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Tesla And Two Other Stocks Trading At 52-Week Lows That Can Rebound Strongly

Tesla And Two Other Stocks Trading At 52-Week Lows That Can Rebound Strongly

Image courtesy of 123rf.com On Thursday, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for one of the largest fraudulent financial schemes. When the FTX exchange collapsed at the end of 2022, he generated enormous fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD), crashing the entire crypto market.At times like that, investors make fortunes. Those stuck to their fundamental analysis […]
Price Inflation Comes From Government, Not From “Excuseflation” Or “Greedflation”

Price Inflation Comes From Government, Not From “Excuseflation” Or “Greedflation”

  ↵Image Source: Pixabay Followers of the Austrian school of economics know that the term inflation refers to increasing the quantity of money or money substitutes. The result being a rise in the price of goods and services or a fall in the value of money. But, in the modern era, this rise in prices is called […]
Productivity Syndrome And The Investment Prescription

Productivity Syndrome And The Investment Prescription

Image source: Pixabay Economic productivity is about growing the size of the pie. I sometimes point out that no matter what your goal–spending increases, tax cuts, greater support for the poor, environmental protection–that goal is easier when the economic pie is growing. When the economic pie isn’t growing, after all, then all priorities have to pit […]
Cummins Stock Price Forecast: Firing On All Cylinders

Cummins Stock Price Forecast: Firing On All Cylinders

Image Source: Pexels Cummins (NYSE: CMI) stock price has silently surged to a record high, joining other industrial giants like Emerson Electric, Rolls-Royce, and Illinois Tool Works. It has jumped for three straight weeks, reaching a record high of $295. It is up by 88% in the past five years and by 22% this year. Business is still growing Cummins […]
The Hot PCE Report Shatters The Disinflation Narrative

The Hot PCE Report Shatters The Disinflation Narrative

Image Source: Pexels The PCE report showed that 3 and 6-month annualized inflation rates continued to accelerate in February.Video Length: 00:05:28More By This Author:0-DTE Mania Drives Stocks Higher On March 27, 2024 Stocks Rally Sharply On Bullish Options Flows $5 Billion Sell Imbalance Sinks Stocks On March 26, 2024
Comments On Asset Prices And Inflation Targeting

Comments On Asset Prices And Inflation Targeting

Image Source: Pexels Even if one believes that asset price increases represent inflation, the general reaction among North American central bankers would be to think you are crazy if you think asset prices should be included within an inflation target mandate. (I am less sure about the reaction of Continental European central bankers.) Although they might accept that […]
What’s The Outlook For U.S. Q1 Earnings Season?

What’s The Outlook For U.S. Q1 Earnings Season?

Video Length: 00:08:46 On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Investment Strategist BeiChen Lin and Sophie Antal-Gilbert, Head of AIS Portfolio & Business Consulting, discussed the outlook for the U.S. first-quarter earnings season. They also chatted about how this year’s anticipated U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cuts could impact the real estate market […]
March Recap: 7 Largest American Cannabis MSOs Up 19%, On Average

March Recap: 7 Largest American Cannabis MSOs Up 19%, On Average

Image source Introduction Germany passed legislation in March legalizing the sale of cannabis there which contributed to a 19% surge in American cannabis MSO stocks in March. The munKNEE American Cannabis MSO Stocks Index Below is how each of the 7 constituents in the above Index performed in March and how well they have performed YTD: Ayr […]
Fiscal Collapse Accelerates

Fiscal Collapse Accelerates

 In case you thought anybody in Washington was driving this thing, they are not. It’s official: the Department of Treasury is now issuing debt at pandemic levels. It’s worth noting the pandemic record was double the previous record, which had stood for 231 years.In raw numbers, the latest numbers for Q4 2023 show Treasury issued $7 […]
Real Personal Income And Spending: If Last Month Was “Goldilocks”, This Month Was Close To “Anti-Goldilocks”

Real Personal Income And Spending: If Last Month Was “Goldilocks”, This Month Was Close To “Anti-Goldilocks”

Personal income and spending has become one of the two most important monthly reports I follow because it nets out the impacts of higher interest rates and abating inflation due to the unlinking of the supply chain. To repeat, the big question this year is whether the contractionary effects of Fed tightening have just been […]