To Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click Here Mike Gleason: It is my great privilege to be joined now by James Rickards. Mr. Rickards is Chief Global Strategist at the West Shore Funds, editor of Strategic Intelligence, a monthly newsletter,
April 8, 2016
The risk budgets are again unchanged for this month. For the moderate risk investor, the allocation between risk assets and bonds remains at 40/60. The changes in our indicators this month were not significant enough to warrant a change. Credit
Sure, it may just go to $650 an ounce first, which incidentally would be awesome for those of us who love going long asymmetry. Rest assured however, when the wheels truly come off of what is easily the craziest monetary
Strategists often like to cloak themselves in the fundamental or technical mantle. But parse their words carefully, and the best fundamentalists talk about support and resistance levels, while the ace technicians refer to the latest economic data points. The reality
I have been writing about Deutsche Bank for about six months now. My first post, back in October 2015, showed how DB, then trading above $29/share, was sitting on multi-decade support. The chart was showing warning signs that bad things
In July last year, the BEA reconfigured its GDP benchmarks to incorporate the results of the comprehensive 2012 Economic Census. That broad and deep survey found much less “recovery” than the BEA had originally anticipated through its system of stochastic
It’s been almost eleven months since the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) has made a new high. It’s been over fifteen months since the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT) has made a new high. But, DJIA is only about 5%
Americans spend a whopping $70 billion per year on the lottery. That’s bigger than the entire U.S. venture capital industry! Imagine if instead of wasting money on lotto tickets, Americans invested that money in startups and small businesses. Starting May 16, we’ll
There is little doubt that the United States Of America is in an inescapable debt trap. While I am not suggesting any gloom and doom scenario in the foreseeable future, the US dollar is likely to trend lower and the
Photo Credit: Josh Hallett Alcoa, Inc. (AA) Materials – Metals & Mining | Reports April 11, After Market Close Alcoa, Inc., the global leader in lightweight metals technology, is prepared to kick off earnings season, as it typically does, with first quarter
