CRITICAL THRESHOLD: U.S. Debt Bomb Set to Explode Dear Reader, Impeachment and political poison, it’s all coming to a climax in 2019. Imagine being a creditor to a borrower as dysfunctional as this. Prepare for a rip higher in gold and absolute chaos in the stock...
Be Careful With Stocks Dear Reader, 31 years ago, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 230 points during the week ending October 16, 1987, a number of factors were cited that should sound awfully familiar in today’s jittery economic environment....
One of the frustrating components for alternative-minded investors is the blue-chip stock market — no matter what happens, no matter how bad the fundamentals or economic metrics, equities seemingly are impervious. Much like the presumptive Republican...
Against some pretty incredible odds, the long-standing benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average last week gained 277 points over the prior week’s close. That puts the Dow Jones up 643 points for the year, and caps off a fairly solid run that began in mid-February....
Situation critical. That would be the apt description of the global financial markets as it stands now, and worse, where they will most likely be in the months — perhaps years — to come. How people respond to current events today will determine a great...
After showing recent promise, all major U.S. blue-chip indices ended the final trading day of 2015 in the red — quite an appropriate ending for what has been regarded as a tumultuous year for stocks, according to The Wall Street Journal. Ironically, the losses...
One thing I consistently notice in the workplace is the acceptance at which the general populace accepts the merits of the 401k as gospel. Invest and save for the long term they say, and do it in the 401k. Why not? You’re crazy if you don’t use the 401k you know? For...
Call it the Friday the 13th massacre. Last week’s start to the weekend will go down as one of the more infamous in recent memory. As geopolitical events spiraled into new dimensions with the active involvement of the Russian military in Syria, the French (and by...
Score one for technical analysis! Prior to Thursday’s announcement by the U.S. Federal Reserve that the monetary environment of artificially low interest rates would remain unchanged, I argued in my YouTube channel (starting at the 13:02 mark) that the chart for...
Will she or won’t she? It’s an otherwise inane question often found in the rambling rants of pre-pubescent YouTube channels or the lovelorn lyrics of a corporate-produced boy band. However, in Wall Street’s case, the implications of whether or not...