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...
It’s been quite a weekend we just experienced that’s a memory lane Déjà Vu (video) for me if juxtaposed against the slow-roll trainwreck known as the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) when I occupied a cubicle with a risk management team in NYC. The launchpad into the...
While the western United States bake in another heat wave with relatively affordable but inflated prices for gas and electricity compared to Europe via hydrocarbon-based power that’s taken for granted with EVs and air-conditioned flats, European Russophobic lords are...
“Technicians often ask fundamentalists… ‘Do you want to be intellectually correct or do you want to make money?’” – @RealMoney The civil dystopia and threats of political revolution that surround the 2020 U.S. presidential election are among the many factors...
Despite domestic and global economic data points that signal Goldilocks is not necessarily a happy camper, the Federal Reserve’s “Not QE” has pushed the U.S. stock market to new highs. My recent article, “The ‘Not QE’ TaperCaper Duck Quacks Like QED,” published on...