Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff – Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to predict the future. As always, should you or any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – The summer driving season is just around the corner and this year motorists are facing steeper prices for fuel, up from an average of $2.19 a gallon in 2016 to $2.87 today. By this summer, analysts are projecting gas prices to top $3 a gallon… …read more From::

By FS Staff By FS Staff – This time on the Financial Sense Big Picture, Jim Puplava discusses why he thinks disappearing liquidity could be the next big unseen factor that might kick off a crisis. There are three large forces precipitating… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Independent Institute By Independent Institute – California governor Jerry Brown wants to impose the state’s first-ever tax on drinking water, tacked onto monthly bills, and accompanied by “fees” on fertilizer and dairy farmers. For embattled… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Independent Institute By Independent Institute – A recent story in the New York Times discussed the increasing willingness of political candidates in the United States to run as socialists. Times reporter Farah Stockman wrote that the Democratic… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Michael Shedlock By Michael Shedlock – Brad Setser and David Rosenberg each discuss the “nuclear” option of China dumping treasuries in a trade war escalation. Since there is no longer any reasonable debate about a trade war has started… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Michael Shedlock By Michael Shedlock – How does the yield curve invert? Jim Bianco at Bianco Research says “Inside Out”. This is a guest post by Jim Bianco. I dispense with block quotes. The end of the article will be clear. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Oil Price By Oil Price – Saudi Arabia is offering extra oil on top of its contractual volumes to some buyers in its key market Asia, as OPEC’s largest producer boosts oil production to keep markets well-supplied amid disruptions from Venezuela… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Patrick O’Hare By Patrick O’Hare – Anyone who has been riding the wave of the S&P 500 information technology sector’s outperformance must be feeling like the Big Kahuna. This past week, however, something happened to make one… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Jeffrey D Saut By Jeff Saut – We don’t know how long ago we met Frederick “Shad” Rowe, but we are glad we did because our conversations with him have been net worth changing. Recall that Shad is the founder and portfolio manager… …read more From:: Financial Sense