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By Sean Brodrick On April 13, 202102:00 AM Eastern
What Nikolai Kondratieff called “The Long Wave” — later named the “Kondratieff Wave” in his honor — shows that the economy moves through cycles.
Additionally, each cycle has...
By Sean Brodrick On April 8, 202106:22 AM Eastern
Iron prices are at their highest level since 2011 … steel prices are at a record high … copper stays stubbornly near the new highs it hit in February … crude oil roared to more than $65 in March...
By Sean Brodrick On March 30, 202106:06 AM Eastern
In 1824, Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted heated and mixed two compounds together, producing a lump of metal that looked a lot like tin. It wasn’t until 1845 that German...
By Jessica Borg On March 28, 202106:00 AM Eastern
We’re exactly three months into the new year and money continues to saturate the stock market. And, due to the stimulus payments from Congress and monetary policy from central banks, we can expect...
By Mike Larson On March 24, 202106:00 AM Eastern
What would Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen say if he were alive today? Considering the size, scope and costs of the Biden administration’s spending plans, we can surely imagine.
Dirksen, of...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On March 22, 202112:09 PM Eastern
Martin here with an early warning:
The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds has just doubled in the last eight months.
It was 1.18% on Aug. 4 of last year; now, it’s 2.45%.
A...
By Sean Brodrick On March 20, 202102:00 AM Eastern
Commodities went on a tear in the last year — oil, gas, copper, nickel and more.
If you’re like many investors, you didn’t notice that commodities were surging until well after the surge...
By Sean Brodrick On March 18, 202102:00 AM Eastern
I’ve been pounding the table about a coming uranium rally. We’re not seeing a big move in the price of uranium — yet. But the action we’re seeing in uranium miners tells us that uranium could be...
By Sean Brodrick On March 16, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Michael Kevane, an economics professor in San Jose, Calif., parked his 2005 Prius as usual one evening in January. The next morning, his son Elliot went to start up the car. “It sounded like a...
By Jessica Borg On March 14, 202106:00 AM Eastern
What’s investing, if not the continuous weighing of risk and reward? Right now on Wall Street, there’s plenty of each. Thanks to stimulus payments and monetary policy from the Federal Reserve,...