What are the economic costs of the blockades in Canada? We examine. Are they going to be substantial? Or merely a hiccup. For the stock markets...
The FOMC and BofC met. BofC didn't hike rates as expected. The Fed remains hawkish and that spooks the market. The U.S. dollar soared and gold...
Is the party over? We muse as the stock markets are off to one of their worst January starts ever. Fear of interest rate hikes, political...
Have the stock markets topped? That is the message we are receiving from the stock market action over the first five days of 2022. The first...
Our forecast is not so much a forecast but laying out the rising risks for the markets. The Fed is taking away the punch bowl with...
Money makes the world go round and also makes the stock market and housing market go up. That’s good. But now prices are going up too...
With inflation becoming the new buzzword and signs that the economy might be weakening we revisit the Kondratiev Wave Cycle. Despite its controversies and not wide...
It was a difficult week. Gold crashed, then stocks had a mini-crash, oil crashed, the U.S. Dollar soared then suddenly fell, bond yields fell suggesting bond...
The stock markets keep going up. This rebound after a 5% or so correction is swift so it may not have legs but still could make...
From 1933 to 1958, as per Barron’s data plotted below (and I’m sure this was so long before 1933), stock dividends yielded more than bonds. Investors...