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State-Level Data Shows Unemployment Spike Across the US

Mar 4, 2024 – The US economy is in the midst of a “reflationary acceleration” with the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq all sitting at or near record highs. Today we explore a few key charts and trends that are likely to play a significant role...

Stocks Likely to "Take Five"

Mar 4, 2024 – In this article I look at the conditions that often lead me to begin rebalancing portfolios such as overbought and diverging momentum, heavy call investing by small investors, defensive sectors on the rise, and waning breadth...

Leading Indicators for Inflation Picking Back Up

Feb 27, 2024 – Last month's inflation report came in hotter than expected. Though some are dismissing this as statistical noise, several leading indicators for inflation are pointing to a potential acceleration for commodities and overall inflation...

The Next Big Arms Race Is Quantum

Feb 21, 2024 – With precision sensing applications establishing the first beachheads, quantum technologies have reached operational reality. Promising disruptions across industries and intensifying geopolitical competition...

Plan Now for Higher RMDs and Medicare Premiums in 2024

Feb 16, 2024 – As financial markets continued their impressive run throughout 2023, retirees with IRAs and 401(k)s are facing higher required minimum distributions (RMDs) in 2024. The record-setting market performance of 2023...

A Hard Look at a Soft Landing

Feb 5, 2024 – In this article, I’ll cover some of the key stories of 2023 and then focus on the likelihood of a soft landing for the economy with a look at monetary policy, economic growth, the earnings outlook, and geopolitical risks...

One Call to Rule Them All

Jan 19, 2024 – Our belief is that there will primarily be one call to get correct—one call to rule them all—and that is whether the US economy has a hard landing (recession) or soft one. Getting this call right can set the tone for everything else as...

Testing the Consensus and the Goldilocks Seven

Jan 12, 2024 – Throughout history, we’ve seen numerous instances where capital heavily concentrates into a single company or a small cluster of stocks, such as the Nifty 50 growth stocks in the 1970s or the tech sector in the late 1990s. Often, such herding...

Why Google's New Gemini Model Gets Us Closer to AGI

Jan 4, 2024 – The journey towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has been a long-standing pursuit within the AI community. The striking progress made by Google's new Gemini model has prompted a significant update towards...

Felix Zulauf Predicts Market Top, ‘Big Decline’ in 2024 Before Next Powerful Rally

Dec 14, 2023 – In a recent interview with FS Insider, well-known investment strategist Felix Zulauf discussed his macro outlook for 2024, including a bull run in the stock market into the first quarter of 2024 followed by the potential...

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