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Freedom Financial Archive | Originally posted Sep 07, 2022 The US Dollar: From Almighty to All-Powerful! The U.S. Dollar is driving higher. And given the underlying macro horror story, it’s unlikely to stop anytime soon. Whenever the dollar makes a run, it usually spells a lot of problems for the rest of the world. That’s […]

Freedom Financial Archive | Originally posted Aug 29, 2022 Market volatility will remain as global uncertainty about food, war, and central bank tightening is happening at this point. Bond volatility has reached levels not seen since 2020, and before that, we have to go back to 2009. The Federal Reserve has been laser-focused on “controlling”

Freedom Financial Archive | Originally posted July 31, 2022 Chinese data came in about as bad as could’ve been expected, given a country-wide lockdown and the current zero-COVID policy. The problem is this: if this is the “official” data, how bad are the actual numbers? The manufacturing data showed steep contraction as it became near

Freedom Financial Archive | Originally posted July 31, 2022 Energy: Oil and Gas Energy is the cornerstone of the global supply chain. Whether or not we admit it is a vastly different story. Natural gas prices have moved to a record during the “Shale Revolution,” just now taking out the 2007 highs. It’s important to

Freedom Financial Archive | Originally posted May 19, 2022 As Abraham Maslow so eloquently noted, physiological needs like food, shelter, water, and rest are the first step of survival. It logically follows that economic expansion can’t begin until people not only have enough to live, eat, drink, and rest, but also create enough excess to

Freedom Financial Archive | Originally posted Dec 01, 2022 Dear Reader, You may have heard of the tight supplies of diesel across many areas of the U.S. It’s all over the news. And it’s likely to remain in the headlines for months. The Biden administration promises action to fight high prices for gas and diesel.