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7 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments ☑️0🆇D̺͈͙͕̿ͧ̑ͣ🅰🆅🅸🅳eͤ $1.48
In the previous 4 articles, I have talked about GDP, Commodity, Real Estate and Bond (1st), Cycles, Expansion and Recession (2nd), Correlations, Variables and Indicators (3rd) and Inflation, Deflation, Stagflation (4th Part). This is the fifth (penul...
11 Aug 2023 3 minute read 3 comments SweptOverNiagara $0.21
I read Alisdair MacLeod's latest post this morning on KingWorldNews and he makes yet another interesting case for gold, not against dollars or any other currency but against oil, particularly WTI or West Texas Intermediate. Macleod is well known for...
2 Jul 2023 2 minute read 5 comments davidgyoung $0.53
Here is a very recent article from the Financial Times where they push the trial balloon out of the container and into the atmosphere tenderly suggesting that the almighty gods at central banks will raise their "inflation targets": IMF Warns Central...
16 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Night_Shade $0.01
Ever wondered why “go woke go broke” never succeeded? Why seemingly companies have been introducing toxic cultures and destroying their productivity and products? Was it to target leftist consumers? That makes no sense as they are alienating a large...
15 Jun 2023 3 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara $0.38
It's that time of the month again. Yesterday afternoon, we got word of a pause in rate increases from the Federal Reserve (which is not federal and has zero reserves). After ten hikes in a row, rates were held at 5 to 5.25% but included hawkish state...
11 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments ulriklykke $0.56
The US Federal Reserve raised rates by 0.25% last week, increasing its benchmark rate to between 5% and 5.25%: the highest since 2007. Although most investors expect that this latest hike will be the last, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has left the door o...
3 May 2023 3 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara $0.44
The markets were on the edge of their seats all week awaiting today's decision from the FOMC meeting. The FED raised rates as expected by 25 basis points although there were polls suggesting 85% of participants expected a pause while the remaining 15...
29 Apr 2023 4 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara $0.31
A week or so ago, I got word that TD Bank here in Canada was suddenly the most shorted bank in the world. As it turns out, it's true. Even more striking is the amount of those shorts has increased by 45% this week! It was Ernest Hemingway, in his boo...
29 Mar 2023 3 minute read 0 comments ulriklykke $0.51
In wake of the latest events we have witnessed in the banking sector with several actors facing liquidity crunches as a result of rapid and large customer redemptions, financial markets have behaved surprisingly calmly over the last week. This is hap...
24 Mar 2023 2 minute read 3 comments SweptOverNiagara $0.44
Germany's Deutsche Bank, regarded as the most systemically important bank in Europe saw its shares drop some 9% overnight to a five month low after a sudden spike in CDSs (credit default swaps), which is basically insurance against default, reignitin...
