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Fortunately we don't have to pretend that the Arsenal of Democracy is any such thing anymore. That patina of civility has been shattered. The two countries Trump has already attacked in the past year are among the top four oil reserve nations, and the country with the fourth largest oil reserves (Canada) Trump has threatened to turn into the 51st state on several occasions. Next on the list we can add Greenland to the mix of resource-rich countries that Trump has threatened t

What follows is a market summary of 2025: Consumer sentiment is at a 50 year low. The jobs market is imploding at the fastest pace since 2008. NDFI shadow loans are larger than subprime. The AI Ponzi bubble has peaked. Stocks are record over-valued. Households are record long stocks. Gold is soaring on inflation concerns. BofA is on a sell signal. And yet, pundits are sanguine going into 2026. Therefore it falls on us to ask, what could go wrong? Over the past 15 years, globa

Chaos reigns. Full stop. Never before in our lifetimes have we been confronted with so much mass media confusion coming at us from every direction. Granted, you could have said the same thing for the past 20 years because the problem has only grown far more acute over time, now further weaponized by existential AI over-investment. Into this maelstrom of confusion add the Joker Trump who is master of the ludicrous over-statement and self-congratulatory hyperbole which has crea

It's that time of year when Wall Street pundits gaze into their Magic 8 ball and goalseek the exact level of GDP, earnings, and stock prices for the year ahead. Personally, I will not attempt voodoo to guess the exact level of unknowable future economic and financial metrics, I will merely predict that all of Wall Street's predictions will be off by a minus sign. And that their predictions will implode before the end of January. Google Gemini: "Wall Street analysts largely pr

2025 has gone nothing like anyone expected. The year started off strong with Trump's inauguration in January but then instead of a Golden Age of prosperity, bulls got immediately monkey hammered by the biggest trade war since 1930. Stocks rolled over in early February and declined to the bear market (SPX -20%) lows of early April. However, then aggressive bears got whiplash by an AI melt-up which continued into the end of October. November was uncharacteristically weak as AI

Let me be the first and only pundit to acknowledge that the Artificial Intelligence super asset bubble is officially imploding. It's all falling apart while investors are celebrating. Reading this, GOP acolytes will assume that I blame Trump for all of the problems. I don't, I blame rampant ignorance for this collapse, putting Trump at the epicenter. He is joined by his entire economic team, financial media pundits, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the masses at large. Trade

Investors are aggressively positioned for rate cuts, because no one told them that rate cuts in a depression are not bullish. On Wall Street there can be no such thing as a reason to sell stocks. First off, let's start with the definitions for inflation versus deflation because people generally get hung up on these definitions based solely upon their own personal experience. By inflation I mean an economic scenario in which prices in the economy are rising faster than middle

In my last blog post I asserted that the pressure is off me now because Andrew Ross Sorkin who was formerly a writer at the WSJ and is now a morning commentator on CNBC, just asserted that this current market is reminiscent of 1929. However, what he didn't predict was when a crash would arrive and how big it would be. Which I thought was lame, and demanded further analysis. Let's start by saying that the magnitude of any crash whether it's 1929, 1987, March 2020, or even Apri

It's unfortunate that global central banks happen to be easing into the apex of the largest Tech bubble in world history. But you trade the market you're given, not the one you want: "Artificial intelligence and technology have contributed to a remarkable boom in recent years. But, Sorkin said, today's economy is being propped up by the AI boom, and it's too soon to tell if this is a sugar rush, a short-term and unsustainable boost to the markets. But, Sorkin is positive ther

Artificial Intelligence is bad for the economy, bad for financial markets, bad for the environment, and bad for society. Therefore it's...

"And so we were told this is the golden age And gold is the reason for the wars we wage" Many people believe that if you short stocks...

We are seeing 2021 levels of market speculation in IPOs, Ark ETFs, Cryptos AND AI stocks. However, in 2021, speculative stocks peaked...