Today’s analysis includes a few choice articles, charts, and interviews since events impacting the stock market are increasingly nefarious. In addition to my usual Dow and S&P 500 technical analysis, the NASDAQ 100 and Russell 2000 charts will follow the topics at...
Remember when Ben Bernanke finally walked the quantitative easing (QE) taper talk in Dec. 2013, six months after letting the cat out of the bag during his May 2013 congressional testimony that launched an infamous “taper tantrum?” Remember when Janet Yellen pulled the...
Five years ago I was a “doom and gloom”-er; everyone was. You, like me, may have been constantly watching the unemployment rate and doubting all official government numbers that stated it was on the decline and everything was peachy. “Yeah,...
The announcement was loud and proud: March’s nonfarm payrolls expanded by 196,000 and the U.S. unemployment rate held steady at 3.8%. Typically reactive financial media talking heads immediately starting crowing about how their doubts are now dispelled and the...
John Williams joins us as we unearth the truth behind the unemployment statistics and if Americans are truly benefiting from wage increases. Other critical topics discussed include inflation and the erosion of purchasing power from America, while other countries gain...