Volcanoes, Bitcoin and Innovation. Remember El Salvador?
Time sure flies by fast. Remember way back to November 2021? Bitcoin was in the lofty $60K clouds. Only a few months earlier (Sept....
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...
Dazed & Confused: Balloon, Unemployment & Inflation Confound
Maybe the title should be 'Dazed and TOTALLY Confused.'
Of course the title came from the 1993 movie of the same name and the movie...
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...
How’s The New Year Going So Far?
Two weeks down, fifty more to go. This new year (2023 if you missed it) is under way. So with everyone accustomed to instantaneous...
New Year’s Resolutions (Not Predictions) For Financial Markets
Contrarian. Making predictions for a new year is nonsense so we won't go there. BUT, new year resolutions? Totally different way to set forth...
2023: Let’s Keep The New Year In Perspective
First, HAPPY 2023 to all. Or, here we go again.
Keeping things in perspective, there have been 2,023 new years going way back to zero...
Important Facts Overlooked in the Year’s Bear Market
The verdict is in. 2022 is guilty on all counts of being a bear market.
Interest rates went higher then expected (surprise?), inflation wasn't transitory...