Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany Infrastructure Bill and Oil Supply—Both in Doubt?  This past week provided headlines on the much discussed and [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany The Fed, A lit Match, and A Powder Keg Without question, this past week was a punishing one in the commodity [...]

Inflation Spikes: Market Yawns Another week, another hot inflation data point. According to the government report out this week, May headline CPI rose 5% from [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany Oil, the Dollar, and Worker Disinterest Up Sharply The big economic news of the week came with Friday’s non-farm [...]

Memorial Day Perspective Memorial Day Weekend is a special time for most Americans. As citizens we honor the military personnel who have died performing their [...]

Volatility Rising Volatility reigned in markets this week. The VIX volatility index closed the week above $20, with the exception of gold and silver. [...]

Rising Tension Despite a strong annualized Q1 GDP of 6.4%, expectations for an even stronger Q2 number, and an economic recovery that is widely considered to [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany Mixed Messages The first week of May was action-packed for global markets in what might be fairly characterized as [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany A Confluence of Factors The Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting this past Wednesday made one thing abundantly clear. [...]

Searching for Direction US stock markets were only slightly lower on the week as a heavy volume rally on Friday pared losses from previous sessions. Earnings [...]

Another Rough Week for the Dollar In last week’s HAI, it was noted that the US dollar delivered its worst weekly decline of 2021. This week, the greenback [...]

Creeping Inflation Concerns? As we enjoy the warming temperatures of a budding spring, the US Labor Department reported on Friday a warming trend of a whole [...]