One seriously has to wonder why the Fed thinks inflation is running at about 2%. More like 40%, you clowns. Here’s what NICKEL did yesterday, which isn’t exactly a market one normally reads about.
Nickel and Dimed
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
That’s A Wrap!
One of the beneficiaries of the mayhem in Russia has been aluminum companies. Here are a couple:
War In Ukraine Causes Coal To Go Parabolic
Fascinating Futures
I went through all 135 of SlopeCharts‘ futures contracts just now to pluck out a few I thought were especially interesting. Click on any image for a screen-sized version.
Good Day for Commodity Plays
As I keep saying, the only asset I am cheerfully bullish is gold, and it had another good day. Yesterday I made a big point about how the plunge in gold should not be seen as a failure, because it was merely testing support. It did so, and even though “someone threw a war, and nobody came”, Gold closed ABOVE its peak on Monday. Let that sink in. We are higher NOW than we were on the brink of war!
