Crises around the world have quickened since publishing Part 1 on Jan. 22, which included many details about the petroleum market that remain applicable today. Despite an uptick in geopolitical chaos, supply chain disruptions, and apocalyptic war rhetoric, the price...
The bubblicious fervor for investing in the FAANG family of equities have been abandoned for technology stocks related to artificial intelligence since early 2023. That niche includes advances in semiconductor functionalities, CPUs, GPUs, microchips, quantum...
The commercial real estate (CRE) implosion has exposed endemic risk among regional banks and foreign financial institutions that adds fuel to a banking crisis bonfire that surfaced last spring after Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic collapsed. A...
The major U.S. stock market indices have had an exceptional rally since the Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting in Nov. 2023 when the committee membership and Chairman Jay Powell puked a buffet of dovish monetary policy Fedspeak. At the Dec. 13 meeting, they delivered the...
The world experienced a supply chain crisis during the coronavirus pandemic that resulted in asymmetric shortages of consumer goods and a wicked spike of inflation that followed a currency printing party during societal lockdowns. Are consumers in the United States...