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 [...]

An Echo of History On this holiday weekend, let’s take a short trek along the yellow brick road. While multi-month price corrections are never fun for the [...]

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 [...]