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The Three Largest Cryptocurrencies – Update
With so much focus on bitcoin lately, we’ve added a new weekly update that tracks the three largest cryptocurrencies by market share: bitcoin, Ether, and Ripple. According to Wikipedia, a cryptocurrency is “a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional […]
Trump Is Misguided On Interest Rates
President Donald Trump has been making a big stink about the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes lately. Last week, after the Dow plunged nearly 2,000 points, he blamed the Fed for it, saying “I think the Fed is making a mistake. They’re so tight. I think the Fed has gone crazy…” On Tuesday, Trump said that the Federal […]
E Dangerous History Repeats
Isn’t it amazing how history repeats itself? My adopted dad from 3 months of age, Douglas Anderson, lived through the Great Depression. Then he became a small town capitalist. He needed loans to roll over inventory. I learned about procyclical bank behavior at a young age. He had to plead with a banker once, in […]
China Changes Definition Of Aggregate Financing To Disguise Sharp Credit Slowdown
With investor attention increasingly focused on China’s credit pipeline to see if the recent crackdown on shadow lending has unlocked other sources of debt in a country where growth is always and only a credit phenomenon, and where both the housing and auto sectors are suddenly reeling, overnight’s latest credit data from the PBOC was closely scrutinized… and left China […]
Nuclear Outages Compounding Weather Impact On Gas
The natural gas market continues to press higher, with bullish weather forecasts allowing the November natural gas contract to log another gain of just less than 3%. Most of this came later in the day, when weather models turned back even more bullish. The importance of these weather forecasts is compounded by natural gas storage […]
The Rally Presents This Trade Opportunity
The Fed notes came out today and say they’re going to continue to gradually raise rates. In tonight’s video newsletter we look at the importance of bonds and how they will impact the stock market. Don’t miss these trading opportunities… Running length 00:13:36
September 2018 FOMC Meeting Minutes: Many Nuggets Of New Thoughts
The September 26, 2018 meeting statement presented the actions taken. This post covers the economic discussion during this FOMC meeting between the members (minutes were released today). An interesting quote: … Participants noted a number of favorable economic factors that were supporting above-trend GDP growth; these included strong labor market conditions, stimulative federal tax and spending policies, accommodative […]
Building A Dividend Growth Portfolio From Scratch: 15 A Rated Or Better Fairly Valued Opportunities
Introduction We remain in one of the longest bull markets in history. Generally, with bull markets, stocks tend to become highly valued. Additionally, we also continue to find ourselves in a low-interest rate environment based on historical standards. However, after bottoming out in January 2017, interest rates have steadily increased. Although interest rates remain low […]
