The Market is Lying The S&P 500 is comprised of 500 companies. Here are all the companies in it. When the economy is chugging along, this index represents in a general manner the real trajectory of the business environment. When that’s the case, the...
A Big F**k You American interventionism in the Middle East seems as natural as watering plants for us, but it looks like the reliance of the United States on Saudi oil and the rise of technology-driven China – a new contender for global dominance after a 30-yr free...
We Shall See a Bear MarketThat Lasts a Number of Years The world’s best macroeconomic investor of all time, Stanley Druckenmiller, is certain the dollar is about to tank by 25% over the course of the next 4-5 years. Who are we to argue? A billionaire claiming...
Which is it? Weird. Gold is sending both mega-bullish indicators, historical behaviors, which occur before extreme moves higher and others, just as forceful, which happened before years of underperformance. Let’s go over them and look into which of these is more...
Did You Catch Powell’s andBernanke’s Fireside Chat? Tamir Pardo is an Ex-Chief of the Mossad. In a 25-minute lecture of his, he discussed several topics, among which are the ramifications of social media and mass-media on decision-makers and their ability...
Pitch Black for 18 Minutes Straight Today, I want to discuss once-in-a-lifetime opportunities and something that is even more rare than that – a once-in-a-millennia opportunity! A lifetime is considered to be around 70 years, so this one is 14 lifetimes! Presumed to...
Who the Hell is Thomas Barkin I was doing just fine in life without ever hearing who Thomas Barkin is, but no… he had to make sure the whole world knows he’s the president of the Richmond branch of the Federal Reserve. 68-year-old Barkin did what’s...
Is it Coming or Not? Sitting around and waiting for 2008 has become a global pastime. You’d think we’re in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression based on the news, yet we’re not. We are in what I refer to as “justice...
Sworn to Say Nothing Not many people know this about me, but I’m a sucker for etymology. I love learning about the origin of the words we use today. Many English words started many centuries ago in the Middle Ages, and many more come from Greek or Latin. The...
The Last Shoe to Fall When you’re trying to break a child down so they can change their behavior, you try many things. Most parents attempt the most direct approach first and politely ask if they can simply stop what they’re doing. If they haven’t formed the...