January 30, 2024 | The End is in Sight

There is a shocking level of undervaluation for silver compared to gold, even though the ratio had widened out to more than 91 to 1. Considering that there is a pronounced and deepening physical shortage in silver, the silver/gold price ratio should be closer to 9 to 1. That would put silver prices around $225 […]

January 30, 2024 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, January 2024 Update. Biggest Price Drops from 2022 Peak: San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Las Vegas, even San Diego

The overall home price index for the 20 metros that today’s S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index covers dipped a hair from the prior month and is now forming a beautiful double-top, after a huge mind-blowing spike. We’re going to get to the individual “most splendid housing bubbles” – as we’ve called them since 2017 to […]

January 29, 2024 | Could Texas Survive as an Independent Nation?

  The severity of the migrant crisis may be new to those who do not live on a bordering state. Yet Texas has been grappling with this issue for years, resulting in countless calls for a secession from the United States or “Texit.” How would Texas manage as an independent nation? Size and Population Texas […]

January 28, 2024 | Gold Stocks and the Coming Judas Swing

[This week’s commentary was written by David Isham, a longtime Rick’s Picks subscribers from Northern California who has been investing in bullion since he was in grade school four decades ago. RA ] Although gold appears to have broken out of a triple top and recently hit fresh all-time highs at $2152, the gold miners are trading at the […]

January 27, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes For January 27, 2024

US stock indices are higher again this week, with the DJIA up ~6,000 points (18%) from its October lows The S&P, Nasdaq 100, DJIA, and the VTI ETF have all closed higher for 12 of the last 13 weeks. The rally continues to be led by big-cap tech, with MSFT and AAPL both reaching a $3+ […]

January 27, 2024 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Oil, Gold, USD, Canadian Dollar
• Allan Mark Angell: (12:15) High End Real Estate, Interest Rates, Inventory
• John Rubino: (49:15) China’s slowing economy, US Immigration, Energy

January 26, 2024 | Tesla Debuts a New Inexpensive Sedan

Tesla announces a new low-cost sedan which will sell for about $25,000 in U.S. dollars. This vehicle will be available in mid-2025 and will be manufactured initially in Austin, Texas. Will this new model be enough to justify Tesla’s valuation? For the 2023 year Tesla announced revenue of $25 billion while the stock market value […]

January 26, 2024 | Could Lower Interest Rates Boost The Stock Market?

Chinese economy in trouble

January 25, 2024 | The Year of the Recession that Didn’t Come: Our Drunken Sailors Partied & Spent, GDP Jumped

The year 2023 was supposed to be the year of the recession. It was the most anticipated recession ever, the most hoped-for recession. Starting in 2022 with the initial rate hikes, the “Leading Economic Index” predicted a recession for late 2022; and when that didn’t come, for early 2023; and when that didn’t come, for […]

January 25, 2024 | Who Believes US GDP Grew 3.3% Last Quarter?

The key indicator a major market correction is about to happen

January 25, 2024 | Recession Warning Signals Flashing

Real Interest Rates rising even as Central Banks hold off hikes

January 25, 2024 | China Prohibits Shorting Stocks

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January 24, 2024 | Real Rates Rise After Central Banks Stop Hiking

Well-documented policy lags suggest that central banks have done more than enough to reverse the inflationary impulse over the next 12 to 24 months. As the rate of inflation comes down, real interest rates (overnight rate less CPI) rise (better for savers but worse for borrowers) and crimp the economy even after central banks pause […]

January 23, 2024 | China Canary Warns About Global Economy and The Downside To Euphoria

Remember in 2007-08 when bulls were all in love with China and projecting endless growth and outsized investment returns as far as the eye can see? It turns out the business cycle was not repealed, and high valuations and euphoric consensus remain a reliable precursor to mean reversion and capital losses. Chinese stock prices have […]

January 22, 2024 | Alex Soros is a Nut Job – Implies Assassinating Trump

an insanity, funding the prosecutions against Trump, funding the case in Colorado to remove Trump from the ballot all in the name of democracy? They ignore culture, religion, and even family, force their view upon the world, and assume only what they know is best. Both he and his father think their Open Society promotes […]

January 21, 2024 | Onward and Upward for Perhaps a Little Longer

When forecasting stock prices, it helps to view the market as a crazed creature driven by fear, greed, and most of all, stupidity. Of course, everyone but the “theme”-obsessed chimpanzees who purport to manage your money understands that the stock market’s heedless ascent into horrifying news is rock-bottom stupid.  In this case, the very bad […]

January 20, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes For January 20, 2024

NDVA, MFST and META surge to new all-time highs; various other stocks also rise NVDA is up ~20% since the end of 2023 with a current market cap of ~$1.5 Trillion, or roughly half that of AAPL and MSFT.   The powerful rally in Big Cap Tech took the Nasdaq 100 and the S&P to new all-time […]

January 20, 2024 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, S&P, Nasdaq 100, Bitcoin ETF
• Gerald Celente:(11:26) Stock Markets, Interest Rates, USD, China, Germany, Recession
• Victor Adair: (40:04) Stock Markets, Bonds, Gold, Oil, Uranium

January 19, 2024 | Armed Conflicts Have Yet To Hit Markets

Investors are coping with a high degree of uncertainty in the world, with at least three armed conflicts active now. The Israel/Hamas war was the top concern. But now the Houthi situation in the Red Sea, related to the Gaza conflict, has become top-of-mind. And what about Russia and Ukraine? Will these conflicts spread? How […]

January 19, 2024 | Why the US Won’t Go Into Recession in 2024?

Where are the people fleeing California going?

January 19, 2024 | More Indications of China’s Declining Economy

Lower energy prices should see more profitable gold mining

January 18, 2024 | Groundhog Day Effect

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January 18, 2024 | Nobody will be Safe if they are Vaccinated

  The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are mRNA vaccines, which contain tiny fragments of the genetic material known as “messenger ribonucleic acid.” There have been deep concerns that this entire technology may have long-term implications for human society.  There was a Swedish study that tested whether the vaccine’s mRNA could be converted to DNA and […]

January 18, 2024 | Davos, 5G, Next Plandemic, Rise of the Zombies

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