I haven’t covered Barron’s Confidence Index (CI), for a while. As something odd happened with the CI last week, something that has never happened before, this...
The future of the US dollar is growing dim, and in the growing darkness, so too is any reason for holding dollar-denominated debt; Treasury, corporate bonds,...
Currently, the big money managers have only pushed the Dow Jones to its 31,500-line last March before they stopped selling. But should the Dow Jones (my...
I’ll say this; the key to the future for the stock and gold markets is to be found in the bond market. When bond yields once...
Visually, Barron’s Gold Mining Index’s BEV chart is divided by the August 1971 dollar’s decoupling from the $35 gold peg. Since August 1971, it’s made very...
This inflation hurt the bondholders for both IG and BG bonds, those who lent dollars worth more, much more than the dollars they were paid back...
Since their highs of last October, mortgage rates have kept above 6%, but below 7%. It could be worse; mortgage rates could be approaching 8%, but...
The big difference between 2011 to 2015, and our current 2020 to 2023 collapse in gold’s open interest can be seen in gold’s BEV chart, where...
The major concern I have for the market is the NASDAQ Banking index (#21), closed the week below its BEV -50% line. These banks have lost...
That the financial media continues speaking optimistically of the banks suggests, to me if no one else, that we are still far from the bottom for...