China’s currency, the Chinese Yuan, remains pegged to the US Dollar. So when the US Dollar strengthens, the Chinese Yuan strengthens to. For an economy as rife with garbage debt…
Quietly and with little if any notice, foreign Central Banks have begun DUMPING US Debt. Take a look at this chart. Does this look like a bull market to you?…
The Central Banks are going to go absolutely nuclear within the next 18 months. In the last few weeks we’ve seen the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the…
The way to make biggest returns with investing is to catch a MAJOR trend before the majority of investors catch on. Doing this is not easy. After all, you’re going…
Are you ready for inflation? On Friday, both the Bank of England AND the US Federal Reserve made clear signals that they WANT inflation. The Bank of England is prepared…
The Fed is now in very serious trouble. All but one of the inflation metrics the Fed tracks are above its target rate of 2%. The one exception is Core…
By continually moving its “targets” for political purposes, the Fed has let the inflation genie out of the bottle. The Fed should have begun raising rates back in 2012. However,…
Let’s take a step back and look at the big picture for stocks today. After QE 3 ended in October 2014, the S&P 500 traded within a large range between…
Stock investing is ultimately based on risk. The global risk-free rate is the Us 10-Year Treasury. Again, this is the “risk-free” rate for the world. Stocks trade relative to this…
To understand the financial markets, you need to understand the hierarchy of asset classes. That hierarchy is as follows: Globally, the stock market is about $69 trillion in size, trading…
For decades, the primary argument by Warren Buffett and other financial elites for not owning gold was that “gold doesn’t pay you anything.” Once the ECB took interest rates to…
On Friday stocks soared on rumors that the US Department of Justice would reduce its $14 billion fine on Deutsche Bank. Turns out the rumor was a fabrication. As the…
Let’s talk about Deutsche Bank (DB). Deutsche Bank is the 11th largest bank in the world. It has assets of $1.8 trillion and over ~$60 trillion in derivatives on its…
Time for a reality check. The market has had nothing but positives for three months now. BREXIT was contained. The Fed failed to raise rates again. The Bank of Japan…
The head of HSBC’s Technical Analysis group just issued a major warning. Unless the markets can take out its September highs, we could very well see a repeated of the…
The financial world is abuzz with talk of the first Presidential debate. Meanwhile, one of the largest derivatives books in the world is imploding. Deutsche Bank (DB) is the 11th…
Few analysts noted it, but the $USD actually staged its second strongest day of the year the Friday before last. The only other day in which the $USD rallied more…
So much for the narrative. The latest myth being promoted in economic circles is that median income growth exploded higher last year. The people promoting this myth obviously didn’t bother…
The Bank of Japan failed to announce any new policy initiatives today. The reasons are financial and political. From a financial perspective, the Bank of Japan is well aware that…
The Bank of Japan failed to announce any new policy initiatives today. The reasons are financial and political. From a financial perspective, the Bank of Japan is well aware that…
