Those who have been reading my analysis on the FED and its policies for the past years know that, long ago, I nicknamed Jerome Powell “Jerome Burns”. Why? While leading the Federal Reserve in vastly different economic eras, Jerome Powell and Arthur Burns share significant similarities in their analytical framework…
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BEYOND THE NIKKEI HIGHS: THE $ 1.9 TRILLION SOLVENCY CRISIS CRIPPLING JAPAN
Almost 6 months ago, I asked this question: “HOW LONG WILL THE BOJ BE ABLE TO AVOID THE COLLAPSE OF A MAJOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTION?” Surely, the central bank of Japan has done a remarkable job so far in keeping big insolvent Japanese financial institutions afloat. However, the constant flow of…
THE FINAL ACT: HOW THE LBMA COULD UNRAVEL
In my previous articles, I have described the gathering storm in the precious metals market. The situation has progressed from a distant warning to an imminent reality. Now, we must confront the most critical question: what happens if the very center of the global gold and silver market, the London…
COREWEAVE: THE WEWORK OF AI
It has been a while since my last article on CoreWeave (“COREWEAVE: A FRAUD HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT“), and considering what has happened in the past few months, plus the latest development last Friday, I believe it is time to write a new chapter in this saga. Before we dive…
THE RISK OF A SILVER CHAOS
There is a scenario every trader fears: when your screens go dark. In that situation, the only way to understand where the market is trading is to start making phone calls to your trading partners. To a certain extent, this event already happened during Thanksgiving night when CME servers stopped…
AI IS BECOMING ORACLE’S LITTLE BIGHORN
General Custer’s mistake, which he ultimately paid for with his own life, was to lead an attack against a force of Native Americans far superior in number to his own cavalry regiment, which ultimately surrounded and defeated him. Oracle is currently surrounded, not by Native Americans, of course, but by…
CENTRAL BANKS ARE DRIVING WHILE LOOKING IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR
The market is currently betting heavily on the FOMC delivering another rate cut in December, and considering the real goal of the Fed and fellow central bankers has been to “assure financial market stability”, not control inflation, assure healthy and homogeneous economic growth, or maintain a resilient job market, it…
WHY SILVER CAN HIT $100 BY MARCH
In the past few days, several people reached out to me asking me to write an article about silver, but initially, I thought I would not have much to add to what I wrote back in June, yes, over 5 months ago, in “THAT SMELL OF SILVER SQUEEZE IN THE…
NVIDIA’S 6M GPU “SHIPPED”: A BACK-OF-THE-ENVELOPE MIRACLE OR THE AI BUBBLE’S BIGGEST RED FLAG?
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just claimed 6 million GPUs shipped this year alone, fueling a $500 billion order backlog for Blackwell and Rubin chips through 2026. Sounds like the AI gold rush is hitting escape velocity, right? Wall Street high-fives, stock pops 5%, and suddenly everyone’s toasting to infinite scaling laws…
NVIDIA EARNINGS: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS ON THE STATE OF THE AI BUBBLE
Nvidia just released its latest earnings report and, of course, it beat Wall Street analyst expectations once again, triggering algorithms’ FOMO buying in after-hours trading. Fun fact: Have you noticed that for the last 9 quarters, Nvidia has ALWAYS beaten analyst expectations for revenues and revenue guidance by $2 billion?…