Weekly Points – October 18th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Central Bankers Are Delusional Issue

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Central banks shatter irony meters as a Fed Governor insists they have unlimited dollars, but it’s Bitcoin that has no value. Not to be outdone, the European Central Bank lowers interest rates and at the same time, warns of coming higher inflation. They’d be better off admitting they’re trapped than saying nonsensical things in public. … Read more

Uranium Update

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Previously, we’ve reported on Amazon $AMZN and Microsoft $MSFT contracting to use nuclear power for their AI datacenters. We’ve also written about the efforts to restart decommissioned nuclear plants. Within the last week, Google $GOOGL joined in and signed a nuclear power deal. Today, we got the news that Amazon is heading up an equity … Read more

Weekly Points – October 11th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The We Warned You About Rebound Inflation Edition

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Most of this week’s 5 Things relates to government mismanagement of the economy. We draw two conclusions. First, the government should involve itself in less of the economy. Second, we should have called this “The Government is Mismanaging Things Edition”. One month after DKI told you the Fed cut rates too soon, the Core CPI … Read more

September CPI is 2.4%

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Overview: Today, we got the September Consumer Price Index (CPI) report which showed an overall increase of 2.4% for the last year and 0.2% for the month. That’s slightly below last month’s 2.5% and above expectations by 0.1%. The 0.2% monthly increase was above the 0.1% expected. The Core CPI which excludes food and energy … Read more

CPI Today

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Hi All, The CPI will be announced at 8:30 Eastern Time today. I’ll have full analysis out on that this morning, but with intern Andrew traveling, will need an extra few minutes to update the graphs. As a result, the update won’t be out before we send the 9am email. For those of you who … Read more

Weekly Points – October 4th, 2024 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Rising Price of Commodities Edition

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Bank of America $BAC has an outage with customers showing balances of zero. The customers are horrified. Want to know why the Bitcoin community finds this hilarious? The answer is hubris. Japan communicates it is dedicated to keeping ultra-low interest rates. The yen predictably declines again. Costco $COST made a fortune selling gold bars. Now … Read more

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