Six months ago, investors and savers were expecting higher interest rates after years of near-zero returns on cash, and the game reversed course almost overnight when the Fed hit the pause button in Dec. 2018. I covered that reality show with “How it Sounds When Fed...
In early December, everyone wondered if the U.S. stock market plunged into a bear market, so I published “Is the Stock Market Plunge a Fork in the 10-year Pig Party?.” I appeared on live talk radio on Dec. 9 with Dr. Dave Janda’s Operation Freedom, where I urged the...
Remember when Yellen muppet’d us all by proclaiming another financial crisis in our lifetime was unlikely? Banks ‘very much stronger’; another financial crisis not likely ‘in our lifetime’… “Speaking during an exchange in London with British...
On the heels of the DOW plunging 800 points today on concerns over an economic slowdown, the bond market has been wagering on a recession by pricing in interest rate cuts that usually accompany a downturn. A flattening yield curve is not a forecaster of recession in...
Thousands of large and small retail operations are shutting down across the United States. Whether it is strip malls, mega malls, specialty outlets, or the hodgepodge of commercial storefronts strung along street-level real estate in cities and suburbia, the trend has...