Aug 8, 2022
The Fed and the U.S. Government Can Not be Trusted!
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon Fed’s Pledge to Stop Forward Guidance? In last week’s column, we noted that the Fed said it would...
Jul 16, 2022
BLS Employment Report, Recession Watch, Inflation and the Fed
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon Inflation and the Fed: The Curmudgeon and I are 100% for bringing down the rate of growth of...
Jul 15, 2022
BLS Employment Report, Recession Watch, Inflation and the Fed
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon Biden’s Approval Ratings Continue to Drop: The abysmal U.S. economic conditions have contributed...
Jul 15, 2022
BLS Employment Report, Recession Watch, Inflation and the Fed
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon Recession Watch: The U.S. is in a recession according to the age-old definition of two...
Jul 15, 2022
BLS Employment Report, Recession Watch, Inflation and the Fed
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon Analysis of June BLS Employment Report: The total jobs created for the first half of 2022...
Jul 15, 2022
BLS Employment Report, Recession Watch, Inflation and the Fed
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon We’ll be making several posts from The Curmudgeon and Victor Sperandeo on BLS Employment Report,...
Oct 25, 2021
Energy Prices & Global Warming
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon Introduction: Energy prices have been rising at an outstanding pace this year (+63.4% as of...
Aug 24, 2021
RRP’s: Wall Street Newcomers Need a Monetary Education!
Not attempting to be arrogant, but I’m astonished at the lack of basic knowledge of monetary understanding, for who are assumed to be knowle
Jun 9, 2021
Inflation and the Cost of the Fed
THE BASICS OF INFLATION Webster’s defined inflation as “a persistent increase in the level of consumer prices or a persistent decline in...
Jan 3, 2021
“Happy” New Year 2021 - Opinion, News Interpretation, and U.S. Market Outlook
The markets are drunk on the idea of a Joe Biden administration. The closing highs for the year occurred between December 23rd and...
Dec 14, 2020
Victor Sperandeo talks about precious metals and the world economy with James Turk
Accredited Investor Journal In this video, renowned Wall Street trader and financial commentator Victor Sperandeo and James Turk,...
Dec 1, 2020
November Anomalies
There were plenty of market anomalies in November. S&P 500 futures PR were up nearly 11%, the most in any month since 1988. December...
Nov 3, 2020
We The People Want….?
A majority of markets – equity, treasury, and commodity – started selling off on October 23rd. This was to be expected even without the...
Oct 14, 2020
The “Cumulative Breadth Index” and 3 WSJ Editorials
On Friday morning I woke up to find that the Russell 2000 rally on Thursday, October 8th had caused the “Cumulative Breadth Index” to...
Oct 2, 2020
Commodity & Equity Market Interpretation
The commodity and equity markets both declined in September. The CRB Commodity Index PR was -3.07% for the month, while the December S&P...
Sep 29, 2020
“The Deficit Myth” - by Stephanie Kelton (SK)
Victor Sperandeo Reviews “The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton The essence of the book was to explain how the monetary system really...
Sep 2, 2020
Average Inflation Targeting
The most important economic news for August came - as usual - from the U.S. Federal Reserve. On August 27th, Chairman Powell commented on...
Aug 12, 2020
The History of Money in the U.S. and the End Game
With gold at all-time highs against the U.S. Dollar – as well as against all fiat currencies - and silver finally breaking out to the...
Aug 4, 2020
Opinion, News Interpretation, and U.S. Market Outlook
The commodity markets appreciated 4.14% in July (using the CRB Commodity Index (PR) as a guide). The equity markets continued on a tear,...
Jul 21, 2020
Goodbye Hong Kong! China Trade Deals Can’t be Trusted
By Victor Sperandeo with the Curmudgeon Introduction: In the first of a two-part article on China, Victor reviews the new Hong Kong (HK)...