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Camp Sour or Soar: Inflation (global) and Spending

By |2021-11-29T17:30:15-05:00November 29th, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

It’s always a balance of probabilities tug-of-war. Markets (not stocks) are continuously trying to discern risk since everything is really converted to some kind of risk-adjusted basis. And if the perceived weight of those tilts downward thinking forward, then it may not matter much or at all what’s going on right now.What’s going on right now is, according to everyone, [...]

Eurodollar University Episode 164, Part 1: From The Only Perspective That Matters (global $s), Inflation Never Had A Chance

By |2021-11-29T17:20:52-05:00November 29th, 2021|Alhambra Research, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets, Stocks|

164.1 TIC-ked Off About Not Enough Money to Recover Global Economy———Ep 164.1 Summary———America's September 2021 Treasury International Capital data corroborates dis/deflationary indications observed across various sources, the vast majority of which imply there's not enough money, and/or it's inadequately distributed, for the global economy to achieve permanent recovery. ———Ep 164.1 Topics——— 00:00 TIC: Consistent, Coherent, Corroborated, Inflation Never Had A [...]

2021 Year-End Investment Checklist

By |2021-11-29T11:32:17-05:00November 29th, 2021|Markets|

The end of the year is a financial opportunity—an opportunity to take advantage of remaining tax breaks and keep Uncle Sam’s hand from going deeper into your pocket than it has to, and an opportunity to clean up your portfolio and make sure your financial house is in order. Here is a year-end financial checklist.   Tax Loss Harvesting What [...]

Weekly Market Pulse: This Again??!!

By |2021-11-29T07:38:53-05:00November 28th, 2021|Markets|

Here we go again. Or maybe, more accurately, here we go still. COVID has reared its ugly head again, this time in the form of a new variant called Omicron. The name surprised some folks because the next letter in the Greek alphabet was Nu, but the WHO thought that sounded too much like "new" so they skipped that one, [...]

Eurodollar University Episode 160: A Conversation With Russell Napier

By |2021-11-24T17:27:47-05:00November 24th, 2021|Alhambra Research, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets, Stocks|

160.0 Interviewing Russell Napier: What the Asian Financial Crisis Wrought———Ep 160.0 Summary———Author, reformed lawyer, economic historian and your man from Belfast, Russell Napier, explains why the 1995-98 Asian Financial Crisis set the stage for the Age of Debt (1999-2020) and the coming Era of Financial Repression (2021-??).———RUSSELL NAPIER BIOGRAPHY———Russell is chairman of the Mid Wynd International Investment Trust a closed [...]

The ‘Growth Scare’ Keeps Growing Out Of The Macro (Money) Illusion

By |2021-11-23T19:31:28-05:00November 23rd, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

When Japan’s Ministry of Trade, Economy, and Industry (METI) reported earlier in November that Japanese Industrial Production (IP) had plunged again during the month of September 2021, it was so easy to just dismiss the decline as a product of delta COVID. According to these figures, industrial output fell an unsightly 5.4%...from August 2021, meaning month-over-month not year-over-year. Altogether, IP [...]

Sorry Jay, Curve(s) #continuity Is Not A Good Thing

By |2021-11-22T19:58:54-05:00November 22nd, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Where is the “tantrum?” If there is one, to this point it has been historically minor changes limited to the shorter end of the yield curve between the 2-year and 5-year USTs. This section of it is more influenced by what the market believes Jay Powell’s Fed will do especially now that it likely will be Jay Powell’s Fed for [...]

#continuity The Least Useful Person

By |2021-11-22T17:18:37-05:00November 22nd, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

I do long for the day when no one cares even a tiny bit about something like this. Sadly, that day remains our very distant future because nothing has changed. This, rather than anything useful, is what everyone means when they use the word “stability” to describe these situations.For months, there had been rumors Jay Powell would be one-and-done like [...]

Ask Bob: What Do I Do About Long-Term Care?

By |2021-11-22T12:41:33-05:00November 22nd, 2021|Markets|

Healthcare during the senior years, especially the topic of long-term care, has been talked about and analyzed ad nauseam. And from all the research, one thing is clear. If you need long-term care, it will be expensive in both dollars and emotions.   Here are a few of the most recent statistics about long-term care in America: 70% of people [...]

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