by Brian Hague | Aug 22, 2014 | Enterprise Risk Management
The latest home price numbers (through May, according to S&P/Case-Shiller) looked pretty solid: the benchmark 20-City Composite measure was up 9.3% year-over-year (YOY). All 20 markets posted gains on an unadjusted basis, though 14 showed YOY declines when...
by Brian Hague | Jun 10, 2014 | Strategy
A number of economists are presenting a pretty rosy outlook for the U.S. economy over the next several quarters. While I don’t disagree with the general positive direction of their forecasts, nor with the general contribution to those forecasts of their various...
by Brian Hague | Apr 2, 2014 | Economics
No assessment of a credit union’s risk is complete without a macro outlook on the economy and interest rates. But how can a credit union best develop a forward view of economic factors? As the old joke goes, if you line up all the economists in the world end-to-end,...
