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TOP NEWSWhat To Buy With Higher Interest Rates Ahead?
In this week's Recap, Lance Roberts and I tackle the question: What to buy now that the Fed is expected to hike interest rates several times this year?
The Best Inflation Protection Assets Are ON SALE Right Now | Jesse Felder
Earlier we presented you Part 1 of our interview with macro analyst Jesse Felder in which he explained why he suspects the Federal Reserve is intentionally trying to cause a managed market correction. Here in Part 2, Jesse highlights the asset classes he thinks offer the best upside if he's correct.
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The Most Amazing Coin Treasures Uncovered in 2021
Saving for a rainy day is not a new idea. In 2021, archaeologists turned up a whole horde of hoards: stashes of coins and other valuables left behind for whatever reason and never used again. These treasures turned up in a Polish cornfield, in a meadow in New England, in a town in Denmark. They were left by royals, pirates, chieftains and people who will forever remain anonymous.
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Recent Buried and Sunken Treasure and What Happens to It
“That belongs in a museum!” Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones famously said. If you found buried treasure, what would you do with it? Keep it? Sell it? Turn it over to a museum?
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What Drives the Price of Gold? Part 2: Jan Nieuwenhuijs
A detailed analysis of the current gold pricing framework and why this framework is unsustainable.
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Gold Lagging Inflation
Gold is lagging the raging inflation unleashed by the Fed’s epic money printing. Despite leading inflation benchmarks skyrocketing to multi-decade highs, gold prices have barely budged. Serious inflation initially fuels record-high stock markets, which stunt gold investment demand. But festering inflation increasingly erodes corporate earnings, hitting stock prices. As stock markets roll over, gold will start reflecting this inflation.
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Should You Move While You Can, Or When You Must?
This gives an extreme advantage to those few who move first, long before they must. The financial advantage for first movers is equally extreme.
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Astrologers Would Likely Beat the Fed at Inflation Forecasting
The Fed claims to have tools to fight inflation. The last time we heard them so empathically was right before the housing bubble burst.
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Which States Are the Freest?
Many Americans are fleeing restrictive jurisdictions and moving to places that respect their liberty.
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There's Still Time To Stop Biden's Global Minimum Tax Grab
There is a real opportunity for pro-growth low-tax Republicans to emphasize their commitment to tax competition rather than tax “harmonization.”
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Focus On January Returns Not December Retail Sales
To those looking at data from holiday consumer purchases as proof of consumer demand and the economy is strong I think more attention should be paid to what happens next. With direct payments to American households being halted, for now, Americans with children are returning to more normal spending habits.
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Could Oil Really Reach $200?: OilPrice.com
Doug King, head of the Merchant Commodity Fund, enjoyed record returns last year, gaining 74 percent in 2021 and beating its previous record of 59 percent set in 2014—another boom year for oil right before the bust. But now, King is expecting further gains in the price of oil, saying it could even reach $200 per barrel over the next five years.
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Still Kicking That Can: John Kennedy Asks Powell Point Blank: 'How Much Is Too Much' Debt?
At January 11th Senate Banking Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) asked Fed Chair Jerome Powell about the debt.
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Sound Money Isn’t Enough
Today we recognize a distressing possibility: Sound money does not ensure sound government. That is, sound money – in our fallen world of sin and vice – cannot constrain sinful and viceful men hostile to sound government.
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Critics Say I.M.F. Loan Fees Are Hurting Nations in Desperate Need: NYT
Democratic lawmakers say the global fund’s surcharges for emergency relief siphon away money that countries need to fight the pandemic.
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Argentina's Monthly Inflation Accelerates As IMF Talks Stall
Argentina posted its fastest monthly inflation rate in eight months on Thursday, complicating the path to deliver a stability plan as part of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.
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Why Global Leaders Are Terrified About 'Social Cohesion Erosion'
The global pandemic has blazed a long trail of upheavals, the vast majority of them bad: surging inflation rates, small business decimation, and a death toll that’s climbed above the last 10 years of casualties from the flu. But according to a new report from the World Economic Forum, that’s not the worst of it: …
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Is The Fed Trying To Engineer A Market Correction? | Jesse Felder
By tapering and then raising interest rates, is it possible the Federal Reserve is intentionally trying to cause a managed market correction? Macro analyst Jesse Felder thinks so, as it needs to start taming both the asset bubble and inflation monsters it has created.
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Return-Free Risk: Hussman
In an economy where the Fed has lost every systematic tether to common sense, empirical evidence, and concern for financial stability, it’s worth beginning this first market comment of 2022 by recalling the ways we’ve adapted in order to navigate that environment.
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Cass Freight Index Expenditures Rose 43.6% In 2021 - Baltic Dry Index Has Crashed Since October 2021
Ever wonder why prices are rising so fast? One reason is that with rapidly rising energy prices under the Biden Administration, the costs are getting passed-through to consumers in the form of higher prices.
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