As we move forward into our season of discontent, lockdowns and political wars the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI) hits 30,000. It is like we live in...
The COVID-19 rampages on. The building constitutional crisis in the U.S. rages on. And the markets continue to “make” what appears to be a topping pattern....
We look at the vaccine and ask is a constitutional crisis possible. We look at some history of constitutional crisis in the U.S. and the effects...
Our “Chart of Week” looks at the big picture of the U.S. stock market. It can be revealing as to where we are in the long...
A raging pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, protests and riots on the streets of the U.S. and EU, clashes between supporters of Trump and Biden. It appears things...
The markets continue to trace out what could prove to be an important top. There are no sell signals yet, but there are numerous divergences. We...
“Black Swan” events are thankfully few. But when they do happen they can be quite destabilizing even devastating. The pandemic of 2020 is a “black swan”...
Friday gave us the U.S. job numbers and they were disappointing. Markets ended the week up but closed Friday on a down note. Given everything else that was going...
Our opening essay takes a short look at the emerging FinCEN scandal that investigates how dirty money is being laundered through the world’s largest banks including...
Our “chart of the week” looks at the relationship between gold and the rise in the Fed’s balance sheet. This past week was the September FOMC....