Weak Employment and Housing, Yet a Massive Stock Market Advance + Volatility Crush. What Gives?
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
4.7 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Employment growth is very weak and there are plenty of worrying signs in both these numbers and housing. Yet the past nine-weeks have seen an absolutely monster of a stock market rally accompanied by a record-setting volatility crush (-63%!). Are central banks directly intervening to set market prices?
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| 0:10.8 | If the dollar does crack, like Trump has stated that he wants it to have, |
| 0:14.9 | because of his desire plus of structural issues with what's going on fiscally. |
| 0:19.7 | And our country, there is a lot of upside potential in the metal space, a lot. |
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| 0:49.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to this episode, edition of Finance You. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm your host,ris martinson today back with |
| 0:55.2 | paul kiker of kiker wealth management hey paul good to see you guys good to see you as well i just love our |
| 1:02.0 | conversations and it's that time of the week so we'll have another one here i want to talk about um |
| 1:06.0 | these crazy markets and i've got some data around just how crazy this has been from jan to now. Also, their jobs are weakening. We've got to talk about that. Jobs being a leading indicator. You and I have sort of been poking around these recessionary things, which, hey, recessions happen, but our markets are still wildly expensive by every measure, so that can be a volatile combo. Housing is weakening as well. Of course, |
| 1:28.7 | it's kind of a local thing, but I think nationally it's doing that. And then gold and silver. |
| 1:33.6 | Does that sound good? That sounds great to me. That gives us plenty to talk about there. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, all right. So, crazy markets. Let's dive in on crazy. This I found unbelievable. So for anybody listening, |
| 1:47.3 | volatility, as Paul and I have talked about in the past, is measured in the markets. And volatility, |
| 1:52.9 | if you took math or anything, you understand goes both ways. It could be, it's volatile when |
| 1:57.5 | things gyrate up and down. Something that's calm is just flat like you might think of |
| 2:01.8 | a volatile ocean if you're a sail or a boater a volatile ocean is one with big waves and waves have |
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