Apr 27 – John Kosar of Asbury Research recently joined the Financial Sense Newshour to discuss what the FAANG stocks represent in the larger picture of the S&P 500. He explains what we can learn from the 1918 flu pandemic and...
Apr 22 – Peter Zeihan recently told FS Insider listeners why he doesn’t trust any of the data coming out of China and why he expects they have a hard political and economic crash ahead of them. He also shared his thoughts on the economic recovery...
Apr 21 – You might not hear many people talking about the return of inflation right now. Richard Sylla says that doesn’t mean inflation isn’t coming. The NYU professor and co-author of A History of Interest Rates...
Apr 16 – Government debt could soon rise to 130-140% of gross domestic product. Last year at this time the figure was close to 100% of GDP. Now we will be approaching debt levels last seen after World War II. Debt at these levels is only...
Apr 14 – FS Insider recently spoke to hedge fund manager Felix Zulauf to get his take on the state of the global and U.S. economy. Felix shared his thoughts on what a recovery could look...
Apr 8 – Chris Martenson shared his thoughts on the economic impacts of the pandemic, when he realized it was going to become a major event and how the world could be different after it on a recent...
Apr 7 – This recession and possible depression are unlike anything we have experienced before. It was not Fed-induced, nor was it preceded by an oil shock as happened in 2007-2008. In fact, oil prices were falling below the cost of production...
Apr 1 – Despite good economic numbers, the budget deficit for fiscal year 2020 ending in September was coming in at over a trillion dollars. Now that deficit will be in the range of multiple trillions. The philosophical or academic justification for this is...
Mar 31 – The market volatility we’ve had in the past few weeks hasn’t been seen since the 2008 financial crisis and it’s hit all investment classes from stocks and bonds, even commodities. On last weekend's...
Mar 26 – Ten-year Treasury notes are at 0.88%, 30-year bonds are yielding only 1.45%, and short-term Treasury bills are offering negative interest rates on three and six months. To keep money in short-term bills, you now have to pay...