Will Trump Follow Obama In His Failure To Deliver? – Ep. 219
* The NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism in the month of December, so this is post the election of Donald Trump * Shot up from 98.4 in November to 105.8 * This is the highest level in 12 years ...
11 Jan 201737min
Obama Hands Trump Huge Bubble – Ep. 218
* Yesterday we got the final jobs report of the Obama era, * We got the December Non-Farm Payroll. * Now technically, when we get the January number, the first Friday of February, * Half of that...
7 Jan 201738min
Bitcoin Again Approaches Parity with Gold – Ep. 217
* This is another big week for economic data; it is a holiday-shortened week * On Friday we get the big Non-Farm Payroll report * If it's a good number, somehow Donald Trump will try to take credi...
5 Jan 201725min
Hollywood Minimum Wage Hypocrisy – Ep. 216
* The Dow 20,000 party is going to have to wait until 2017 * Although I wouldn't necessarily buy a ticket for January * The selloff that started this week may resume in the first week of the new y...
31 Dec 201641min
Ep. 215: Irrational Exuberance Trumps All
* The Dow 20,000 party is going to have to wait - at least for another day * The Dow was down a little bit today - 23 to 19,918 * The broader market was a bit weaker than the Dow * The markets c...
23 Dec 201630min
Fed Fakes Confidence With Another Dec. Quarter Point Rate Hike
* On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve did exactly what they did last year * They waited until the last possible meeting to nudge the Federal Funds rate by 1/4 of 1% * So now, after 2 years of tighte...
16 Dec 201637min
A Candidate’s Bubble Is a President-Elect’s Bull Market – Ep. 214
* It's been a while since my last podcast and I've gotten quite a few emails from people wondering what happened to me * I was out of the country for about a week, and I did manage to get one podcas...
13 Dec 201633min
QE4 Is Going To Be Huge – Ep. 213
* The Trump fantasy rally continued today, of course the big irony here is that all of the stock traders who were so worried about a Donald Trump presidency * Now, he's Ronald Regan re-incarnated ...
1 Dec 201631min
