Expectations for a Messy Stretch This week, HAI would like to join millions of others in welcoming Donald J. Trump back to the White House. He will [...]
Good for Gold This was another interesting week in the wild world of Wall Street. The big market-moving news surrounded Wednesday’s release of [...]
A Very Interesting Set-Up This week the S&P 500 closed at its lowest level since November 5th. The slide lower in the S&P has now given back [...]
2025—No Room for Error Since the Fed started its latest rate-cutting cycle in mid-September, the results haven’t exactly fallen in line with the [...]
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone! If you celebrate the 12 days thereof, you might be due for some calling birds today. HAI adds its [...]
Merry Christmas to All! This week was a wild one on Wall Street. The main event was a Wednesday bomb-drop by Jay Powell and the Federal Open Market [...]
Risks and Opportunities The tech giants who’ve made 2024 “magnificent” aren’t letting up as the year winds down. The Nasdaq 100 (the [...]
Great Expectations—and the Thinnest of Thin Ice The raucous party on Wall Street continued to rage this week with another 0.96% S&P 500 gain to [...]
Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day! With Thanksgiving family frivolity in high gear, HAI will be extremely brief this week. Perhaps the ultimate highlight [...]
Just Prices from the NOIC This week HAI is just prices. This author is blessed to be along the banks of the mighty Mississippi River in New Orleans, [...]
Trump Trades and Trends When describing the run-up to the great depression, Dr. Benjamin Anderson wrote in Economics and the Public Welfare that: [...]
A Big Deal Going Forward This week wasn’t exactly what HAI would call slow and uneventful. Quite the opposite! We learned that Donald J. Trump is [...]
All Eyes on Gold On the eve of both a very consequential election and a critical Fed FOMC meeting next week, HAI will keep it brief this week. The [...]
All Roads Lead to Inflation Late last Friday, the Treasury Department released its latest Monthly Treasury Statement. As of the end of September, [...]
The Specter of Fiscal Dominance On September 18th, Jay Powell and the Fed initiated a new policy easing cycle with a jumbo 50-basis point rate cut. [...]