April 20, 2023 | Gold, Silver, Crude Oil, Robots

Labour Shortage, OPEC

April 20, 2023 | Market Bubble, Real Estate, Gold, US Dollar

Crude Oil, Interest Rates, Inflation, Cash

April 19, 2023 | Recession Watch: Cars and Houses Join The List

Banks were already tightening lending standards before Silicon Valley Bank imploded. This chart is from Q4 2022:   Since then the tightening has become a full-fledged rout. It’s now much harder to get a mortgage or a car loan, especially for less-credit-worthy borrowers in overheated markets. Meanwhile, interest rates are rising again, with the average 30-year fixed-rate […]

April 18, 2023 | New Financial Mantra: “Stay Alive ’til ’25”

The sharpest monetary contraction in decades (US M2 below since 1960) has hit highly leveraged people and sectors like a meteorite from outer space. After twelve years of TINA reaching for yield and levered gambling, a new financial mantra is sweeping the land: survival. Real estate investors are increasingly responding to the math of higher […]

April 17, 2023 | Welcome to the New Totalitarian One World Government

QUESTION: Marty, You are the only worthwhile analyst. You were alerting us a year ago that the IMF was creating its own digital currency. We have all these people claiming this will kill the dollar just as they proclaimed the euro when that was created. It is also well known that you were called in […]

April 16, 2023 | The Wall Was Too High, As You Can See

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer […]

April 15, 2023 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: Spring Selling Season in a Housing Bust

he spring selling season is now in full swing in Canada. So let’s see.  Sales of all types of homes rose by 1.4% in March from February, after the 1.4% increase in February from January, so on a year-over-year basis, sales plunged by only 34% from a year ago, the smallest decline since September. And […]

April 15, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For April 15, 2023

Who’s going to be right, and who’s going to be wrong? Federal Reserve speakers continue to deliver “mixed messages” about future Fed activities/policies. Some speakers have been calling for a “pause,” while others (most recently, FOMC Governor Chris Waller) believe monetary policy needs to be tightened further. On Friday, Waller said, ” Because financial conditions have not […]

April 15, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark – Stock Markets, Gasoline, Gold
• Eric Hadik –  (9:14) Market Cycles, Interest Rates, Bonds, Gold, Silver, Oil, War
• Danielle Park –  (33:40) Interest Rates, Recession, GDP, Managing Risk Exposure

April 14, 2023 | Real Estate Speculators are Desperate for Interest Rate Cuts

Inflation moderated slightly in March but remains stubbornly high. The consensus is that central banks must cut rates later this year, but the latest CPI for March puts that type of wishful thinking into doubt. Will central banks hold the line on interest rates even as demands to cut rates grow louder? The CPI showed […]

April 14, 2023 | Small Business Hit by Wave of Bankruptcies

Will the US Dollar be bumped from being the reserve currency?

April 13, 2023 | Let Them Drive EVs

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is targeting gas vehicles in an attempt to reduce emissions. Their goal is to reduce carbon emissions by 10 billion tons before 2055 to “protect public health.” In turn, 67% of new personal vehicles will be electric by 2032. The average price of an electric vehicle (EV) is $64,338 and […]

April 13, 2023 | Bull Trap Ahead?

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April 13, 2023 | Some Great Gold Miner Opportunities

Crypto fans setting up for another huge disappointment

April 13, 2023 | More Canadian LNG Announcements Expected

Hold off buying energy stocks until market corrects

April 13, 2023 | Rising Interest Rates Not Killing Economy Yet

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April 13, 2023 | Rise Of The Zombies and Some Financial Stuff

Censorship, Food Supply Injections, More Injured than Dead

April 12, 2023 | The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster

Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s grandfather fought at Gettysburg and homesteaded the 160-acre farm after the Civil War. My grandmother sold it in the 1960s for $13,000, lacking a male heir to do the work; but my relatives […]

April 12, 2023 | Services Inflation Rages, Durable Goods Prices Rise Again after 6 Months of Declines. Food Inflation Backs Off, Energy Plunges

he Consumer Price Index (CPI) for March, released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was marked by plunging energy prices and surging services prices. Food inflation slowed, and month to month actually dipped for the first time in nearly three years. But durable goods inflation month-to-month suddenly rose again, after having been negative for […]

April 11, 2023 | Worst of Stock Market Losses Come During Recessions and Rate Cuts

A negative US 10-year minus 3-month yield spread has signalled every incoming recession of the last 60 years (grey bars below courtesy of Charlie Bilello). The current reading, at -1.67%, is the most negative ever recorded. Still, bullish hopes spring eternal. While most economically-sensitive sectors have floundered for two years: small cap stocks (-27% from […]

April 10, 2023 | Yellen Admits Truth Behind the Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act has only increased inflation. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen came out and admitted the truth – the act’s entire premise is to push the climate change agenda forward. “The Inflation Reduction Act is, at its core, about turning the climate crisis into an economic opportunity,” Yellen admitted. It provided […]

April 9, 2023 | The Commercial Real Estate Bust Isn’t Coming. It’s Here

Remember that imminent commercial real estate bust? It seems to have started. Beginning with a little background, the second half of the 2010s was a great time for massive buildings that could be financed for next to nothing and filled with pre-pandemic workers who still thought a “job” meant commuting to an office every day. The average […]

April 8, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For April 8, 2023

Will the Fed choose financial stability over fighting inflation? Markets have been trying to guess when the Fed will stop raising rates for months. There are several “reasons” why the Fed might change policy, including “something important breaks,” the economy goes into recession, and/or inflation falls.   But it seemed that every time investors expected the Fed to […]

April 8, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark –  Stock Markets, Impact of OPEC Production Cuts, Gold, Silver
• Victor Adair –  (10:58) Credit Markets, Recession, Gold, Silver
• Mark Leibovit –  (39:25) Interest Rates, Inflation, Gold, US Dollar, Lunar Cycles.  Special Offer! Receive 50% Off VR Trader Newsletters! Enter Promo Code 2022HALFOFF.
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