Lurking behind a surge in United States government bond yields since the spring of this year are the two largest players in the market that have stopped buying U.S. Treasury debt. The Federal Reserve launched a quantitative tightening (QT) monetary policy program in...
The recession’s hard-landing arrival is a slow trainwreck with roots dating back to the spring of 2022 when the United States GDP printed two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Goldilocks’ pundits would have you believe that the economy’s plumbing is more akin...
I explored the origin of the United States dollar and subsequent debasement in the first part of this series and then noted its weaponization by the Biden administration in response to the current geopolitical and financial crises that are accelerating a...
A theory backed by convincing evidence says the dollar is often called a “buck” due to merchants trading goods for deerskin in the 1740s, long before the first United States dollar was minted with the Coinage Act of 1792. The exchange rate for a cask of whiskey being...
In recent exchanges with fellow gormandizers, many are questioning or desperately holding onto historically reliable market correlations and divergences. When discussing technical analysis, its “rules” remain intact, but when attempting to quantify parallel outcomes...