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With interest rates moving higher, it has pushed the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to 4.67 percent. A level not seen…

Another busy week in the markets and on the geopolitical front. The Federal Reserve finally raised the Federal Funds Rate…

In physics, for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. In economics and geopolitics, for every action there…

The FAO Food Price Index report for February 2022 was recently released and it has hit a new all-time high.…

Global markets continue to be rattled by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. However, this is the easy scapegoat…

President Biden gave his first State of the Union address this evening and it was uninspiring. This nation is going…

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Just when you thought two weeks to end the spread was…

Tame inflation or keep the markets up – what to do, what to do? This is the position the Federal…

I step aside for a few months and all hell breaks loose – exactly how I told you it would.…

With initial jobless claims edging higher week-over-week to come in at 351,000 for the week ending 18 September, to major…