The U.S. stock market's critical role in backstopping the Treasury market through its impact on capital gains tax receipts. Extreme market concentration in the Mag Seven tech companies and their high ...

Well, exactly right. What happened? Well, nothing happened. And you know, I've been very concerned about the debt for a long time. But now the shutdown made me, you know, prompted me to say, look, the ...

Well, Jim, the main thesis of our book comes down to hard assets versus financial assets. Financial assets are just paper certificates—bonds and stocks—but most stocks and most bonds are just paper ...

The world is in the midst of an energy transformation, and nowhere is this more apparent—or more urgent—than in the nuclear and uranium markets. In a recent conversation with Financial Sense Newshour, ...

October 17, 2025 – With equity markets brushing new highs but warning signs flashing in credit spreads, how should discerning investors position themselves? In this episode of the Financial Sense ...

I have something that I created a long time ago called the Economic Modern Family. Those characters exist in my mind as human beings, which is how I can actually humanize the whole market. What makes ...

Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He has ...

Yeah, Jim. Hey, and it’s great to be back. Thanks, man. Listen, I think what we’re seeing this summer is a—it’s not an exact carbon copy—but very close to what we saw in the summer of 2021, which was ...

The S&P 500 is consolidating below resistance at 6100, setting up for a potential breakout toward 6600 by year-end, according to Craig Johnson, Chief Market Strategist at Piper Sandler. The “Mag 7” ...

January 10, 2025 – What are the big forecasts being made for the US stock market and economy in 2025? In today's Big Picture segment of the Financial Sense Newshour, Jim Puplava and Cris Sheridan look ...

We may be at the start of a new multi-decade commodity super cycle, driven by global economic recovery, large-scale fiscal stimulus, US industrial policy and great power competition with China, the ...

Rumors are swirling that India and Iran are at the negotiating table right now, hammering out a deal to trade oil for gold. Why does that matter, you ask? Only because it strikes at the heart of both ...