Q:  What is your view of gold prices?

1.Gold prices typically perform well when nominal interest rates fall. Gold does not pay interest. So it becomes relatively less attractive as rates rise and more attractive as rates fall.

Q: To what extent is the US going to have a housing market crash in 2023 that will be far bigger than the 2008 crash? 

A: A housing market crash in 2023 akin to that of 2008 is unlikely:

Q:  Why does the dollar go down when the stock market goes up and vice versa? Is it just a coincidence or is there a reason?

Question: What digital products and services will be in demand during a recession?

Answer: In a recession, businesses and consumers have less money. So they do without what they don’t need to survive.

Question: How has COVID-19 affected the investment environment?   

Question: If money is just an exchange medium, why is an financial crisis so catastrophic for most industries when almost all goods and services can technically still be produced/provided without the existence of money?

Answer: 

You are referring to barter.

After two years of 40% expansion under Quantitative Easing, money supply started to decline in March when the Fed halted QE and implemented the first of a series of hikes in the overnight rate.

In this op-ed submission, I argue that a cessation of growth in the broad money supply, achieved by a reduction in QE combined with a reduction in deficit spending, is adequate in and of itself to bring in

Investors groping for a bottom to the current bear market in stocks are searching in all the wrong places.  Some are obsessing over the Federal Reserve's overnight rate policy.  Some are perusing company results.  Some are worrying over a potential recession.  Still others are watching technical indicators to signal a washout bottom.  But these are not the best tree

In "The Semiconductor Shortage (WSJ 3/13/21)," your editorial staff understates the problem of the American semiconductor supply chain.  Aside from the Intel microprocessor, which has fallen a generation or more behind Taiwan-sourced AMD, not a single logic chip is made in America any more.  They are designed here but manufactured at TSMC in Taiwan.  This is an exi