November 11, 2024 | Why Bitcoin Will NOT Replace the Dollar

People continue to ask if Bitcoin will replace the dollar. They believe that the recent surge in Bitcoin indicates that it will topple the USD as the world’s reserve currency, but that is merely propaganda. You must understand that Bitcoin is simply a trading vehicle, not a currency. I cannot stress that point enough. My opinion […]

November 11, 2024 | Danielle on Thoughtful Money

November 10, 2024 | EU Nations in NATO Prepare for Trump Presidency

European Union nations are concerned about Trump’s victory, as Trump has historically opposed the NATO alliance siphoning funding from the US. Before Trump, only a handful of nations were paying their 2% of GDP obligation. World leaders are now calling for a European army, but a plan is already in place for a unified army […]

November 10, 2024 | Dogs Catching Cars

I went to bed “early” on election night, around 10:30 pm. We are in the five months of the year where Puerto Rico is one hour ahead of Eastern time, and nothing I was seeing made me think it would be an early night. And by that I meant 3 or 4 am. I woke […]

November 10, 2024 | What If It Really Is Morning in America?

I’ve been confidently anticipating the Mother of All Tops since, like, around 1975, but this week I decided to go wholeheartedly with the flow. The result, technically speaking, is a robustly optimistic S&P target at 7644.50. This might not be what permabears want to hear, but it will leave bulls sufficient room to deal with […]

November 10, 2024 | Does There Still Have To Be A Currency Crisis?

A decade ago, the world seemed like a complex place. But in retrospect, it was pretty simple: The fiat currency experiment had produced a hyper-leveraged financial system that would soon fail spectacularly. Existing currencies would be replaced via a monetary reset, probably involving some kind of gold standard. This would be a messy but survivable […]

November 9, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes for November 9, 2024

US stock indices soared on Trump’s victory—the DJIA, S&P, and NAZ rallied to new record highs this week. The S&P and the DJIA hit record highs in mid-October but then trended lower into month-end, perhaps de-risking ahead of the election. On election day (ellipse), the indices were bid aggressively from the opening bell, soared in the […]

November 9, 2024 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, US Election, Gold, Oil, USD and Canadian Dollar.
• Victor Adair: (13:45) Election of President Trump and the Stock Markets, USD, Canadian Dollar.
• Robert Campbell: (37:44) US and California Real Estate, Fed Rate Cuts.

November 9, 2024 | Tech Talk for Saturday November 9th 2024

The Bottom Line  All-time highs were recorded by broadly based U.S. equity indices following the election of Donald Trump as President. On Friday, the S&P 500 Index exceeded the 6,000 level and the Dow Jones Industrial Average exceeded 44,000. U.S. equity index futures are tracking their historic seasonal pattern following a U.S. Presidential election once […]

November 8, 2024 | Superhot Rock Energy Provides Unlimited Power

One of the hottest new technologies for production of heat and electricity is found deep underground. With ground-source heat pumps there is a year-round reservoir of constant temperature air just a few meters below the surface. This air is the same as the average temperature above ground. Heat pumps are useful for cooling in the […]

November 8, 2024 | Great Expectations are Priced for Disappointment

The fourth year of a presidential cycle is all about promising. The first year of a presidential cycle is about trying to deliver on all the promises. At the start of President Trump’s last term in 2017, the U.S. government deficit to GDP was 3% versus 6% today. The federal debt as a percentage of […]

November 8, 2024 | Still Room for Junior Miners to Enjoy Gold Boom

Why isn’t the Bank of Canada buying Gold?

November 7, 2024 | World Bank Missing $41 Billion in Climate Funds

A new report by Oxfam, “Climate Finance Unchecked,” has determined that the World Bank has $41 billion in unaccounted funds that were destined to fight climate change. This figure represents 40% of all disbursed climate funds by the World Bank. Oxfam’s audit revealed that between 2017 and 2023, between $24 billion and $41 billion simply went unaccounted […]

November 7, 2024 | US & China Energy Consumption Falls. We See WTI Declining Below US$68/b In The Coming Weeks

The Fed meeting ended today and the expected 25 BP cut was announced. I would keep an eye on the 10-year US Treasury now at 4.43%. It was down to 3.60% in mid-September. The high for 2024 has been 4.74% in April. If we exceed 4.74% then the Fed may be boxed in from further […]

November 7, 2024 | Fed Rate Cuts Not Lowering US Mortgage Rates

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November 7, 2024 | Sectors Expected to do Well Under Trump

Will inflation run wild under president Trump?

November 7, 2024 | No Signs of Stock Market Rally Ending Soon

How will Gold do under a Trump administration?

November 6, 2024 | Fluoride – Is America’s Drinking Water Safe?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may now Make America Healthy Again. One of his first measures will be removing “an industrial waste product” from America’s water supply that has been deliberately added since 1945. On January 25, 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, began water fluoridation. By 1960, water fluoridation had reached 50 million households and doubled to […]

November 6, 2024 | These Two Things Don’t Go Together Which one wins?

The election is over, and the result is pretty close to a best-case scenario. The victory margin is big enough to head off the expected civil unrest, giving us a more-or-less peaceful transfer of power. And if Trump and his team keep their promises, they’ll quickly address the existential threats of global war and mass […]

November 6, 2024 | Rates Back Up More

It looks like the U.S. election is yielding a decisive verdict, and that’s good news. Risky assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies are up sharply on the promise of less regulation and further tax cuts from a Republican-led government. In less bullish news, the Treasury market continues to sell off, with a rate backup that began […]

November 5, 2024 | Vanishing Internet Archives

Internet censorship tactics are happening on a grand scale in secrecy. The establishment is scrubbing internet achieves across numerous platforms in an attempt to reframe public opinion and ultimately rewrite history. Archive.org has been tracking websites since 1994, but recently, it has stopped collecting data in real-time. The website stopped archiving on October 8, 2024, […]

November 5, 2024 | Health Prepping: A Legit Anti-Cancer Diet?

There are a million diets out there, most of which are simply common sense combined with one marketable hook (grapefruit, red meat, etc). But one — the Ketogenic diet — just got some intriguing scientific backing. From today’s Epoch Times: Researchers Discover New Mechanism Linking Diet and Cancer Risk   Epoch Times, November 3, 2024 MGO, a glucose […]

November 5, 2024 | Home Listings Rise as Pandemic-Era Mortgages Approach Renewal

A new CMHC report notes that 1.2 million mortgages are up for renewal in 2025 and 980,000 in 2026. About 85% have fixed rates contracted when mortgage rates were below 2% compared with over 4% today. Although the Bank of Canada has lowered its base rate from 5 to 3.75% since June, Canadian fixed-term loan […]

November 4, 2024 | Recession Watch: Interest Rates Spike, Warren Buffett Sells

Higher For Longer (than expected)   When the Fed started cutting interest rates in September, the assumption was that rates would fall and the Fed would maintain the downward trajectory well into 2025. But interest rates didn’t cooperate. Across the yield curve, days like this one (November 2) have become the norm. A rising 10-year […]