Very Low Volatility

So far the month of April has been remarkably boring with regard to the financial markets including stocks, bonds and commodities. This is quite surprising especially when considering the extraordinary events happening around the globe. The NASDAQ is, of course...

CBDCs – Is Crypto Our Future?

Crypto currencies have become quite the enigma in the modern financial world. Many people are fashioning careers off the crypto industry – some getting wildly rich and some losing entire fortunes or even getting murdered for mysterious reasons. Of course, the...

Earnings Season and Crude Oil

The first quarter is now in the books and we start into the second quarter and earnings season. The stock market finished the first quarter on a strong note and many money managers are scratching their heads. There is a lot of negative sentiment in the financial...

Gold is Money

The famous American financier J.P. Morgan famously said in his testimony in front of Congress in 1912 “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” It’s interesting how much the world of finance has changed and yet this statement still rings true… Barter economies in...

Bank Failures in the News

The last couple weeks of financial market news have been high anxiety considering the second and third largest bank failures in U.S. history. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have both been taken into receivership by the Federal Reserve. The good news is that,...

The Trillion Dollar Secret

We have repeatedly mentioned in our weekly posts that the resilience of the stock and bond markets over the last several months has actually been quite impressive. Interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve have completely changed the financial landscape when...