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ECB “In Touch With Market Participants” Over Market Crash; White House “Concerned”
ECB “In Touch With Market Participants” Over Market Crash; White House “Concerned” In a double whammy of panic about the fate of the artificial “wealth effect” created thanks to $20 trillion in central bank liquidity, officials at both the White House and Europe’s largest hedge fund expressed concerns about the market rout that saw the […]
So What Do I Think about the “Crash” in Stocks?
So What Do I Think about the “Crash” in Stocks? A lot more will have to happen before this turns into a crash; and markets are not there yet. With all this wailing in the media about stocks, you’d think there’s at least some blood in the streets. But no. Not a drop. The Dow […]
The Liquidity Punch Bowl
THE LIQUIDITY PUNCH BOWL It is appropriate with the inauguration of this weekly column to look at the “Big Picture”. The biggest risk to world stock markets, and asset prices in general, in 2018 is that G7 central banks (led by the Federal Reserve) are finally attempting to normalise monetary policy nine years after the […]
Goldman: “Expect A Market Correction In The Coming Months”
Goldman: “Expect A Market Correction In The Coming Months” While there are reasons to be bullish on global equities in 2018 and bear market risks are low, a correction is becoming increasingly likely, Goldman’s equity strategist Peter Oppenheimer writes in an overnight note, repeating our observation from Friday that this has been the strongest start […]
Hugh Hendry On “The Arrogance And Conceit Of A Well-Formed Argument”
Hugh Hendry On “The Arrogance And Conceit Of A Well-Formed Argument” In his latest interview with RealVision’s Grant Williams, former Eclectica asset management co-founder Hugh Hendry delineates what he calls the “arrogance and conceit of a well-formed argument,” using examples from his own career, which has recently taken a difficult turn. In September, Hendry shuttered […]
Happy Landings
Happy Landings The blow-off orgy in the stock markets is supposedly America’s consolation prize for what many regard as the electoral bad acid trip of the Trump presidency. Sorry to tell you, it’s just another hallucination, something you’re going to have to come down from. Happy landings! While the markets have roared parabolically up, in […]
Bob Shiller Warns World’s “Priciest Stock Market” Could “Absolutely Turn Suddenly”
Bob Shiller Warns World’s “Priciest Stock Market” Could “Absolutely Turn Suddenly” Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller told CNBC Tuesday that a market correction could come at any time and without warning… “People ask ‘well what will trigger [a market correction]?’ But it doesn’t need a trigger, it’s the dynamics of bubbles inherently makes them come […]
WARNING: Markets Reaching Extreme Leverage
WARNING: Markets Reaching Extreme Leverage As investors’ bullish sentiment moves up to euphoric levels, the markets are reaching extreme leverage. This is terrible news because a lot of people are going to lose one heck of a lot of money. According to CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index, the market is now at the “extreme […]
The day I found out it was all rigged
The day I found out it was all rigged May 6, 2010 started off as a pretty boring day. The most exciting stories from the morning’s newspapers were reviews of the upcoming Iron Man 2 film. But all that changed at around 2:45pm when, without warning, the stock market crashed, and the Dow Jones Industrial […]
How Much Death and Destruction Awaits Us in 2018?
How Much Death and Destruction Awaits Us in 2018? The New Year is one full of economic, political, and war threats. Among the economic threats are stock, bond, and real estate markets artificially pumped up by years of central bank money creation and by false reports of full employment. It is an open question whether […]
The Darkest Hours
The Darkest Hours The Tax “Reform” bill working its way painfully out the digestive system of congress like a sigmoid fistula, ought be re-named the US Asset-stripping Assistance Act of 2017, because that’s what is about to splatter the faces of the waiting public, most of whom won’t have a personal lobbyist / tax lawyer […]
Interest Rates Starting To Bite
Interest Rates Starting To Bite We have long held that interest rates have been so low (especially real rates) that it will take some time to reach a level for them to really matter and impact markets. The 2-year yield crossing over the S&P500 divie yield this past week for the first time in the last […]
U.S. ECONOMIC CRISIS AHEAD: Major Failure Of Analysts To Spot Danger
U.S. ECONOMIC CRISIS AHEAD: Major Failure Of Analysts To Spot Danger The U.S. economy continues towards an epic crisis while the overwhelming majority of analysts are completely in the dark. Even though some alternative media analysts understand that our highly leveraged fiat monetary system and markets will crash, they fail to understand the underlying reasons. […]
Stock Market 2018: The Tao vs. Central Banks
Stock Market 2018: The Tao vs. Central Banks The central banks claim omnipotent financial powers, and their comeuppance is overdue. I will be the first to admit that invoking the woo-woo of the Tao as the reason to expect a reversal of the stock market in 2018 smacks of Bearish desperation. With everything coming up […]
The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
BLOG imgflip.com The Waiting Is The Hardest Part Tom Petty’s anthem for today’s investors Man, what an awful stretch of events. When I penned last week’s article on tragedy, little did I expect something as horrible as the Las Vegas massacre would immediately follow. And nearly lost in the headlines was the untimely passing of […]
