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THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends What’s astonishing is how long it lasts (9 minutes).
Central Bank “Stimulus” is Really a Huge Redistribution Scheme
Central Bank “Stimulus” is Really a Huge Redistribution Scheme When an economy turns from expansion to contraction there is an order of events. The first signs are an unexpected increase in inventories of unsold goods, both accompanied with and followed by business surveys indicating a general softening in demand. For monetarists, this is often confirmed […]
Geopolitical Signals Of Global Economic Crisis Abound
Geopolitical Signals Of Global Economic Crisis Abound As I write this, news feeds are buzzing with questions and confusion over the October US/China trade talks. In September there was a massive propaganda campaign within the mainstream media to push the notion that a deal with China was imminent, which boosted markets otherwise on the verge […]
What’s Holding Up the Market?
What’s Holding Up the Market? The Fed’s nearly free money for financiers policies in support of the Super-Rich do not exist in a vacuum–the disastrous consequences are already baked in. What’s holding up the U.S. stock market? The facile answer is the Federal Reserve (“the Fed has our back,” “don’t fight the Fed,” etc.) but this doesn’t actually […]
Getting Ready For The Stock Market Crash…
Getting Ready For The Stock Market Crash… It is something of a tradition amongst market commentators to make bold stock market calls because they gain you notoriety if you get it right. Over here at AiC, I don’t particularly care what people think. I’m here to make money—that’s it. Therefore, I’ve refrained from big market […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – September 18th 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – September 18th 2019 “There is no equilibrium, we invest into unstable constantly changing markets. ” Why so Calm? Even as the Fed meeting pondered raising rates by a smidge, it had to intervene to pump money into the short-term US financial system for the first time since the 2008 crisis. That’s […]
What a Relief that the U.S. and Global Economies Are Booming
What a Relief that the U.S. and Global Economies Are Booming Doing more of what’s failed for ten years will finally fail spectacularly..It was a huge relief to see the charts of the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and the U.S. retail sector ETF (RTH): both have soared to the moon, signaling that both the U.S. […]
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In If it was Powell’s intention to have the S&P trade at an all time when he cuts rates by another 25bps next Wednesday, he achieved it. S&P futures rose alongside Asian and European stocks as shares globally headed for a third weekly […]
Draghi Goes All Out: ECB Cuts Rates, Restarts Open-Ended QE, Changes Forward Guidance, Eases TLTRO, Introduces Tiering
Draghi Goes All Out: ECB Cuts Rates, Restarts Open-Ended QE, Changes Forward Guidance, Eases TLTRO, Introduces Tiering With the market worried that Mario Draghi could surprise hawkishly in his parting announcement… … that is how the market initially interpreted today’s ECB press release, which cut already negative deposit rates for the first time since 2016 to […]
Measured Move
Measured Move Having fun with the endless chop that started in early August? Markets are consolidating inside a well defined price range. 2945 on the top end and 2822 on the bottom end of the range for $SPX. That range was established on August 2 and August 5th. Since then markets have been bouncing inside […]
Ron Paul: The Fed Is In The Stock Market And They Don’t Want Us To Know The Details
Ron Paul: The Fed Is In The Stock Market And They Don’t Want Us To Know The Details On Tuesday September 3, 2019, former Texas congressman Ron Paul appeared on an episode of the Quoth the Raven podcast to weigh in on the state of equity markets, the media’s role in indoctrinating the masses with Keynesian theory, […]
8-Reasons To Hold Some Extra Cash
8-Reasons To Hold Some Extra Cash Over the past few months, we have been writing a series of articles that highlight our concerns of increasing market risk. Here is a sampling of some of our more recent newsletters on the issue. Never Hurts To Ring The Cash Register Looking For A Sellable Rally Bull vs. […]
Possible Currency War Would Be A Disaster For Oil
Possible Currency War Would Be A Disaster For Oil Oil prices plunged on Friday after the U.S. and China both announced tariff hikes in tit-for-tat fashion. At the same time, markets opened on a positive note early Monday after President Trump struck a more conciliatory tone. But the respite could be brief. Global financial markets are completely at the […]
David Rosenberg: “These Are Truly Historic And Dangerous Times”
David Rosenberg: “These Are Truly Historic And Dangerous Times” We are living in dangerous times. Mostly, everyone I speak to lives in the here and now. They seem more interested in telling people how crazy cheap the stock market is and how crazy expensive the Treasury market is, rather than trying to look at the […]
Cheap Money Not Going to Work Anymore – Charles Nenner (#1)
Cheap Money Not Going to Work Anymore – Charles Nenner (#1) Renowned geopolitical and financial cycle expert Charles Nenner says forget what the mainstream financial channels are saying about more Fed easy money policies pushing the markets higher. Nenner explains, “The clever institutions I work with were selling all the time when the S&P was […]
