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Gold vs. the stock market
Gold vs. the stock market More than 3,000 years ago in the early 12th century BC, Greco-Roman legend tells us of a mythical pair of monsters located in the Strait of Messina in southern Italy. The monsters were named Scylla and Charybdis. And both Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid describe the terror of sailors who […]
Stock Market Leverage Spikes in Historic Manner: Another WTF Chart of a Zoo that Has Gone Nuts
Stock Market Leverage Spikes in Historic Manner: Another WTF Chart of a Zoo that Has Gone Nuts In an investment environment where nothing matters anymore – until it suddenly does. In the current craze that encompasses everything from sneakers and NFTs to stocks, where valuations don’t matter because of widespread certainty that valuations will be even […]
Rabo: If Powell Does Nothing, We Will See Godzilla-Sized Shockwaves Across Markets Everywhere
Rabo: If Powell Does Nothing, We Will See Godzilla-Sized Shockwaves Across Markets Everywhere “Quadzilla is approaching Tokyo!” [Cue epic music] “Up from the depths; 30 trillion high; Breathing fire; Its name in the sky — Quadzilla! Quadzilla! Quadzilla!” [Sudden switch to comedy music] “…and Godz-EU-ki.” For those who grew up with 80’s cartoons, that intro may be […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Market Manias Galore, But Long-Term Interest Rates Smell a Rat
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Market Manias Galore, But Long-Term Interest Rates Smell a Rat These manias and the rising long-term yields are on collision course. (You can also download THE WOLF STREET REPORT wherever you get your podcasts). wolfstreet, wolf street report, wolf richter, long-term interest rates, interest rates, financial markets
A Market Crash AND High Inflation?
A Market Crash AND High Inflation? Financial researcher Jesse Felder warns of twin dangers ahead Imagine for a moment that the price of all your investments — your stocks, your retirement portfolio, your house — suddenly drop in half this year. Now imagine that on top of that inflation suddenly picks up, making your cost of living […]
Rabobank: You Only See How Stable A System Really Is By Pushing It To Its Limits
Rabobank: You Only See How Stable A System Really Is By Pushing It To Its Limits “Stonks” and “Burneds” We are, it is now being widely decried, in the middle of a “stonk” bubble. The Financial Times(!) is carrying an article calling on the Federal Reserve to stop its easy money; and Bloomberg(!) has strategy […]
The Dystopian Bubble: George Orwell Meets Charles Mackay
The Dystopian Bubble: George Orwell Meets Charles Mackay “Threats to freedom of speech, writing, and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” ~ George Orwell In early December I asked Jim Grant how to reconcile exuberant financial […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Stock Market Is Broken, Now for All to See
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Stock Market Is Broken, Now for All to See The historic short squeeze, engineered by millions of deeply cynical small traders, exposed just how rigged the market has been. (You can also download THE WOLF STREET REPORT wherever you get your podcasts).
The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded by the Truth, Will Stumble and Crash
The Stock Market, Fatally Wounded by the Truth, Will Stumble and Crash It didn’t have to be this way, but this is the reality we must now face: truth is fatal to fraud, and our entire financial-political system is a fraud. The stock market has just been punctured by the thin blades of truth. It […]
Market Weekly: Game Stop Revolution or the Matrix Reloaded?
Market Weekly: Game Stop Revolution or the Matrix Reloaded? I have to say as revolutions go, this one is hilarious. Game Stop opened this morning above $330 per share, a sentence I never thought in a million years I’d ever write. This open nearly ensures that all the attempts yesterday to push the price back […]
This is a Financial Revolution
This is a Financial Revolution At precisely 2:32pm Eastern time on May 6, 2010, the US stock market started to drop. The decline was sudden, and vicious. Within minutes, more than $1 trillion of market capitalization had vanished, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing nearly 10% of its value. This event became known as […]
The Markets in Light of the Chaos
The Markets in Light of the Chaos When we look around the world the final say in every election is always the vote of capital – which is international rather than confined to local politics. Biden has already shut down the pipeline from Alberta which will only be symbolic for whatever substitute will mere be […]
Rabobank: The Purge Could Contribute To A Widening Of The Cultural And Political Divide
Rabobank: The Purge Could Contribute To A Widening Of The Cultural And Political Divide On Friday Twitter took the decision to permanently suspend President Trump from its platform due to the “risk of further incitement of violence”. The day before Facebook had already blocked him. Tech giants have also moved against right-wing social media platform Parler, […]
Democrat Control of Washington Could Trigger Four Years of Surging Inflation
Democrat Control of Washington Could Trigger Four Years of Surging Inflation Doug Mills/The New York Times At the beginning of the first term of a newly elected POTUS, the first 100 days set the tone for what that administration wants to accomplish. Joe Biden’s election has been certified by Vice President Mike Pence, so his first 100 […]
Lance Roberts: GMO’s Jeremy Grantham Is Correct, There’s An ‘Epic Bubble In Stocks’
Lance Roberts: GMO’s Jeremy Grantham Is Correct, There’s An ‘Epic Bubble In Stocks’ Following GMO’s co-founder Jeremy Grantham’s renewed warning about extreme overvaluations, RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts chimed in on the conversation Thursday morning. In “Three Minutes on Markets & Money,” Roberts agress with Grantham, saying, “the stock market is in a bubble.” To refresh readers on […]
