Jun 23, 2023 – In today's Smart Macro segment, Chris Puplava, CIO of Financial Sense Wealth Management, discusses the growing divergence between the stock market and leading economic indicators, the lagged impacts...
Jun 9, 2023 – The S&P 500 has now climbed 20% from its October 2022 lows and many are declaring that we are now in a new bull market even though leading economic indicators are still strongly pointing towards recession while banks...
May 19, 2023 – Chris Puplava, Chief Investment Officer at Financial Sense Wealth Management, warns listeners that we've now seen a large cluster of Hindenburg Omen sell signals raised across numerous stock market indices. Furthermore...
May 5, 2023 – In today's Smart Macro edition of the Financial Sense Newshour, Chris Puplava explains why the banking crisis is likely not over and also discusses recent research on how leading economic indicators impact stock market returns...
May 2, 2023 – The conditions that led up to the current banking crisis are still in place, says Chris Puplava, CIO of Financial Sense Wealth Management, which means that banks are likely to continue failing in the months ahead until...
Apr 25, 2023 – Anyone arguing that we are not heading into a recession may be deluding themselves. The biggest deposit flight we have seen in 50 years from commercial banks shows no sign of stopping. Why is this important? Well, commercial banks...
April 21, 2023 – In today's Smart Macro segment, Financial Sense Wealth Management CIO Chris Puplava discusses the latest data on housing, which has seen a slight rebound in some metrics, and why this is likely to be temporary given what we see in a wide range of other leading indicators. If...
Apr 18, 2023 – US housing has seen a moderate surge in activity as mortgage rates have fallen from their highs. Chris Puplava, CIO of Financial Sense Wealth Management, shows an array of recent data on housing affordability, new and...
Apr 12, 2023 – The tightening of lending standards by banks, even before the collapse of SVB, is making it difficult for consumers and businesses to borrow, resulting in a decline in loans outstanding. The NFIB Small Business lobby surveys small businesses each month and...
April 10, 2023 – People persist in withdrawing funds from the banking system. Initially, the exodus targeted small, regional banks and shifted towards larger institutions, but now both small and large banks are experiencing the impact...
Apr 7, 2023 – Are we at a major turning point in the economy? Chris Puplava, CIO of Financial Sense Wealth Management, explains how government data often fails to identify crucial turning points, and warns that we may be experiencing one...
Mar 27, 2023 – Corporate debt issuance has slowed to a crawl, showing signs of freezing. The same condition appears to be occurring in the junk bond markets as well. Today, we ask the question of whether things are getting better or...
Mar 24, 2023 – In today's Smart Macro segment, Chris Puplava, Chief Investment Officer at Financial Sense Wealth Management, discusses how the stock market is seeing a short-term rally on hopes that the Federal Reserve is nearing...
Mar 10, 2023 – It was an eventful week for stocks: Fed Chairman Jay Powell signaled the possibility of much higher rates and a major bank in Silicon Valley went bust, the largest such failure since the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. Today...
Mar 7, 2023 – Interest rates are on the rise and it's not just the US economy that's affected but also the US government as a whole. Financial Sense Wealth Management CIO Chris Puplava shows how $6 trillion of US debt is due this year and...
Mar 3, 2023 – After this week's wrap-up, Financial Sense's Jim Puplava speaks with Jim Welsh at Macro Tides and Ryan Sweet at Oxford Economics about the outlook for the economy and the markets. Then, in the latter half of today's program...
Feb 28, 2023 – There was a significant switch in the Wall Street narrative in January-February of this year from fears over a hard-landing recession to a 'no landing' scenario. Chris Puplava, CIO of Financial Sense Wealth Management, discusses what led to...
Feb 24, 2023 – After this week's market wrap-up with Ryan Puplava, Financial Sense Newshour interviews John Roque and Greg Weldon about this week's sell-off in the markets as Wall Street now grapples with stickier inflation and higher...
Feb 14, 2023 – Chris Puplava, CIO of Financial Sense Wealth Management, shows how bank lending standards point to a further weakening of the US economy as well as further pressure on corporate profits. Chris discusses how the business cycle...
Feb 7, 2023 – Last week the US received a blowout jobs report for the month of January exceeding all economists' expectations. There's just one major problem: the majority of hiring was for lower paying services jobs while higher paid...