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June 7, 2025 | Tech Talk for Saturday June 7th 2025
The Bottom Line Nice technical breakout on Friday by the Dow Jones Industrial Average and its related ETF: DIA! Measured by percent of S&P 500 stock trading above their 20, 50 and 200 day moving averages, U.S. equity prices are Overbought and peaked in mid-May. Strength in a small number of big cap U.S. stocks […]
June 6, 2025 | The TACO Trade Has Its Moment
Financial markets love an acronym and TACO or Trump Always Chickens Out, is the latest. Source: AI generated image – REDDIT It was coined by Rob Armstrong of the Financial Times on May 2 and last week gained traction among commentators to explain the recent rally in U.S. stocks. Will the TACO trade continue […]
June 6, 2025 | Gold’s Breakout Isn’t Just Technical—It’s a Global Stress Barometer
Gold has just made an important move by breaking out of a chart pattern that usually signals higher prices ahead. Several big reasons are behind this jump: Central banks are buying gold heavily to protect against currency drops and global uncertainty. Governments are spending way more than they earn, piling up debt—this makes gold more appealing […]
June 6, 2025 | Debt-Stressed Consumers Retrenching
Since June 2024, interest rates have trended down from a two-decade high, yet remain above the historically low levels seen during the pandemic. Approximately 1.2 million Canadian mortgages will renew in 2025, a vast majority (85%) of which were secured when the Bank of Canada’s key lending rate was at or below 1% compared with […]
June 6, 2025 | How Putin Can Win
The Daily Beast, another LEFT-WING propaganda outlet, pretends that this strike means Ukraine is winning. I think every one of these journalists should be drafted, handed a gun, and sent to Ukraine to defend what they boast about. Sorry, Putin is the smartest leader in the room. He has drawn so many red lines, […]
June 5, 2025 | Incoming US Centralized Federal Government Database — When Data Becomes Power
If you were unfamiliar with the American analytics company Palanatir Technologies, prepare to hear about it on every news channel in the coming months. Donald Trump secured the presidency twice because he was the anti-establishment candidate. The White House has tasked Planatir with developing an extensive centralized federal database to house the personal data of […]
June 5, 2025 | Gold Is Outperforming Stocks and Bonds – and Silver is Outperforming Gold
Congratulations, gold bugs, your long, painful wait is ending. The following chart shows the three-year rolling average annualized returns for stocks, bonds, and gold, with the latter now winning. Gold is holding its gains even as it moves into its seasonally weakest stretch. No “sell and May and go away” so far. This is great […]
June 5, 2025 | Job Losses Leaping
Slowly, then all at once…job losses ‘unexpectedly’ leaping across many sectors. Andy Challenger, Senior Vice President, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, shares his insights on the latest Challenger layoff report in the U.S. and what sectors were most impacted. Here is a direct video link.
June 5, 2025 | Trump Did Call Putin
COMMENT: Marty, you are always way ahead of everyone else. You told Greg Hunter that Trump called Putin. Why anyone listens to any commentator when they are not the ones with real contacts is beyond me. Thank you so much for everything you do. They handed Obama the Nobel Peace Prize when he was […]
June 4, 2025 | Trump Blames Fed for Weak Payrolls – Media Blames Trump Tariffs
May’s private payrolls based on ADP estimates are the lowest since March 2023. Private payrolls rose only 37,000 last month, far beneath April’s addition of 60,000 and a far cry from the Dow Jones forecast of 110,000. The financial sector rose by 20,000, leisure and hospitality saw an increase of 38,000, and construction added 6,000. […]
June 4, 2025 | Ukrainian Special Forces Made Multiple Attacks Deep Into Russia. Destroying Over 40 Long Range Nuclear Capable Planes. This Is A Game Changer!
Summary: Ukraine Special Forces made surprising and successful attacks with new methodologies to attack critical Russian military equipment. Ukraine knocked out 41 long range strategic nuclear capable attack planes at five air bases including one in Siberia. It appears that Ukraine had help from NATO military intelligence services as the Trump administration does not want […]
June 4, 2025 | Becoming Invisible, Part 17: Next-Gen PCs Riddled With AI Spyware
About a decade ago, my son built himself a gaming computer, but soon decided he didn’t need it. I bought it from him and have used it for work ever since. Despite its age, it’s still fast, with massive memory and the horsepower to multitask pretty much any combination of programs or websites. I would […]
June 4, 2025 | Dark Factories
The idea that re-shoring manufacturing will increase good-paying jobs in North America faces some challenges from automation. Corporations focus on profit margins, so where machines are more efficient than human labour, automation will win out. Factories have been transformed by automation, with robots now taking on a sizeable proportion of jobs once done by people […]
June 3, 2025 | Rising Stocks and Contracting Economies–Foreboding Financial Setup
China’s Caixin purchasing managers’ index unexpectedly fell in May to 48.3 (sub-50 signals contraction) as US tariffs took a toll on smaller exporters. The consensus had expected the gauge to improve, not worsen. At the same time, US manufacturing activity contracted further in May to the lowest level since November. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) purchasing managers’ index […]
June 3, 2025 | The Economic Confidence Model & the Hidden Order Behind the Chaos
COMMENT: Marty, I have been with you since 1987. I have watched your Economic Confidence Model blow everyone out of the water, and your critics are just idiots who are either genuinely just stupid or they are paid by the “club” to try to prevent people from listening to you. Anyone who criticizes you […]
June 2, 2025 | The Seeds for the Next Crisis
Happy Monday Morning! Last week we titled a piece called ‘A Firehose of Supply’ in which we duly noted, “The bull thesis for housing this year was falling rates. Sellers have been reluctant to cut prices because rates were supposed to come down and house prices were supposed to go up. Instead, mortgage rates only […]
June 2, 2025 | Hunt: The Economy is Weaker than Wall Street Suggests
It’s an especially confusing time for investors. On one hand, the US economy is showing signs of slowing, with a negative growth for Q1 GDP, and mounting evidence that many corporations and consumer households are feeling the pinch of higher borrowing costs. On the other hand, FOMO Is returning to the stock market as corporate […]
June 2, 2025 | Half of Americans Questioning COVID Vax
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has opened the public’s eyes to the truth surrounding the COVID-19 plandemic and authoritative mandates that permanently damaged public health and confidence in governments. The Food and Drug Administration announced it will no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine to children and pregnant women, while also stating that […]
June 1, 2025 | Bullish Highlights
I call our annual event the Strategic Investment Conference for a reason. Understanding the macro trends is only the first step. We all have to apply that knowledge in our own portfolios so we can tolerate short-term fluctuations and achieve our bigger goals. Today I’m going to highlight some speakers who added an equity market perspective to […]
June 1, 2025 | We are on the Path to World War III – Thank You Trump
COMMENT #1: Hi Marty, Just observation form Croatia, it is just unbelievable how much lies MSM and Senators like Lindsey Graham are spreading about war in Ukraine. Lindsey just visited Ukraine and labeled peace talks as a joke and he is saying that Russians are not trying to negotiate. As well he is voicing support […]
June 1, 2025 | Watch this Latest Bitcoin Crime Start a Wave!
The internet has evolved into the perfect medium for spreading crime into every household and every age group, and now Bitcoin is fast becoming the perfect medium for pushing a more violent kind of crime out into the streets. There was a time when one could avoid getting mugged simply by not wearing Italian shoes, […]
May 31, 2025 | Silver Bars vs Coins
QUESTION: Marty, There seems to be a growing trend with States approving gold and silver coins as acceptable payment methods. You have always said that it would be coins and not bars. However Florida now states that the silver must be 99% pure. How will this affect the pre 65 constitutional coins like dimes, […]
May 31, 2025 | Art of the Collapse, June 2025
Looks like we’ve finally found some political common ground: No Tax On Tips Passes Senate Unanimously After Clarification That Bribes Can Count As Tips (Babylon Bee) – In a rare display of full bipartisan support, President Donald Trump’s “No Tax On Tips” bill passed through the Senate unanimously after legislators received clarification that bribes can […]
May 31, 2025 | Tech Talk for May 31st 2025
The Bottom Line Technical momentum by broadly based U.S. equity indices weakened last week below high levels reached on or near May 16th: S&P 500 at 5,968.61, Dow Jones Industrial Average at 42,892.04, NASDAQ Composite Index at 19,389.39 and Russell 2000 ETF at 210.13. Major U.S. equity indices have entered into a brief period of […]
May 30, 2025 | Trump and Musk are Headed for a Breakup
Elon Musk’s attempt to achieve clout in politics has backfired spectacularly. He has damaged Tesla’s brand with his venture into President Trump’s orbit of confidants. Musk’s version of cost-cutting, called DOGE, is now considered by many to be a failure and is no longer seen as an asset for the Republican Party and President Trump. […]