A New Set of Rules This week, the stock market finally took a breather with just its fifth weekly decline in the last 22 weeks. Despite the off week [...]

Happy Easter! Happy Easter to all HAI readers! This author is traveling this holiday weekend. As a result, this week, HAI will be limited to prices [...]

Punch-Bowl Powell & Rational Exuberance This week, stocks posted their best week of the year after Fed Chair Powell and the Federal Reserve FOMC [...]

Nowhere to Go but Gold This week, following the recent breakout of gold to new all-time highs, HAI will detail the set up for gold and gold mining [...]

Tying the Knot They say love conquers all. As an expression of the truth of that statement, there is no new HAI this week. However, the lack of a new [...]

Goldilocks—Between a Rock and a Hard Place The artificial intelligence (AI) themed, perpetual-Goldilocks inspired Wall Street bubble-bash continued [...]

The Magician’s Sleight of Hand The short list of market darling stocks leading this market higher continues to dwindle. The remaining [...]

A Flag on the Field The stock market financial asset bubble is a confidence bubble. That confidence holds on the assumption that, by hook, crook, or [...]

FOMO, POMO, and the Fleeting Sigh of Relief This week the S&P 500 notched another record weekly close. It even managed to breach and hold above [...]

Policy Error – The Risk for 2024 This week’s HAI is going to be short. Sickness has descended upon this author, and its manifestations [...]

Economic Boom Time in the Go-Go 2020s This week, Q4 U.S. GDP was reported at what the financial media touted as a “booming” 3.3%. The [...]

Danger Zone Recent HAIs have chronicled the breakdown of Goldilocks economic conditions that has occurred in the post-Covid timeframe. Historically [...]