Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany Earnings, FOMC, and the Weight of Expectations Asset markets delivered another volatile week to close out the [...]

The Volatile Tightrope Walk After the relative calm of early July, the last two weeks havebrought back fireworks of a different kind. So far, during the second [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany Risks and Opportunities: A volatile Cocktail Markets ended the week on a notably negative note. After a positive [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany High Stakes for OPEC+ Amid a roaring recovery in the price of crude oil over the last year, this week saw [...]

Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany 4th of July – Freedom Perspective On 4th of July weekend in the United States, we all have the opportunity to [...]

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 [...]