Dave Fairtex

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Dave Fairtex discuss:

• Whither These Markets Goest From Here?
  • Lots of scary data, but Dr. Copper is feeling lucky
• Revisiting The Ka-POOM Theory
  • Might we avoid the Ka and go directly to POOM?
• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence
  • It surely a game changer. But how?
• Gold
  • Are the recent moves just a head-fake?

Dave Fairtex, PeakProsperity.com's precious metals daily analyst from Singapore, joins Chris this week to opine on a wide range of topics from the markets, to AI, to the refugee crisis in Europe. The two spend time talking about where the catalyst for a market correction is most likely to come from. And while there is a plethora of candidates, Dave sees political risk as topping the list:

My sense is that I think the central planners have the monetary thing wired. Let’s take the ECB. They have figured out a way to make it so that strictly monetary issues don’t cause problems anymore.

So what that leaves us with is political problems. That’s why I'm looking at what’s happening here, with the migrants in Europe and all the rest of it.Trump was an indicator that the central banks have the money stuff nailed down, but they don’t have the political movements fully under control.

So the longer-term stuff about screwing the savers and all the rest of it – that stuff they can’t control. I don’t know; maybe money printing works until the political situation changes. That’s where I’m leaning right now.