Late this past week with our Konni Harrison, I gave AN UPDATE on the renewed dynamics of The Great Stagflation which–among other things–have led to: —> New 2024 highs for both inflation and interest rates (and going higher still in…
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Has the Bloom irreversibly come off the E.V. rose?
If you are: * A current or prospective investor in E.V.-related companies of most any kind… * In management of such companies in any way… * A concerned consumer and citizen who NEEDS to know just what a MESS policy…
Three Words Will Guide Markets in 2024: Supply…Supply…and SUPPLY!
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Sunday a.m. — Nov. 19, 2023 The present monetary tightening cycle which now seems to be nearing its end (as far as rate hikes by Fire Marshall Jay…
Powell turns “Good Scrooge”…but why?
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Sunday — December 17, 2023) Since very belatedly starting to mop up the historically extreme oceans of new money/credit that he first unleashed from late 2019-early 2022, Fed Chair…
Biden and Yellen at Cross-purposes on Energy…or are They?
COMMENTARY – May 14, 2022 In his Clintonesque “I feel your pain” message to America on the inflation crisis this past week, President Biden—among other things—insisted that he’s going to compel America’s energy sector to produce more to help alleviate…
The Fed’s upcoming game of “Monetary Jenga”
Commentary and Analysis — Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022 We all know that–quite soon–the Federal Reserve at long, belated last is going to begin at least trying to undo some of the damage it has done over the last couple years…
Presentation: Portfolio Strategies for The Great Stagflation of 2022
For those who missed the live version this past Wednesday, Jan. 12, here is the complete video/slide presentation… This was incredibly well-received by the hundreds of people who signed up…don’t miss out yourself now that you can watch this at…
A More “Hawkish” Fed might really materialize…here’s why
At the end of January’s first week, I was invited to join my friend and colleague Trevor Hall on the first “long form” discussion of 2022 on his Mining Stock Daily podcast. You can listen to perhaps the widest-ranging and “meatiest” discussion…
China and The New World DISORDER
Following up my recent detailed commentary on Evergrande and its evolving fallout, I recently sat down with my old friend, Washington-area journalist Cliff Kincaid to dive even deeper into this catalyst for the biggest changes to the global economic and…
Evergrande’s “Marketized Default” and the Consequences
(From the third regular issue of The National Investor for September, 2021) Investors just as much as politicians too often get caught up in often-stale, simplistic narratives on a subject–in this case, on a country, China–which prevents them for seeing…
Building Critical Minerals Infrastructures: Opportunities and Roadblocks
The week of March 8 saw ambitious plans laid out in both the U.S. and Canada for building the Green Economies of the future, as well as to promote and develop home-grown resources and technologies that would strengthen all those…
The “Reddit Revolution” — are all those Peasants with Pitchforks buying GameStop, et al to fight hedge funds the whole story?
As usual, I was starting off the 2nd regular issue of The National Investor for this month with a series of audience questions. But the answer to the first of them–on the subject of all the market gyrations over the…
POWER-PACKED Discussion: Eliminating “Trumpism” and The Biden Administration ahead
Posted Thursday morning, January 7, 2021 Yesterday (Wednesday) — in between keeping our eyes on the crazy scenes unfolding in our nation’s capitol — I heard from a great old friend: Washington area journalist Cliff Kincaid. He recently relaunched his…
OILMAGEDDON–And the Consequences of American Hubris
(from the March 31, 2020 Issue) GUARANTEED to piss off Trump sycophants and those with T.D.S. (Trump Derangement Syndrome) alike, here’s a BADLY needed discussion of the current, unfolding DISASTER in America’s energy industry:
The Fed’s Next Act: But Judy Shelton Might not be Around for It
Congress can do no more than play confused, partisan politics with the central bank—and a new nominee—at a “Waterloo Moment” for the Fed, the economy and markets. by Chris Temple — Feb. 15, 2020 _________________________________________ “A double-minded man is unstable…
The Fed and your Money in 2020; Volcker, Revisited
Sunday, December 15, 2019 — By the time the late President Ronald Reagan appointed him for a second term as Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker (the two of them above, of course, in the Oval Office) was already well into his “second…
“The World Turned Upside Down”
(From the July 29, 2019 issue) Markets seem both oblivious to and unprepared for a MAJOR change that’s looming in the world: the end of “Globalization” as we have known it for three-quarters of a century. As I write in…
The Modern Monetary Theory “Debate”
(From the April 15, 2019 Issue) — I put “Debate” in quotes above since what you are hearing on this suddenly-HOT issue is, for the most part, just another scripted and canned one delivered to us by the Establishment and…
A year in the life of Fed Chair Jerome Powell
(Posted Feb. 6, 2019) — With all the attention on the president’s State of the Union address last night and myriad other matters, you can be forgiven for forgetting that yesterday marked the one-year anniversary at his present post of…
C.R.E. Preview — My conversation with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
I’m privileged in this discussion here to visit with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. who, over the better part of four decades beginning during the Nixon Administration, was a Senior U.S. diplomat involved in every single agreement concerning nuclear non-proliferation and…
The “Death of the Dollar” Nonsense — Here’s the latest
(Posted Aug. 18, 2018) — From most of the usual suspects, there have again been “sensational” and “SHOCKING” revelations recently of (Take your pick) a coming currency re-set. . .new global currency based on the International Monetary Fund’s S.D.R. basket.…
Gold Manipulation – A History Lesson (From the Feb. 20, 2018 Issue)
From time to time I clarify my own position–and provide some common sense and history–to address a well-flogged story line (actually a MYTH today) that the gold price is “suppressed.” In the below excerpt from the latest issue of The…
Now THIS was “Gold Suppression!”
I regularly call out the carnival barker types among the “Pied Pipers of the Gold Bug Echo Chamber” for putting out utter nonsense at times as they frantically fight over a shrinking audience of well-meaning but impressionable investors who appreciate…
An Infrastructure Bill’s importance to “The Game”
(Posted August 16) — This week President Trump announced some unilateral measures he was taking on the regulatory/administrative front to try and remove some of the road blocks to speedier approvals for infrastructure spending projects. This is intended to precede…
THIS is the Revived Roman Empire!?
(COMMENTARY and News from the Sept. 5, 2016 issue) — I vividly remember when — in the late 1990’s, as a growing European Union was about to add a common currency, the EURO, to its regimen–Dispensationalists and others were loud…
EXPOSED: The usual Hucksters and their warnings (again!) of a new “world currency.”
(Adapted from the first August, 2016 issue) — On schedule, those “experts” who specialize in taking a grain of truth and spinning it into a mountain of B.S. in order to sell you something are at it again! The following…
Building an Economic Lifeboat
Here’s my two-part interview of my old friend…and hero…and (among other things) creator of the Ithaca HOURS community currency, Paul Glover. (For more on Paul’s activities, visit www.paulglover.org) 2015-04-06 08-04-47
Christmas Message: “The Original Revolution”
Each year at Christmas for some time now, I have shared the accompanying commentary by the late Mennonite theologian, John Howard Yoder. To me it indeed does reflect the truly revolutionary, epochal event of over two millennia ago, when our…
UNDERSTANDING THE GAME
(NOTE: New/returning subscribers will now receive the NEW/EXPANDED VERSION!!) Though nearly a decade old, Chris’ “signature presentation” here remains the best primer on the nature of our markets you will read ANYWHERE. Once you have read this, you will know…
The REAL Cause of Enron’s Collapse
When energy giant Enron imploded in scandal and financial ruin, too many described it as a tale of political cronyism, greed and whatnot. The truth was deeper than that: Enron collapsed because it had turned itself into the poster child…
Real American Heroes
Once upon a time in America, there was a thriving middle class; citizens able to enjoy “The American Dream” because they had good, stable jobs that paid a living wage. One of the great advocates of “A Square Deal” for…
Why Glass-Steagall HAD to be Repealed
It’s been nearly 15 years since this key Depression-era legislation was repealed by a Republican Congress and Democrat president. The reasons why the banks were pushing for Glass-Steagall to be deep-sixed became evident with the monstrous mortgage and derivatives boom–and BUST–of…
Ithaca HOURS–Community currency alternative to Bitcoin
(NOTE: Chris will be updating the Ithaca HOURS story and adding a LOT to it in his upcoming Special Report entitled “Building an Economic Lifeboat.”) Years ago, Chris wrote of a wonderful new–and successful–experiment to create “an economy within an…