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MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING DECEMBER 2, 2024
November 29, 2024
PLEASE NOTE: There will not be a weekly column next week due to planning for the December 8 MMA Special Options Webinar with Derek Panaia and Raymond Merriman. We look forward to seeing many of you then as we discuss market timing setups (possible primary cycles or secondary retracements) and...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 25, 2024
November 22, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW Republicans are feeling a lot perkier about the economy now that Donald Trump is on his way to the White House. Democrats, less so. The index of consumer sentiment in Republican households climbed more than 15 points in November, according to data released Friday by...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 18, 2024
November 15, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW Stocks tumbled on Friday as the postelection rally fizzled and investors fretted over the path of interest rates… October retail sales data on Friday showed a 0.4% increase, slightly better than the 0.3% forecast from economists polled by Dow Jones…. Traders also grappled with...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 11, 2024
November 8, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW This year I felt people would be choosing a path, not a person. And I’m not sure they want to go down the Blue Path any deeper than they already have. I think that’s what happened. Tens of millions of people who didn’t like...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING NOVEMBER 4, 2024
November 1, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW The U.S. economy continued its recent strong stretch this summer…. Gross domestic product increased at a 2.8% annual rate in the third quarter, adjusted for seasonality and inflation, the Commerce Department said Wednesday…. That was a slight slowdown from the second quarter’s 3% rate...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 28, 2024
October 25, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW Political bias will also distort the [economic] data—Republicans think they are living in Weimar Germany, Democrats think inflation is under control. — Dr. Paul Donovan, “A Lesson in Why Data Are Not Dependable,” UBS Morning Comment, October 25, 2024.
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 14, 2024
October 18, 2024
REVIEW Inflation rates are falling and the global economy is on track for a soft landing, but the outlook for growth is tepid and rising trade barriers are a headwind, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday. —Paul Hannon, “IMF Sees Soft Landing for Global Economy, But Weak...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 14, 2024
October 11, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review Due to Saturday’s webinar on the U.S. Presidential Election, there will be no free weekly column this week. Instead, we will reprint a chapter from the Forecast 2023 Book relating to Saturn entering Pisces at that time. These very principles will climax in 2025...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 7, 2024-Revised
October 5, 2024
Revised and see the highlighted section below: The fixed stars of Caput and Algol are at 24-26 Taurus. Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review Employers added 254,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That was significantly more than the 150,000 economists expected, and marked the largest monthly increase...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 7, 2024
October 4, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review Employers added 254,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That was significantly more than the 150,000 economists expected, and marked the largest monthly increase since March. The unemployment rate slipped to 4.1%. Friday’s bumper payrolls report is likely to close the door...
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