Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
Bitcoin prices has been able to benefit from the “return in risk aversion” in the markets on fresh catalysts. In this article Chris Vermeulen, “The Gold and Oil Guy” takes a look at Bitcoin and some of the Trends involved.
Bitcoin: The New Safe Haven? Read More »
All of these systems paved the way for the advent of eCommerce. Imagine trying to buy something online if all we had was physical currency. It would effectively be impossible to process electronic transactions without these modern digital currency alternatives. This area is bound to explode in coming years as the desire for more electronic transactions collides with a desire for more electronic privacy.
eCommerce Trends: What’s in Your eWallet? Read More »
In this article Chris Ciovacco looks at a variety of indicators to determine the probability that the market will take a dive in the near future. He’ll look at New Highs vs. New Lows, and compare market vulnerability of the 2011 market compared to today.
Low Probability Market Will Crash Read More »
In the following article, The Gold and Oil Guy Chris Vermeulen looks at investor sentiment, Federal Tax Revenues, Food Stamps, Median Household income vs. Home Prices, and comes to some interesting conclusions. ~ Tim McMahon, editor
Investors Pessimistic… Market to Rally Read More »
In the following article Chris Vermeulen of The Gold and Oil Guy, looks at the current trend in Mortgage Delinquencies in an effort to determine whether the market is still bullish. He also looks at FED actions and how they affect the markets. According to Wikipedia the Federal Funds Rate is, “the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight, on an uncollateralized basis.” ~ Tim McMahon, editor
Mortgage Delinquency Rates Increase Read More »
In today’s post Gary Tanashian looks at ten charts and indicators to give us a unique look at the trends of the overall economic situation, the state of the “economic recovery” and the employment situation. He looks at where the jobs are, how the average consumer is doing and even the debt to GDP ratio. I think you will find some real gems in his charts.
This week’s Notes From the Rabbit Hole included a little Payrolls/Wages related economic discussion before moving on to the usual coverage of stock markets, commodities, precious metals, bonds, currencies and related indicators and market internals. With FOMC on tap there will be more data noise directly ahead, but then I expect markets to smooth out into what is looking like a sensible short and intermediate-term plan.
The U.S. Economy, Payrolls & FOMC Read More »
Just a few short years ago no one had heard of them and now it seems like everybody on the Earth knows about Bitcoin. Bitcoin (a peer-to-peer electronic cash system) was first introduced in October 2008… In 2012, at InflationData, we published an article entitled “Civil Liberties Rest Upon Sound Money” about the new currency. Since then the use of bitcoins has grown astonishingly quickly. Being the prescient financial wizards that they are, in 2014 Robert Prechter and our friends at Elliott Wave International began offering their expert financial advisory and educational materials for sale via Bitcoins… Today there are some 14.6 million bitcoin units in circulation… One major problem with most currencies is that there is nothing to stop governments from printing an infinite amount of them. This erodes the value of the existing currency and can cause them to become worthless through hyperinflation like the currencies of the German Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe… Bitcoin is unique in that only 21 million bitcoins will ever be created.
Cryptocurrency: Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? Read More »
The slope of the 200-day looks quite a bit better than it did before the 2016 New Year’s plunge, telling us the present day long-term outlook is quite a bit better than it was on January 1, 2016.
Trump Rally: False Dawn Or New Bullish Trend? Read More »
Although the seeds of the 2008 financial crisis were sown at a much earlier period of time, the banking institutions continued to reap the benefits of easy money until the financial crisis of 2008 negatively impacted the economy. The damage would have been much larger had U.S. taxpayer’s money not been used to bail out a large number of struggling banks and companies.
It is now more than eight years since the last financial crisis has occurred, and the current global situation is now beyond that of the financial crisis of 2008. The central banks have been able to kick the can down the road, but that has only produced such vast proportions of debt that the next financial crisis will not be manageable by the global central banks.
2008 Financial Crisis- Then vs. Now Read More »
On Friday July 15th, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS) announced that the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) had increased from 238.638 in June 2015 to 241.038 in June of 2016 resulting in a 1% Annual inflation rate. InflationData calculated the rate to be exactly 1.01% down marginally from 1.02% the previous month. However, on a
BLS Announces Virtually Flat Inflation for June Read More »
