Graham Summers
Graham Summers is Chief Market Strategist for Phoenix Capital Research, an independent investment research firm based in the Washington DC-metro area with clients in 56 countries around the world.
Graham’s clients include over 20,000 retail investors as well as strategists at some of the largest financial institutions in the world (Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, and Raymond James to name a few). His views on business and investing has been featured in RollingStone magazine, The New York Post, CNN Money, Crain’s New York Business, the National Review, Thomson Reuters, the Glenn Beck Show and more.
Graham Summers Articles
For over 30 years, sovereign nations, particularly in the West have been buying votes by offering social payments in the form of welfare, Medicare, social security, and the like. When actual bills came due to fund this stuff, Governments...
The US Dollar rally, combined with the ECB’s policies are at risk of blowing up a $9 trillion carry trade. When the Fed cut interest rates to zero in 2008, it flooded the system with US Dollars. The US Dollar is the reserve currency of the...
The biggest question for investors today is that whether or not rates will rise in 2015. The Fed may raise rates a token amount this year, but the move will be largely symbolic. With over $100 trillion in bonds and over $555 TRILLION in...
The financial world focuses far too much on stocks. The stock market, despite being at record highs (meaning record market capitalizations) remains one of the smallest, and least sophisticated markets on the planet.
A strange shift has taken place amongst the global Central Banks… though no one in the mainstream media has noticed it. That shift has been from “growth” to “inflation.”
Anyone with even a cursory understanding of human nature knows that if you give someone virtually unlimited power with next to no oversight, they will quickly become despotic. Consider what is currently happening in Japan.
We’ve now seen the last day for a Fed POMO. If you’re unfamiliar with this term, it stands for Permanent Open Market Operation. This is the mechanism through which the Fed pumps money from QE into the financial system. It’s also the single...
When the Financial Crisis hit from 2007-2008, the Fed implemented a series of emergency strategies to deal with this. Those strategies fall under numerous technical terms, but at their most basic, they consisted of cutting interest rates...
I have both good news and bad news for Gold bugs. The bad news is that the US Dollar is rallying hard. In fact it just broke out of a multi-year wedge pattern. This is extremely bullish for the US Dollar… which will prove bearish for...
Stocks bounced earlier today because a NON-VOTING member of the Fed, James Bullard said that the Fed cannot “abide” the drop in inflation expectations. Setting aside the fact that Bullard DOESN’T VOTE with the Fed and so has no REAL SAY in...
