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MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING APRIL 14, 2025
April 11, 2025
REVIEW US President Trump’s retreat from trade taxes took less than 24 hours. However, taxes on imports from China increased, and the universal 10% import tax stays in place….The big lessons from this: policy remains very (very) erratic; policy competence will be questioned by markets—chaotic confusion about the tariffs on...
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April 4, 2025
NOTE: MMA analyst Wyatt Fellows is the author of this week’s free weekly column. Wyatt is the editor of the monthly MMA Cycles Grain report, which was issued this week and covers Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans. He is also the lead MMA analyst, along with Ray Merriman, for the MMA...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 31, 2025
March 28, 2025
NOTE: This week’s free weekly column will be written by MMA Analyst Pouyan Zolfagharnia. Pouyan is the editor of the MMA Monthly Cycles Report Plus+, which will be issued this week and covers Gold, Silver, NASDAQ, and Crude Oil. Ray will return to write next week’s column on April 4....
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 24, 2025
March 21, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon NOTE: Ray has a presentation for the Astrology University Summit tomorrow, so MMA Market Analyst Gianni Di Poce will be writing this week’s column. Gianni is also the author of the newly published book titled “Esoteric Economics.” Highly recommended! Gianni can be reached at gianni@mmacycles.com. Next...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 17, 2025
March 14, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW Consumer sentiment took another hit in March as worries intensified over inflation and a slumping stock market, according to the University of Michigan’s latest sentiment survey released Friday. The survey posted a mid-month reading of 57.9, which represents a 10.5% decline from February and...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 10, 2025
March 7, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon NOTE: There will be no weekly column this week due to the “Convergence 2025” Conference in Orlando, Florida, in which several MMA analysts will be featured. Therefore, we are sharing a reprint of the back section of Forecast 2025, the Winter Ingress (December 21, 2024 through March...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 3, 2025
February 28, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube NOTE: There will be no weekly column next week due to the “Convergence 2025” conference taking place in Orlando, Florida. Most of our analysts will be attending. However, we will reprint a section of the Forecast 2025 book that is very pertinent to what is...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 24, 2025
February 21, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW The Constitution assigns power of the purse to Congress. But in his early actions and words, President Trump is taking more of that power for himself…. [The] U.S. Constitution says, “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 17, 2025
February 14, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube NOTE 1: This week, we welcome MMA market analyst Wyatt Fellows as our guest writer while Ray prepares for Sunday’s annual Forecast 2025 Market Webinar. Wyatt is currently MMA’s market analyst for the weekly and monthly Gold and Soybeans reports. He is also the editor...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 10, 2025
February 7, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW The U.S. economy added 143,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate edged down to 4%….. The gain in jobs marked a drop from November and December and was less than the 169,000 jobs that economists had expected for January, according to a Wall...
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