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- All major market averages finish the week down substantially on higher inflation data, S&P 500 down 10 of last 11 weeks

- May CPI data shows prices increased in May by 1.0%, with prices having increased 8.6% year-over-year

- Gold has strong positive reaction to inflation data as the 'peak inflation' thoughts are struck down

- The Atlanta Fed drops its Q2 GDP forecast to just 0.9% as the Fed continues to add debt assets to their balance sheet

- 78% of major corporate CEOs now forecasting/preparing for recession

- Why dollar-cost averaging does not work for buying single stocks

- The S&P 500 will do very poorly in the months ahead as it is comprised of 55% tech and financial stocks

- Jamie Dimon walks back his comments last week by stating US economy is headed for severe recession

- Honda May US Auto Sales Decline by 57% 

- Auto debt in US totals $1.46 Trillion, with the average car payment over $600 per month and the average loan length being just under 6 years

- Costco's earnings call last week shows consumers are suffering from inflation and spending too much of their disposable income on essentials

- Higher interest rates will bring down demand dramatically but will not cure inflation

- Shorting long-term US Treasuries here provides a great risk/reward opportunity for traders

- S&P 500 officially in a bear market

- Target misses earnings with higher input costs and lower consumer spending on high margin goods

- Consumers ae running out of disposable income for discretionary spending

- A weakening consumer is signaling recession, which is now going to have to be priced into stocks

- Lower corporate profits now will lead to layoffs and higher unemployment in the coming months

- Bonds are un-investable for anyone due to inflation

- Nobody under 50 should ever own bonds because they do not have the compounding interest effect stocks do

- Major US Retailers are showing weakness as the US economy is showing signs of recession

- Currency exchange rates effect stock prices due to added risk for international investors

- Bonds are un-investable in an inflation environment

- Younger investors should focus on buying stocks to benefit from compound interest

- The financial fraud cycle always follows bull markets with a lag

- CPI date shows 8.3% year-over-year increase in consumer prices

- Consumer debt sees record acceleration to $52.4B, $30B of which is credit card debt

- The Fed has raised interest rates enough to clobber the stock market, but nowhere near high enough to decrease demand

- All of the story stocks from last year are down 40-70%, yet people continue to throw good money after bad in buying the dips

- ARKK has seen 3 straight weeks of net inflows despite being down 75% from its highs. 

- The Coinbase IPO marked the top for the crypto markets, the Rivian IPO marked the top for the EV stocks

- The Fed raised interest rates to 0.75% and the markets are getting crushed

- Bonds and stocks are down big after a tiny interest rate increase

- If the Fed really got serious on fighting inflation, stocks would crash 

- NASDAQ has worst month since November 2008

- US stocks are off to worst 4-month start for a year since 1939

- The Federal Reserve gets set for its FOMC meeting Wednesday as Powell faces his toughest press conference yet

- The Fed has been saying they can raise interest rates due to a strong US economy, negative GDP numbers throw their thesis for a loop

- Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting kicks off, Buffet makes bullish long-term bets on oil with stakes in $OXY & $CVX

- Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme that is running out of momentum

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- Tesla Earnings were only good because they continue to fluff the numbers in their accounting

- Tesla is a stock priced for perfection, will likely not meet growth expectations due to increased competition

- Passive Investing has caused for bubble stock valuations and a lack of investment in value stocks and commodities

- Commodities across the board have sustained supply shortages due to investors misallocating capital in 2010s decade

- GDP is a poor tool for measuring an economy's growth

- Retail Sales data from last week show inflation is burdening Americans as they spend more money to buy less goods

- Import prices show 2.6% increase year-over-year, 31.2% annualized increase 

- Import prices are much more representative of US inflation rate than the Consumer Price Index

- Twitter is a mostly irrelevant platform and the company has a terrible business model

- Cathie Wood's price target of $5800 for Tesla by 2026 is her most ridiculous call yet

- Investors will demand much higher rates of interest to buy bonds, causing trouble for growth stocks, which make up most of Americans' stock portfolios

- March CPI rises 1.2% Y-o-Y showing an annualized inflation rate of 14.4% 

- March producer prices jump 1.4% Y-o-Y as businesses continue to see extreme cost pressures 

- As inflation continues to run out of control real wages are decreases and middle-class Americans are struggling to make ends meet 

- Cyclical businesses dependent on consumer spending will suffer in the future due to a weak US consumer 

- Bond yields make no sense considering the current US inflation rate, inflation no where near a top 

- Bitcoin has been the worst inflation hedge over the past year