May 2012 18:05:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.exec-wealth.com/lessons-from-the-labor-market/ http://www.exec-wealth.com/lessons-from-the-labor-market/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:05:55 +0000 lkobus http://www.exec-wealth.com/?p=942 More than four million children were born in the United States in 1990, the most in any year since the tail end of the baby boom in 1961. Twenty-two years later, in 2012, more than 1.8 million will earn a bachelor’s degree …read more]]> http://www.exec-wealth.com/lessons-from-the-labor-market/feed/ 0 http://www.exec-wealth.com/license-to-spend/ http://www.exec-wealth.com/license-to-spend/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 13:27:58 +0000 sspadt http://www.exec-wealth.com/?p=937 In our 2012 Outlook we wrote, “U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is likely to produce below-average growth of about 2% in 2012, supported by solid business spending and modest, but stable, consumer spending” read more here....

]]> http://www.exec-wealth.com/license-to-spend/feed/ 0 http://www.exec-wealth.com/new-paradigm-in-global-growth/ http://www.exec-wealth.com/new-paradigm-in-global-growth/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 15:52:16 +0000 lkobus http://www.exec-wealth.com/?p=931 For the third year in a row, as April turns into May, global financial markets are growing concerned over a slowdown in global economic activity. From a U.S. perspective, we continue to monitor several key metrics (as first outlined in the Weekly Market …read more]]> http://www.exec-wealth.com/new-paradigm-in-global-growth/feed/ 0 http://www.exec-wealth.com/most-asked-fed-question-may-go-unanswered/ http://www.exec-wealth.com/most-asked-fed-question-may-go-unanswered/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:29:08 +0000 lkobus http://www.exec-wealth.com/?p=927 This week marks the first anniversary of the latest round of increased transparency by the Federal Reserve (Fed) as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will kick off a second year of post-Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting press conferences on Wednesday, April 25. Bernanke’s …read more]]> http://www.exec-wealth.com/most-asked-fed-question-may-go-unanswered/feed/ 0 http://www.exec-wealth.com/beige-book-shows-modest-growth/ http://www.exec-wealth.com/beige-book-shows-modest-growth/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:11:38 +0000 lkobus http://www.exec-wealth.com/?p=923 The Beige Book compiles qualitative observations made by community bankers and business owners about economic (labor market, prices, wages, housing, nonresidential construction, tourism, manufacturing) and banking (loan demand, loan quality, lending conditions) conditions in each of the 12 Federal Reserve (Fed) districts (Boston, New …read more]]> http://www.exec-wealth.com/beige-book-shows-modest-growth/feed/ 0