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 […]
Tag: INFLATION
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 […]
Dixie Says Please Unwad Your Panties Financial Media
I know that it’s summer and the news flow has slowed down considerably since we have ceased bombing the dog snot out of Iran, there’s […]
Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell to Congress: No Cuts for You
In about ten minutes from now, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell will present the following prepared remarks to the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House […]
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 […]
Bessent and Trump Again: Bragging or BS?
As I’ve said since day one of his administration version 2.0, I hope he succeeds in a lot of the policies he’s attempting but some […]
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 […]
The Silver Breakout Indicates Much Higher Prices
At the end of 2024, I posted my annual prediction for precious metals with gold already nailing its year end target earlier than I even […]
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, […]
06.06.25 NFP and Employment Predictions With a Touch of History
The hoopla surrounding the great Elon Musk v. Donald Trump social media conflict seems to be calming down this morning so let’s take a moment […]
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 […]