Credit Union Failure Friday #2: Soul Community Federal Credit Union Austell, GA

We’re going back to back tonight with another failure, this time in the small town of Austell, GA. From the NCUA website tonight: Soul Community […]

Credit Union Failure Friday: Aldersgate Federal Credit Union Marion, IL

Ok, actually it was officially conserved on Wednesday, but I just caught it in my updates so the theme for Fridays must go on. From […]

The Major Problem With Iran: You Break It, You Buy It

In just hours or days from now, there is a strong possibility of American bombers, surface to surface missiles launched from US Navy vessels, and […]

Gold is Money, Silver Shines So Now What?

As the summer officially begins this Friday, the reality that precious metals once again are taking the lead as the true flight to safety not […]

FOMC Statement: Please Don’t Smell This

Before I engage in my usual dissection of the bull crap session, here is the actual Federal Reserve Open Market Committee statement straight from their […]

Do Stocks Really Enjoy a Good War?

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for […]

What This Morning’s Empire State Manufacturing Survey Said Which is a Warning for the Fed

The New York Federal Reserve Bank published it’s monthly Empire State Manufacturing Survey and the headlines were disturbing to the financial markets for all of […]

The Iran-Israel War: 30 Years of War Drums Reaches a Finale

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905 Before I offer a brief analysis of the […]

A Quick Prediction on Today’s CPI Report

If we’re all supposed to be dorks and believe the financial pump and dump media, the BLS report on CPI at 8:30 a.m. will be […]

S&P 500: Gappapalooza

There are bear market rallies and then there are bear market rallies based on nothing but hopium and prayer. Well, this author is all out […]

China’s Version of the Trump-Xi Phone Call is Interesting

The following is the full government readout from China of the Trump-Xi phone call via Xinhua: Xi says dialogue, cooperation only correct choice for China, […]

06.05 10:46 a.m.: Trump Posts About Xi, WTF

Let us start with the posting from Truth Social: First off, one more time for the mentally challenged, THERE IS NO TRADE DEAL, just a […]

It Finally Happened: Trump Called Xi

And another great meme dies after two months of the trade war. In what has been hyped, lied about, promoted, and used to pump markets […]

Silver: It’s Happening

Finally. If silver breaks out above $35, as I’ve been saying forever, and closes with higher volumes above this level or preferably $36, then the […]

America’s Downfall: Everyone’s Watching, No One is Listening

And sadly, even fewer are reading. So why the title of tonight’s rant and why it is 100% germane to the future of the United […]