Today was another one of those “days of days” when President Trump announced retaliatory tariffs against India and, for some reason, Japan. At the same […]
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August 1st Was a Bizarre Day in US Economic History
First, a minor mea culpa as I missed not by a mile, but by two hundred miles in my forecast fro the Bureau of Labor […]
Dr. Copper is On Life Support
There are great songs in American history then there are those that resonate since the 1980s forever. Unfortunately for precious and industrial metals investors, the […]
FOMC Day: Jay Powell is Cooking Up the FUTburgers
Yes, I know, I know, the title is corny and just what is a futburger? More on that at the end of this piece but […]
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 […]
More Inflation Nonsense This Time from Hershey’s
Hershey’s today made an announcement that they will be engaging in double digit price increases and amazingly made the following statement as quoted in a […]
$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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
IF You’re Complaining About the Quarter End Silver Slam Please Read This Article
Another quarter ends, another silver slam begins and ends. The panic which ensued with the newbie silver bulls is not shocking, in fact, for those […]