Wall Street Piling into Metals Wednesday’s FOMC meeting and the Q&A session with journalists afterwards reminded me of the September 2018 through December 2018 period. On one hand is the FED building sandcastles with dreams of finding the ideal interest rate...
How Does Russia Remain in the Game? The Wagner Group is comprised of about 50,000 soldiers. While I was in the French Alps in late June, my phone blew up with breaking news alerts about an armed rebellion in Russia led by Yevgeny Prigozhin (we know what happened to...
China’s Banking System, Deglobalization,and Cash on the Sidelines More cash is accumulating in money market accounts than ever before. For now, these highly liquid interest-bearing financial assets generate the type of yields that everyday savers could have only...
It’s Not What You Would Think, Instinctively Most educated Americans would let their minds pivot towards the national debt, when listing the country’s greatest and most monumental national security threats, but that just doesn’t seem to be the...
Unleashed In late August, the Pentagon announced a program that could open the door to the future of warfare. This program is called the Replicator Program and it gives us a glimpse into the future of battle. Drones are going to be more important than ever, but not...
I Saw it Coming from a Mile Away Commodity wars are real and they’ve been happening for the past couple of years. At first, it was the Russians, who wanted to show Europe just how reliant their economy was on Russian oil and natural gas, but the Europeans bit...
It’s Really Bad for Xi & Co You’ve watched the videos… Biden walking in the wrong direction, rejecting questions from reporters, mumbling, making up crazy sentences, or making a mockery of himself when reading notes from the teleprompter. The beauty,...
Shanghai Has Never Been This Empty Many feel that the stock market has no clue how bad the global recession is about to get and that the housing sector is dead. It’s hard to argue with the factual parts of this… The housing market is the slowest it’s been...
Russia Is in Trouble Tens of millions of Americans are die-hard critics of U.S. interventionism in the affairs of other countries. This isn’t a new phenomenon… “unconstitutional wars,” which is to say military operations, embarked upon without the...
Now I am Become Death,The Destroyer of Worlds. Christopher Nolan directed many complex movies and some mega-hits like the Batman movies, Interstellar, Inception, Memento, and The Prestige, but his best work so far, in my opinion, is Dunkirk. Dunkirk is a movie all...
