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 […]
Tag: INFLATION
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 […]
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 Financial Pandemic of 2025
That’s it said the Business Man. Industry cannot run on optimism. Optimism cannot create commodities or sell them; it cannot operate a shoe factory or […]
07.03.25 Non-Farm Payroll Previewarama
For the record, if one is not already getting prepared to clean the smoker, load the cooler, and prepare to smoke some quality dead pig […]
ADP: A Canary in the Coal Mine or Just More Noise?
Earlier today the Automatic Data Processing (ADP) monthly payroll employment report was announced at 8:15 a.m. ET. While the majority of Wall Street and anyone […]
2025 Q2 Ends on a What Me Worry Note
The second quarter of 2025 began in April with a trade war firestorm and ended the month of June with a Taco Fiesta creating hope […]
The Big MOAB Was Dropped on Markets This Week
While many of my readers who were growing tired of the 12 Day War will read the headline above and say “oh no another Israel-Iran […]