Market Insights

The pushback against the “Net Zero” scheme is growing bigger and bigger. Leading the trend are our beer-drinking, bratwurst-eating friends — some of the best designers and manufacturers of cars ever. The Germans, specifically Audi, are now doing a massive U-turn on electric vehicles, dropping their earlier goal of producing

Ruh-roh! More bad news in the US banking sector (in regional banks to be more specific)… Actually, “plummet” doesn’t even properly describe the tragedy that is New York Community Bancorp. After this last bout of bad news, the stock now trades at 1996 levels — even lower than during the

We seem to be a lone minority here at Capitalist Exploits when it comes to (stubborn) bullishness on energy. Here’s Barron’s: Energy stocks are out of favor. Fund managers had less exposure to energy stocks heading into 2024 than at any time since December 2020, according to the latest Bank of

 CHRIS ON INVESTING IN 2024 Chris joined Brian Leni from the Mining Stock Education podcast recently to discuss what’s happening in the markets right now as well as what he sees coming in 2024 — topics such as: You can listen to the entire conversation here.   THE CURIOUS CASE OF MEATLESS SAUSAGES If

 NEW PODCAST WITH CHRIS MACINTOSH New OWTW issue, new podcast with Chris. This time, he sat down with Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St to discuss, among other things: You can listen to the entire conversation here.   BARGAIN-HUNTING AROUND THE WORLD Here at Capitalist Exploits HQ, we like to steer

After the turmoil we’ve seen in the bond markets in recent months, the popular press is now starting to wake up to the fact that maybe, just maybe the era of ultra-low interest rate is over. From the article: Over the past few months, however, the bond market has, in