Rail Strikes, Nursing Strikes, and more
CNN reports fifteen thousand nurses walked off the job yesterday and the issue for them isn’t wages it’s quality of life. “We are not on strike for our wages. We’re…
BLS: Inflation 8.3 Percent YoY
The BLS released August inflation report, let’s take a look: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in August on a seasonally adjusted basis after…
Slave Waged Boomers and FATFire Youth
We have written quite a bit about the demographic crisis that will hit the United States in 2030. In summary, there are 40 million or more baby boomers that will…
A Winter of Discontent and More Inflation?
In 1978 inflation was running rampant in many parts of the world. The term ‘Winter of Discontent’ refers to this period. From Wikipedia: The Winter of Discontent was the period…
Revisiting 2007-2009 Housing Crash
George Santayana once wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We have been thinking about the parallels between the 2008 financial crisis and the current…
SPY & Psychology of a Market Cycle
We believe we are heading into a stock market down trend so we wondered where the traders psychology is heading. An article from Bloomberg notes that $11 billion has left…
XHB Forecast?
We have been busy running models on XHB and someone wondered what an XHB crash would look like if we modeled it after the 2006 crash. We thought it was…
XHB & The Coming Housing Crash 2024
We’ve been tracking XHB for some time now. Back in August, we wrote How To Profit from a Housing Correction/Crash and followed that up with Time To Profit From A…
A Review of Stock Market Crashes 2000-2021
We’ve been looking at previous stock market crashes from 2000 thru 2021 for SPY and QQQ as our benchmark. We charted the crashes on a chart and did some calculations.…
New York Fed – Debt Delinquency Rising
The New York Fed has a report with various graphs showing the rise in delinquencies for credit card and auto debt. Let’s take a look. Total household debt increased by…