Confused about why gold is falling instead of rising while there’s a war between US, Israel and Iran? Read this to unpack the dynamics of gold, war and inflation, and the missing crucial component to steer gold’s rise or fall.
You spend more than you can afford for too long and pretty soon it’s out of your control. Then, lenders — sensing a train wreck — want more interest to protect themselves. And you can’t go on.
Stocks go up in the long run. But in the long run we are all dead. What happens in the medium term is what matters. And it’s very mixed.
It’s not likely to get better before it gets worse. Treasury bond yields bottomed in 2020. They’ve been going up since then and are now at levels last seen just before the GFC.
DOGE failed to make a dent in federal deficits. With the last conservative in Congress out of the way, what’s to keep the Big Man’s Big Government from its Big Spending rendezvous with a big blow up?
“How could we only get three calves from 30 cows” was the lead question.
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