VRA Weekly Update: Q3 is Here. Welcome to Best Day and Best Two Weeks of the Year.

VRA Weekly Update: Q3 is Here. Welcome to Best Day and Best Two Weeks of the Year.

Good Thursday morning all. Excellent day in the Dow Jones yesterday (+210…we love both the Dow and R2K charts here) but slow summer-like day elsewhere. ATH’s once again in S&P 500 and we’ve now had back-to-back-to-back days with ATH’s in the semis as SMH put up a bit of a furious rally…

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VRA Weekly Update: VP Debate. The Future of the United States. VRA Market Update.

VRA Weekly Update: VP Debate. The Future of the United States. VRA Market Update.

Good Thursday morning all. Last nights debate was everything an informed voter would want to see. Pence and Harris able to give semi-lengthy answers about their positions, without interruption. As we did with the Trump-Biden debate, lets see what the leading debate polls had to say:

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VRA Weekly Blog Update: Fed Rate Cut, Dishonest Presser. Global Markets, Economy Picking Up Speed.

VRA Weekly Blog Update: Fed Rate Cut, Dishonest Presser. Global Markets, Economy Picking Up Speed.

Good Thursday morning all. As expected, the FED cut rates by .25% to a range of 1.5% — 1.75%. For us, it’s increasingly hard to take Powell and his merry band of FED Governors seriously. On the one hand, they just told us that the rate cut was motivated (in part) by “negative global developments”…

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VRA Weekly Blog Update: Fed Meeting, is profit-taking on the way? AAII Investor Sentiment. The Gold, Silver Criminal Conspiracy.

VRA Weekly Blog Update: Fed Meeting, is profit-taking on the way? AAII Investor Sentiment. The Gold, Silver Criminal Conspiracy.

Fed Meeting, Powell Getting Better! 1/4 point rate cut and presser behind us. All pretty much as expected. Fed Chair Powell did ok. The trading action during and just after the Fed presser is typically sporadic and not always easy to trust. Here’s what we do know; the cut has now taken place.

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Get Ready for a September Melt Up. Thank You, Mr. Treasury Secretary. Stunning Sentiment Readings.

Get Ready for a September Melt Up. Thank You, Mr. Treasury Secretary. Stunning Sentiment Readings.

Roughly 3 hours after yesterdays (second) VRA Update, where we applied Occam’s razor and made our case that global bond markets are screaming at us “there’s not enough debt in the world…interest rates will keep plummeting until you issue more debt”, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced this:

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Energy is Building, We Must Be Long and Strong. My Thoughts on J Powell Testimony.

Energy is Building, We Must Be Long and Strong. My Thoughts on J Powell Testimony.

We are in the early innings of an economic boom. If you’ve been positive on the Trump economy these past 2.5 years you’ve no doubt been called every name in the book. My favorite is when permabear trolls call me a racist bigot Russian puppet…all because I am bullish on the US economy…

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