Market Insights

  MAKING HISTORY We highlighted the predictive power of magazine covers in these missives before. More often than not, they tend to time market tops (and bottoms) with stunning accuracy. The following gem adorned the cover of The Economist in early December 2020. The political class in power has been hellbent

While cheerleaders of the “green economy” would have you believe that you’re either out of your mind to invest in coal… or a reader of ours (or both), this is happening in the world. You really can’t make this sh*t up. The thing that should be as exciting to you

  HIGH YIELD: A LOSING PROPOSITION Take a look at this chart and then ask yourself what happens when folks wake to the reality that inflation is transitory in the same way as tofu is tasty? Suddenly, that capital seeks inflation protection, that’s what.   NO LOVE FOR COMMODITIES Now, where could

After helping push up meme stocks to the moon, WallStreetBets has now zeroed in on an unlikely target: uranium. Yes, you read that right! If you are a long-time reader, uranium has probably been on your radar for a while (in Insider we first dipped our toes in uranium stocks

📦  ANOTHER “TRANSITORY” ISSUE THAT WASN’T Turns out the supply chain shortages that have been plaguing the global economy for the last 12-ish months aren’t as “transitory” as we were told all this time. Who woulda thunk it? If you’re a long-time reader, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. It’s something

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we remind folks of one of the grandest bubbles of all time, one that we have been positioning for: an unwind of the value of financial assets relative to hard assets. It is so easy to see the bubble. But waiting

The following quote from John Hussman caught our attention (h/t to @SeekerRisk for the annotated chart): With that in mind, we often get asked the question along the lines of, “Markets seem over extended. How about buying some puts to provide downside protection?” We always encourage folks to stick with their

If there ever was a time when you could see a trend solidly in motion, now is it. 💻  TO TECH, OR NOT TO TECH? Staying with China for another moment… sometimes knowing where not to be is just as important as knowing where to be. After all, all investments are