Being large doesn’t make a country wealthy, nor does being small shrink a country’s economy. Original Article: “No, Small Countries Are Not at an Economic Disadvantage” ...
The Federal Reserve has officially reported a loss of $57 billion for the first six months of 2023. Quite a number! So the “Federal Reserve Banks Combined Quarterly Financial Report as of June 30, 2023” (CQFR)—a little-known document—is especially notable ...
By the middle of 2022, it was already become apparent that the US military was having problems meeting recruitment goals. In August last year, The AP reported that the Army would have to cut force size, and an army spokesman ...
In Monday’s DecisionPoint Trading Room we discussed that Technology (XLK) was the last one standing on our Bias Scoreboard with a Bullish Bias in both the intermediate term and long term. Today that bullish bias was lost in both timeframes. ...
In June, we wrote about the bottom in oil and cannabis through USO and MSOS (ETFs) respectively. In July, we wrote about the potential top in NASDAQ and SPY. In August, we wrote about the importance of the retail sector; ...
Don’t Even Think About Investing Without Addressing These 10 Essentials (Part 1: Essentials #1 – #5)
We investors are frequently guilty of hearing only what we want to hear. The justification often being “that doesn’t apply to me.” Or my other favorite line, “Oh, I don’t do that.” In my previous blog — a tribute to William J. ...
In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, David Cox, CFA CMT of Raymond James reviews underperformance for defensive sectors like Utilities and describes why commodities should be an area of focus for investors. Host David Keller, CMT reviews today’s drop ...
When Mises wrote that the fascists had “saved European civilization,” he could have been describing Francisco Franco of Spain, who kept Spain from becoming a communist dictatorship. Original Article: “What Mises Really Thought about Fascism” ...
Many historians labeled the twentieth century as the American century, with many metrics used. The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in December 1991 changed world affairs: several new ...
SPX Monitoring Purposes: Short SPX on 9/1/23 at 4515.77; cover short 9/5/23 at 4496.83 = gain .43%. Gain since 12/20/22: 15.93%. Monitoring Purposes GOLD: Long GDX on 10/9/20 at 40.78. Today’s trading tested the gap of 9/6 on lighter volume, suggesting the ...