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As goes January, so goes the year...This is a catchy market adage that means how the market ends in January typically predicts how the market will perform for the year. The January Barometer, as it’s called, has correctly predicted the S&P 500’s performance for the remainder of the year 75% of the time since 1945. That being said,, however, I don’t put much stock in market adages. Let me explain.

Gold and gold stocks sometimes offer wonderful trading opportunities and this is one such time. Here's what I mean:

Choosing the perfect car can feel like a maze, but don’t worry – we’ve navigated through the dizzying array of options to bring you the ultimate guide to the best cars of 2024. Here are a few things we considered:

Specialty microprocessors that enabled AI were In just 3% of all smartphones in 2017 but by 2020 more than 33% of the world’s 3 billion smartphones were equipped with processors conducting trillions of operations quickly and with less power - and AI is poised to play an even greater role in our smartphones in 2024 and beyond.

One of the 5 main purposes of the meeting in Davos is to discern and implement new ways to convince the public that giving a perpetual and eternal supply of money to the largest employers in the world - governments, the banking industry and the defense industry - is the path to financial salvation.

Gold investors are becoming ‘roadkill’ as our current economic structure completes its metamorphosis from a capitalist system within a democratic government into an ‘idiotocracy’.

How long before interest payments on the debt exceeds revenues? An cross-the-board ‘Debt Jubilee’, however, from an historical perspective shows that retiring debt can actually make a country’s economy, and its indebted citizenry, all the better for it.

BDI is a “leading economic indicator” in that it measures the transportation cost of raw materials used for production of finished goods. Therefore, it is an important input in predicting short-term economic activity.

The Baltic Dry Index is, in my opinion, the best leading economic indicator to follow when the media is telling us the economy is looking great one week and then predicting a double dip recession the next. Let me explain. Words: 933

Going over the debt ceiling would mean the US government legally can’t pay its bills and would default on the national debt. This would be catastrophic in ways that would make Lehman Bros look like a walk in the park.