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By Tim McMahon Updated June 2, 2025 Current Analysis: Sell Signal Remains in effect but the index has turned up opening the possibility of a buy signal. Recently, while creating some new Crypto ROC charts, we made some MAJOR changes to the look of the ROC chart. We decided to carry those changes over to […]

NYSE Rate of Change (ROC)®

By Tim McMahon | June 2, 2025

What is the NYSE Rate of Change (ROC)®? The NYSE Rate of Change (ROC) chart helps quickly get the “big picture” of the stock market. The old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is very applicable to this chart. Once you understand how to read the ROC chart, you can easily spot the […]

Inflation Forecast: Moore Inflation Predictor (MIP) ©

By Tim McMahon | May 13, 2025

Forecasting Inflation: Using the Moore Inflation Predictor© By Tim McMahon, editor The Moore Inflation Predictor© (MIP) is a highly accurate graphical representation designed to forecast the inflation rate. By watching the turning points, we can profit from inflation hedges (like Gold, Real Estate, and Energy Producers) when the inflation rate is trending up and from […]

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Pectra and Other Big Crypto News

By Tim McMahon | May 10, 2025

The big news on the Crypto front is Ethereum’s "Pectra" upgrade, which was activated on May 7, 2025. The upgrade bundles eleven Ethereum Improvement Proposals ...

How Do Trump’s Tariffs Compare to the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariffs?

By Valerie Rhea | April 16, 2025

The following article by Valerie Rhea originally appeared on Quora. Valerie is a thirty-something PhD economist, former military pilot, with a law degree. Trump's Tariffs ...

The Truth About why Nixon Replaced the Gold Standard with Fiat

By Tim McMahon | March 6, 2025

When millenials hear that "Tricky Dick" took the U.S. off the gold standard they assume it was for some selfish or nefarious purpose, but the ...

Media Censorship-Sacrificing Truth

Sacrificing Truth on Leviathan’s Altar By James Bovard Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured tyrannical German prosecutors boasting about persecuting private citizens who made comments that officialdom disapproved. ...

Income Inequality Misconceptions in the U.S.

How Do We Best Interpret Income Inequality? By Lipton Matthews Image by Meta AI Income inequality is frequently portrayed as a fundamental problem in the ...

February Market Update- NYSE, NASDAQ and Crypto

Unusual things move the market. Lately, FED announcements have been responsible for moving the market, but at its January 28-29 meeting, the FED didn't have ...

The Real Effects of Cutting Government Waste

Almost no one believes that government waste is a good thing. But the devil is in the details when it comes to deciding what actually ...

How Can Trump Drive Oil Prices Down AND Fill the SPR?

In his 2025 inauguration speech, Donald Trump emphasized the importance of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and national energy independence. He promised to "drill baby ...

Ethereum Buy Signal

Our ETH ROC generated a "BUY Signal" in Mid-December while BTC issued its buy signal a month earlier. BTC has since rocketed above the psychological ...

Bitcoin ROC Buy Signal

Our Bitcoin ROC generated a "BUY Signal" in early November. BTC has since rocketed to the psychological resistance level of $100,000 where it is consolidating ...

One American’s Experience with Socialized Medicine

ampoules and vials On a recent trip, I unexpectedly got to experience Romanian socialized medicine. On a Thursday evening, I suddenly developed severe stomach pains ...

Bitcoin Breaks Out

Bitcoin has broken out of its downward-slanted channel. Looking at the daily chart we see: From March 2024 Bitcoin was in a downward slanted channel. ...

Is Trump Right About Tariffs?

One of Trump's big talking points in this election cycle was tariffs. So, what are tariffs and are they a good thing? Tariffs or "import ...

What Makes MicroStrategy Special

Just a few short years ago MicroStrategy (MSTR) was a run-of-the-mill software company. At that point, founder and CEO Michael Saylor realized that unless something ...

China’s Monetary Bazooka

Like all modern debt-based economies China fears deflation. Governments borrow money and then continue to "roll it over" ad infinitim. This means high inflation allows ...