Into the Storm After another week of data, news, and market moves, the bottom line for markets and the economy is unchanged. In HAI’s view, markets and the [...]
Precious Truth Our modern-market circus kicked off this week with the second largest bank failure in US history as First Republic Bank went bust. The seismic [...]
Crisis is a Process The market narrative this week was split between stagflation, as economic growth slows but elevated inflation signals remain far stickier [...]
Author Nassim Taleb accurately observed that, “experience in finance with a discount rate near zero is like having studied physics except without gravity.” [...]
Famed Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises warned that the Keynesian means of delivering “apparent prosperity” was inherently unsustainable. The [...]
Seat Belts Fastened; a Hard Landing Seems Likely Given the long holiday weekend and travel plans this week, HAI will merely offer weekly prices and a few very [...]
Return-Free Risk vs. the Economic Truth With the final March tally now in the books, the S&P 500 was up 3.51%, the 10-year US Treasury note gained 3.37%, [...]
Essentially Broken This week, the regional banking crisis in the US took a back seat to emerging troubles at major European banks. Adding to the existing [...]
The Ides of March In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the seer warned, “beware the ides of March.” Well, it may not be Shakespeare, and it certainly isn’t [...]
Precious Metals at a Crucial Macro Moment This week, BNP Paribas Senior US Economist Yelena Shulyatyeva told Bloomberg, “At this point, it’s clear. We [...]
Moment of Truth Over the past two weeks, HAI has highlighted the incredibly important technical support zone between 3,900 and 4,000 on the S&P 500. This [...]
The Heat is On Last week, HAI observed that the S&P 500 had broken below the rising trend channel that defined the rally off December lows. The implication [...]
