Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Watch Credit Card Debt After Christmas
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-first YouTube video: Trend of the Week Watch Credit Card Debt After Christmas This week’s Trend of the Week: Watch Credit Card Debt After Christmas. Christmas is a huge anomaly when it comes to the stock market and...
Please watch my new YouTube video: Everybody (Well, Almost Everybody) Hates 2023
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twentieth YouTube video: Everybody (Well, Almost Everybody Hates 2023 (Almost) everybody hates 2023. We’re just four days into 2023 and we’ve already had some negative reporting come from the IMF, (International Monetary...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Oil is Back for 2023
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-first YouTube video: Trend of the Week Oil is Back or 2023 This week’s Trend of the Week: Oil is Back for 2023. We’re looking at a great set-up for oil going forward into 2023. Oil performed well in 2022, so...
Please watch my New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Nattering Nabobs of Negativity
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifteenth YouTube video: Trend of the Week Nattering Nabobs of Negativity This week’s Trend of the Week: Nattering Nabobs of Negativity. Spiro Agnew’s alliterative expression comes to mind as I listen to institutional Wall...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Pick Pilbara Minerals
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifteenth YouTube video: Quick Pick Pilbara Minerals This week’s Quick Pick is Pilbara Minerals (OTCMKTS: PILBF). Pilbara is an Australian hard rock lithium producer. Hard rock lithium comes from mining spodumene deposits as...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Is the Fed Confusing or Just Confused?
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-ninth YouTube video: Is the Fed Confusing or Just Confused? Today’s topic: Is The Fed Confusing, or Just Confused? First, Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Fed came out with a very mixed message about the Fed’s...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Time for Utilities?
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventh YouTube video. This week’s Trend of the Week: Time for Utilities? I think it is. Looking at Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), you can see the recent dip in utilities, which means yields are up. On top of that, I...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week U.S . Oil Production not Rising as Expected
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifth YouTube video. This week’s Trend of the Week: U.S. Oil Production is Not Rising as Expected. Oil prices have averaged $100 per barrel over 2022–a figure that would normally lead oil companies to expand production and...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Pick BUD
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fourth YouTube video. This week’s Quick Pick is Anheuser-Busch Inbev (NYSE: BUD). Beer is a good counter-cyclical consumer good because demand for beer doesn’t really go down during a recession. Anheuser-Busch is a...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Capital Cycles and Recession
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-third YouTube video. Today’s topic: Capital Cycles and Recession – they are not the same thing. When we talk about a recession, we’re largely talking about a consumer demand recession. Separately, there is a...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Pick Brazil
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-first YouTube video: Quick Pick Brazil ETF EWZ This week’s Quick Pick is Brazil, iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA: EWZ). While the election in Brazil isn’t totally over with an actual concession speech, it’s clear...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Federal Reserve, Mind the Gap!
Today I posted my two-hundredth YouTube video: Federal Reserve: Mind the Gap! Today is Ground Hog Day for the Federal Reserve. The U.S. central bank will announce whether or not it sees its shadow. It’s predicted to announce a 75 basis point increase in interest...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Picks General Motors
Today I posted my one-hundred-ninety-ninth YouTube video: Quick Pick GM This week’s Quick Pick is General Motors (NYSE: GM). On Monday morning, October 25, GM announced third-quarter revenue earnings of $41.89 billion-slightly below the $42 billion that Wall...
Please watch my new YouTube video: China Retaliates, Act 2 of the U.S-/China trade war
Today I posted by one-hundred-ninety-fourth YouTube video: China Retaliates, Act 2 of the U.S./China trade war. The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party has rubber-stamped a third term as president for Xi Jinping–a move that required amending the...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Ford Drops a Bombshell on the Market
Ford (NYSE: F) came out on Monday with a pre-announcement on third-quarter earnings that was pretty grim – not just for them, but for the market and global economy as a whole. Instead of Ford’s expected $3 billion in operating profits for the third...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week Seasonal Patterns–Looking past the worst months for stocks to better months to end the year
My one-hundred-and-seventy-seventh YouTube video: “Trend of the Week Seasonal Patterns” went up today. For today’s Trend of the Week, we’re looking at the calendar and yearly stock patterns. September is notoriously the worst-performing month...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Pick Kroger
My one-hundred-and-seventy-sixth YouTube video: “Quick Pick Kroger” went up today. Grocery stocks aren’t very volatile. Normally. So when shares of Kroger, the nation’s free-standing largest grocery chain, went up almost 7.5% on Friday,...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: The Fed’s Real Inflation Problem
My one-hundred-and-seventy-fifth YouTube video: “The Fed’s Real Inflation Problem” went up today. The CPI numbers came out and they were disappointing with inflation running at an 8.3% annual rate in August. But the inflation problem is worst than...
Please Watch My New YouTube video: Quick Pick Verizon
My one-hundred-and-seventy-fourth YouTube video: “Quick Pick Verizon” went up today. Verizon (VZ) is hated by everybody, but if you’re looking for a high-yield stock (safe but without a whole lot of price appreciation in all probability) with...
Please watch my YouTube video: China is what a climate emergency looks like
My one-hundred-and-sixty-ninth YouTube video: “China is what a climate emergency looks like” went up today. I’m picking up the theme from last week’s video (It’s All About Water). China is experiencing a major drought, which is having not...
Please watch my newest YouTube video: Quick Pick Wolfspeed
My one-hundred-and-sixty-seventh YouTube video “Quick Pick Wolfspeed” went up today. My latest Quick Pick is Wolfspeed (WOLF), a cutting-edge chipmaker developing semiconductors beyond silicon. It’s not profitable yet and that gives me pause in the...
Watch my new YouTube video: The Fed Talks but the Market’s Not Listening
My one-hundred-and-sixty-fifth YouTube video “Trend of the Week The Fed Talks but the Market’s Not Listening” went up today. The market has strongly rallied in the last month, in good part on the optimistic belief in a “soft landing” from...
Please watch my new YouTube video: Earnings Not as Bad as They Could Be
My one-hundred-and-sixty-second YouTube video “Earnings Not as Bad as They Could Be” went up today. Microsoft (MSFT) serves as my example. We’re seeing some companies that, despite very meager earnings growth, give investors the impression that...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Quick Pick First Majestic Silver
My one-hundred-and-sixty-first YouTube video “Quick Pick First Majestic Silver” went up today. This hasn’t been a great year for precious metals hedges. However, allow me to make the case for First Majestic Silver (AG), given the coming recession and...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Inflation isn’t about to get better
My one-hundred-and-fifty-seventh YouTube video “Inflation isn’t about to get better” went up today. Yesterday, we had new CPI inflation numbers, and the bar keeps pushing higher with annual inflation reaching 9.1% in June. I think if you are making...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week–The Global Debt Bomb Is Ticking
My one-hundred-and-fifty-third YouTube video “Trend of the Week: The Global Debt Bomb is Ticking” went up today. Overly dramatic? I don’t think so. In this week’s video, I look at the few countries that are leading what looks to me like a...
Please Watch My New YouTube Video: Trend of the Week India’s at a Danger Point
My one-hundred-and-fifty-sixth YouTube video “Trend of the Week: India’s at a Danger Point” went up today. This week’s Trend video is a follow-up to my piece on the “Global Debt Bomb” from last week. Maybe default by Sri Lania or...
Please Watch My YouTube Video: Strong Dollar Hits Stocks–3 Things to Do
My one-hundred-and-fifty-fourth YouTube video “Strong Dollar Hits Stocks–3 Things to Do” went up today. The biggest factor driving falling prices in commodities (ahem, oil) is the rising strength of the dollar. Believe it or not, the US economy is...
Watch My New YouTube Video: Position Your Portfolio for the Recession–But What Kind of Recession?
My one-hundred-and-fifty-first YouTube video “Position Your Portfolio for the Recessioin–But What Kind of Recession”” went up today. I see it like this: How you should position your portfolio for the coming recession depends largely on how bad...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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