The Wall Street Journal broke some news on Saturday afternoon which appears to have created a dilemma for the get rid of Powell at any […]
10.24.25 CPI or War?
On Friday, the Trump administration will release a legally mandated data report on inflation due to the requirements needed for Social Security and other agencies to calculate COLA benefits (Cost of Living Adjustment). In an attempt to calculate the upcoming report there are numerous choices. One can look at the historical data for the September report as several administrations have been accused of suppressing this number to reduce the size of the COLA's for the elderly and lowering expenditures. Also the history based on the Atlanta Fed Sticky-CPI might provide some clues also. The analytical mind might want to drink a bottle of vodka and put groceries on the table and play spin the bottle then check the latest prices…
It’s Still a Bubble #25: BEN there, Done That
I'm not picking on these companies boys and girls. And…
Why One Should NOT Listen to Crypto Fanatics About Gold
Let's rewind to the video of the appearance of the…
Remember: Financial Media is Just Propaganda
This morning one of the must follow accounts who documents…
Two Historical Videos of TV Stock Market Coverage Relevant to This Era
FOR the record, I watched the entire session on the only real financial media cable channel, the Financial News Network (FNN), from 9 a.m. that […]
Before the Builders File, the HOA’s and Country Clubs Go Bankrupt First
All I can say is wow. A place that I lived in several years ago, and no do not start calling my wife and I […]
Dr. Copper is Still Holding Class
The stories since the start of the trade war tend to verify what most intelligent people knew long ago(from the UK Guardian): Demand for copper […]
A Quick Precious Metals Update: Still the Same
Despite a massive attempt by the shorts in the futures markets to quash this recent rally, the reality is that nothing has changed and all […]
A Great Infographic From Yahoo Finance on Inflation
While I like to think I try to cover data like this from top to bottom, sometimes an infographic helps to explain the radical change […]
More Tariff Circus Nonsense Now with Indonesia
This morning our Emperor in Chief, Donaldo Maximus El Trump announced that he personally had struck another trade deal, this time with the President of […]
Consumer Inflation Has Begun it’s Tariff Spike
Just like any other soap opera, the middle class family of the 1970’s used to stay glued to it’s television set and see the commercials […]
All This Excitement About a $9 Stock
This morning the major investment banks started reporting and by golly it’s so shocking to see the results that they beat their lowered estimates, I […]
Godzilla or Just More Chart Crimes?
There has been a lot of excitement overnight and online with FinTwit and the financial media about the sudden move in the Japanese bond yields, […]
Silver over $39 and Rising
The breakout these pages advised about in early June the breakout above $36 would result in a rocket ship to higher prices and as I […]
Will Trump’s War on the Fed Crash the Markets?
“There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.” – Andrew Mellon, August 1929 The President of the United States once […]
Merchandise Everything Accomplish Little
“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” -W.C. Fields The insanity that America has been enduring for twenty years now appears […]
The Silver Panicans are Coming
There has been a tremendous amount of speculative conversation about the potential for a silver break out to new all time highs but there has […]
The Trump Trade Sitzkrieg
After the defeat of Poland by the German military on September 27, 1939 an prolonged 8 month period of relative inactivity on the European front […]