While the bulls are running down Wall Street and stocks keep surging to new record highs, Joe Main Street is feeling stressed. LegalShield’s Consumer Stress Index (CSLI) increased by 4.4 percent in the second quarter and is at the highest level since November 2020,...

Congress recently passed the GENIUS Act, which provides a regulatory framework for private banks and other organizations to develop and operate stablecoins. These are digital tokens which have their value pegged to another “stable” asset, such as the U.S. dollar.

President Donald Trump made headlines when he fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a particularly bad July jobs report, calling it rigged.

The stock market is priced for perfection in a grotesquely imperfect world. Trump provided a fleeting respite by showing us how the Art of the Deal works in trade negotiations. Fox News rightly rubbed the legacy media’s face in his success while the President took a...

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is up. Cycle is down. VIX is now up, caution is advised.

The June CPI data indicated that price inflation is heating up, but government numbers only tell part of the story. Raising prices isn’t the only way companies cope with the incessant devaluation of the dollar. Sometimes they resort to a stealthier tactic known as “...

When asked last month at the European Central Bank’s annual forum in Portugal whether the Fed would have cut interest rates if not for the tariffs, Fed Chair Jerome Powell affirmed that was indeed the case. He explained that the Fed chose to pause its rate-cutting...

I ran across a 2021 meme the other day that vividly illustrates just how quickly the government is destroying your money. The meme points out that in 1964, the minimum wage was $1.25, or five quarters. That sounds really low, but keep in mind that before 1965,...

The dollar index has gotten absolutely torched since Trump came into office. In fact the carnage has been so thorough, that the last time the dollar got beaten up this good was back in 1971 after Nixon removed the dollar's tie to gold (while of course blaming it on...

Gold and silver are both slightly lower this morning to start the week. However that hasn't stopped UBS from raising their Silver Price Forecast to $42, which of course is not all that far off anymore.

As for silver, the story is similar. Silver is $1 lower than its early-week high but since last Friday’s close is down a slight 0.2% to check in at $38.30 an ounce as of this Friday morning recording.

Silver investors are obviously aware of how silver hit its all-time high of $50 back in 1980. But it's also a topic that when not put in the proper context, often gets silver investors into trouble. Although fortunately silver guru David Morgan explains what...

Surges in the gold-to-silver ratio above 100 in both March 2020 and April 2025 preceded powerful silver rallies—and if the 2020 analog holds, even more silver gains are ahead.

Silver is on a long term BUY signal. Cycle is now up. Cycle is now up.

Trend is up.

Trend is up.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is up. Cycle is down.