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January 13, 2022 | Must Disgorge Profits with Zero Tolerance of Trust Abuse
As I discussed here in 2021: An excellent year for the unscrupulous, it is important to understand that there is no level of personal wealth at which those without scruples will stop capitalizing on positions of trust and gullible followers. This is why it’s imperative that we set zero-tolerance policies, prosecute abusers, and disgorge any profits […]
January 13, 2022 | Yet Another Retirement Risk You May Not Be Considering
The most common retirement plan involves making some reasonable investment-return assumptions and then structuring your annual spending to run your nest egg down to zero at age 90 or thereabouts. Ideally, you spend your last dollar on the day you take your last breath. This works, at least in general terms, because relatively few people […]
January 13, 2022 | Death, Taxes, and Time Decay
Few things are certain in life. But as the old saying goes, there is nothing quite so certain as “death and taxes”. As an Options Trader, I would enthusiastically add option time decay to that list. Options offer traders and investors more leverage and risk mitigation than just purchasing shares outright. For example, if I […]
January 13, 2022 | Are There Early Warning Sell Signals?
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January 13, 2022 | Could This Be the Year Gold and Silver Soar?
“Virtual” real estate the latest trend
January 13, 2022 | Are Stock Markets Showing Signs of a Roll-Over?
Energy stocks strong now but that could change
January 12, 2022 | IRS Targeting Payment Apps
No one earning under $400,000 will experience a rise in taxes, the Biden Administration repeatedly promised. Unfortunately, albeit unsurprisingly, this is not true as the IRS is now hunting for new taxes for nearly every transaction that takes place. Payment apps such as Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, and PayPal were easy ways to transfer money […]
January 12, 2022 | Bubbles Everywhere, Math Still Matters
Good macro overview in this segment recorded on Jan 5… David Rosenberg believes we will transition away from the current burst of inflation to renewed disinflation. In an interview with Alfonso Peccatiello, author of the Macro Compass newsletter, Rosenberg, president at Rosenberg Research & Associates, lays out his thesis for inflation going even lower than […]
January 12, 2022 | Purchasing Power of the Dollar Goes WHOOSH!
The broadest Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) jumped by 0.5% in December from November, and by 7.04% from a year ago, the highest since June 1982, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. But there’s a big difference between now and 1982. Now, the inflation index is spiking, and has been getting […]
January 12, 2022 | US Fed Playing With Fire – Bubbles May Burst While Bond Yields & Metals Rally
The US Federal Reserve’s tightening monetary policy from a historically low-interest rate has slowed the US stock markets. As a result, traders quickly attempt to adjust their capital allocation levels as risk assets, technology, and US major indexes roll lower because of expected Fed Rate Hikes and other Hawkish activities. We will explore how the […]
January 12, 2022 | Gerald Celente: The Technocracy’s Warped Reality Filter
From the Trends Research Institute: In current orthodoxy enforced by technocratic elites, the lines between what is celebrated and condemned reaches fresh heights of absurdity virtually every day. Some latest examples came courtesy of a recent year-end article on MIT’s technologyreview.com website, highlighting some of the “worst technology of 2021.” The article panned apps popular […]
January 11, 2022 | The Saretsky Report December 2021
It was a blockbuster year for the Vancouver housing market. Annual sales finished the year at just over 44,000, an all time record high. The previous high of 42,000 was set in 2015 during the last housing boom that was sparked by an inflow of offshore cash.
January 11, 2022 | Paying Up Precedes Spectacular Repricing Cycles
In November, at around $1700 per share, Canada’s e-commerce superstar Shopify (SHOP) was priced at a crazy 40 x the company’s revenue and was officially the most expensive component of the TSX Index. Since then, a 36% decline has knocked SHOP out of the top spot and back to where it was in October […]
January 10, 2022 | Vaccine Jockeys
People will always find a way to bypass the law. The tyrannical vaccine mandates have paved the way for a new career niche: vaccine jockeys. Those desperate to maintain their jobs or simply exist among the public have begun hiring people to take the vaccine on their behalf. This is highly illegal and certainly dangerous […]
January 10, 2022 | It is a Matter of Policy Decision
Here’s a wild stat to start your week off, Canada added 410,000 new immigrants in 2021. In the United States, a country nearly ten times the size, added just 500,000 new immigrants. Canada is built on immigration, and it is certainly needed. However, perhaps it’s worthwhile to discuss the tradeoffs, which seemingly no media outlet […]
January 10, 2022 | Michael Pento: Fiscal And Monetary Cliffs Have Arrived
From Pento Portfolio Strategies: According to Doug Ramsey of the Leuthold Group, 334 companies trading on the New York Stock Exchange recently hit a 52-week low, more than double the amount that marked new one-year highs. That’s happened only three other times in history — all of them occurring in December 1999. How did we […]
January 10, 2022 | What Could Possibly Go Right in 2022?
What could possibly go right in 2022? Merely posing this question is courting ridicule from some quarters, since we have grown an asset bubble with the potential to equal 1929’s. Still worse is that it sits on a geopolitical powder keg as big and dangerous as the one that detonated a decade later. The best outcome imaginable […]
January 10, 2022 | Burning Less To Power More
A widely overlooked benefit of improving energy efficiency and powering the grid with electricity from the wind, water and sun (WWS) is that it will reduce our overall energy consumption by more than 50% globally. You can see how in the Solutions Project Earth graphic here. In Canada, because we currently burn a lot of fossil […]
January 10, 2022 | Fourth Turning 2022 – Bad Moon Rising
“Try to unlearn the obsessive fear of death (and the anxious quest for death avoidance) that pervades linear thinking in nearly every modern society. The ancients knew that, without periodic decay and death, nature cannot complete its full round of biological and social change. Without plant death, weeds would strangle the forest. Without human death, […]
January 9, 2022 | A Path-Dependent Year—WWJD
Twenty-two years of tradition dictate I begin the new year by forecasting what lies ahead. Unfortunately, the future is never really knowable. “Forecast” is a polite synonym for “guess.” The better ones are informed guesses, but still inherently uncertain. The coming year is particularly uncertain. The economy could be wildly different based on how certain […]
January 9, 2022 | When The Protest Songs Go Your Way, You’ve won
The job of an artist is to lead the rest of us to new ways of perceiving reality. So when the preponderance of art comes down on one side of a debate, the battle is pretty much over. All that remains is mopping up. Mark Crispin Miller (NYU professor nearly canceled for teaching both sides […]
January 9, 2022 | Danielle on CBC Weekend Business Panel
Danielle was a guest with Jeanhy Shim and John Northcott discussing some of the week’s major business stories. Here is a direct video link.
January 8, 2022 | The DXY Craters: Gold & Silver Do Nothing
08 January 2022 — Saturday Yesterday in Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium The gold price certainly didn’t do much in either Far East or London trading on their respective Friday’s — and only began to show signs of life starting about five minutes before the 11 a.m. EST London close. It rallied a bit from there […]
January 8, 2022 | Will 2022~23 Require A Different Strategy For Traders/Investors? Part III
Is The Lazy-Bull Strategy Worth Considering? – Part III This last part of our multi-part article compares trading styles amidst the increasing price volatility and extended hyperbolic trending. We’ll explore what we’ve witnessed in the US markets over the past 5+ years and highlight what to expect throughout 2022. Additionally, we’ll highlight and feature the […]
January 8, 2022 | Trading Desk Notes For January 8, 2022
Interest Rates Surge Higher – Consequences Follow The 10-year US Treasury bond yield hit a 2-year high of 1.8% on news that the national unemployment rate fell to only 3.9% in December and that year-over-year average hourly earnings had surged by 4.7%. American futures markets are now pricing four quarter-point interest rate increases within the […]