You never slow down, you never grow old A bunch of different snippets today. First up, my brother sent me this link from USA Today that as Congress starts to try to figure out tax reform they might ch...
Salesmen rarely make good managers or business owners. But that doesn’t stop them from trying. It used to be a hallmark of American business that successful salesmen were promoted. The logic is obvi...
This week our Safety and Security investing theme, unfortunately, reigned supreme. Just days after the worst storm in modern U.S. history took nearly one quarter of U.S. refining capacity offline an...
XTC is an industrial company working with the automotive industry. Exco (XTC.TO) is a global designer, developer, and manufacturer of dies, molds, equipment, components, and assemblies to the die-cast...
A curious couple of trends are underway on the global stage. Global economic policy uncertainty appears to have peaked at an all time high earlier this year, while at the same time average implied v...
The four-decade long monopoly of the U.S. Petro-Dollar as the world’s reserve currency is coming to an end. Unfortunately, most Americans have no clue that when the Dollar loses its reserve currency...
This week we’re joined by John Embry, longtime Chief Investment Strategist for Sprott Asset Management. John discusses the recent surge in gold prices and why he believes a new bull market is we...
EUR/USD The EUR/USD pair rallied a bit during the day on Thursday, breaking above the 1.20 level. We did stop just about at that level, so I think we need to make a fresh, new high to start buying. In...
Curve watchers anonymous has taken an in-depth review of US treasury yield charts on a monthly and daily basis. There’s something going on that we have not see on a sustained basis since the summer ...
In a new downgrade of subprime lenders Capital One and Synchrony, Morgan Stanley sought to answer the nagging question of why subprime credit card losses are suddenly soaring, per the chart below, ...