Big Picture · Week of 17 August 2026
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Gold is positioned for appreciation as a long-standing hard-asset preference rather than a fresh tactical call amid broader monetary uncertainty.
Steve Hanke BULLISH
Johns Hopkins. Money supply, currency regimes and inflation forecasting from monetary aggregates.
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Gold is positioned for appreciation as a long-standing hard-asset preference rather than a fresh tactical call amid broader monetary uncertainty.
Inflationary pressures are being deliberately reinforced through artificially low yields, creating a self-perpetuating inflationary loop rather than a temporary disinflationary outcome.
US inflation has accumulated nearly 40% over a decade as fiscal and monetary discipline disappeared, leaving Americans to bear persistently higher costs.
Persistent and aggressive debasement is increasingly shaping the current regime, alongside policy choices designed to run the economy hot and sustain nominal pressures.
$PLTR has remained in an accumulation phase while holding above its 200-day moving average, with pullbacks preserving a broader uptrend.
Bearish
AI buildout is pulling capital into chips and power while hollowing out underlying economic activity, creating bubble-like damage without requiring a collapse.
The U.S. dollar’s further weaponization over Iran policy will accelerate global de-dollarization, worsening the need to buy back or monetize Treasuries.
Bitcoin could see deeper profit-taking toward the year-to-date VWAP and the VWAP from the latest thrust if its hourly break above last week’s high fails.
1 Week Horizon
Karsan · Positioning & Vol
Karsan · NVDA
Dale · DXY
Mancini · SPY
Shannon · BTC
Elliott · DXY
Parets · V
Roberts · Positioning & Vol
Hanke · USO
Kochuba · Positioning & Vol
Wang · USO
Keller · Positioning & Vol
Keller · BTC
Kochuba · GLD
Parets · HYG
Ciovacco · HYG
Hanke · TLT
Bianco · TLT
Newton · Liquidity
Shannon · MSFT
Shannon · IWM
Shannon · MU
Shannon · SNDK
Shannon · MAGS
Momentum has begun weakening about a week after options expiration and Jackson Hole, signaling a near-term deterioration in market positioning and volatility conditions.
$NVDA's earnings response is the immediate focus, with no directional outcome specified ahead of the near-term market reaction.
1 Month Horizon
Hanke · USO
Hanke · Liquidity
Hanke · TLT
Keller · PLTR
Dale · Growth
Dale · Inflation
Parets · NKE
Hanke · Fiscal & Treasury
Roberts · Growth
El-Erian · Tariffs & Geopolitics
Roberts · TLT
Steno Larsen · Liquidity
Sonders · Fiscal & Treasury
Sonders · GLD
Wang · Fiscal & Treasury
Schiff · STRC
Schiff · Inflation
Elliott · USO
Bilello · Inflation
Reznicek · SPCX
Sonders · Growth
Wang · Liquidity
Wang · TLT
DiMartino Booth · Housing1 Year Horizon
Hanke · GLD
Karsan · Inflation
Snider · AI
Hanke · Fiscal & Treasury
Bilello · Inflation
Bilello · Fiscal & Treasury
Dale · Inflation
Snider · HYG
Snider · Inflation
Snider · TLT
Snider · Fed Policy
Snider · Growth
Snider · LABOR
Snider · Liquidity
Keller · SPY
Kantrowitz · AI
Dale · AI
Dale · TLT
Dale · Fed Policy
Schiff · DXY
Roberts · Positioning & Vol
Parets · XLK
Gromen · DXY
Lee · SPY
Gold is positioned for appreciation as a long-standing hard-asset preference rather than a fresh tactical call amid broader monetary uncertainty.
Moved Since Yesterday
Mancini · SPY The S&P futures setup is very weak and used up after another 7680 trap, with 7645–50 below as the near-term downside level.
Woo · TLT Long-duration Treasury prices should stop falling as financial repression protects the AI capital-expenditure boom from rising yields that could otherwise choke it off.
Roberts · TLT Long Treasury yields are rising as markets adjust to stronger economic growth reflected in corporate earnings, while inflation expectations remain flat.
Hanke · Fiscal & Treasury US tariff revenues turned negative in June and July as refunds exceeded collections, making Trump’s tariffs a fiscal catastrophe.
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