Category: Consumer

Bubble, Bubble, Housing Market Toil and Trouble: Spring-Summer 2024

Don’t expect ideal homes to flood the housing market this year, but due diligence might find a home that meets needs instead of wants.

The A.I. Freak Show Requires Your Obedience and Capital: Cellular Androids

A “woke bureaucratic blob” is complicit with on-device NPU AI Smartphone tech for zombie consumers to amplify a surveillance state and biometrics normalcy bias.

A.I.-Related Stocks are Bubbling the Nasdaq – Part 3: Safe-Haven Gold

Gold retains its safe-haven status vs. major stock indices unless you cherry-pick stocks to compare, rely on narratives, or ignore the big picture.

One Shock Shy of an Oil Price Spike – Technical Analysis

If there was no additional geopolitical risk on the horizon in 2024 the oil market and prices could remain stable, but that is unlikely.

The New Global Supply Chain Crisis Paradigm

No indication that Israel’s war ends anytime soon and any impact on U.S. consumers will likely surface late spring or early summer of 2024.