January 6, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes For January 6, 2024

After closing higher for nine consecutive weeks and making new All-Time Highs, Nasdaq 100 futures took a “refreshing” pause to start the New Year The NAZ rallied ~60% in 2023, its best performance since the fabulous 1999 Dot.com days. (Veteran campaigners may remember that the NAZ rose an additional 30% by March 2000 but then […]

January 6, 2024 | The Epstein Interview

In this interview, you will hear the efforts of Jeffrey Epstein’s brother to get answers. During this interview, he was told that the doors were open. This is the hole. They throw you in there to cut off your communicates. When they went after my lawyers, suddenly, I was thrown into what the inmates call […]

January 6, 2024 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Crude Oil, Gold, USD, Canadian Dollar
• Larry Williams: (11:02) 2024 Outlook for Stock Markets, Gold, Interest Rates, USD, Canadian Dollar, China, LIT
• Martin Straith: (38:01) Canada’s Job Growth, USA National Debt hits $34 Trillion, over $100,000 per citizen

January 6, 2024 | Tech Talk for Saturday January 6th 2024

The Bottom Line Time for a pause in performance by U.S. equity markets into mid-March, most notably by the tech heavy NASDAQ Index and related ETFs! Thereafter, look for strength to the end of 2024 supported by accelerating earnings gains and a history of rising U.S. indices during the fourth year of the U.S. Presidential […]

January 5, 2024 | Supreme Court to Decide if Trump Can Be Removed from Ballots

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump can be prevented from standing for president because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. This is fantastic news, for we need the Supreme Court to decide this question simply for the sanity of the nation. The Court acknowledged they need […]

January 5, 2024 | Financial Cycle Behavior is Consistent

In June 1999, the US Fed began an 11-month rate hiking cycle that took the overnight rate from 4.75 to 6.5% by May 2000. Amid tech-mania-inspired irrational exuberance, the S&P 500 hit 1527 by March 2000, sold off into the summer, and rebounded to double top at 1521 by September on soft-landing forecasts. What unfolded […]

January 5, 2024 | Will The Government Confiscate Gold?

China and Russia are running out of money

January 4, 2024 | Home Listings Rise as Sales Stagnate

Rebounding Treasury bond prices have lowered mortgage rates from their cycle high in October, but home prices at current mortgage rates are still painfully unaffordable for most. The Bank of Canada estimates that 45% of Canadian homeowners saw their mortgage payments rise in 2023, and 50% of mortgages initiated before March 2022 will face higher […]

January 4, 2024 | How Long Can the Wall Street Party Last?

Will Gold keep you safe in any market downturn?

January 4, 2024 | Could 2024 be the Year of Bitcoin?

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January 4, 2024 | The Truth About Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies – An Unpopular Analysis

  “Could governments seize bitcoin?” That is a common question, and much to the dismay of many, my opinion does not match the typical analysis. I have lost clients due to my honesty regarding crypto. I understand many firmly believe that Bitcoin will one day become the alternative to the USD, but it is unwise […]

January 4, 2024 | Navigating Market Crossroads

As an investment newsletter we strive to keep investors on top of what is driving the markets. As we have been highlighting for Trend Letter subscribers the last few weeks, we are currently well-positioned for a potential pullback in the S&P. The developments in yesterday and today’s price action has increased the likelihood of such […]

January 3, 2024 | FL Surgeon General Urges a Halt to COVID Vaccines

  The truth is coming out about the vaccines in 2024. Those living in Florida may have received a notification this week from Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s office warning the public that the vaccination is not safe. The FDA warned Lapado last month that questioning the vaccine would be considered “misinformation,” but he ignored […]

January 3, 2024 | 2024 Starts Rough

Assets bid up by irrational amounts eventually end up on clearance sale. Always. This is something to remember with the seven most expensive tech companies ending 2023 at their October 2021 price peaks (chart shown below, courtesy of All Star Charts), even while the Fed funds rate has moved from .25 to 5.5% and earnings […]

January 3, 2024 | Recession Watch: Slightly Lower Interest Rates Will Make Zero Difference

GDP is still growing, home prices are still high, and the unemployment rate is still low. But under the surface, the bad numbers just keep coming: U.S. manufacturing sector shrinks for 14th straight month in December (MarketWatch) – The new-orders index fell 1.2 percentage points to 47.1 in December (below 50 indicates contraction). Prices fell […]

January 2, 2024 | What Will the Fed do in 2024?

    Everyone wants to know what the Federal Reserve will do in 2024. Of course, people want to believe that the Fed will slash interest rates in the New Year. The pundits cling to every word except when, at the start of the month of December, Powell boldly criticized the Biden Administration, saying that […]

January 2, 2024 | Art of the Collapse, January 2024

In December, some prestigious universities made the (in retrospect) horrendous mistake of letting their presidents testify before Congress. The result was not pretty — except for meme creators, who had a field day: But the Ivy League’s public humiliation wasn’t the only novel thing to happen in a federal government building last month, as staffers were […]

January 1, 2024 | Rigging Elections Worldwide?

  COMMENT: Finland’s Presidential Election The only opposition candidate in the Finnish presidential election, Paavo Väyrynen, was prevented from standing as a candidate by a hybrid operation in which the state-owned postal service routed the supporting cards sent to him to Estonia (and the cards were not found until the deadline had expired). Finland’s political […]

January 1, 2024 | Corruption, Chaos, Conflict – Fourth Turning Erupts in 2024

“Americans today are increasingly polarized, as if they constitute two separate nations.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and […]