The stock market is going up, with the S&P up 8% ytd. It's a fallacy that the stock market and the economy moves hand in hand. The market is significantly undervalued taking into consideration the interest rates going to zero. Earnings for tech companies are growing, and he is bullish on good quality companies.

There is uncertainty with COVID, but there will always be cause of worries regardless. Looking at earnings being reported by companies like Apple, he thinks it is still undervalued. Chose good quality companies, and it should be alright.

US Debt. He believes it's been a long time coming for worries over US debt. If the USD wasn't the currency reserve of the world, it should be trading at AA-. They had to start printing money and it's been decades in the making. It won't mean much for market response until the rating drops by a couple firms.

Tech earnings. The market was delighted for earnings. For Facebook, the backing away of many companies from the social media site has not affected the earnings so much. The firms with data will be hit hardest by anti-trust, like Google or Facebook. He expects some pain coming.

Market performance. The S&P 500 was up 1.7% on the week. It's been an okay week. We now have 3/4 of the large cap stocks report. There is a 30-35% of Russell 2000 small caps reporting their earnings next week. The pain is more in the small cap.

Educational segment. Back in 2014, he said that gold was broken for a little while. Central bank money printing hadn't played out yet. In 2018, he changed his tune as the Federal Reserves rose rates. In 2019, we saw a breakout from $1,400. Fundamentally, for gold prices to go up, you need investment demands. There is an increase in investment demand and a massive decrease in the jewellery demand now. With real yield going negative, gold is a no-brainer. He expects inflation in the USD. He expects 10-40% upside on an inflation adjusted basis for gold. Lots of upside for gold.