Americans are growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of information surrounding the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine across the country. Federal guidance on how to determine and schedule eligibility for the vaccine has been scarce, leaving m…
Is that a red flashing light on the control panel of “the man behind the curtain”?
I’ve been saying it for a while: The extremes are becoming ever more extreme, to the upside as well as to the downside. Last year I kept highlighting multiple warning signs in […]
A major swing cycle is in trouble.
The market appears to be early in a 5 day cycle up phase that began yesterday afternoon. So far, it is weak but it is working on breaking out of a downtrend channel, as of 4:30 AM New Yak time.
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.
The Biden administration takes the reins of the U.S. government in a little over a week. A surging pandemic, spiraling misinformation and politicization and a continuing economic crisis put the 78-year-old president-elect in one of the toughest spots f…
Who’s ready for a total freak show? Buckle in for I came across something interesting putting a couple of pieces of the market puzzle together. In The Alternative View I outlined some […]
A new survey by Ipsos shows that two thirds of Americans think that outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump carried either a good or a great deal of the blame for the rioting that ensued on the capitol grounds in Washington D.C. last week. 67 percent said…
Two surveys, carried out by Ipsos in October and December, show that vaccination intention for COVID-19 declined in most countries out of a selection of 15. The exception to this rule is the U.S., where vaccination intent rose from 64 to 69 percent.The…