2017 Optimism This is my final podcast for 2017. I just watched the U.S. Stock Market ring the closing bell for the final time in 2017. Everybody is excited; everybody is optimistic. I spent most of the day watching the financial coverage, mostly on CNBC to see the attitude and the types of coverage the …
Investors Whistle past the Mother of All Graveyards – Ep. 313 Read More »
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Trump’s Economy Today President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The biggest problem that the President will have with these tax cuts is that he now owns the economy. That is going to be a big problem, because this is now Trump’s economy. This is now the Republican economy. It’s All …
Republicans Take Complete Ownership of the Bubble – Ep. 312 Read More »
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Calling Tax Cuts Reform is Fake News Earlier today the House of Representatives passed the Tax Cut Bill. Of course, the Media keeps referring to it as “Tax Reform”. That’s fake news, for you, calling these tax cuts reform is a perfect example of fake news. Donald Trump is not going to complain about this …
Is It Time to Sell the Fake News on Tax Reform? – Ep. 311 Read More »
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Everybody Joins the Party All 3 of the major U.S stock indexes closed out the week at new record highs as it became apparent that the new tax cut deal was pretty much done. Marco Rubio, who had been a hold-out, caved and even Corker, the one Republican who was going to vote against the …
Swamp 2, People 0 – Ep. 310 Read More »
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Expected Rate Hike Today the Federal Reserve did exactly what everybody expected them to do, they once again raised interest rates by just one quarter of one percent. This is the third rate hike of the year; this is the fourth rate hike since Donald Trump was elected President and the fifth time the Fed …
Yellen Proclaims It’s Different This Time – Ep. 309 Read More »
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Bitcoin Week I’m going to devote today’s podcast to bitcoin; I might as well just talk about bitcoin because that’s all anybody else is talking about. On CNBC that’s pretty much all they are talking about; they said it is “BitCoin Week”. It sure sounds like it. I think they should just rename the network: Crypto …
CNBC Becomes Crypto News BitCoin – Ep. 308 Read More »
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A Nonfarm Payroll Beat Today the labor department released the November jobs report – Nonfarm Payroll – of course Wall Street always highly anticipates this number; all the politicians, Donald Trump was ready to tweet as soon as the data was released. The expectation was for 190,000 jobs and we beat, with 228,000 jobs. An …
Trump Continues What He Once Called the Biggest Hoax in American Politics – Ep. 307 Read More »
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By: Peter Schiff, President and CEO Euro Pacific Capital After supposedly chomping on the bit for years to pass meaningful tax reform, Republicans are now set to blow an historic opportunity. Whatever version of the Bill that emerges from the House and Senate Conference Committee (which will be signed by President Trump faster than he can …
Trade Deficit Moving Higher as Economy Slows Down Yesterday we got the release of the October monthly Trade Deficit and we got a trade deficit of $48.7 billion dollars. That was a little bit North of the $47.4 billion expected in the consensus forecast. In fact, the prior month, which was $43.5 billion was revised upwards to …
Another Trump Flip Flop – Ep. 306 Read More »
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Market Rallies on News of Passing Tax Cuts Act Late Friday night, or I guess early Saturday morning, the Senate passed its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Last week the market, as it became more apparent that the Senate was in fact going to pass the bill, the market was rallying, and …
Senate Passes Its Version of Fake Tax Reform – Ep. 305 Read More »
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