Times Are Changing For many years, Japan has been used as the ultimate example for why sovereign debt burdens no longer matter in our bold new era of modern [...]
Noise vs. Signal This week in the wild world of markets, volatility was again the name of the game. Now, volatility comes in essentially two forms: intra-trend [...]
Cooler Heads Will Prevail This week HAI will be short and to the point. Friday witnessed a historic sell-off in the precious metals. Gold dropped 9.11%, silver [...]
Iron Laws and Golden Light Shows In a recent New York Times article titled, “Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland,” White House Deputy [...]
A Generational Bull In the Wall Street Journal this week, Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau warned of “the possibility of a fall in the [...]
New Opportunities in a New World In 2022, Russian President Vladamir Putin addressed the plenary session of the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic [...]
Not All That Glitters is Gold in 2026 Happy New Year, all! This author is still hanging on to the last of family vacation time, so HAI will again be brief this [...]
[CNBC] S&P 500 moves slightly as benchmark gets set to close out 2025 with 17% gain: Live updates [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Copper Set for Biggest Annual Gain [...]
[CNBC] Stocks are little changed after S&P 500 posts back-to-back losses: Live updates [CNBC] 10-year Treasury yield steady ahead of December Fed minutes [...]
[CNBC] S&P 500 declines as investors take profit on tech stocks into final stretch of 2025: Live updates [Reuters] The tenuous peace between Trump and the [...]
[ABC] New winter storm heads for Midwest, Northeast with 40 million people on alert [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump, Zelenskiy to Meet as Russia’s Lavrov Assails [...]
Happy New Year! Santa brought us another very strong week in the precious metals sector. It seems the world is finally starting to catch on to what HAI [...]
[Reuters] Winter weather in US Northeast leads to thousands of flight delays, cancellations [Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead S&P 500 eyes 7,000 mark as [...]
For the Week: The S&P500 gained 1.4% (up 17.8% y-t-d), and the Dow rose 1.2% (up 14.5%). The Utilities advanced 1.2% (up 13.8%). The Banks rose 1.8% (up [...]
[CNBC] Stocks are little changed, Wall Street heads for winning week: Live updates [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold, Silver Jump to Record Highs on Geopolitics, Weak [...]