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By Sean Brodrick On February 23, 202105:04 AM Eastern
I mentioned the 18-and-a-half-year real estate cycle last week in our discussion on the cycle of pandemics. And you’re probably wondering:
Where ARE we in this cycle right now?
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BTC stood at $29,000 on Jan. 1. Even if it only goes up only half as much as in 2017, it’s still going to top $325,000! Either way, it’s shaping up to be déjà-vu all over again …
Although...
By Sean Brodrick On January 7, 202107:34 AM Eastern
After five months of disappointment, gold is back in rally mode. It had a great December, and it’s having a strong start to January. In fact, gold broke its five-month downtrend.
Bullish volume...
By Mike Larson On January 6, 202104:51 PM Eastern
So, which markets and assets “won” 2020?
That’s a trick question; the answer is “all of them.”
As this enlightening Wall Street Journal story notes, one of the most trying years in recent...
By Sean Brodrick On December 17, 202004:10 AM Eastern
As the year wraps up in a couple of weeks, I want to point out a few things to look for in 2021 as the country tries to move past the global pandemic. Lives were changed … as were many industries....
Government bonds are no longer the hedge against falling stock prices as they once were.
And this is a big problem for pension funds, insurance companies and other big-footprint investment...
By Mike Larson On November 18, 202004:57 PM Eastern
The headlines — shocking and scary — tell the story: COVID, coast to coast. It’s spreading everywhere — everywhere, it seems, except one eight-block enclave in Lower Manhattan ...
“America Locks...
By Sean Brodrick On October 20, 202005:40 AM Eastern
His name was Nikolai Kondratieff.
He wrote a 23-page tract called “The Long Waves in Economic Life.”
It contained an idea so incendiary, he was sent to the gulag … before being...
By Sean Brodrick On October 1, 202005:30 AM Eastern
We often hear from Wall Street that “you can’t beat the S&P 500.”
I guess it depends on your time frame, though, because now, at the end of the second decade of the 21st century, and there is an...
By David Dittman On September 22, 202005:40 PM Eastern
The December 2020 gold futures contract was down 2.75% on Monday, shedding more than $50 to close just above $1,900.
It was a dramatic move highlighted by a lot of folks on “FinTwit” (that’s...