Leverage The week before last ended with optimism (albeit with plenty of confusion) around a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the possibility of [...]

Slip Through Your Fingers Friday was a very busy day. The action started with an early morning Bloomberg report that Iranian officials had fully [...]

Grand Global Economic Reordering? The most important factor determining the fate of asset prices across the board in the very short-term is greater [...]

This week, in an article titled “Foreign central banks sell U.S. Treasuries in wake of Iran war,” the Financial Times reported that since the [...]

Starting to Reassert Itself This week, a Financial Times article titled “World faces gas supply cliff-edge as Gulf’s final LNG shipments approach [...]

Where Wealth is Built In a Wednesday article titled, “World’s Largest LNG Plant Suffers Extensive Damage, Qatar Says,” Bloomberg reported that [...]

Uncontrollable Events To be clear, in HAI‘s view, the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz is undoubtedly the epicenter of a rapidly growing [...]

Only Gold is Gold Last week HAI asserted that the near-term technicals for precious metals were “swinging more bullish.” Well, a week later, that [...]

The Bad Character Time is tight this week, so HAI will be brief. While the medium- to long-term outlook for precious metals remains exceptionally [...]

A Slug Out of the Middle Two weeks ago, a Mining.com article highlighted a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey revealing that, despite efforts [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]