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The Golden Age?
Calling 2025 a “good year” for gold would be a considerable understatement. It was more a full‑blown victory parade. Up more than 60% year over year, cracking fifty all‑time new highs in the process, gold is more expensive (inflation‑adjusted) than at almost any...
Money Talks We Listen: December 2025 PARTS 1 & 2
Richard and Brian dive into Canadian Energy and what it means for investors today. They explore how oil, gas, and energy infrastructure are shaping market returns and in the follow-up episode, explore what’s driving sector rotation, how macroeconomic forces influence leadership shifts, and what these moves may be telling us about the market’s next phase.
A.I. Bubble?
In November, U.S. hyper-scalers saw their stocks sell off despite posting earnings that exceeded expectations. The downturn was largely attributed to investor unease over the massive capital outlays tied to A.I. data center expansion. Analysts are now asking the...
PILOT – Money Talks We Listen
Step behind the headlines as Richard and Brian act like referees in the financial arena—calling offsides, issuing penalties, and keeping the game fair. With no bias toward good or bad, every discussion is grounded in the clearest signal available: the movement of money. By following where dollars actually flow, they cut through noise and opinion to deliver fact-based insights, helping listeners understand the real forces shaping investment decisions and the markets.
The Epstein Deflection
MID 2025 OUTLOOK Cue the music as we pay homage to the Eagle’s classic Hotel California. Where the ‘dark desert highway’ leads to a shimmering light cascading on an economic labyrinth that could be heaven or hell! Enter the Tiffany-twisted consumer and her pretty,...
Why So Sad?
Trying to make investment decisions while operating in a vacuous state is like trying to win at poker with a deck that keeps reshuffling itself mid-hand. A stray comment from a central banker, a vague tweet from a billionaire President, haphazard tariff headlines...
Potomac Fever
The forecasting business is premised on the position that “what-was-will-continue-to-be!” Within that framework, economists review historical precedents and assign probabilities to potential outcomes. The idea that predicting macro-economic outcomes is more art...
Trumpcession
Trumpcession? As we listen to President Trump’s tariff “jibber jabber” (the classic line from the hit show Boston Legal), we bear witness to a masterful example of speaking much and saying little! Think of the noise as an unscripted comedy that is all about...
