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Wake up America! It is only massive and unsustainable deficit spending that continues driving our economy forward. This is why the President's fixation on the stock market and not the real economy represented by Main Street does a great disservice to Americans. While Trump may have been correc...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on February 4, 2019 Bank reserves are a throwback to a time when the amount of receipts for money (gold) that could be issued by a bank was limited by the amount of money (gold) the bank held in reserve. Under the current moneta...

Editor's note: This article was originally published on February 3, 2019, by Menzie Chinn here . It's kind of limiting to look only at recessions as predicted by the yield curve. What about growth? I run regressions of 4-quarter GDP growth (in log terms) as a function of one-year la...

I have discussed how there is a sort of mental accounting problem with the yield curve model. The zero-slope is treated as a constant, when, in fact, meaningful inversion happens at low yields when the 10-year yield is as much as 1% higher than the fed funds rate, and at higher yields, the i...

By Craig Hemke As the Chinese Year of the Pig kicks off next week, Eric Sprott breaks down the latest gold and silver news and tells us: Will 2019 bring home the bacon for gold investors? In this edition of the Wrap-Up, you'll hear: What the Fed "cave-in" means for precious metals ...

Global markets have started 2019 on firmer footing after losses in 2018. We see equities and bonds eking out positive returns this year, and still advocate a carefully balanced approach in portfolios due to late-cycle concerns and ongoing geopolitical uncertainties. We caution against chasing ...

The euphoria that carried the stock market to an 8% gain in January all but erased the pessimism that led to one of the worst December's on record, when the S&P 500 ( SPY ) fell nearly 9%. Net, over the past two months, there has been a lot of chop, volatility and constantly shifting narr...

By Eric Winograd The magnitude of recent market reactions to the Fed's comments makes it clear that communication between the Fed and the market isn't working: the market is too focused on the Fed - and not enough on the economy. One solution? The Fed should stop giving forward guidance ab...

Have you heard of the term Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)? If you haven't, don't feel bad. It's not a harbinger to "that moment" when you suddenly realize you've crossed the meridian and drifted into what's known as middle age. You know, like, when you thought it would be better to once again ...

Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Coming up Axel Merk of Merk Investments joins me for a terrific conversation about gold, the Fed, stocks and the dollar. And find out why he believes investors will soon realize that it DOES matter again about where you put y...