September 21, 2025 | Trading Desk Notes for September 20, 2025

Keep dancing until the music stops The S&P 500 Index closed the week at 6664, a new record high, up 10X from the March 2009 lows of 666, and up ~38% from the April lows. The rally in global stock indices is impressive as capital flows into equity markets everywhere. China is experiencing deflation, as […]

September 21, 2025 | Lula Refuses to Speak with Trump

  Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is actively destroying a once-growing economy. Lula told the BBC he refuses to maintain diplomatic ties with the United States under Donald Trump, and Brazil is losing the title of Latin America’s top exporter to the US. “The American people will pay for the mistakes President Trump […]

September 20, 2025 | The Rules Have Changed

Monetary policy is a balancing act. The Federal Reserve’s “dual mandate” requires it to promote both maximum employment and stable prices. Statutorily, neither is more important than the other. The Fed is supposed to seek both at the same time. Of course, there are those of us across the spectrum who think one or the […]

September 20, 2025 | Chicago’s Pension Funds are Nearly Insolvent – Incoming $28m Bailout

    Chicago’s money trees are shedding their autumn layers with a new multi-million dollar government payout package for underfunded public pensions. City officials approved a short-term bailout of the Firemen’s Annuity & Benefit Fund to the tune of $28 million to avoid forced asset sales. That is merely the tip of the iceberg, as […]

September 20, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Interest Rates, Gold, Silver, USD, Canadian Dollar, Bitcoin, Corn.
• Eric Hadik:  (10:36) Market Cycles, Interest Rates, USD, Canadian Dollar, Bitcoin Gold, Silver, Petroleum, Agriculture, Wars.
• Robert Campbell: (38:48) Real Estate, California, US Gold Backed Currency, Reserve Currency, Health Tips.

September 20, 2025 | Tech Talk for Saturday September 20th 2025

The Bottom Line “Sell on Rosh Hashanah, buy on Yum Kippur”: Ancient Jewish saying related to U.S. equity markets! It predicts a brief period of seasonal weakness for U.S. equity markets. This year, the period is from Monday September 22nd to Wednesday October 1st. The saying coincides closely with the weakest two week period in […]

September 19, 2025 | Coffee Prices on the Rise

Coffee prices are the latest grocery item troubling American consumers. The United States is the world’s largest importer of coffee, but produces less than 0.1% of all coffee for domestic consumption, importing over $8.2 billion (1.6 metric tons) of coffee last year alone. The average retail price of coffee spiked 21% in the past year, […]

September 19, 2025 | Powell Only Has Bad and Worse Options

Powell’s Quandary: Bad and Worse Options Chair Jerome Powell of the U.S. Federal Reserve admits he is in a bind: the economy is flashing both weak job numbers and rising inflation. What’s a Fed to do? This week the Fed trimmed its policy rate by 25 basis points to 4.125 percent — still about 1.4 […]

September 19, 2025 | The 4th Monkey

September 19, 2025 | Will Demographics Fix Inequality?

We Baby Boomers are no longer the biggest generation. Millennials and Gen Z now outnumber us: But when it comes to wealth, we rule. Thanks to the past few decades’ asset price inflation, we’ve accumulated an aggregate net worth that surpasses all other generations combined. No wonder young people don’t trust the system. Here’s a […]

September 19, 2025 | Lower Interest Rates Predict Bad Times Ahead

Is Gold still a good bet?

September 18, 2025 | Fed Rate Cuts – All About Jobs

The Federal Open Market Committee voted to lower rates by 25 bps at the September meeting, citing “that downside risks to employment have risen.” I reported in December 2024 that the computer had forecast a decline in employment during the incoming Trump Administration. Based on the most recent data, the unemployment rate stands at 4.1%, […]

September 18, 2025 | Is Charlie Kirk Alive?

AI, RFK Jr., EU, Silver, Flouride

September 18, 2025 | Should You Buy Bitcoin Dips?

Stock Markets already anticipated interest rate cut

September 18, 2025 | Why Fed Rate Cut NOT Good News

Gold, crypto, housing – nothing safe from bubble of everything.

September 17, 2025 | High Hopes on Central Bank ‘Fixers’

Like last September, financial markets have high hopes for rate cuts and dovish comments from the US Fed and Bank of Canada today. Futures markets are pricing 150 basis points of Fed cuts by the end of 2026 (taking Fed policy down to 2.75% to 3%) and 75 basis points from the Bank of Canada […]

September 17, 2025 | A National Divorce

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene voiced a harsh truth: America is a divided nation. These differences appear irreconcilable, and Greene is proposing “a peaceful national divorce.” Which state will file the papers first? The computer system warned long ago that the United States would not remain as one country indefinitely. The cycle of political disintegration is […]

September 16, 2025 | Stock Owners Have Learned To Love The Bomb

Since 1950, the S&P 500 index has averaged a 5-year annualized earnings growth rate of 7%. Today, S&P 500 pricing assumes a forward 5-year annualized earnings growth rate of 15% (Rosenberg Research). Leveraging this extraordinary optimism, the S&P 500 is trading at more than 23x 5-year forward earnings expectations, some 28% above the longer-term historical […]

September 16, 2025 | Appeals Court Revokes Temporary Protected Status for Migrants

After months of legal turmoil, the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the United States can secure its borders and has the right to end the temporary legal protections granted to migrants under the Biden Administration. Joe Biden provided 430,000 migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua with temporary protected status (TPS). […]

September 15, 2025 | Cushioning the Downfall

Happy Monday Morning! As we discussed in our note last week, the economy is contracting and job losses are mounting, and so it’s chopping Time Again. The Bank of Canada is on deck with markets pricing in nearly 80% odds of a 25bps rate cut. According to BMO, there could be more coming. “We see […]

September 15, 2025 | Danielle on CBC Weekend Business Panel

September 15, 2025 | Former President Jair Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for allegedly plotting a coup to overturn the presidential election. Politicians who defy the new world order are silenced through assassination or imprisonment. This has become a worldwide phenomenon, from Germany to Brazil, as politicians who rebuke the globalist agenda are […]

September 14, 2025 | Interview with Daniel Estulin

September 14, 2025 | Recession Watch: Brutal Job Market

It seems that (surprise!) the US government has been systematically overstating job growth and then (when no one was looking) revising the numbers down to much lower, more ominous levels. The following chart shows the size and consistency of those revisions, resulting in over a million fewer jobs than initially reported. And it’s still happening. […]