Debt Ceiling. Bank Failures. De-Dollarization. Oh Boy!
Bad news. Impossible to ignore. Reality is setting in. So while hiding in the bedroom with the lights out, the dreaded sound of a...
“Sell In May and Go Away?”
Check your calendars. May begins next Monday. So what you ask? Well, "Sell in May and Go Away" is a well-known adage in the...
Ever Really Consider “What If?”
Distractions abound. Information. Disinformation. Fake news. Real news. Boundless opinions and predictions. Overwhelmed? Well yeah. Perhaps since it is Spring, with warm sunny days...
Gold Has a Warning For Bitcoin
Listen to your elders. The voice of experience can be quite valuable and very insightful. In this case the "elder" is none other than...
How’s Your “Bank Bracket” Doing?
March Madness hasn't been just for basketball. Nope. March madness has spread to the banking sector.
At the beginning of every March, almost everyone in...
Bitcoin: “I didn’t do it.”
NOT GUILTY!
That's the ruling of the jury upon digesting all the facts. Bitcoin did NOT cause the collapse of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank). Nor...
This Time It’s Different……..Again
Famous four words.
This time it's different.
Those words usually "pop up" in order to justify why financial markets behave counter to common sense. Until they...
UFOs? Balloons? Confusion, Distraction and Slight of Hand?
OK, what's up? The new year started out pretty much the same way that all new years begin. Financial markets gyrate, people make resolutions...
Is the Dollar’s Dominance Eroding?
If you ignore something long enough don't be surprised when an inevitable "surprise" actually happens. Or rather, don't ignore what's standing right in front...
Markets & Baseball: “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over”
It seems like a very appropriate time to bring up some quotes from the famous (or infamous) Yogi Berra and apply them to today's...