Is Gold An Inflation Hedge or Just Dead Metal?
In 1971, the value of gold was set to $35/ounce. This was also the year that President Richard Nixon took the U.S. off the gold standard. If you were worried…
Inflation Forecast Thru The Global Lens
The United States has many trading partners but the top 15 trading partners account for 75% of trade but even more interesting is that Canada, Mexico and China account for…
Understanding The Road To 2030 and The Boomer Demographic
As we continue to review our investment strategy and how to position our portfolios for the coming 2030 timeline we have been looking at Boomer stats and data. Interestingly, CNBC…
Basic Economy (Defensive) Stocks
During periods of moderate to high inflation, raking in cash is the way to stay ahead of the inflation curve. What are some of the best defensive stocks? Companies that…
US JOLTS Report – Is it the boomers?
Yesterday the US Jolts reported, Job openings were little changed at 10.4 million on the last business day of September. Hires and total separations were little changed at 6.5 million…
The Case For Long Term Deflation
If we define “inflation” as the rise in cost of wages, goods and services then deflation is the drop in cost of wages, goods and services. For many years prior…
Mexico Central Bank Raises Interest Rates
While there is speculation that the US Federal Reserve may raise interest rates sometime next year there is already growing pressure with the U.S. major trading partner Mexico. On Nov…
The Case For Long Term Inflation
The Case For Long Inflation While the fed claimed inflation would be “transitory” many people rightfully blamed the fed for inflation because of ultra low interest rates and “central bankers…
U.S. Inflation – What’s up with cows?
Yesterday we took at inflation around the world and we didn’t like the numbers we saw and today the BLS released consumer inflation data and we don’t like those numbers…
Global Inflation vs National Inflation
We read a whole lot of information from a variety of sources including economic data from governments around the world, journalists and economic bloggers and the debate amongst many seems…