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21st Century Shoe-Shine Boys
21st Century Shoe-Shine Boys Anecdotal Flags are Waved “If a shoeshine boy can predict where this market is going to go, then it’s no place for a man with a lot of money to lose.” – Joseph Kennedy It is actually a true story as far as we know – Joseph Kennedy, by all accounts […]
In the Dark
In the Dark The stock market is zooming this morning on the news that only 5.7 million people in Florida will have to do without air conditioning, hot showers, and Keurig mochachinos at dawn’s early light Monday, Sept 11, 2017. I’m mindful that the news cycle right after a hurricane goes kind of blank for […]
What Will Markets Do if Congress Pushes US into Default? And “Trump Nationalism” Faces the Globalist System
What Will Markets Do if Congress Pushes US into Default? And “Trump Nationalism” Faces the Globalist System Here I am with radio host Jim Goddard on This Week in Money, holding forth on the chances that Congress won’t raise the debt ceiling in time and will push the US into default — if it does, […]
Matt King: Global QE And “ETFs Everywhere” Have Created An Unstable, One-Way Market
Matt King: Global QE And “ETFs Everywhere” Have Created An Unstable, One-Way Market While the financial industry remains divided over what precisely is the cause of the malaise that affects modern markets, characterized by plunging volumes and trading activity, record low volatility and dispersion, a relentless ascent disconnected from fundamentals, and generally a sense of […]
A 3% Drop Is All It Takes…
A 3% Drop Is All It Takes… A 2.8% drop in stocks is all it takes… …to convert sheer near full euphoria into outright panic… Source: CNNMoney Quite a collapse in confidence for a ‘blip’ in stocks… (NOTE – this collapse in sentiment is bigger and faster than the plunge in Aug 2015 following China’s […]
Stock & Bond Markets in Denial about QE Unwind, but Banks, Treasury Dept Get Antsy
Stock & Bond Markets in Denial about QE Unwind, but Banks, Treasury Dept Get Antsy “Let markets clear.” It’ll be just “a financial engineering shock.” Stock and bond markets are in denial about the effects of the Fed’s forthcoming QE unwind, whose kick-off is getting closer by the day, according to the minutes of the […]
China’s Plunge Protection Team Holds $150 Billion In Stock, Claims “State Meddling” Stabilizes Markets
China’s Plunge Protection Team Holds $150 Billion In Stock, Claims “State Meddling” Stabilizes Markets It was two years ago, in June of 2015, when just as the Shanghai Composite was flirting with 5,000 and when literally the local banana stand guy was trading stocks, that the Chinese stock bubble burst, unleashing an unprecedented selling spree, […]
Signs Of Distress
Signs Of Distress The need to change is becoming more obvious than ever The world is edging closer to the final moments after which everything will be forever changed. Grand delusions, perpetuated over decades, will finally hit the limits of reality and collapse in on themselves. We’re over-budget and have eaten deeply into the principal […]
It’s better to turn cautious too soon…
It’s better to turn cautious too soon… En route to Chile One of the greatest investors in the world is getting worried… Howard Marks is the billionaire founder of Oaktree Capital, one of the largest and most successful investment firms in the world. A few times each year Marks write up his thoughts about financial […]
A Mystery Investor Has Made A 262 Million Dollar Bet That The Stock Market Will Crash By October
A Mystery Investor Has Made A 262 Million Dollar Bet That The Stock Market Will Crash By October One mystery trader has made an extremely large bet that the stock market is going to crash by October, and if he is right he could potentially make up to 262 million dollars on the deal. Fortunes […]
The Ambiguity of Stock Value: Why It’s So Difficult to Call The Top
The Ambiguity of Stock Value: Why It’s So Difficult to Call The Top This is one of our favorite posts of all-time. Thought it apropos to re-post given that everyone and their mother is trying to call the top in stocks. It’s all about yield-seeking capital flows, my friends. Tell us what interest rate is the […]
RBC Explains What The Hell Is Going On: “Prudent” Fed & Chinese Intervention
RBC Explains What The Hell Is Going On: “Prudent” Fed & Chinese Intervention A “prudent” Fed (and China’s “National Team”) have spurred a risk-on rally, as RBC’s head of cross-asset strategy Charlie McElligott notes the market’s ‘Pavolovian’ response to Fed’s ‘dovish hints’ contained within the Minutes – despite simultaneously staying ‘on message’ with hiking / tapering […]
“Look Ma, No Hands!”
“Look Ma, No Hands!” The Deep State is escalating its war on President Trump but the Wall Street partiers apparently couldn’t care less. When the machines tagged 2402 on the S&P 500 yesterday, it was surely a historic case of “look ma, no hands!” It’s hard to imagine what more will be needed to ignite […]
