Steven Van Metre

Steven Van Metre, CFP, designs and manages unique investing strategies. He has a YouTube show where fans across the globe tune in to hear his thoughts on the global economy, monetary policy, and the markets.

Investors, Heed the Fed’s Warning

Commentary For investors, the answer is always stocks. The only question, is, which stocks. As the major U.S. ...

Viewpoints May 23, 2022
High Factory Prices Aren’t Inflationary

Commentary Many pundits were spinning the inflationary story when factory prices continued higher in March, and they were ...

Viewpoints April 24, 2022
Break the Fed

Commentary In what can be best described as a classic western showdown, on one side is the Federal ...

Viewpoints April 16, 2022
Rates Can Only Go Up

Commentary These are words I have heard my entire adult life. Every time rates drop, a lending professional ...

Viewpoints April 11, 2022
The Fed’s Policy Mistake

Commentary Eight times a year the Federal Open Market Committee meets to review economic and financial conditions to ...

Viewpoints March 31, 2022
There’s a Dollar Shortage

Commentary Last week the Federal Open Market Committee announced they were embarking on the first tightening cycle since ...

Viewpoints March 25, 2022
Stagflation Is Coming

Commentary With consumer prices soaring to levels not seen since the early 1980s, many pundits are predicting the ...

Viewpoints March 17, 2022
Crude Will Soon Crash

Commentary Crude oil prices continue to scream higher and have recently touched their highest level since the Global ...

Viewpoints March 11, 2022
The Fed Is Trapped

Commentary While the world is focused on the situation between Russia and Ukraine, the global economy is already ...

Viewpoints March 3, 2022
Yields Will Soon Collapse

Commentary The Federal Reserve is on the cusp of making its biggest policy mistake in modern times and ...

Viewpoints February 28, 2022
The End of QE

Commentary After 29 months of operation, the Federal Reserve will end its large-scale asset purchase program, or quantitative ...

Viewpoints February 18, 2022
The End of Liquidity

Commentary First, it was the Federal Reserve, then the Bank of England, and finally the European Central Bank ...

Viewpoints February 11, 2022
Powell Didn’t Want To

Commentary On Jan. 26, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell had to make a difficult announcement. At the Federal ...

Viewpoints February 7, 2022
Foreigners Are Buying

Commentary There's hardly a week that goes by where a news outlet or pundit isn't calling for interest ...

Viewpoints January 31, 2022
The Unusual Cycle

Commentary With the Federal Reserve rapidly scaling back its large-scale asset purchase program, or quantitative easing, and likely ...

Viewpoints January 24, 2022
Investors Are Mispositioned, Again

Commentary Despite mountains of evidence and ample warning, investors are mispositioned ahead of the Federal Reserve’s accelerated tapering ...

Viewpoints January 14, 2022
The Bulls Keep Running

Commentary The announcement of a balance sheet taper sent equity buyers into overdrive as they aggressively bought every ...

Viewpoints January 10, 2022
Banks Are Buying Bonds

Commentary Inflationists are cheering the rise in lending growth as it appears to be a sign of reflation ...

Viewpoints January 3, 2022
Powell Is Nervous

Commentary On Dec. 15, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a doubling of the central bank's balance sheet taper. ...

Viewpoints December 29, 2021
Taper Is Bond Bullish

Commentary Most investors believe when the Federal Reserve tapers its balance sheet, it means interest rates are going ...

Viewpoints December 21, 2021
Financial Conditions Are Tightening

Commentary Retail investors continue to eagerly buy every dip or decline in stocks in hopes that stock prices ...

Viewpoints December 12, 2021
The Fed Will Break the Economy

Commentary Last week, the Fed was handed an unexpected gift as first-time jobless claims fell to the lowest ...

Viewpoints December 5, 2021
Biden’s Crude Mistake

Commentary Recently, President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a virtual summit where they discussed the ...

Viewpoints November 29, 2021
The Fed’s Impact on Global Trade

Commentary Most people don't realize that expansion and contraction of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet are designed to ...

Viewpoints November 21, 2021
The Dollar Is About to Rally

Commentary Investors betting on higher inflation and a weaker dollar are about to be very wrong. Money poured ...

Viewpoints November 12, 2021
The Truth About Taper

Commentary On Nov. 3, the Federal Open Market Committee indicated the economy had met the committee’s targets to ...

Viewpoints November 5, 2021
The Dollar Will Break Inflation

Commentary The headline inflation rate, or consumer price index, rose +5.3 percent over the past 12 months in ...

Viewpoints October 8, 2021