Continued improvement in the global economy helped propel Wall Street to rather impressive gains last year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) added 18.8% for the year, while the S&P 500 Index (SPX) vaulted some 23.5% higher. The Nasdaq Composite (COMP), however, put it...
Joseph Hargett
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October 28, 2012
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Oil prices staged a remarkable rally in 2009 on the back of a weak dollar and a nascent economic recovery. In 2010, it's likely that these same factors will combine with an increase in global energy demand to push oil prices back up over $100 a barrel. With stockpiles stil...
Jason Simpkins
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October 28, 2012
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The rich are getting richer, inequality is on the rise, and the middle class, the backbone of the US economy since the 1950s, is shrinking. In 2018 the three highest-paid chief executives in the United States earned more than the output of several countries. Tesla&Close...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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March 19, 2020
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I was born in the 1950s, a decade dominated by thousands of WWII servicemen marrying and starting families in the creation of the largest demographic in history, the "Baby Boom Generation." The 1950s saw Elvis Presley dominate the entertainment industry with ten #1 hits a...
Streetwise Reports
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April 22, 2020
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Money manager Adrian Day looks at business development companies. Business development companies (BDCs) have been hit particularly hard, on concerns that small businesses to which they lend will not be able to repay loans. That concern is legitimate. The sto...
Streetwise Reports
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March 25, 2020
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The Trump administration has just granted its Commerce Department sweeping powers to slap tariffs on countries it decides are manipulating their currencies to the detriment of the United States and its exporting companies. For some this will come as news; at AOTH, it is c...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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February 7, 2020
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In 1917, the United States created the federal debt limit (or ceiling) to make it easier to finance World War One, essentially allowing Congress to borrow money to pay for the war effort by issuing bonds. By 1939 with World War Two looming, Congress passed the first aggre...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 8, 2019
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Currently, commodity prices are the cheapest they've been in over 40 years compared to equity prices. US Equities have continued to rise over the past 7+ years due to a number of external processes. QE1, 2, 3, and Fed Debt Purchases Share Buy-Backs and creative credit faciliti...
Chris Vermeulen
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November 13, 2019
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“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings An engineer is trained through university and in the workforce to apply failure modes and...
Marin Katusa
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May 1, 2020
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Imagine, if you will, there was no coronavirus. No haz-mat suits, medical masks & gloves, no make-shift morgues. No terminally ill patients hooked up to ventilators, no horrible deaths without love ones close, no lockdowns, no social distancing, no deserted streets, no bailo...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 17, 2020
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