The Detox Period While Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve met this week for their latest FOMC meeting, little has changed in HAI’s overall outlook. Financial [...]
Signal and Noise This was an important week in the wild world of markets. The broad market is suddenly down big, down hard, and down fast. Given the abrupt [...]
Valuations, Fundamentals, and Technicals Since the end of January HAI has presented the essentials of what appear to be potentially high-impact events and [...]
Pain Before Gain? A little over a month into President Trump 2.0 and DOGE cost-cutting initiatives, U.S. economic growth is starting to significantly surprise [...]
Gold’s Shining Moment? Since 1971, the U.S. as global hegemon has followed the same path of deindustrialization that ended the preceding British Empire’s [...]
Thinking Very Big Ahead of the Presidents’ Day long weekend, HAI will be reduced to just a few short comments on the latest week in the wild, wild world of [...]
A Barron’s article last December encouraged readers to “embrace the bubble” in stocks, and prepare for another banner S&P 500 year in 2025. This [...]
The Foothills of Gold’s Eventual Everest The main event in markets this week was news that an obscure Chinese start-up artificial intelligence (AI) company [...]
Expectations for a Messy Stretch This week, HAI would like to join millions of others in welcoming Donald J. Trump back to the White House. He will otherwise [...]
Good for Gold This was another interesting week in the wild world of Wall Street. The big market-moving news surrounded Wednesday’s release of Consumer Price [...]
A Very Interesting Set-Up This week the S&P 500 closed at its lowest level since November 5th. The slide lower in the S&P has now given back all of the [...]
2025—No Room for Error Since the Fed started its latest rate-cutting cycle in mid-September, the results haven’t exactly fallen in line with the typical [...]
