Central bankers have been playing an extremely dangerous game of "extend and pretend". To keep the markets afloat in a darkening economic picture requires ever larger bailouts and, eventually, the full socialization of the financial markets...
Managing editor, Ed Harrison, and senior editor, Ash Bennington, come together to analyze the price action in stocks, bonds, and currencies. Ed looks forward…
...there is an urgent need for the cruise industry to resume sailing from Florida's cruise ports, citing staggering losses to revenue, local employment and the contributions cruise passengers make to other tourism sectors.
The necessary expansion of the monetary base to suppress interest rates and thereby create a negative and declining real interest environment should serve as a major tailwind for the gold-to-S&P 500 ratio to continue to rise...
"As many of us have learned, homebuilding is a mediocre business at best. Instead, I’m playing this trend through the suppliers to single-family and multi-family homebuilders."
This time could be different, with one having to go as far back as the 1876 election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden to find a precedent, according to a 2019 Ohio State working paper
"While still possible, there is a high risk that it does not happen this year. Without it, we would expect the economy to hit a major speed bump in Q4."
