Financial Sense Exclusives on the Economy
20 May 2013
As someone once famously said, “Man does not live by bread alone.” The best arguments against free trade lead us away from economics toward the question of national sovereignty.
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16 May 2013
The April jobs report on May 3rd sparked a renewal of something I’m calling the "Taper Trade." As I mentioned last week, the effect of renewed faith in U.S. cyclical stocks post-Q2 earnings, along with a rise in the ECRI’s leading economic indicator...
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15 May 2013
In this special interview with Oxford’s Oliver Inderwildi airing Thursday, Jim and his guest discuss the numerous dynamics of oil and economic growth—what Jim defines as the Petro Business Cycle—and how this relates to riots in Syria, whether non...
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15 May 2013
Leading indicators for the labor market suggest we get an acceleration in payroll gains heading into the fall, which is what the market may be discounting currently as it continues to hit new all-time highs. With the market’s long-term momentum...
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13 May 2013
The past few years we have seen the market roar higher out of the gate only to suffer a sharp pullback as we enter the spring. A spike in the price of oil has been a major cause of that each time. As the price of fuel has spiked in each of the...
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10 May 2013
In this recent hard-hitting interview with Financial Sense Newshour, successful entrepreneur and twice presidential candidate Steve Forbes likens Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to a blind astronomer, says quantitative easings, or “QE’s”, should be...
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9 May 2013
Jeffrey Saut, Chief Investment Strategist at Raymond James, tells investors on the Financial Sense Newshour that today’s market is “record setting,” experiencing what he says is the longest “buying stampede” in market history.
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1 May 2013
Martin Armstrong is the founder of Princeton Economics and developer of the cycles-based Economic Confidence Model, which has been cited by numerous publications for pinpointing major turning points in the market.
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29 Apr 2013
There is a debate going on right now about the strength of the market. Some do not like the fact that the market is being led by more conservative sectors: health care, staples, and utilities. They argue that at this point we should see more...
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24 Apr 2013
Earlier in the month I suggested that we would likely hit a soft patch in Q2 and projected that the markets would remain weak through most of May. However, given the risk of recession remains a remote possibility, any pullback in the markets would...
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