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Housing Affordability In The U.S.
One of several articles I picked up on over the last few days. and decided to post at Angry Bear. Younger people are having to overextend themselves financially to buy housing. Not so different than a few decades ago. Except they are more in debt and more apt to go bankrupt due to a lost job, […]
Does The Central Bank Determine Interest Rates?
↵Image Source: Pexels Most experts agree that, through the manipulation of the short-term interest rates, the central bank can also determine the direction of the long-term interest rates. Some popular thinking alleges that the long-term interest rates are the average of the present and the expected short-term interest rates. Hence, it would appear that the central […]
China Is Spiraling Out Of Control (Everything You Need To Know)
Image Source: Unsplash Another update from top Chinese officials on the status of “stimulus” comes amidst a flurry of macro and banking data from the country. While many will claim the former cancels out the increasingly grim nature of the latter, the previous data still matters at the very least to describe the size of the […]
Metaplanet stock soars 15% after firm scoops another 106 BTC
Key Takeaways Metaplanet’s recent purchase of 106 BTC boosts its total holdings to over 855 BTC. The company’s stock surged 15% following the announcement of the Bitcoin acquisition. Share this article Metaplanet’s stock (3350.T) surged over 15% on October 15 (Asian time) after the company announced it added over 106 Bitcoin to its reserves. According […]
Can We Rein In The Excesses Of Financialization Without Crashing The Economy?
Image source: Pixabay Thanks to recency bias, we tend to think the world has always been more or less as it is today. Tectonic shifts beneath the veneer of everyday life escape us unless we make a concerted effort to peel back the veneer of normalcy. For example, consider the rise of finance as the dominant force in […]
China’s Cobalt Supply Dominance By 2030
Chinese dominance over critical minerals used in technologies like smartphones, electric vehicles (EVs), and solar power has become a growing concern for the U.S. and other Western countries.Currently, China refines 68% of the world’s nickel, 40% of copper, 59% of lithium, and 73% of cobalt, and is continuing to expand its mining operations.This graphic visualizes […]
Upside For The Market Is Limited
Image Source: Pixabay SPX Monitoring purposes; Sold long 9/13/24 at 5626.02= gain 2.23%; Long SPX on 9/5/24 at 5503.41.Sold SPX on 8/19/24 at 5608.25 = Gain 8.14%gain; Long SPX on 8/5/24 at 5186.33.Our Gain 1/1/23 to 12/31/23 SPX= 28.12%; SPX gain 23.38%Monitoring purposes GOLD: Long GDX on 10/9/20 at 40.78. We are up over 28% this year […]
Global Net Gold Inflows Into Gold-Backed ETFs Positive For Fifth Straight Month
Image Source: Unsplash Led by North American funds, gold-backed ETFs reported net inflows of metal for the fifth straight month in September. Globally, ETFs reported a net 18.4-ton increase in gold holdings last month.Collectively, gold ETFs held 3,200 tons of gold as of September 30. A combination of gold inflows and rising gold prices raised the total assets […]
Technical Monday: Time To Strike A Match?
From a consumer instinct perspective, I still hear about couples hooking up for a permanent union through Match.com.Match has been under pressure since its peak in 2021.Activist investors have been pushing for changes post-pandemic.According to Zacks, “On the business front, the firm is currently seeing mixed response from paying Tinder users, but its Hinge app posted […]
Welcome To The “Pain Trade” – Here’s What To Do About It
Image Source: Unsplash “What’s the pain trade, Brandon?” I can hear you ask. Well, it’s the trade that delivers the most amount of punishment to as many investors as possible.Get familiar with it.The market is grinding higher, satisfying pretty much nobody. The bulls are left wanting more, whereas the bears who were short the market (like […]
