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January 21, 2025 | DoubleLine Round Table 2025
More moving parts than usual in 2025…For a few new ones, see Everything to Know about Trump’s Use of Executive Orders. The discussion below further elucidates. During the macroeconomic segment of Round Table Prime’s 2025 edition, participants, among other issues, deliberate the future path of inflation, premature Trump administration assumptions at the Federal Reserve, the hidden but […]
January 21, 2025 | Canada Created its Own Trade Barriers
Stéfane Marion, chief economist of the National Bank of Canada, has urged the Canadian government to reconsider their own trade barriers amid criticism of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated in a 2019 study that Canada’s own restrictions are “regarded as the most comprehensive analysis of internal trade barriers.” Rather […]
January 20, 2025 | Listening to Fools
COMMENT: I had assumed you were just a Trump supporter. It has been emphasized that I was wrong and that you are in the middle of forecasting the events economically. I was told you recently said that Trump could go down as Herbert Hoover and that he cannot prevent the recession from occurring. Would […]
January 20, 2025 | Balance Sheet Recessions Take Years To Repair
The winds of change are blowing around the globe. 74 countries representing half of the world’s population held national elections last year. Many of them — including the US — saw a replacement of the ruling incumbent by the opposition, often one promising a more nationalistic agenda. With so many new leaders and their accompanying […]
January 20, 2025 | The Cash Cow
Happy Monday Morning! Highlighting a good piece from the BMO economics team this past week. Per BMO, The Canadian housing market should firm modestly this year, but it’s still a long way back to the 2022 highs. Activity and prices have recently improved alongside Bank of Canada rate cuts, and that moderate upward momentum should […]
January 19, 2025 | Microsoft
Get Microsoft right, as I continue to remind you, and your forecast for the stock market can’t go far wrong. The tech giant is among the most valuable companies in the world, with extraordinary profit margins tied to an 80% market share in operating systems. The subscription-based revenue model the company has put in place […]
January 19, 2025 | Why Macron Wants to Create World War III – For a Dictatorships
A reader from France elaborated on the real motives behind Macron’s wanting to send troops into Ukraine, knowing this would start World War III. He looks at this from a personal power perspective, like any dictator fearing a loss of power. The reader wrote: “To follow up on the Post “Macron Considers Sending Troops to […]
January 19, 2025 | A Possible Storm
Rain can be either refreshing or destructive. It can make plants grow or produce devastating floods. But in all cases, it’s largely outside human control. Or is it? True, we have little control over whether rain will fall. We have a lot of control over how it affects us, though. Sturdy homes and good infrastructure can keep […]
January 18, 2025 | The DEEP STATE – Exposed
January 18, 2025 | Tech Talk for Saturday January 18th 2025
The Bottom Line Focus this week is on fourth quarter earnings reports released by large cap U.S. companies. Results released to date (9% of S&P 500 companies) have exceeded consensus estimates. Just a reminder: U.S. equity markets are closed on Monday.
January 17, 2025 | Roosevelt Also Confiscated Silver in 1933
QUESTION: I made a bet that a friend was wrong that Roosevelt also confiscated silver. I never heard of that, only gold. He said I should write to you and you will decide who wins. Thanks FD ANSWER: Sorry, you lose. He must have been at one of my conferences when we discussed that […]
January 17, 2025 | Musk Will Take a Chainsaw To Government Spending
The Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, is headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Elon Musk is well known as the world’s wealthiest entrepreneur, while Ramaswamy was a candidate for the Republican nomination in 2023. The goal of DOGE is to “cut the federal government down to size”. This could have a positive […]
January 16, 2025 | Volcanic Activity on the Rise
QUESTION: You have opened my eyes to the fact that volcanoes. I believe your computer was forecasting a rise in volcanic activity starting in 2025. Do you have any data that can suggest the risk from the supervolcano at Yellowstone? Pat ANSWER: The Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming is one of Earth’s most potent volcanic […]
January 16, 2025 | When will People Stop Moving to the Riskiest Areas?
For the last 50 years, Americans have flocked to the warm, sunny South. But, as climate change makes extreme heat, hurricanes, wildfire and flooding worse, will that trend ever STOP? Well, some regions might just be showing signs of a reversal, and they hold lessons for what other areas might expect as the world continues […]
January 15, 2025 | Destroying the World Economy ASAP
The two positions in life that require ZERO experience are (1) politician and (2) becoming a parent. We often hear blaming foreign buyers in real estate for the rise in prices. I listened to that in Miami, with all the foreigners buying condos, but I also heard in Florida how all these people from New […]
January 15, 2025 | Bidens New Sanctions On Russia Lift Crude Prices >10% In One Week. Expect Reversal Once Trump Takes Office
The Biden administration leaves next week but continues its scorched earth plan to make Trump’s taking over power difficult. The White House continues to spend whatever funds authorized by Congress and that the President can spend under Presidential authority before Inauguration Day. The result may be that the incoming administration comes in with a run […]
January 15, 2025 | Rethinking Risk-Exposure
The Great Fire of London in 1666 prompted the creation of the first fire insurance companies, which later evolved into broader property insurance. Home insurance became more widespread in the 19th century, particularly in the United States and Europe, as urbanization and industrialization increased. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company began offering policies in the U.S. […]
January 14, 2025 | Dems Profiting on California Tragedy
Politicians never shy away from using a tragedy for personal gain. Democrats like Gavin Newsom and Elizabeth Warren have been caught stealing donations intended for California wildfire victims and funneling them back into their Democrat Super PACs. Newsom created a website to combat “misinformation,” another term for controlling the narrative, called CaliforniaFireFacts.com that redirects […]
January 14, 2025 | Surprise: Financial Conditions Tightening into 2025
While the U.S. Federal Reserve cut overnight rates by 125 basis points since November 2023 (below on the lower right), the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen more than a percentage point, touching 4.8% for the first time since October 2023 (on the lower left) and April 2007 before that. Higher rates are the opposite […]
January 13, 2025 | The TRUTH Behind the TikTok Ban – Censorship
The TikTok ban is a complete disregard for the rights and freedoms of the American people. The ban is NOT about national security, but rather, the final attempt to prevent the people from connecting on an uncensored platform without backdoor government censorship. The law in question goes beyond TikTok as the government will only permit social platforms […]
January 13, 2025 | Big Bank, Big Forecasts
Happy Monday Morning! Every New Year is marked with forecasts. There’s a natural affinity for making predictions about house prices, particularly in Canada. Most homeowners we chat with today believe two things, interest rates are going lower and house prices should rise in 2025. I have a few thoughts, but first let’s see what the […]
January 13, 2025 | How Canadian Prime Ministers Stepped Down Over The Years
History offers valuable perspective on human systems and cycles. Political leadership is easy to criticize and hard to do. Pendulums swing, and so it goes. Revisit decades past in Canadian politics as prime ministers came and went and oversight of the country changed hands. Here is a direct video link.
January 13, 2025 | Is the Catalyst For the Next Financial Crisis…Homeowners Insurance?
In October, two brutal hurricanes hit the US southeast. And last week, Los Angeles went up in flames and is still burning as this is written. These natural disasters are, obviously, a nightmare for the people directly impacted. But they might be part of something much bigger and far-reaching. Migration and Inflation Over the […]
January 13, 2025 | Ellen Brown: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the state boasts the only state-owned bank in the nation? Has it secretly gone socialist? No. The Bank of North Dakota (BND) operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that […]
January 12, 2025 | A Partly Cloudy Year
Weather forecasters tell us what kind of weather we should expect. They can be wrong, but their short-term outlooks are generally reliable. The old joke that economists exist to make weathermen look good is funny because it has a ring of ironic truth. Other things aside, though, we usually prefer moderate weather. Most of us would be […]