Trump to Announce a Hopefully Future Trade Deal With 12th Largest Trading Partner

They political and financial media hypesters are at it again in a desperate attempt to keep the stock market and more importantly the bond market […]

Another FOMC Nothingburger, or Is It?

The financial media is all perplexed to read today’s Federal Reserve Open Market Committee statement as their appears to be a whiff of stagflation in […]

After this Week’s Holiday Look for a Market Rollover

The United States sometimes forgets that it takes two to tango and make a deal, or for that matter, make a market. This week is […]

Something Wicked From Asia Has Hit US T-Bills

As many of my regular readers know, I maintain fairly bizarre hours as I’m usually in the office early getting things accomplished and sometimes up […]

Breaking Bad Enters the Trade War Conversation

There will be a cadre of bulls who insist that this author is insane. For the record, I am not a permanent bear as it […]

The Scariest Economic Easter Chart of them All

When I first saw a different version of the chart below posted by Torsten Slok in his “The Daily Spark” email newsletter, I immediately had […]

The Warnings on Gold Were Correct: Panic is Here

On Sunday evening, these pages warned about the following: There is a risk that further mistakes could be made which will result in gold far […]

Gold: Now All of you Can Worry

There is a weird situation that only happens at the precipice of a major financial crisis. I’ve lived through several of them now and as […]

5 Big Reasons Trump Capitulated on Tariffs

And no boys and girls, it was not the million plus donated to the “inauguration fund” by Apple CEO Tim Cook. The past 24 hours […]

The Original Anti-Inflation Movie was Falling Down

Change my mind. On a more serious note, the reality of inflation, stress on the middle class, and people being addicted to mind numbing drugs […]

Get in My Belly of The Curve

Fat Bastard knew. Bond traders knew. The Asian traders thought they knew. European traders are still saying what the f***. Ignoring the so-called “tariff” relief […]

The Widowmaker Rides Again

If any of you have followed my stupidity and bad investing choices or listened to the @Macroedge radio show, you have heard my references to […]

04.07 US Market Watch: Black Monday Alert

Not too much need’s to be said after the VIX opened for trading early this morning and gapped up past 60: Meanwhile the US Dollar […]

04.06.25 Middle East Markets All Down on Trade War Fears

While not all markets in the Middle East were open today, those that were promptly tanked as the decline in oil prices, commodities, and global […]

End of the Bull: The Firing Squads have Been Dispatched

Last June these pages wrote about Blindfolds and Cigarettes as certain equities began to be executed by the bears, one by one, with only a […]