weekly-roundup

It is fair to say that our central bankers are out of practice when it comes to the hiking cycle. Traditionally they took away the punchbowl just as the party was getting going. This time they didn’t. In response to the pandemic, they printed money like never before in

I wrote my 83rd issue of The Atlas Pulse Gold Report titled Zozobra, a Spanish term for a specific fear, with connotations reminiscent of the swaying of a ship that is about to capsize. I covered the highlights from the In Gold We Trust Report (INWT), US inflation, the weakness

Who’d have thought that the pound, universally ridiculed by the FT’ies (lefties who read the Financial Times), would be on the verge of a 6-year high? Only the Swiss Franc and the Singapore Dollar, both financial safe havens, are ahead of the pound over this post-Brexit period. Versus

It is rare that the market breadth can be as thin as it is today outside of a bear market. That is, the number of stocks in an uptrend is low, yet the stockmarket is holding up. The only recollection I have over the past 25 years was in 1999,

There was a downbeat tone from ByteTree this week but more a reflection of market liquidity than an economic slump. The dollar has started to rally again, and that has put commodities and crypto under short-term pressure. More importantly, perhaps, the largest and most liquid assets are the beneficiaries, at