Yahoo Finance Gets it Right on S&P 500 Earnings
Last week, in an article titled “One Way or Another, We’re Going to End Up in the Same Place“, we wrote that we expected the Federal Reserve rate hikes to work and in the process, cause a further slowdown in economic growth. Deep Knowledge Investing has said and written since February that the US economy … Read more
More Ineffective Russian Sanctions
Back in April, we wrote that, “our wish for the Ukrainian people is for peace, prosperity, and self-determination.” We also wrote that the existing anti-Russian sanctions were ineffective, were reducing the value of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and are hurting American citizens. Today, Barron’s reported the G-7 was adding to the sanctions … Read more
Discussion of Russion Sanctions, the Dollar, and the US Economy with Paul Gray & Gary Brode
Paul Gray of IronHold Capital and Gary Brode of Deep Knowledge Investing discuss the US Dollar, Russian Sanctions, Inflation, and the Stock Market.
The Depth Report – One Way or Another, We’re Going to End Up in the Same Place
Overview: The stock market, market analysts, and all of us here at Deep Knowledge Investing have been closely watching Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve for signs regarding future interest rate hikes. After keeping rates at zero and calling inflation “transitory” for far too long, he now seems focused on aggressively increasing interest rates to … Read more
The Depth Report – The Reasons Sell-Side Research is Hopelessly Behind
Overview: We’ve had some fun lately at the expense of Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, who kept interest rates at zero for far too long and insisted that inflation would be “transitory” well past the point when Deep Knowledge Investing was warning it represented a real and persistent problem. Then, we took note of “Hurricane” … Read more
Special Guest Post – How the Petrodollar System Restored, Then Ruined, America’s Economy
Tree of Woe does the kind of deep-dive analysis that gets our attention here at Deep Knowledge Investing, and also has the funniest subscription page I’ve ever seen actually offering “moments of true woe and deep despair”. The recent “Running on Empty” series exploring the origins and effect of the petrodollar system is the best … Read more
The Depth Report – A Basic Guide to Hedging for the Amateur/Intermediate Investor
Overview: We’ve been getting a lot of important questions recently from amateur investors regarding some of the more advanced topics we discuss at Deep Knowledge Investing. Many people have been taught about things like diversification and dollar cost averaging, but don’t really understand things like hedging, offsetting different kinds of risk, or shorting stocks. That’s … Read more
At Least They’re Not Saying “Transitory” Anymore
Overview: Today, the Federal Reserve raised the fed funds rate by 75bp (.75%). It’s the largest increase in almost 30 years, and the big move was due to runaway inflation that the Fed had previously termed “transitory”. We’ve been on record for months saying that inflation is understated by approximately 100%, is not transitory, and … Read more
The Strategic and Economic Implications of Anti-Russian Sanctions
I’d like to thank the Institute for World Politics for inviting me to address them on the topic of The Strategic and Economic Implication of Anti-Russian Sanctions. Mr. Gary Brode will discuss how and why U.S. policy is failing to protect the dollar’s world reserve currency status and its future effects on American consumers as … Read more