The Fed cuts and keeps markets guessing.

Silver hits a record – up 100% this year.

Looking at frameworks and fake transparency.

And our guest – Ed Easterling, Founder and President of Crestmont Research

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Ed Easterling is the founder and President of Crestmont Holdings, an Oregon-based investment management and research firm that publishes provocative research on the financial markets at www.CrestmontResearch.com. He has over thirty years of alternative investment experience, including financial markets, private equity, and business operations.

Mr. Easterling is the author of recently-released Probable Outcomes: Secular Stock Market Insights and Unexpected Returns: Understanding Secular Stock Market Cycles (Cypress House; 2005). In addition, he is contributing author to Just One Thing (John Wiley & Sons; 2005) and co-author of chapters in Bull‘s Eye Investing by John Mauldin. Mr. Easterling is a Senior Fellow and a Board Member at the Alternative Asset Management Center at SMU‘s Cox School of Business in Dallas, and previously served as a member of the adjunct faculty teaching the course on alternative investments and hedge funds for MBA students. Mr. Easterling holds a BBA in business, a BA in psychology, and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

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Stocks mentioned in this episode: (SPY), (QQQ), (NVDA), (IBM)

Quick flip and pivot – Fed in focus.

Stagflation alert – inflation remains sticky.

Unemployment – ADP show massive losses in one category.

Looking into the Prediction Markets with our guest, Andrew Wilkinson – Director of Trading Education at Interactive Brokers.

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Andrew Wilkinson, Director of Trading Education at Interactive Brokers.

Andrew joined Interactive Brokers in 2007 with a background in interest rate and derivative trading in the city of London during the 1990s.

Andrew joined IBKR to create market commentary about stocks, options, forex and bonds for the website before helping create the IBKR Campus, which covers Traders’ Insight, Traders’ Academy, webinars, podcasts and a variety of other financial training for investors of all levels. Andrew has an MBA from Rollins College FL.

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Stocks mentioned in this episode: (BTCUSD), (DIA), (SPY)

Tax Relief Boosts Corporate Earnings

S&P 500 Financial Performance Analysis

Share Buybacks and Market Indices

Guest, Howard Silverblatt – Senior Industry Analyst, Index Investment Strategy, for S&P Dow Jones Indices

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Howard Silverblatt (@hsilverb) is Senior Industry Analyst, Index Investment Strategy, for S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). In addition to general market research and commentary, Howard is responsible for the statistical analysis of S&P DJI’s family of U.S. Indices, including the world’s most followed stock market index, the S&P 500®.

Howard has been with Standard & Poor’s since 1977, and has held various analytic, business development, and product positions. He joined S&P Indices in 1983 as an editor, and has since received numerous corporate and industry awards, most notably for his work on the creation and development of Standard & Poor’s core earnings and Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®). Howard is widely quoted in top tier news publications around the world, providing in-depth analysis and information on a myriad of topics impacting the investment industry.

Howard graduated with a B.S. in Business Management from Syracuse University.

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Stocks mentioned in this episode: (NVDA), (DELL), (BTCUSD)