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 […]
Tag: TRUMP
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 […]
Trump Now Has His Peace in Our Time Moment
Congrats, I guess? Preceding this was another “Truth” on his social media site which simply said this: In other words, this war is over because […]
06.23.25 Markets Should Rally Unless…
This one innocuous looking photograph which is the headline thumbnail for this article is the key to understanding why ES is not down 100 points […]
The Major Problem With Iran: You Break It, You Buy It
In just hours or days from now, there is a strong possibility of American bombers, surface to surface missiles launched from US Navy vessels, and […]
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 […]
S&P 500: Gappapalooza
There are bear market rallies and then there are bear market rallies based on nothing but hopium and prayer. Well, this author is all out […]
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, […]
06.05 10:46 a.m.: Trump Posts About Xi, WTF
Let us start with the posting from Truth Social: First off, one more time for the mentally challenged, THERE IS NO TRADE DEAL, just a […]
It Finally Happened: Trump Called Xi
And another great meme dies after two months of the trade war. In what has been hyped, lied about, promoted, and used to pump markets […]
Secretary of Commerce Lutnick Surrenders the Trade War
There are news events which fly under the radar, and then there a days where the major news story is so obvious it should terrify […]
The Trump Team Forgot to Bring the Power to the Trade War
IN the early days of the 1970’s, a famous commercial aired about Calgon water softening products with the catch phrase “Ancient Chinese Secret” which was […]
The Tariff Ruling: A Nothingburger or Taco of Consequence?
The Court of International Trade, an Article III Constitutionally created by Congress to adjudicate trade disputes since the 18th century, dropped what at first appeared […]
I Finally Understand the Use Function of Bitcoin
Or, how it took a dollar funding crisis in Japan for me to figure out crypto… For the life of me, I could never understand […]