Happy New Year to everyone. I hope 2015 provides generous financial returns for those trading the markets. Below is a series of charts from shares on the Australian Stock market that provide potential trading opportunities as I see it. Alumina (AWC) Has formed a bullish flag after breaking out from resistance. I will be waiting…
There are good points and bad points to where we currently are in the stock market. What are the expectations and realities for the stock market of 2015… Watch below…
I have a couple more emails from readers in response to Single-Payer “Medicare for All” Proposal; Live and Let Die; Why Does Single-Payer “Work” in Europe? Comments From a US Expatriate Reader David a US citizen living in Europe writes … Hi Mish, I am a native born US citizen who has worked mainly outside of…
In the sound-money community there is universal skepticism about the Fed’s plan to stop monetizing the world’s debt. Hardly anyone thinks they’ll go through with it and absolutely no one thinks they’ll succeed if they do. But the Fed is acting like it’s serious. Take a look at the monetary base, which is the amount…
Will 2015 be a year of financial crashes, economic chaos and the start of the next great worldwide depression? Over the past couple of years, we have all watched as global financial bubbles have gotten larger and larger. Despite predictions that they could burst at any time, they have just continued to expand. But just…
Many investors have been focused in on the oil crash of 2014 as prices for the important commodity have basically been halved in the year. Yet many investors might not realize that even with a chilly start to 2015 across much of the nation, natural gas prices remain subdued as well. In fact, natural gas…
With all the focus on falling crude oil prices (chart below) as well as sharp reductions in the cost of gasoline (including retail), jet fuel, and heating oil, it’s easy to miss the fact that prices of other energy products have been hit quite hard as well. Source: barchart Here are a few examples: 1. US natural gas price…
“Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned. For connoisseurs of civilizational collapse, 2014 was merely annoying, a continued pile-up of over-investments in complexity with mounting diminishing returns, metastasizing fragility, and no satisfying resolution. So we enter 2015 with greater tensions than ever before and therefore the likelihood that…
Barring a big move on Monday, the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 isn’t going to be the beneficiary of a so-called Santa Claus rally. The S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) is now down 1.1% since the Christmas break, versus the average 1.8% gain we usually see during this period of the year. That,…
Some people have fixated upon the near doubling of the minimum wage after WW II (one person misidentifies the date as 1948, but it’s actually 1950) as a cause of disemployment in certain groups. This may have happened; however, the increase in the minimum wage from $0.40 to $0.75 was not associated with a decrease…
