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Both government statistics and private sector alternatives showed an improving job market, and yet investors concluded that the Fed would raise rates. Why?

Once again, last week bonds dissented from other asset classes in what they are implying about the future. The bond market seemed to dissent from equity markets in its outlook signaling less growth optimism.

A good theme verse for this week would be "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."

Looking at last week, which was the last full week before the Fed announcement, we see the pattern unmistakably, as markets absorbed economic news not in terms of what they mean in and of themselves, but in terms of which ways the winds would blow in terms of our volatile double-minded central planners.

"I’ll ask you the same thing I asked Andy Olivastro, from Heritage, recently: fix it, or end it? Andy said 'destroy it.' Bury it in the ground. So what says Tom Carter: is this is a fixable thing?"

The work of depoliticizing finance isn’t over yet. Humanism has a problem. It denies human sin, but it can’t ignore the reality which comes from human sin, so it must find a way to purge guilt without acknowledging God.

Given Amazon’s broken relationship with conservatives, they do not intend to go on trust when it comes to the use of shareholder resources in supporting various causes.

"You've done four or five of these surveys and they're not static, you're seeing some Delta, you know, companies are rising and falling. What are the trends that you've seen?"

It should be no surprise that male-managed and male-governed companies are driving the pro-abortion phalanx of corporate America. No group more directly benefits from abortion than powerful men who are able to use the procedure to rid themselves of the unwanted results of their sexual encounters.

Visit the front line of the fight against the politicization and ideological capture of the investing industry, frequently under the name of ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance.