Is It The Final Inning For Gold, The US$ And The S&P500?
There are two things I love about Baseball… (1) It’s a really slow game so I get to have very long, uninterrupted conversations with the person I’m going to the game with. (2) The game never ends in a tie. There’s always a winner and loser. There are three major assets that are acting very…
Is Peak Gold Upon Us?
Peak Gold is an idea I’ve borrowed from the [debunked] Peak Oil theory. The theory for Peak Oil was that the world would run out of oil. And therefore the price of oil would continue to rise higher and higher until one day, oil would only be sold in eight ounce cans and used for…
What’s Working Now [2016]
Would you like to know what’s working in 2016? End of quarters are a good time to reflect what is and is not working in the world of investing. And with the largest four Central Banks on the planet closely eyeing their stock markets and currencies, it’s especially a good time to see how effective…
An Open Letter To Janet Yellen
Dear Ms. Yellen, It’s time you come clean… We know what you and your boys are looking at during those FOMC meetings. It’s not employment or stable prices like your mandate states. No. No. No. We know you’re looking at the S&P500 price. And we know you’ll only raise rates if the S&P 500 breaks…
The Top Asset Class Today Is…
There are only four asset classes you can invest your money into. The four are… The stock market. The bond market. The physical market. The currency market. Each one of these core assets have sub assets. For example: The stock market has large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap, international, domestic, value, growth and dividend sub-classes just to…
Will Money Printing Work This Time?
On one side you have the $40 trillion world stock market. And on the other side you have the four largest central banks (US, Europe, China, Japan)… …and they are at war. The markets on one side and the Central Bankers on the other. The Markets, which are older, stronger and wiser have always won.…
IF You Have To Be In The Market… Be Here.
Three hundred and twenty-one weeks ago I committed to writing you a weekend podcast every week… The podcast would be a conversation with you about what is most important… and not necessarily what’s most interesting… A podcast that would cut through the noise and show you a clear picture of what is most important to…
Financial Storm Clouds Ahead…
Nothing makes financial sense today. (1) People are gobbling up the Japanese Yen, despite its Central Bank lowering rates below zero. (2) The strongest currency in the world belongs to the country that has printed the most (read: USA). And (3) The world is sitting with 300% more debt than it did before the 58%…
What It Looks Like When Central Banks Lose Control
The stock market works because it’s made of 100’s of millions of free thinking people acting on their own… People that are putting their money where their opinions are about the future. And if enough of those 100’s of millions of people think the next six to twelve months are going to be better than…
The Bottom’s In For Gold…
When was the last time you heard the statement, “the bottom’s in for gold…?” …or for silver? …or for oil? …or for housing? …or for anything that’s been falling for, what seems like, forever? If you’ve followed John Doody or King World News or any other heavily biased gold person then you’ve heard those…