$3.5 Trillion Deficits & Other Things To Expect In 2025

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

It’s been another great year, and we are just a week or so away from my "25 Stocks I’m Watching for 2025."

To start off 2025 on the right foot, I talked this week with my good friend and, in my opinion, investing genius, Chris DeMuth Jr., about what sectors, industries, and names we'd be watching heading into the new year.

Interview With Chris DeMuth: Markets, Bubbles & Ideas For 2025

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This past week I also wrote about how the volatility after the Fed meeting reminded me of 2018, where the market crashed in the days leading up to Christmas:

It's Christmas (Chaos), All Over, Again

And published about how the U.S. was now on track for an insane $3.5 trillion deficit in the year 2025:

The US Is Now on Track for a $3.5 Trillion Deficit in 2025

Earlier in the week I offered up my take on the drone situation in New Jersey, explaining why I thought the sky wasn’t falling…yet:

Drones: Panic Or Perception?

And published an exclusive new interview with Peter Schiff. He and I talked about his perspectives on markets, government policies, and the future of Bitcoin and gold. I also asked Schiff about his miscalculations, primarily underestimating the length of time it would take for economic reckoning and on bitcoin — and he explained to me why he thinks the economy is “living on borrowed time”:

Peter Schiff Exclusive: Economy Is "Living On Borrowed Time"

Here’s what else is new on the blog:

• Is Inflation In 2024 Fueled By Supply Or Demand?

• Progressivism And The Murder Of A Health Insurance CEO

• The $3 Trillion Question

• The Keynesian Liquidity Trap Fable

• 3 Market Indicators On Watch Into End Of Year

• Come Hell Or Hyperinflation

• The State of Student Loan Forgiveness

• An Austrian Perspective on Tariffs

• Lessons From The Covid Fringe

• It's Always Darkest Before Dawn

• Can Bitcoin Save The U.S. Dollar?

• The (Political) Sound Of Silence

• Thanks

• Cannibal Spirits

• The Best Trades "Often Take A Little More Patience" To Develop

• Matt Taibbi Exclusive: America's Loss Of Trust In Media Can't Be Fixed

• How To Cut $2 Trillion Of Fat From The Federal Budget

• It's My World War III Party And I'll Cry If I Want To

• On “Disagreement” and the Presidential Power to Adjourn Congress

• A Watched Market Crash Pot Never Boils

• The Great Trump Exhale

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