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MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 27, 2025
October 24, 2025
REVIEW President Donald Trump announced he’s ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated the facts and was aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions. The post on Trump’s social media site came Thursday night after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 20, 2025
October 17, 2025
REVIEW The technical and fundamental picture remains strong for Silver, which could even record a new ATH at 53.06 +/- 5.27 within 3 months of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction on February 20, 2026, before a sharp sell-off. —Pouyan Zolfagharnia, “Silver Market in 2025,” The Forecast 2025 Book, written in November 2024,...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 13, 2025
October 10, 2025
REVIEW U.S. stocks tumbled Friday after President Trump posted on Truth Social that he may cancel a planned meeting with China’s president and is considering “a massive increase in tariffs” on Chinese products. The selloff was steep enough to wipe out weekly gains by the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING OCTOBER 6, 2025
October 3, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW “Today is U.S. employment report Friday—except it is not, because of the impenetrable fog of the U.S. government shutdown. As low fear of unemployment is a crucial line of defense keeping the U.S. from recession, this is frustrating. Shutdowns usually redistribute economic activity between...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 29, 2025
September 26, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW President Trump on Tuesday suggested Ukraine could win back all the territory it has lost to Russia, in an extraordinary shift. “With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this war started, is very...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 22, 2025
September 22, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW President Trump wants lower interest rates, and on Wednesday he got his wish as the Federal Open Market Committee cut the overnight rate by a quarter point. The FOMC also delivered an implicit warning about what this might mean for the economy. Mr. Trump...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 15, 2025
September 12, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Note: This week’s free weekly column will be written by MMA Analyst Pouyan Zolfagharnia, editor of the MMA Monthly Cycles Report Plus + and a regular contributor to the MMA Monthly Cycles Report, which will be released this week.
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 8, 2025
September 5, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW U.S. job growth continued to slow down in August, a sign that the labor market is deteriorating markedly. The government also revised its numbers from earlier in the summer, and said that the economy lost a net 13,000 jobs in June. It was the...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 1, 2025
August 29, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube NOTE: U.S. markets will be closed on Monday due to the Labor Day holiday. REVIEW President Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is the most dramatic step yet in his effort to take control of the independent central bank and its vast...
Read MoreMMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING AUGUST 25, 2025
August 22, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube NOTE: MMA Analyst Pouyan Zolfagharnia will write this week’s free weekly column. Pouyan is the editor of the MMA Cycles Plus Monthly Report, which will be issued this week and covers Gold, Silver, NASDAQ, and Crude Oil. REVIEW “JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.—Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell...
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