by Gary Gordon | Apr 14, 2022
Higher borrowing costs are already slamming the brakes on real estate. For example, a few months ago, one might be able to get a 30-year mortgage at 3%. That mortgage has catapulted all the way up to 5%. The difference between borrowing $500,000 at 3% and borrowing it...
by Gary Gordon | Apr 6, 2022
Rising interest rates? Check. Geopolitical tensions? Check? Inverted yield curve? Check. According to the research firm, CFRA, these factors alone are highly likely to be accompanied by a stock bear. When a recession has developed within 12 months of these items,...
by Gary Gordon | Mar 24, 2022
The 2022 stock bubble is well-documented. Yet, what about the present-day real estate balloon? For instance, home prices are bounds and leaps beyond anything seen in the mid-2000s insanity. To make sense of the true dollars, however, one has to adjust for inflation....
by Gary Gordon | Mar 16, 2022
The Federal Reserve added $5 trillion to its balance sheet to battle the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s a whole lot of digital money creation in a matter of months. In actuality, the Fed started to print money digitally to manage the fallout from 2008’s...
by Gary Gordon | Mar 9, 2022
The Dow and the S&P 500 have only closed in correction territory. Specifically, the mainstream indexes have only experienced top-to-bottom price declines of 10%-13%. Underneath the surface, one half of S&P 500 components (250 companies) have plummeted more...
by Gary Gordon | Mar 2, 2022
The percentage of stocks in the S&P 500 that are in a technical uptrend? 40%. In other words, the majority of stocks are trending downward. Ditto for the Nasdaq Composite. The percentage of stocks in an uptrend is a paltry 35%. Equally telling, the market’s...
