Rick Ackerman
Articles by Rick Ackerman
These weekly commentaries have struggled to make sense of a world in geopolitical chaos but which is nonetheless transfixed by a financial melt-up that cannot end other than disastrously. Still more challenging is predicting the day-to-day...
Is there a tokenized investment in your future? With so many white elephants to unload, Wall Street’s rep could come calling on you at any time. He will offer you a virtual piece of America’s future, claiming it will grow wealth for your...
You can hardly blame Trump for playing up the stock market’s spectacular performance whenever anyone challenges the way he is conducting the war, or claims the jihadists are winning. Even in the editorial rooms of the New York Times...
Did you fade the Dow’s 1100-point rally on Tuesday, or the nearly 500-point follow-through the next day like I told you to? I’d written here a few weeks ago that shorting into strength these days offers the best odds bears have gotten in...
[Events in the Middle East have overshadowed my narrow economic critique of President Trump in the commentary below. His alliance with Israel to knock out global jihad’s command structure is likely to change the world in ways no one...
[The following commentary was written by Steve Houck. He is a longtime investor in bullion and knows the markets well. He is also a friend and former business partner. RA ]Looking at the froth in silver, it...
If you can’t guess what commodity the chart shows, you must be living on Mars. It is in fact a long-term picture of silver, which went ballistic in December. The price has doubled since, blowing out a $50 top that had stood since...
The speculative frenzy in silver has provided welcome relief from AI claptrap, but will it last? There are a hundred theories about why silver has come exuberantly to life after lagging gold for so long. I’ve been puzzled...
The stock market is priced for perfection in a grotesquely imperfect world. Trump provided a fleeting respite by showing us how the Art of the Deal works in trade negotiations. Fox News rightly rubbed the legacy media’s face in his success...
The internet has evolved into the perfect medium for spreading crime into every household and every age group, and now Bitcoin is fast becoming the perfect medium for pushing a more violent kind of crime out into the streets. There was a...
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