The recently-enacted Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a 1% excise tax on stock repurchases by corporations that takes effect in January 2023. The impact for SPACs remains subject to guidance from the US Treasury. We are monitoring the...
CrossingBridge Insights
CrossingBridge Insights is our opportunity to share our thoughts on interesting trends and data points through our Quarterly Commentaries, Market Observations, recent news, and random musings. We hope you enjoy and we welcome your feedback.
Currently, investors are caught in an economic “No Man’s Land” between the dangers of inflation and fears of recession as the Fed continues to raise interest rates. In the first half of 2022, U.S. equities and fixed income portfolios suffered some...
The song Locomotive Breath portrays a loss of control resulting from extreme, unanticipated events and the need to make the best of it as we go forward, which could describe today’s geopolitical and economic backdrop. In our 2021 year-end letter, we...
Government intervention often results in unintended consequences. Thomas Hoenig, former president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, in his just-published book, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy,...
Throughout history, pandemics have created structural changes: the fall of empires, the rise of Christianity, the collapse of economic systems, peace agreements among nations and societal introspection A Change is Gonna Come1 Throughout history,...
NEW YORK — Sept. 21, 2021 — CrossingBridge Advisors, LLC (“CrossingBridge”), an investment management firm specializing in ultra-short and low duration strategies, including special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), today announced the launch...
In response to the onset of the COVID crisis in late March 2020, Congress passed the CARES Act, which directed cash payments to nearly 80% of American households, providing temporary peace of mind for those with limited savings and living paycheck...
The U.S. government’s aggressive stimulus in response to the COVID-19 crisis, while necessary, has been like drawing a bubble bath for the financial markets. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and an anticipated $2.0 trillion infrastructure...
Perception of a post-COVID economic rebound and 2021 optimism became a financial market reality in 2020, with robust bullishness across most asset classes from stocks to bonds to bitcoin. This is a classic illustration of “reflexivity” in which a...
Scientifically, 10% of an iceberg is visible while 90% of its volume is unseen, below the water’s surface. In the U.S. equity and fixed income markets, the dramatic rebound from the March trough brought this to mind as there is a lot more going on...