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Update On Gold Ratios

Update On Gold Ratios

Updating gold ratios to other markets using associated ETFsSure, gold is a pretty and heavy object that people fall in love with (and express their love with). But it is also a primary market indicator here in NFTRH land. When it rises vs. cyclical ‘risk’ markets it implies rising risk in those markets. When it rises vs. […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – First Quarter Ends

Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – First Quarter Ends

And so we have the end of the first quarter.Stocks are at record highs, although they went out weakly and without conviction.Gold had a sharp rally higher today, as did silver.The Dollar rallied.Do not expect gold to break free of its long term manipulation by the Western Banks overnight.It will happen in stages. But as […]
Gold And USD Index Break Higher Together – What Gives?

Gold And USD Index Break Higher Together – What Gives?

Image Source: Pixabay Gold’s moving higher and… the USD Index is moving higher as well, which one is faking it?In the recent past, I commented on gold’s performance as being similar to what we saw in 2011. Today’s move higher makes the similarity less clear, but still intact. As a reminder, back in 2011, gold consolidated […]
No Shortcuts To Greatness: The Path To Successful Investing

No Shortcuts To Greatness: The Path To Successful Investing

Painting is by my father, Naum Katsenelson. Something weird happened to me on Twitter a few months ago. A “follower” started lashing out at me about a stock we own. When people attack me for my views it doesn’t bother me (I wrote several chapters in Soul in the Game on this topic). I don’t let personal attacks […]
Stock Market Bubble Expert Warns “Things Could Get Bloody Fast”

Stock Market Bubble Expert Warns “Things Could Get Bloody Fast”

Image Source: Unsplash Animal spirits have certainly been running wild in the stock market of late.The S&P is up over 1,000 points (roughly 25%) in the past 4.5 months.Is this a new era of easy gains as giddy bulls are proclaiming? One investor should jump in and make the most of?Or is this the latest incarnation […]
Today’s USDA Planting Intentions And Quarterly Stocks Reports And Their Impact On Prices

Today’s USDA Planting Intentions And Quarterly Stocks Reports And Their Impact On Prices

Image Source: Unsplash The US producers always seem to throw a curve into the Planting intentions each year. They reported to the USDA on today’s survey that they intend to drop their overall feed grain plantings by 6.18 million acres with 4.6 million acres of the total coming from corn. This dramatic yearly change has swept […]
The Great Canadian Debate Is Underway Why Productivity Is So Poor

The Great Canadian Debate Is Underway Why Productivity Is So Poor

Image source: Pixabay The debate was kicked off when the Bank of Canada’s deputy governor, Carolyn Rogers, threw down the gauntlet, claiming that Canada faces a productivity emergency. As if the issue can be dealt with by sending in a squat team to boost productivity immediately. By pointing to a general weakness in Canadian workers’ performance, the […]
Market Talk – Thursday, March 28

Market Talk – Thursday, March 28

ASIA:The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 594.66 points or -1.46% to 40,168.07 Shanghai increased 17.52 points or 0.59% to 3,010.66 Hang Seng increased 148.58 points or 0.91% to 16,541.42 ASX 200 increased 77.30 points or 0.99% to 7,896.90 Kospi decreased 9.29 points or -0.34% to 2,745.82 SENSEX increased […]
Apartment List Reports Rent Prices Increase For The Second Month

Apartment List Reports Rent Prices Increase For The Second Month

Rent data from Apartment List and the BLS. Apartment List reports rising prices after six months of declines. However, even a cursory glance at the chart shows seasonal variations that makes the data mostly unusable.Here’s the Apartment List Report for March of 2024 to discuss. For the last two years seasonal declines have been steeper than usual […]
Philadelphia Fed Admits US Payrolls Overstated By At Least 800,000

Philadelphia Fed Admits US Payrolls Overstated By At Least 800,000

Image Source: Pixabay The first red flags emerged in the summer of 2022: that’s when the Biden Labor Department started well and truly rigging the labor market data.Regular readers may recall that it was back in July of 2022, when we first warned them that something had snapped in the labor market: that’s when a staggering discrepancy emerged between […]