Trade War; it’s here. This year, the United States has summarily instituted numerous tariff actions against China the EU, Mexico and even Canada among others. President Trump’s confrontational...
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Four Classic Indicators of a Bear Market
A Bear Market is coming, it's only a matter of when. It may be quite a while before it arrives, as bears are known to sleep for a long time. Many investors don't like to think in terms of a Bear...
Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss, …Sort Of
Back in the olden days of the 1970s and 1980s, there was a correlation between bond and stock prices, where stock prices dropped along with bond prices as interest rates increased. Back then,...
Bitcoin Mania: The Brave New (Mad Mad) World of Money Part 2
When people start talking about a new, quick and easy way to make big money, it becomes like a movie many of us have seen before. The particular movie that comes to mind in the case of Bitcoin and...
Fourth Quarter Investment and Economic Report
Financial markets continued to rally in the fourth quarter of 2017, as strong corporate earnings and continued economic growth here in the US and internationally drove positive sentiment and...
Bitcoin, Blockchain and The Brave New World of Money (Part 1)
What is money anyway? The little realized secret about money is that it does not really exist in the actual universe. Money is only a construct of human perception, and therefore not even real....