Daily Research & News
By Mike Larson On June 24, 202003:01 PM Eastern
“Everything is expensive.”
That’s how a Longview Economics strategist recently described this environment.
Why? Because more than 80% of the markets his firm tracks are overpriced — the most...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On June 22, 202012:49 PM Eastern
All four of the places in the world where I’ve spent the most time in recent years have experienced frightening surges in COVID-19 cases.
One is northern Italy. We go there to visit our dear...
By Tony Sagami On June 19, 202002:21 PM Eastern
That’s what I think when I see the hundreds of twenty-something millennials and Gen. Z-ers camped out in Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle.
The honest truth is that many of them...
By Mike Larson On June 17, 202003:00 AM Eastern
For every borrower, there’s a lender.
But when discussing interest rate cuts, pundits and policymakers always focus on the benefits to the former ... NOT the costs to the latter.
And guess...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On June 15, 202011:10 AM Eastern
We don’t have economic data from the 14th century when the Black Death swept through Asia, Europe and Africa.
We certainly don’t know much about the great floods that struck the Middle East and...
By Tony Sagami On June 12, 202005:32 PM Eastern
She was way out of my league, but I somehow got a beautiful cheerleader to be my girlfriend in high school.
Her father, however, did not care for me and wasn’t shy about letting me know …...
By Mike Larson On June 10, 202004:03 PM Eastern
How do you know when investors have completely lost their marbles?
J.C. Penney (OTC: JCPNQ, Rated “D”) jumped 96%.
Hertz Global Holdings (NYSE: HTZ, Rated “D-”) soared 114%.
And just for...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On June 8, 202010:17 AM Eastern
This shocking megatrend is nothing new.
You’ve been suffering its consequences for a long, long time.
It’s like Chinese water torture. Drip by drip, day after day, year after year, it has...
By Tony Sagami On June 5, 202001:15 PM Eastern
I asked my children how much they were putting into their 401k plan, and one said:
“Dad, I can’t afford to put money in a 401k.”
I didn’t have two nickels to rub together after I entered the...
By Mike Larson On June 3, 202004:00 PM Eastern
The year 2020 is one for the record books.
Indeed, even the most macabre author of dystopian fiction would have been hard-pressed to conjure up the events we’ve seen so far — and the year isn’t...