Daily Market Analysis – March 28, 2016
(Video length 00:01:52) With only the Core Personal Expenditure numbers coming out during the course of the day on Monday, it’s very likely that the market will be more or less a technically driven situation. With this, we believe that some of the recent moves will continue. The one thing that we are starting to […]
23 Percent Of Americans In Their Prime Working Years Are Unemployed
Did you know that when you take the number of working age Americans that are officially unemployed (8.2 million) and add that number to the number of working age Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force” (94.3 million), that gives us a grand total of 102.5 million working age Americans that do not […]
Five Factors To Consider Before Investing In Rental Property
It seems like everyone is jumping on the real estate investment bandwagon these days, with the rental market becoming increasingly competitive and allowing landlords to charge ever increasing prices. While becoming a landlord can be a wonderful way to supplement your income, it’s not without its fair share of challenges, contrary to what the popular shows on HGTV […]
Housing Market Review – Slowing Momentum (March, 2016)
The last Housing Market Review covered data released in February, 2016. At the time, sentiment and data ahead of the Spring selling season was not as strong as I had anticipated. The iShares US Home Construction ETF (ITB) has gained little since then and has even stalled out at resistance at its 200-day moving average (DMA). […]
What Does A Well-balanced Economy Look Like?
A well-balanced economy, as defined by the Business Dictionary, is the financial condition of a country where there is an equal proportion in exports and imports. This view, while practical, is also simplistic and there are several other factors that many would consider to be present in a a balanced state. Factors such as the […]
Another Reason Corporate Profits Will Plummet: The Managerial/ Professional Class Is Burning Out
What no financial analyst dares confess is the corporate profits they cheer every quarter have come at a cost that many Americans will soon be unable to bear. If you work for Corporate America in a managerial or professional capacity, you know all about burnout, because you see it all around you or are experiencing […]
Gold Weekly Analysis – March 28, 2016
Gold ended the holiday-shortened week down by 3.5% at $1217 an ounce as the possibility of an earlier-than expected rise in U.S. interest rates weighed on the market. Comments from St. Louis Fed President James Bullard and Chicago Fed President Charles Evans revived views that the Federal Reserve might consider edging the policy rate towards […]
Gold, The Misery Index, And Insanity
In 1980 Ronald Reagan spoke about the Misery Index. An economist had added the inflation rate to the unemployment rate, called it the Misery Index, and used it to indicate the social costs and economic difficulty for the middle class. Today the Misery Index is much smaller than in 1980, thanks to … intelligent fiscal […]
Something Just Snapped In The VIX ETF Complex
As TVIX, the double-levered long VIX ETF unleashed in Nov 2010, decays to record low prices… An unusual (and almost unprecedented) event has occurred. Just as we saw in Gold ETFs, and Oil ETFs, TVIX Shares Outstanding have exploded by a stunning 225% in the last 4 weeks… [the last 3 times TVIX has undeergone such an […]
