Maybe the Consumer Isn’t as Strong as Advertised

Sigh, I feel like the lost bear in the woods. There is an underlying economic reality that the “K” shaped economy is something new to […]

Trump’s War on Jay Powell Hits a Bessent Speed Bump

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 […]

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 […]