Markets: Risk-on, Risk-off, Risk-maybe On the macro economic front, significant coronavirus concerns have resurfaced again this past week. Germany, Europe’s [...]

Time to Build a Portfolio of Real Things Today is “quadruple witching,” with a variety of options and futures contracts expiring. This adds a unique [...]

Real But Unacknowledged, Inflation Is the Elephant in the Room A failed rally in the 10-year Treasury took yields back to the highs for the week, passing [...]

Fed Starting to Lead Interest Rate Policy from the Rear Bank of America is calling this, “a new era of volatility.” Bonds, stocks, commodities, precious [...]

Investors Move to Reduce Risk The predominant market theme for this week was the spike in the 10-year yield and its implications for risk assets. Stepping [...]

The Market Considers Its Options The broader market had a bit of a pullback as it digested extraordinary gains. However, the selloff was uneven. There are [...]

Markets Continue Their Hopium High The risk-on trade continued into this week, and the markets saw a continued broad-based rally to all-time highs. The S&P [...]

Market Expects Fair Winds and Following Seas The markets got a taste of a risk-off environment last week. They quickly shrugged off a brief period of hedge [...]

When Shorted Stocks Stand Tall Markets had a pullback this week despite a concerted effort by retail investors on the subreddit “Wall Street Bets” to [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany Only Gold Is Gold The meteoric rise and fall of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has gotten a great deal of [...]

New Year Begins with Significant Market Shifts Hard Asset Insights has returned after a bit of a hiatus, although we have been watching the current economic [...]

The Markets Think Better Times Are Ahead Financial markets remain ebullient as they make all-time new highs coming into the holiday season and year-end. [...]