BEA: Core PCE January 2024
The BEA released the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation today, the Core PCE. Let’s take a gander: Personal income increased $233.7 billion (1.0 percent at a monthly rate) in January,…
US Treasury – 30 Year TIPS Auction
On Thursday February 2024, the 30 year TIPS treasury auction will take place and we are picking up some of these bonds for the long haul. We think this investment…
DIVOS™ Trade: O – Realty Income
In Our 2024 Investment Strategy for Equities, we introduced our DIVOS™ strategy and today, we initiated a very small position in O (Realty Income) and intend to hold and accumulate…
Insurance Premiums and Profitability
We’ve been busy doing research trying hard to find value and something to invest in but it’s been tough with the market breaching all time highs but the latest BLS…
Where is SPY Headed?
After getting our put options wrong on XHB and the direction of markets in general, we wanted to get a second opinion so we asked ChatGPTs Financial Wizard where SPY…
BLS: PPI January 2024
The BLS released the January PPI report and it came in hotter than expected at 0.3 percent. The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.3 percent in January, seasonally…
January 2024 CPI, A Closer Look
We’ve been playing around with AI tools and we asked ChatGPT to read the recent BLS CPI release and create a chart from the data and something struck us immediately…
Jan 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the January 2024 snapshot and it’s a huge jump in enrollments. For January 2024, there were 140,000 new social security enrollees over the age of…
BLS: CPI January 2024
January inflation report came in hotter than expected and it’s not a surprise because we know that millions of baby boomers are retiring each year depleting the labor force but…
Nvidia vs Cisco
Back in August, we wrote this post wondering if Nvidia is the new Cisco stock of the 21st century given it’s stratospheric rise so let’s take a look at a…