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 precious metals have traded in correlation to their usual seasonality buying patterns over the last year, and a summer rally appears to be underway after the bottoming price action in late June followed by yesterday’s price spike on the latest CPI inflation...
I lost count of how many times the United States government has kicked the debt ceiling mandate down the road following the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). The most recent national debt crisis prior to today’s was in 2021 when Yellen pleaded with Congress not to...
A negative outlook in the commercial real estate (CRE) market emerged from a combination of trends that include secular and cyclical ones, a liquidity crisis in the banking sector, and the wicked crime wave in certain major metropolitan areas. The secular trend is...
The price action in gold and silver is taking a healthy breather in a consolidation process before a possible seasonal rally this summer, and even the Financial Times shined a positive light on the pet rock’s fundamental and demand picture. “Very rare” precious metal...