May 22, 2025 | Yes, You Can Lose Money in Real Estate

In the ‘easy-money’ ultra-low rate era, there was a lot of demand from secondary property owners for recreation or renting to others. Most were over the age of 50. An increasing number will look to sell to lower overhead/upkeep and free up cash flow in retirement. The good news is that this will continue to […]

May 22, 2025 | BYD Outpaces Tesla in Europe for the First Time

  China’s BYD beat out Tesla for the first time this April to become the top EV vehicle brand sold in Europe. BYD only outpaced Tesla by 100 vehicles, but the 7,231 cars that made their way to Europe show that tariffs are not deterring European consumer demand. Sales for BYD’s battery-powered vehicles soared 170% […]

May 22, 2025 | Wall Street Could Continue Sell Off

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May 22, 2025 | Inflation and the Lies Realtors Have to Tell

Collapse Life just posted an article on house hunting that anyone who’s in that market will relate to. Basically, this is what inflation does to our idea of an acceptable home — and to our understanding of basic terms like “luxury,” “cozy,” and “affordable.” The end of truth comes with luxury vinyl plank flooring What real […]

May 21, 2025 | Bessent Disagrees on US Credit Downgrade

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rebuked Moody’s lowered rating of US credit from AAA to AA1. “First of all, I think that Moody’s is a lagging indicator, and I think that’s what everyone thinks of credit agencies,” Bessent said. “Larry Summers and I don’t agree on everything, but he’s said that when they downgraded the […]

May 21, 2025 | Retail Gone Wild (Encore)

The S&P 500 risk premium—forward earnings yield minus the 10-year Treasury yield—is once again about zero (below since 2000, via The Daily Shot). Such dismal equity risk-reward prospects have only been seen once in the last quarter century and that was coming out of the 2000 bubble top. The large cap S&P 500 went on […]

May 21, 2025 | Crude Oil Rises On Concerns Israel May Attack Iran’s Nuclear Facilities. Does The US Hold Them Back?

US stocks are weaker today as US yields rise and contain stock prices. The 10-Year US Treasury yield is now at 4.54% (high for 2025 4.57%). The 30-year US Treasury is at 5.02% (high for 2025 5.04%). If these rates are exceeded and foreign buyers of the large funding needed to cover the rising US […]

May 21, 2025 | $10 Trillion in Capital Flows to US?

  President Donald Trump completed a successful tour of the Middle East that resulted in foreign investments surmounting to over $3.2 trillion. President Trump believes that $10 trillion in capital will flow to US, a staggering amount of money, equal to over half of the DIJA’s entire market cap. The $10 trillion figure remains aspirational […]

May 20, 2025 | Recession Watch: Unsustainable Interest Rates And falling Credit Scores

This week, Moody’s, the last bond rating agency that still gave the US a perfect score, joined its peers by cutting Treasury bonds from Aaa to Aa1. To which you might respond, “Duh. How can a country with a debt-to-GDP of 124% be an investment-grade credit at all, let alone AAA? You’d be right, of course. […]

May 20, 2025 | Summer of Discontent

In April, Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.9%, the highest since September 2021 and 210 basis points above the July 2022 cycle low of 4.8% (shown below since 1950).     Beata Caranci, chief economist at TD Bank, expects a recession in the coming quarters and another 100,000 job losses by the fall. See, Canada’s economy […]

May 20, 2025 | Nordic Countries Lead Cashless Revolution

  Nordic nations have been leading the cashless society revolution. Masked as a manner of efficiency, digital transactions are not demanded by governments globally as they seek to rake in all money off the grid for taxation purposes. Sweden is nearly a cashless society, with less than 2% of transactions occurring in physical currency as […]

May 19, 2025 | Saving Housing

Happy Monday Morning! Canada has a new housing minister. Gregor Robertson, former mayor of Vancouver, has been anointed by Prime Minister Carney with the hopeless task of fixing Canada’s housing crisis. It’s already off to a rough start. When asked by a reporter if home prices need to go down, he had a freudian slip. […]

May 19, 2025 | Creeping Fascism: Global Healthcare Takeover

After the mess the public health establishment made of the COVID-19 outbreak, it seems like the last thing anyone should want is to grant those idiots more power for the next pandemic. But that’s what the “supranational” health organizations are trying for. Here’s an excerpt from an article by health analyst Meryl Nass on the shocking deals now being pursued out […]

May 19, 2025 | Moody’s US Downgrade AAA to AA1

  Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the United States’ credit rating from a top-tier rating of AAA to AA1 due to rising government debt. Fitch Ratings lowered the US debt in August 2023 for the same reason in August 2023, and while Moody’s did not officially act at the time the agency warned that the US […]

May 18, 2025 | How We Got Here

We are in the middle of the Strategic Investment Conference, a fabulous gathering of some of the best economic, political, and geopolitical minds anywhere. I’m really proud of what we’re doing. And at the last minute, we’ve added Dr. Mehmet Oz, nationally regarded cardiovascular surgeon, author of numerous best-selling books with my friend Dr. Mike […]

May 18, 2025 | Time for a Little Skepticism

I’ve supported Trump since his first term, but my hopes for his success peaked a month ago when a panic-induced plunge in the S&P 500 reversed almost precisely from a 4820 target I’d sent out to subscribers. I saw this as the surprisingly quick end to a bear market that had only just begun in […]

May 18, 2025 | Why the Canadian Govt and Big Pharma are Waging War on an Ostridge Farm

🚨🔊LISTEN TO THIS CLIP AND TELL ME THE ATTEPTED OSTRICH CULLING ISN’T THE VACCINE INDUSTRY TRYING TO WIPE OUT COMPETITION🚨🔊 pic.twitter.com/GYODt61mnO — Kyle Kemper 💫 (@kylekemper) May 16, 2025 Post by AgentGuru on X: Canada’s Ostrich Cull Scandal: Are Big Pharma and Globalist Interests Pulling the Strings? When I first heard about the ostrich farm […]

May 17, 2025 | Trading Desk Notes for May 17, 2025

Global stock markets continue to bounce back from their April lows Given that the April 7 lows were created by extraordinary tit-for-tat tariff increases between the USA and China, the “much better than expected” meeting between the two countries last weekend inspired a gap-higher opening this week, especially in tech issues. The S&P closed this […]

May 17, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Gold, Uranium.
• Victor Adair: (12:29) Stock Markets, Volatile Markets, Energy, Oil and Gas.
• Mark Leibovit: (39:30)  Full Moon, Bitcoin, Tesla, Alberta Separation.
• Robert Campbell: (1:30:14) US Real Estate, Mortgage Rates and Inflation.

May 17, 2025 | Tech Talk for Saturday May 17th 2025

The Bottom Line All-time highs by the TSX Composite Index and S&P/TSE 60 Index! The later Index moved above 1,561.25 on Friday.

May 16, 2025 | One in Four Americans Financially Illiterate

Financial literacy is steadily declining in America. The percentage of US adults demonstrating a very low level of financial literacy increased from 20% in 2017 to 25% in 2023. Around 58% of Americans know about debt and borrowing. Over half (55%) understand saving, and 50% understand consumption. About 42% understand insurance, 44% know about investing, and […]

May 16, 2025 | The U.S. Stock Market Needs Magnificent Seven Leadership

A group of seven leading companies — the Magnificent Seven known as Mag 7 — which has led the U.S. stock market for several years was lagging the market by a large margin in 2025, until the recently announced 90-day partial reprieve on tariffs on Chinese imports. Making up one-third of the value of the […]

May 16, 2025 | Food and Energy Innovation are Here to Help

We recently completed rooftop solar, which allows us to run operations and vehicles on sunshine. Technology is here to improve efficiency and lower waste for all sectors of the economy—a much-needed bright spot ☀️. Smart food production powered by renewable energy is what productivity enhancement looks like. For the first time, a King City, Ont, greenhouse […]

May 16, 2025 | How Would a New Gold Standard Work? Very well…

A return to some version of a gold standard has morphed from “gold bug fever dream” to “conceivable” in the past few years. Here’s why: Since the 1990s, when Fed chair Alan Greenspan became a global celebrity nicknamed “the Maestro” by a credulous press … … governments have borrowed ever-greater sums, forcing central banks to […]