While Microsoft’s (MSFT) Azure contends for the top spot in the cloud computing arena, trailing behind Amazon (AMZN), its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and the hand it played in resolving the company’s recent debacle, shows how prominently Microsoft is ...

Forget the other mainstream explanations for interest. Time preference explains this phenomenon and gives a true picture of why interest exists in the first place. Original Article: Time Preference Is the Key Driver of Interest Rates ...

Are the chickens coming home to roost for the US Treasury? As Ryan McMaken noted in a recent Mises Wire article, the United States is in a debt spiral and there’s no easy way out. The problem is multifaceted, but ...

In the final edition of Trading Simplified, Dave shows his methodology in action by sharing two positions that he continues to hold, even though they were “dead money” most of the time, and why he applied discretion to stick with a ...

In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, guest Jeff Hirsch of the Stock Trader’s Almanac shares the suggested seasonal pattern for 2024 and breaks down how previous election years have played out. Host David Keller, CMT highlights a breakout in ...

SPX Monitoring Purposes; Long SPX 10/27/23 at 4117.37. Gain Since 12/20/22: Over 26%. Monitoring Purposes GOLD: Long GDX on 10/9/20 at 40.78. There is a very good likelihood of a multi-year signal triggering for GDX in the coming months. The above chart ...

As Pete has said several times on the Halftime show before, the Fed will likely cut rates when the unemployment rate ticks higher. Year-to-date the unemployment rate is up 14% from its lows in January and even Christopher Waller, an ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the problems with Joe Manchin’s argument that Congress needs to reject the “extremism” in its ranks if it’s ever going to solve the many problems facing Americans. I argued that the opposite is true. ...

As this author previously has noted, the ideology of statism is responsible for much of the violence that plagues the world. We see this played out in Israel’s aggressive retaliatory attacks in Gaza in response to the October 7 killings ...

The traditionalist author Álvaro d’Ors emphasized in his work that the political thought of Rome was essentially stateless as it had a personalistic character. In contrast, Greek political thought had a territorial focus, giving rise to the idea of the ...