- US CPI shows biggest inflation gain since 1982 with 7% increase year-over-year

- US Federal Budget Deficit for December hits $21.3 Billion

- Crude oil hots $83 per barrel as CRB commodity index nears all-time highs

- Jerome Powell is questioned about real negative interest rates in Senate Confirmation Hearing

- New York legalizes sports betting, leading to marketing frenzy for online gambling stocks

- Rivian Chief Operating Officer leaves company after 1 year in the midst of manufacturing/logistics ramp-up

- Emerging Markets out-perform US in first two trading weeks of the year

- Potential buying opportunity emerges for China tech stocks

- Speculative growth stocks continue 2021 Q4 sell-off into the first trading week of 2022 as value stocks continue to rise

- US posts $80.2B trade deficit for December

- December Non-Farm Payroll has huge miss adding only 199,000 jobs vs. 426,000 expected

- Consumer Credit increases by $40B month-over-month vs. only $19.9B expected

- December FOMC Minutes releases hawkish Fed comments which spook all major US Indices

- Bitcoin continues its fall from grace despite 50% of all Bitcoin buyers coming in last 12 months, bigger hands continue to cash out

- The US bond market is headed for a deep, long-term bear market with systemic risk looming for the US economy

- US stock market averages outperform all emerging markets economies including Asia, Europe, UK, Switzerland & Singapore

- Home prices increase 19% Y-o-Y with the inflation rate climbing

- Dollar Index increased 6.5% in 2021

- Interest on the National Debt will cost $1.59 Trillion if interest rates on bonds rise above inflation rate of 7% in 2022

- My stock picks for 2022

- My short stock picks for 2022

- Matt Damon commercials may mark the Bitcoin top

- Berkshire Hathaway hitting new highs and Ark Innovation Fund hitting new lows show that 2022 will have an investor rotation from growth to value stocks

- US has same real interest rates as Turkey, a country currently experiencing a currency crisis

- 2022 may be the year the US dollar dies

- Producer prices rise well above expectations for 2021 

- Retail sales drop sharply for the month showing consumers are behaving in an inflationary mindset

- Powell was much more dovish in his press conference than anticipated

- USD falls against the Euro and British Pound as Bank of England raises rates and ECB raises guidance for raising rates

- Almost $10 Trillion of the US national debt is financed by T-Bills and matures next year

- Buy-Now Pay-Later Stocks get crushed on the month as investors re-evaluate credit analysis

- Risk off assets are being bought by investors as risk assets are being sold in the growth vs. value rotation heading into 2022

- What classifies an investment 

- What classifies speculation

- Perfect & imperfect markets

- Capital appreciation & growth vs. value investing

- Building blocks of an investment portfolio

- Even though inflation for the year is high, the USD is up 6.6% YTD in currency markets

- Price comparisons from 1922 and today

The Implosion of Peloton, Zillow, and Beyond Meat: A Warning to All Online Gambling, EV, FinTech, and Crypto Investors

CPI rises by .9% showing inflation is becoming a severe problem

Hourly wages rise by less than half of the CPI in the same month, meaning real wages declined by more than 50% in October

The markets are finally starting to recognize that the Fed can’t stop inflation

There are only 2 possible outcomes for growth stocks in the next year

Zillow, Peloton and Beyond Meat stock implode

Rivian goes public with a $100 Billion valuation, making it more valuable than Ford and GM with no market share and a burn rate of $4 Billion per year

- Tesla business valuation increases by $125 Billion on the news that Hertz has a contract worth $4.2 Billion to purchase 100,000 vehicles

- WeWork’s business model doesn’t work

- Bitcoin Drops on ‘Buy the Rumor, Sell the Fact’ ETF trade

- Digital World Acquisition Company’s deal with Trump Media

- Robinhood posts Q3 loss of $1.32 billion, lowers guidance for Q4 revenues

- How the US economy got here

- My case for $10,000 gold

- NFP misses private sector job expectations with 194K increase v. 490K expected

- Average hourly earnings are rising much slower than the CPI

- Oil prices continue to skyrocket which will continue to increase inflation

- Yellen is wrong, US Treasuries are worthless and not investable

- Bitcoin is the same type of store of value as Bernie Madoff's hedge fund

- Cathie Wood looks smart because she is participating in a bubble

- We will not have a decade of deflation and economic expansion, but rather a lost decade of inflation and depression

- Goods and services purchased by consumers continuing to rise in price

- Consumer spending is not increasing because people are buying more stuff, but because they are buying the same amount stuff for more money

- Construction spending continues to slow

- Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell give conflicting interest rate testimony side-by-side in the same hearing

- New $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Bill to Cost 'Zero Dollars'

- Auto Loan Bubble Will Burst at Exact Wrong Time for Many Auto Makers

- The Student Debt Loan Forgiveness is Inflationary

- Chinese Markets Open for the First Time After Evergrande Default Exposure as Fear Sets in in All Stock Markets Globally

- China's Economy May Suffer On Bigger Scale from this Likely Default

- The S&P Dropped 57% in Aftermath of 2008 Housing Crisis

- Evergrande Will be the Next Excuse for the Fed to be Dovish in Tomorrow's FOMC Minutes

- Investing in a Bubble is Always a Losing Proposition

- The United States Economy is Living on Borrowed Time