It is what is known in financial circles as “helicopter money,” and, economically speaking it has usually been looked at as a very bad idea. However, more recently some well-respected financial experts are looking to the concept as a way to avoid the current path to a recession that many believe President Trump has put […] Read more

Investors and economists have been showing concern about the economy for some time now. Different signs have been cropping up here and there, and that helped pressure the Fed into making a rate cut at the end of July. One particular signal that I have been tracking for almost a year now is the 2/10 […] Read more

I wrote a bullish piece on gold for Seeking Alpha last September 6. My main argument for the bullish posture was the commitment of traders report. If you’re not familiar with the commitment of traders report, it is released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission each Friday and it shows the net positions of three different […] Read more

The Trump Presidency has been anything but predictable. In the last few weeks, we have seen President Trump announce new tariffs on Chinese goods and then backtrack and cancel some through the holidays. Of course, the backtracking came after the stock market reacted in a very negative fashion. In the last few days, we have […] Read more

Is it just me, or are the peaks on my bar of Toblerone chocolate growing conspicuously less numerous? Wait, hold on. I’m pretty sure that roll of Charmin toilet paper used to have 500 single-ply sheets. Now it has only 451. What’s going on here? This is known in the world of retail economics as […] Read more

The federal government has a problem with debt and deficit spending, as well as a future funding crisis in Social Security and Medicare. And Bernie Sanders wants to give it to you for free. At a point in the not so distant future, the well will run dry for the feds, as baby boomers suck […] Read more

Earlier today the European Central Bank announced that it would keep its key interest rate where it is for now, but made it clear that there was a rate cut on the horizon and that other stimulus will be considered as well. The current rate for the ECB is -0.4%. That’s right, it’s in negative […] Read more

The fact that individual countries would give up their financial sovereignty and allow those with diverse cultures and different agendas to dictate policy still amazes me. The euro is the current epicenter of mild hysteria in the European Union. These are the same quislings who brought open borders to the continent and allowed their culture […] Read more

The nefarious International Banking Cartel is a notoriously powerful group comprised of banks from all over the world.  These banks are owned by some of the wealthiest, powerful and influential families in the world.  This cartels’ goal is to leverage its power and wealth to convince, trick or lure sovereign nations into allowing this group […] Read more

I am a man of routine. I get up at the same time every weekday morning and hit the exercise bike. I turn on Bloomberg TV while I ride to catch up on the financial news and find out what stock, bond, oil, and gold futures are doing. On Thursday morning, I awoke to huge […] Read more