Throughout this pandemic, the price action in the gold market has been quite interesting. In 2020, as the Federal Reserve turned up the money printing to full power, gold's initial reaction was to explode higher to new all time highs above $2,000 per ounce. But, the market didn't stay there for long and it quickly [...]
Back in 1990, I bought my first house. My mortgage rate was 10% for a 30 year loan. The yield on the 10 Year Treasury Note was a bit over 8%. Rates haven't been that high since. Yet, here we are in 2022, on the heels of an inflation report indicating that the inflation rate [...]
Saleno Zito has a piece in the Washington Examiner today that explains why Joe Biden is losing support so quickly among people she refers to as the "pragmatic middle." What it really tells me is that MOST people simply don't think when it comes to politics. They are simply too tribal in their beliefs, or [...]
One of my favorite books on the subject of trading is How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market. The book was written by professional dancer Nicolas Darvas in the late 1950s and describes how he turned a $50,000 account into over $2 million (that was some serious money back then!) in less than two years. [...]
Among many people who study martial arts, particularly those are primarily "hobbyists," there is often a debate about which martial art is best for street fighting. Because of the success of many Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners in UFC style fighting, that is often one of the martial arts that is brought up. Before we delve [...]
Given the surge of inflation we've seen this year, which was finally somewhat reflected in last month's CPI reading, which was the highest in over a decade, I've been pretty amazed by the rally that has gone on in Treasury Bonds since March. I'm old enough to remember that my very first mortgage came with [...]
Trend following is one of the more popular approaches to trading employed by money managers who trade primarily in the futures markets. It is also an approach employed by some hedge fund managers who trade in equities. With that in mind, I thought I would provide a primer on this important concept, as I feel it [...]
With Covid-19 cases spiking in the US, after similar instances in the UK and India, I thought it would be a good idea to share this I-Mask protocol developed by the FLCCC Alliance.This protocol was developed for people who are of higher risk (the elderly and anyone with significant co-morbidities). At the center of the protocol are [...]
The Labor Department reported a net gain of over 940,000 jobs for the month of July, which dropped the unemployment rate to 5.4%. Economists expected a gain of 850,000 and a rate of 5.7%. As a result, there were some significant moves in the futures markets in the Treasuries, currencies and precious metals. Treasury prices [...]
A retired, 80 year old U.S. Senator, Barbara Boxer, was mugged in Oakland in broad daylight today. This occurred after I viewed a video on Twitter of an assault and robbery in NYC, also in broad daylight. This is the world we live in now. Today, I was out jogging, and as I was approaching [...]