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Weekly Points – June 13th, 2025 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Tariffs Didn’t Create a Disaster Issue
Lots of tariff-related non-news this week. The CPI was up by 0.1% which was far from the disaster predicted by fiat economists. Energy has been a tailwind and may become a headwind. Shelter may become a tailwind. Either way, prices of goods are not rising as feared. The press report on the jobs report is … Read more
May CPI is 2.4%
Overview: Today, we got the May Consumer Price Index (CPI) report which showed an overall increase of 2.4% for the last year and up 0.1% for the month. The annual number is up 0.1% from April and in line with expectations. The monthly is down 0.1% and below expectations. The Core CPI which excludes food … Read more
Weekly Points – June 6th, 2025 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Nuclear AI Issue
Meta signs a deal to secure reliable carbon-free nuclear power for its AI data centers following in the footsteps of competitor, Amazon. DKI has been buying more uranium. Do you own enough? The big music labels take steps to ensure they (and their artists) get paid for music used to train generative AI models. We’re … Read more
Weekly Points – May 30th, 2025 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Reshoring Issue
Maybe we should have called this The Energy Issue. President Trump is trying to cut through decades of red tape by building nuclear reactors on military bases. If you want to electrify everything and have AI datacenters without more carbon-based energy, nuclear is the only option. Do you own enough uranium? 90% of US companies … Read more
Weekly Points – May 23rd, 2025 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Government Needs a New Credit Score Issue
All eyes were on the bond market this week as the bond vigilantes arrive. Want to know what a bond vigilante is? No worries, we explain and tell you what we’re doing about them. Moody’s downgrades US Treasuries. No one cares. We all knew the US government has a debt and spending problem. Meta’s AI … Read more
An Adventure Part 4 – Big Wins and Small Losses
My second week in South Florida was all about work. It was a good week for Deep Knowledge Investing subscribers as news in a few portfolio names led to stock positions moving in our favor. Many of us have large positions in gold and Bitcoin which set multiple new highs during the week. Uranium has … Read more
It’s the Bond Market – Here’s What We Do
I’m getting a lot of questions right now about the overall market. People are noticing some strange trading. This morning, the S&P 500 ($SPY) and the NASDAQ ($QQQ) both opened down, traded back to flattish/up small, then fell in the afternoon ending the day down 1.6% and 1.4% respectively. The whole market is volatile right … Read more
Weekly Points – May 16th, 2025 – 5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – The Temporary Tariff Truce Issue
The new CPI was a win for the disinflation crowd as the all-items inflation metric falls to 2.3%. On the other hand, we’ve been above the 2% target for 50 straight months, and I think the target is 2% too high. The market celebrated a temporary tariff truce with China as both sides agree to … Read more
An Adventure Part 3 – Florida Man
Florida Man kills python by throwing an alligator at it requiring insurance claims on three totaled tricycles? Last week, I let you know I was on a 9-hour train trip from NYC to Pittsburgh to visit my favorite cousin, Robb, and my Great Uncle Herby. Because they wouldn’t let me drive the train, I was … Read more
