In today's afternoon market update, you'll find out how the dollar is faring this week as well as the market causing a lot of us to feel the pinch at the pump, the oil market. I also check in on the S&P, the Reuters/Jefferies, precious metals and what I think the markets will do after the President makes his speech this afternoon.
Every success,
Adam
Have you filled up the gas tank lately?
If you have then you know it is a pain at the pump for everybody in America. But the real pain is something most middle Americans don't even know about, and I'm not even talking about the 47% of the country that does not pay taxes. No, I'm talking about the people who do pay taxes and work their butts off to make a living.
Like a lot of Americans, I am not a happy camper and I am not happy with the incredible misdirection this country is going in with its spend, spend, spend policies. I'm not sure what its like in your house, but in mine if we can afford something, we can afford something, but we don't have the luxury of printing money by the truckload to spend beyond our means. The main problem is, these spending policies are only going to further weaken our economy.
This afternoon Pres. Obama is to make a speech explaining how we're supposed to get out of this mess - or how it is often described by this current White House - "potential financial Armageddon." In my opinion if there are not significant spending cuts, we're going to see a lot of pressure on the market. Unfortunately I think this speech will probably be long on rhetoric and short on details. That seems to be the style in Washington these days.
Okay I promised you the dirty little secret that Washington doesn't want you to know about and here goes... Continue reading "Washington's dirty little secret they don't want you to know about"
We ALL worry about inflation, but then the news dies down a bit and we push in another 'major issue' according to the news media. Funny how they can easily munipulate the masses with their massive hype machine...anyway when inflation was hot Tim McMahon, editor of InflationData.com, was busier then anyone on the planet! I've asked him to enlighten us on the inflationary storm...please enjoy the article, comment below, and visit InflationData.com for more info.
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I must be getting old. Things seem to change awfully quickly. It seems like just yesterday that gasoline was well over $4.00 a gallon and inflation was 5.6%. It was July 2008 and inflation was the hot topic, everyone was worried about costs climbing exponentially. It seemed like every time I went to the store things cost more. Oil was a speculator’s dream and a car owner’s nightmare.
Inflation or deflation? I'm pretty sure just about everyone reading this has heard this debate in one form or another in recent weeks. Well which is it...? There are points to be made for either side of this debate and today we will hear a good friend of ours James McClung of Stock Shotz.tv, state his case for inflation. What do you think? Leave us a comment and let us know and be sure to stop by Stock Shotz for more on the great debate and interviews with some of the most respected names in the trading world.
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We have been exploring the inflation vs. deflation debate on our show for several months and while we have heard compelling arguments on both sides---we believe that we are headed for a period of massive inflation. Will most be surprised? Yes. Most of you know that at Stock Shotz, we take a common sense approach to the markets. So as we explored this debate we did a little unsophisticated research to assist with our analysis. We started by heading down to the local grocery store to see if the price of a gallon of milk, which was marked up almost daily as the price of oil increased last summer, had gone down in the same proportion as had a barrel of oil. Answer--NO.
What? No, but what about the argument that we are in a period of deflation? Isn't the demand for milk so sparse that they are dropping the price with each gallon? Not hardly.
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