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July 15, 2024 | Assassinations & Markets – Divided We Stand
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is reverberating around the world, to say the least. Domestically, it depends if you are a Democrat or a Republican. Each camp naturally views the event through their personal view of the world, which is basically unchangeable. If aliens landed from another planet and started wiping […]
July 14, 2024 | Summer Doldrums It Ain’t
The dog days of summer have returned with a vengeance to Florida this year, especially in my home. The air conditioner’s condenser coil sprang a leak, which is hardly unusual considering that it’s eight years old. What is unusual, and causing more than a little inconvenience, is that the broken part will take a month […]
July 13, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes For July 13, 2024
Do you believe in mean regression? The NAZ is up ~50% from last October’s lows, 100% from the 2022 lows, and >200% from the 2020 lows. It’s up ~20X from the 2009 lows. At what point does mean reversion kick in, or does that never happen? The S&P has closed higher for 11 of the past […]
July 13, 2024 | This Week in Money
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- Tony Mitchell: (1:20) Director of Marketing for RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials on Company Showcase – RecycLiCo’s Taiwan Joint Venture Generates Revenue Ahead of Expectations. The Difference Between Black Mass and Black Powder. Read the Latest News. Watch Roundtable Video with Sandy Munro, Jason Fenske and Norm Chow. Norm explains the difference between Black Powder and Black Mass: “RecycLiCo Battery Recycling Q&A with Engineering Explained & Kemetco Research“. View RecycLiCo’s Company Presentation.
July 12, 2024 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, June: A Rate Cut, and? Overall Prices Don’t Move, -14% from Peak, -3.4% YoY. Sales -9.4% YoY
The Bank of Canada cut its rates at the beginning of June, and not much happened in the Canadian housing market. Home sales rose by 3.7% in June from the beaten-down levels in May, seasonally adjusted. But year-over-year, home sales were down 9.4%, a sharper year-over-year decline than in May (-5.9%). New listings rose by […]
July 12, 2024 | The Advantages of Buying Junior Gold Stocks
Hints the stock markets are heading for a fall correction
July 11, 2024 | The Clinton-Harris Ticket
Polls are already asking voters whether they would support Hillary Clinton as president. Even international news outlets are posting this information. When did Hillary suddenly enter the race? Democratic firm Bendixen & Amandi conducted a poll to see how the public would respond to a Clinton presidency. Of the 86% of respondents who watched the […]
July 11, 2024 | RecycLiCo’s Taiwan Joint Venture Generates Revenue Ahead of Expectations
The Difference Between Black Mass and Black Powder. Read the Latest News. Watch Roundtable Video with Sandy Munro, Jason Fenske and Norm Chow. Norm explains the difference between Black Powder and Black Mass: “RecycLiCo Battery Recycling Q&A with Engineering Explained & Kemetco Research“. View RecycLiCo’s Company Presentation. Watch – We upcycle cathode scraps and black mass into higher-value battery materials! Video […]
July 11, 2024 | Does AI Deserve All the Money It’s Getting?
Will AI make you more productive or just take your job?
July 11, 2024 | A Bumpy Day for the Major Stock Markets
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July 11, 2024 | OPEC Production Cuts
A bid divide between liquids and gases on the energy front
July 11, 2024 | Why Has Uranium Suddenly Picked Up?
Investors switching from mega caps to small stocks
July 11, 2024 | More Signs Canada and US Slipping Into Recession
Baby Boomers don’t have the risk tolerance they think they have
July 10, 2024 | US and China Crude Demand Sluggish – WTI Should Decline Below US$80/B in The Near Term
The US Presidential election continues to keep observers riding a roller coaster as they watch the Democrats agonize over keeping current President Biden or forcing him to resign due to his age and mental lapses. The ‘ring of power – the oval office’ then goes to his Vice-President Kamala Harris and she then gets to […]
July 9, 2024 | Used Car & Truck Prices Spiral Down Further in Historic Plunge, Surrender 60% of Stunning 2-year Spike
Prices of used cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans that were sold at auctions across the US fell by 0.6% in June from May, and by 8.9% year-over-year, to $17,934, seasonally adjusted, the lowest since March 2021, having given up 60%, or $5,640, of the mindboggling $9,443-spike between January 2020 and May 2022 (red in […]
July 9, 2024 | Elon Musk Partners with World Economic Forum
I like Elon Musk for his innovative mind and willingness to speak out against the establishment. Is he part of the controlled opposition? I did not believe it to be true until his recent dealing with the World Economic Forum. Musk himself deemed the ESG policies of the WEF to be “satanic” only one […]
July 8, 2024 | Ford CEO on the Rapid Evolution of Electric Vehicles
For those of us who’ve benefited from driving an EV for years already, it is a relief to hear mainstream leaders finally drop the opposition and misinformation to embrace the obvious. Ford CEO Farley does an excellent job of articulating facts in this segment. Ford CEO Jim Farley joins CNBC’s Julia Boorstin for a discussion […]
July 8, 2024 | Recession Watch: Jobs and Real Estate Head South
US financial headlines remain in Goldilocks territory (prompting all those “Why don’t Americans know how good they have it??” diatribes from the MSM). But under the surface, the drumbeat of negative data continues. Today, let’s consider jobs and real estate: Jobs Official reports of plentiful jobs and low unemployment are possible because the government is […]
July 7, 2024 | Nostalgic for Summer Doldrums?
The dog days of summer have returned with a vengeance to Florida this year, especially in my home. The air conditioner’s condenser coil sprang a leak, which is hardly unusual considering that it’s eight years old. What is unusual, and causing more than a little inconvenience, is that the broken part will take a month […]
July 6, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes For July 6, 2024
Big-cap tech leaves the rest of the market behind The NAZ closed green on each of the four days markets were open this week, once again powered by Big-cap tech. It is up ~21% YTD. The Russell 2000 closed lower this week and is slightly lower YTD. The DJIA, which includes AMZN, MSFT and AAPL, is […]
July 6, 2024 | This Week in Money
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July 5, 2024 | Fed Balance Sheet QT: -$34 Billion in June, -$1.74 Trillion from Peak, to $7.22 Trillion, Lowest since November 2020
otal assets on the Fed’s balance sheet dropped by $34 billion in June, to $7.22 trillion, the lowest since November 2020, according to the Fed’s weekly balance sheet today. Since the end of QE in April 2022, the Fed has shed $1.74 trillion. At its FOMC meeting in May, the Fed outlined how it will slow […]
July 5, 2024 | An Early Indicator of Recessions is Very Useful For Investors
On July 5, 2024, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was announced at 4.1 percent. This report appears to have triggered an extremely reliable recession indicator. The Sahm Rule, named after former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm, says that if the unemployment rate rises by 0.50 percent from the bottom a recession has already […]
July 5, 2024 | Study: Vaccines had “NO Beneficial Effects”
YouTube recently removed an interview I participated in with Palisades Radio for mentioning this study. I have posted the video on Rumble at the bottom of this article and it can also be found on X and Spotify. “Differential Increases in Excess Mortality in the German Federal States During the COVID-19 Pandemic”conducted by Christof Kuhbandner, PhD, Professor […]
July 5, 2024 | Are Canada and US in Recession?
The current bubble of everything likely to burst this fall