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 [...]
Inflation Spikes: Market Yawns Another week, another hot inflation data point. According to the government report out this week, May headline CPI [...]
Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany Oil, the Dollar, and Worker Disinterest Up Sharply The big economic news of the week came with [...]
Memorial Day Perspective Memorial Day Weekend is a special time for most Americans. As citizens we honor the military personnel who have died [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany A Confluence of Factors The Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting this past Wednesday made one thing [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Creeping Inflation Concerns? As we enjoy the warming temperatures of a budding spring, the US Labor Department reported on Friday a warming trend of [...]
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 [...]
Markets: Risk-on, Risk-off, Risk-maybe On the macro economic front, significant coronavirus concerns have resurfaced again this past week. Germany, [...]
Time to Build a Portfolio of Real Things Today is “quadruple witching,” with a variety of options and futures contracts expiring. This adds a [...]
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, [...]