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....
This week we look at the history of reserve currencies and what fate befalls the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Historically, at least since...
This past week the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ both made new record highs then reversed and closed lower making an outside trading week. Key reversal?...