Is Current Stock Market Bull Ready To Trend Higher? The market has resisted all attempts to correct. We know why it’s not crashing; this has to do with mass psychology, but what’s preventing it from letting out a meaningful dose of steam. The table below might hold the answer. We looked at all 30 components … Read more
Deaths due to religious violence Updated Dec 2022 There is no indication that this will stop. Shortly after the last update, all hell broke loose in Turkey, validating our argument that we would continue witnessing a rise in violence. Violence in the US, not necessarily religious based, is projected to increase also; hardly a day … Read more
Negative interest rates Wars? Australia’s central bank cut interest rates to a fresh record low as it moves to counter disinflation and support a labour market hampered by high levels of part-time work and underemployment. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens and his board lowered the cash rate by 25 basis points to 1.5 … Read more
Lowest rates in 5000 years: The insanity continues The figures are truly shocking and stunning, to say the least. Central bankers World Wide have printed more than $12.3 trillion. Then we have over $10 trillion worth of bonds with negative yields; this is insane. People are paying for the luxury of purchasing this toxic and … Read more
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd The chart below clearly illustrates that a relationship exists between crude oil and the Dow. For most of the 1st half of 2015, oil traded sideways, and the Dow followed suit. Then, around July of 2015, … Read more
Editor: Vladimir Bajic | Tactical Investor Chicago Times on Hillary Clinton’s Corruption Since Watergate, “follow the money” has guided major corruption investigations. Both Democrats and Republicans have accepted Kremlin money, including the Clintons and Trump advisors. This suggests Russia sought to influence both sides. Any investigation into Russian interference should track the money that flowed … Read more
Smart Money Or Dumb Investors Chasing Yields Investors’ headlong rush into high-yielding stock funds has prompted Vanguard Group to close a popular dividend fund from accepting new cash. The Pennsylvania-based fund giant announced on Thursday that the $30.6 billion Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund (VDIGX) will no longer accept money from new. Full Story The … Read more
Russia Bombed US-Syrian Base? According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia Bombed a secret Military base in Syria used by elite American and British forces. How elite are they, if they could not even keep the base’s location a secret, we wonder? Even though some forces could have been killed and the bombing dampened relations … Read more
The Secret War On Cash Central bankers are declaring war on cash for one reason only; they want to punish savers and reward speculators and in the process destroy the middle class. The only way to maintain the illusion that all is well is to get the average Joe to embrace this illusory economic recovery … Read more
Japan’s Economy is teetering? The war on interest is on: Japan’s economy is not growing, and inflation is not rising despite pumping trillions of Yen into the economy. So Abe decides it’s best to push even more money into the economy. Is this not the definition of insanity; doing the same thing again and … Read more
