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How Much Trust Do You Have In Your Stock Portfolio

How Much Trust Do You Have In Your Stock Portfolio

Image Source: Pexels What is keeping individual investors wary of the stock market? It is not valuation, liquidity, or profits. In many cases, it is a lack of trust in both the financial industry and in the ethical actions of public company leadership and decision-making. Now fifteen+ years past the 2008 financial crisis, little has changed […]
Big Moves Up In Gold Heading Into Easter Weekend

Big Moves Up In Gold Heading Into Easter Weekend

 Image Source: Unsplash We’re seeing another big move in the gold market. The monetary metal reached a new record high on Thursday to close out this holiday-shortened trading week. Gold finished the week, the month, and the quarter on a high note at $2,243 an ounce, gaining 3.1% since last Friday’s close.Silver, however, isn’t quite matching […]
How Much Do Food Stamps, Social Security, And Medicare Support The Economy?

How Much Do Food Stamps, Social Security, And Medicare Support The Economy?

Data from BEA’s personal Income and outlays report. Real means inflation adjusted. Chart by Mish. What Are Transfer Receipts?Transfer receipts are government payments for which no services were performed.Transfer receipts include food stamps, subsidized housing, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, child tax credits, and other government assistance.Three rounds of massive fiscal stimulus during the Covid pandemic […]
How To Profit From This Decade’s Crackdown Knockout Stocks

How To Profit From This Decade’s Crackdown Knockout Stocks

Image Source: Unsplash Every decade has its investment themes…Where investors pile money into one group of stocks until they reach an absurd amount of over-investment then they go kablooey.In the 60’s, it was the Nifty Fifties.In the 70’s, it was gold and oil prices.In the 80’s, Japan boomed.In the 90’s, the Nasdaq soared from American tech innovators.In […]
Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future

Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future

Image Source: Pixabay Outside the “everything’s always fine” echo-chamber, the consensus is that easily created fiat currencies will all evaporate as the temptation to continue printing/borrowing money into existence is irresistible: the only way to keep the system from imploding is to devalue the soaring debt and interest payments with inflation, and the dial controlling inflation is […]
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