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Weekly Market Pulse: Time Out

By |2025-06-02T07:15:58-04:00June 1st, 2025|Alhambra Portfolios, Alhambra Research, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Markets, Newsletter, Real Estate, Stocks, Taxes/Fiscal Policy|

The tariff rollercoaster continues. This week most of President Trump's tariffs were ruled to be outside the scope of the law he used to impose them. I was not surprised in the least because, as I wrote a few weeks ago, I actually took the time to read the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the word tariff doesn't even [...]

Weekly Market Pulse: A Commodity Bull Market?

By |2025-05-27T07:04:47-04:00May 26th, 2025|Alhambra Portfolios, Alhambra Research, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Markets, Newsletter, Real Estate, Stocks|

In commodity markets there's an old saying that low prices cure low prices and high prices cure high prices. High prices lead to over-investment in new capacity which leads to gluts and low prices. Low prices restrain investment which leads to shortages and high prices. It's the boom and bust nature of commodity markets although the time it takes between [...]

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