The Manufacturing Renaissance Myth

While there are many who celebrate all of the announcements of countries to invest and companies to reshore into the United States, there are some […]

623 Million Shares on a What? 6 Cent Stock With No Earnings

But it’s not a bubble. Ever hear of this Hong Kong hottie? Symbol GIBO, GIBO Holdings, LTD. was the hottest stock on the NASDAQ today, […]

Moo? No, That’s a MOU to You!

Only the South Park Cows and the President of the United States could say the same thing with only the cool people understanding the reference. […]

$40 Silver: Stay on Target

Could this be the week? The instability created by the Japanese elections, the trade war rhetoric heating up, and worse, the insane war on the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 Trump Trade Sitzkrieg

After the defeat of Poland by the German military on September 27, 1939 an prolonged 8 month period of relative inactivity on the European front […]

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 […]