Newsflash to Subscribers: Goodbye to The Penny *  *  *  *  * The Federal Reserve recently killed production of the U.S. one-cent Penny, and many think it’s no big deal. Hey, it’s just a penny, right? That’s shortsighted – and how people get blindsided by “the market.” Instead, the elimination of the penny is another...Read More

Stocks are up and the economy is not. It’s a crazy world and gold is hot because of it. Let’s start with stocks… The S&P 500 has gained 13.3% so far this year while the 15-51i strength indicator has reversed its early year’s woes and has now pulled ahead of the Dow Jones Industrial Average,...Read More

Recent craziness in the stock and bond markets has nothing to do with tariffs and all to do with politics. It’s an anti-Trump statement made by the global elites who don’t want any disruption to their apple cart – and who are mad at Trump for throwing a wrench into their egg basket. First, tariffs...Read More

Since reaching their all-time highs in February 2025, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 7%, the S&P 500 has lost 9%, and the 15-51i Strength Indicator dropped 12%. That kind of anomaly always grabs my attention. First, swift corrections that don’t discriminate by industry or market segment are often the result of institutional profit...Read More

Ronald Reagan once perceptively noted, “We don’t have inflation because people are living too well. We have inflation because government is living too well.”Exactly. The last time America’s financial condition could be considered healthy was back in the late 1990’s, when Bill Clinton worked with the Gingrich Congress to effectuate some semblance of fiscal sanity....Read More

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently announced that U.S. central government will hit the debt ceiling one day after Trump takes office, on January 21, 2025. That is to say, it will essentially be “out of money” because it will no longer be able to issue more new debt (U.S. bonds) to cover its operating deficit....Read More

Hard to believe it’s been two years since my last blog but that is indeed the case…my apologies for the hiatus but I’ve been doing some heavy research and analysis on stocks, markets, and of course my 15-51™ method. The findings have been incredible – and have spawned a new angle in financial science that...Read More

Like business, investment is all about performance (making money) – and because of it, their ultimate success is measured in terms of profit, profit margins, and ROI – the more the merrier. Stocks achieved record highs just a few days into this year. But since then, 2022 has been a rocky road to steady decline....Read More

Quantitative easing (QE) is a method used by the Federal Reserve to inject new currency (a.k.a. liquidity) into the monetary system. It was invented during the 2008 financial crisis to recapitalize an insolvent banking system – one that failed under reckless easy money and lending policies that catered to subprime mortgage borrowers (those with low...Read More

The recession that inspired the 2008 financial crisis feels like a lifetime ago, its subsequent expansion now more than a decade along. Since recovering from the Great Recession back in 2010 stocks have enjoyed the longest uninterrupted expansion in history, featuring boom-like returns during the slowest pace of economic growth since World War II. The...Read More