Last week in “Crushed” we talked about a coming volatility spike and sure enough $VIX spiked to over 20 from the 15 handle in a matter of days only to be crushed […]
Gold is not out of the woods, but a couple of miners look poised for a run. Subscribers, click here to download the report. Try…
I’m in the amazing city of Krakow, which most Americans have never heard of. It is one of the most beautiful, history laden cities I have visited in Europe. And yet, in many ways it feels very familiar. I have posted lots of photos at https://www.insta…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Until last week you hadn’t heard much about the bond market rally. I told you we were probably near a rally way back in early April when the 10-year was yielding around 1.7%. And I told you in mid-April that the 10-year yield could fall all the way back to the 1.2 to 1.3% range. […]
Cycles are topping out. That includes the big ones.
Yet again, whenever I pick a few shorts to add to the list, the market smacks me upside the head. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. It’s like our permabear friends, whose names I’ll withhold out of respect for the dead, who have been warning for 12 years that the market is about to crash. They will be right one day. Well, every few months I’ll see a few short picks that I like and add them to the list. We’ll probably keep losing money on them, but one day, I’ll be right. You’ll see! 😆
If leveraged speculators get hammered in Chinese bonds, they’ll be forced to slash risk elsewhere.
My sister-in-law represents the apotheosis of trading genius in the past twelve years. What does she know about finance? Nothing. What does she know about charts? Zero. But she put all, and I mean all, her money into Apple, and she ha…
The number one reason to “cancel” a brand – or at least boycott or protest them – is the mistreatment of animals. Animal cruelty was named as the top reasons why consumers would give up on a brand in all three countries included in the Cancel Culture s…