paid Geopolitics • 3 min read Geopolitical Hot Spots With the Fed in easing mode and US economic growth remaining resilient and even robust, we are still wondering what…
paid China • 3 min read Larry & Ray’s Not-So Excellent Adventure in China is Over Both Blackrock's Larry Fink and Bridgewater's Ray Dalio have been notable and vocal China bulls for…
paid China • 2 min read China Is The Source Of The Deflation Trade Forget about a recession in the US. Currently, it is China's recession/depression that is weighing on oil…
public Geopolitics • 3 min read Geopolitical Risks Abound The world is getting more dangerous. That doesn't seem to be having any impact on the US stock…
paid Inflation • 2 min read 2% Inflation: Are We There Yet? On long car rides, the kids in the back seat ask their parents, “Are we there yet?” Investors have been…
public Crude Oil • 2 min read Is Oil Price Anticipating an Imminent War Between Iran & Israel? The war in the Middle East may be about to widen. Consider the following: (1) The Israeli intelligence community reportedly…
public Market Call • 3 min read Market Call: Bad Breadth Again The stock market has a bad breadth problem again. For a while, it seemed to be attributable to the outperformance…
public Commodities • 3 min read Bonds, Oil, Copper, Gold & The Dollar On a regular basis, we like to check on the correlations among the fixed income, commodity, and foreign currency markets.…
paid Fed • 2 min read Powell Says No Stag, No Flation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell wasn't dovish at his presser today. But he wasn't hawkish either. He…
paid Crude Oil • 2 min read Tanks A Lot The war premium in the crude oil market fell again today. Fears of a significant disruption to global oil production…
public Middle East • 3 min read The Spreading War In The Middle East Ever since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, we've warned that the latest war in the Middle…
paid Crude Oil • 3 min read Market Call: $100 Oil, $3000 Gold? Will the current decade turn out to be like the 1920s, 1970s, or 1990s? We are still assigning subjective probabilities…