March 11, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For March 11, 2023
Break something? The Fed has been raising interest rates for the past year to bring inflation down to its target range of ~2%. For the past several months, the market has been trying to guess “what would have to happen” for the Fed to either slow their pace of raising rates, stop, or start cutting rates. […]
March 11, 2023 | This Week in Money
- Ross Clark – Stock Markets, US Bank Failures, USD, Precious Metals
- Martin Armstrong – (13:02) Neocons, Global Warfare, Digital Currencies, Bitcoin
- Victor Adair – (58:08) Banking System, Interest Rates, Oil, Gold
March 10, 2023 | Warren Buffett Speaks and Smart People Listen
The world’s most successful long-term investor, Warren Buffett, writes an annual letter to shareholders about investing and the recent performance of his investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway. This year’s letter came out last weekend, and like always, the short piece contains interesting ideas, comments and tips on investing. Why not take advantage of his wisdom, at […]
March 10, 2023 | Collapsed Silicon Valley Bank a “Classic” Failure
US Yield Curve inversion predicting severe recession
March 9, 2023 | The Credit Suisse Latest Scandal
Credit Suisse has gone from one crisis to the next. Last month alone, the bank reported that customers have withdrawn $120 billion. A rogue employee stole the names of people with $50 million or more and probably gave that to tax authorities for a bribe – the second time this has taken place in Switzerland. […]
March 9, 2023 | Stock Market Could Collapse 15-20% More
Low energy stock prices could lead to buying opportunity
March 9, 2023 | Crude Oil, US Dollar, Gold, Silver, Bitcoin
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March 8, 2023 | Why Most Americans Cannot Afford a Home – A Price Breakdown
Are you too poor for the basic human necessity of shelter in Biden’s America? The average home price in Q4 of 2022 was $535,800, according to the St. Louis Fed. If you live in a highly desirable area, expect to pay more. To simplify the math, let’s say that you are looking to purchase a […]
March 7, 2023 | Understanding Bond Yields and Mortgage Rates
As mentioned in the segment below, in America, more than 90% of mortgages are fixed for terms greater than ten years, and 95% of existing mortgages are at rates less than presently on offer. And yet, as shown below, since 1977, US mortgage payments to income are already at unaffordability levels seen in the last […]
March 6, 2023 | Extend and Pretend
Happy Monday Morning! Canadian banks reported first quarter earnings this past week. Those earnings provided an important glimpse into what’s shaping the nations housing market. Deep in the footnotes, CIBC reported that $52-billion worth of mortgages – the equivalent of 20% of the bank’s $263-billion residential loan portfolio were in a position where the borrower’s monthly payment […]
March 5, 2023 | Creating ‘Wealth’ Is 99% Inspiration and 1% Perspiration
Americans grew effortlessly richer last week when a two-day rally in stocks and bonds added many hundreds of billions of instantly spendable dollars to the economy. Most of it would have dropped into the hands of traders, speculators and portfolio managers. However, enough will trickle down to sales reps at Bijan, Dolce & Gabbana and […]
March 4, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For March 4, 2023
The DJIA hit a 4-month low on Wednesday but then bounced – as fears of “higher for longer”interest rates diminished The 2-year Treasury yield hit a low of ~1/10th of 1% in August 2020 as the Fed slashed interest rates to counter the Covid Crisis. Some commentators suggest those were the lowest rates in 5,000 years. […]
March 4, 2023 | Housing Bust #2 Has Begun
This is the transcript of my podcast on Sunday, February 26, THE WOLF STREET REPORT. The housing market in the United States has turned down, and in some big markets very dramatically so. Other markets lag a little behind. That’s how it went during the last Housing Bust, that I now call Housing Bust #1. […]
March 4, 2023 | This Week in Money
- Ross Clark – Stock Markets, USD, Gold, Oil
- Mark Leibovit – (7:41) Presidential Cycle, Crypto, Gold, War on Cash. Special Offer! Receive 50% Off VR Trader Newsletters! Enter Promo Code 2022HALFOFF.
- Robert Campbell – (47:10) US Real Estate, People Leaving California, Fitness
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March 3, 2023 | 2032 & The Real Great Reset
COMMENT: Marty; A lot of people are concerned that you may just say the hell with it all and move to your island in the Caribbean. A lot of us always stood by you and many more are joining the ranks. There are so many who claim to be brilliant analysts but it is just […]
March 3, 2023 | Russian Revolution 2.0?
Bad Buy-Back Loans Choking Wall Street
March 3, 2023 | RecycLiCo™ CEO Discusses Tesla’s Investor Day
Watch – Tesla 2023 Investor Day. Read Benzinga Article – “RecycLiCo CEO Discusses The Company’s Upward Momentum And The Growing Demand For Lithium-ion Battery Recycling and Upcycling“. Read Economist Intelligence Article – “Automakers Move To Adopt a Circular Economy“. Read CIPS Article – “Why the US Needs a Purchasing Consortium for Critical Resources“. Read American […]
March 2, 2023 | Tesla 2023 Investor Day Updates on Electrified Energy and Transportation
Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day on March 1, 2023, outlined important context and data for the global transition to electrified energy and transportation. The big-picture data presented here are not new. They have been verified and published by other scientists and engineering experts in this space, including Stanford’s Mark Z. Jacobson and The Solutions Project. And yet, most people are […]
March 2, 2023 | Pension Crisis Could Cause a Deflationary Collapse
Substitute “taxpayer” for government bailout plans to get true impact
March 2, 2023 | How Banks are Preventing Mortgage Foreclosures
BC Real Estate data missing in action
March 2, 2023 | Will Canada’s Poor Economic Outlook Stop Rate Hikes?
Commercial properties struggling to stay afloat
March 1, 2023 | COVID Scam & The Lack of Journalism
Besides Fauci should be prosecuted on every possible statute and all the small businesses that went bankrupt because of him should file a class action suit against him personally and the government. Every person who has suffered an injury from the vaccines and those who have died, and their families should also file against […]
February 28, 2023 | Stress Compounding at Higher Rates
Thirteen years of ultra-loose monetary conditions, followed by the sharpest tightening cycle in 40 years, have wrought record household debt service payments (in orange below, courtesy of The Daily Shot) and a record low savings ratio (grey line) Year-over-year growth in consumer debt payments since 2020 (blue line below since 1986, courtesy of Morgan Stanley) has […]
February 27, 2023 | Is The Copper Story As Good As Everyone Says?
How does “energy transition metal in chronic shortage” sound? Copper is about as old-school as it gets. A metal that was used as low-denomination coinage from the Roman Empire through modern times and as an electrical conductor since the invention of the light bulb, it’s been both in demand and relatively easy to find, basically […]
February 26, 2023 | Will 7% Mortgages Crush Housing?
Between 2020 and 2022 houses in America’s hottest real estate markets went from unaffordable to 50% above unaffordable. Put another way, they did what would have been impossible in an economy where market forces determined interest rates and home prices. But ours was not that kind of market. Central banks around the world had lost […]