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- Record Spending and Money-Printing Puts Markets in Uncharted Waters
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- June 18, 2020
Back in March, I predicted that the total U.S. economic response to the COVID-19 crisis would be at least $10 trillion.
- The Math Is on Investors' Side
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- June 15, 2020
Most baseball fans know that the New York Yankees is the winningest team in MLB history. Of the 18,426 games it’s played since 1901, it’s won 10,378, or about 57 percent of them.
- Why We're Overweighting Renewable Energy
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- June 11, 2020
It may not feel like it, but West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil just posted its best month on record. The American benchmark for crude soared more than 88 percent in May, from $18.84 per barrel to $35.50, as businesses cautiously began to reopen and people returned to work following the coronavirus lockdown.
- Airline Stocks Just Posted Their Best Week on Record
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- June 8, 2020
Warren Buffett “should have kept airline stocks because the airline stocks went through the roof today,” President Trump said. It’s a good thing that investors chose not to follow Buffett’s lead, as airline stocks are up 50% since his exit.
- Emerging Technologies to Drive Silver Demand
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- June 4, 2020
The price of silver soared in May, jumping more than 19 percent on safe haven demand as well as increased expectations of a swift economic recovery, given its many applications.
- Growth Is Crushing Value Right Now, but Remember to Take a Long-Term Horizon
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- May 27, 2020
Investors are betting on growth stocks over value stocks by a wider spread right now than at any other time since at least 1990, including during the tech bubble.
- You Can't Just Print More Gold
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- May 26, 2020
“I think there is a strong likelihood we will need another bill.”
That’s according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who supports additional fiscal stimulus to combat the economic impact of the novel coronavirus—within reason.
- Bitcoin Is "Right Where Oil Was in 1890"
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- May 18, 2020
Last week I was honored to participate in the first virtual Consensus cryptocurrency conference, hosted by CoinDesk. In years past, the annual gathering—attended by the world’s biggest crypto and blockchain companies, experts, entrepreneurs and investors—has been held in New York, but in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, everything was moved online.
- Electric Vehicle Sales Are Surging. Can Mineral Producers Meet Future Demand?
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- May 14, 2020
Elon Musk isn’t known for playing by the rules. The 48-year-old tech billionaire got himself into hot water with regulators a couple of years ago by tweeting that he was “considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” (At its 52-week high in February, the company’s stock traded at more than double that amount.)
- Gold Royalty Companies Report a Solid First Quarter on Higher Metal Prices
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- May 11, 2020
U.S. employers cut an unprecedented 20.5 million jobs in April, the most in history, while the unemployment rate rocketed up to 14.7 percent. As of last week, a head-spinning 33.5 million Americans, or one out of every five workers in the U.S. labor force, have lost their jobs as a result of coronavirus lockdown measures.
