April 8, 2022 By Steve Blumenthal “Financial conditions need to tighten. If this doesn’t happen on its own (which seems unlikely), the Fed will have to shock markets to achieve the desired response. This would mean hiking the federal funds rate considerably higher than currently anticipated. One [...]Read More >

April 1, 2022 By Steve Blumenthal “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan Stepping [...]Read More >

March 25, 2022 By Steve Blumenthal “I love Hot Fudge Sundaes; I could die for Hot Fudge Sundaes.” - Bob Farrell Since 1972, Institutional Investor has added more than 15,000 names to its All-America Research Team, which ranks the best research analysts in America. In 2011, they published the [...]Read More >

March 18, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal "Now it's 2022 and another strange recession looms. That's right, I'm calling it: Recession is here, or will be soon. And unfortunately, it will be a global recession. Like the COVID recession, this one has little to do with the business cycle. It's a recession [...]Read More >

March 11, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal “History has shown that we shouldn’t rely on governments to protect us financially. On the contrary, we should expect most governments to abuse their privileged positions as the creators and users of money and credit for the same reasons that you might commit [...]Read More >

March 4, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal A short helicopter ride from Golden, British Columbia (an hour and a half northeast of Banff) to a tiny resort called Chatter Creek began four days of deep snow powder skiing. The vastness of the mountain range was like nothing I'd ever seen. Day one was a blue [...]Read More >

February 25, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal A very brief OMR post this week. Good friend Jonathan D.T. Ward, author of China's Vision of Victory, was in the press this morning, and I thought I'd share the interview with you. With the Ukraine-Russia conflict in mind and the recovery rally in equities [...]Read More >

February 18, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal "Where the money and credit flow is important to determining what happens. For example, when they no longer go into lending that fuels increases in economic demand and instead go into other currencies and inflation-hedge assets, they fail to stimulate economic [...]Read More >

February 11, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal "In the end, there is always inflation." - Ray Dalio, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates, LP The hottest inflation news in 40 years hit the wires this week. The January Consumer Price Index report showed the most significant [...]Read More >

February 4, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal Pause the story of hope for just a minute as I do my best to set the stage.  Jeremy Grantham is calling our current state a "Super Bubble." If you missed it, last week's On My Radar was titled "Three Sigma – Three Events in the Last 100 Years (Until Now)." [...]Read More >

January 28, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal “A two sigma is the kind of deviation that should occur every 44 years. Because we're a little wilder and less efficient than we should be, it happens every 35 years. Every 35 years feels about right… one event in a career and twice in a lifetime. Three [...]Read More >

January 21, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal “I don’t think the Federal Reserve and this leadership has the stamina to act decisively. In order to turn the market around to a more non-inflationary attitude, you have to shock the market. You can’t raise interest rates bit by bit.” - Dr. Henry [...]Read More >

January 14, 2022 By Steve Blumenthal “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” – Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006), American [...]Read More >

January 7, 2022 By Steve Blumenthal “An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures and are not afraid to fail again.” – Harvey McKay, seven-time New York Times best-selling author of "Swim With The Sharks [...]Read More >

December 31, 2021 By Steve Blumenthal “In my view, modern monetary theory ("MMT") has been tried, tested, and failed.” - Dr. Lacy Hunt, Executive Vice President, Hoisington Investment Management Company Let me begin by wishing you a Happy New Year. Today, I share an outstanding discussion. Camp [...]Read More >