John Ing
John Ing Articles
The sun rose the next day. The end of the world did not arrive on Trump’s electoral triumph. The Trump trade actually worked. Why did mainstream media, pollsters and some normally savvy investors get it so wrong? Maybe America is not as...
The warning signs for $10,000 gold are hiding in plain sight. Inflation is down, the job market is cooling but not imploding, helped by the jumbo rate cut and prospects of a return to easy money. While core inflation remains sticky, wage...
Happy days are here again. Fears that the largest economy in the world is entering a recession led to a brief global sell-off, which whipsawed the markets due to weakening US economic indicators. The fear of missing out (FOMO) crowd...
It is different this time. It must be, because the major economies led by America cannot continue to spiral on their downward path. The reality is lost on hope. Hope that markets will continue higher, hope that interest rates will go down...
Politics as usual, or is it? Government declares a highly profitable company undesirable on security grounds. The government then demands that the company be sold to a former government official that assembled a buyout group to purchase...
Devastating mudslides, damaged homes, and forced evacuations were triggered by storms in California. Hillsides that had been destroyed by fires and droughts and had no vegetation to absorb the rain were vulnerable to landslides and...
Happy days are here again as stock markets staged a Christmas rally declaring victory on winning the war on inflation, after Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s monetary pivot raised hopes that the Fed might cut rates by 0.75% in 2024. Falling...
Why does the world seem falling apart? Wars, pandemics, anti-semitism, polarization, and it goes on. What happened to civility? How did it come to this? To revive the world economy following the 2008 crisis, governments embarked on a...
In many ways investors should look to the past for lessons. The eighties, seventies or fifties? No, they should look to the “biblical past”. First came wars, followed by food shortages, then a pandemic, then fires and floods. What’s next?...
It has been a jittery few months for investors as an ill wind not Canadian wildfire smoke, US heatwaves, or flash floods swept through financial market here, there and everywhere. The failure of a “too-big-to-fail” global bank and a few US...
