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THIS is What a Margin Call Looks Like: the Consequences of Stock Market Mania
THIS is What a Margin Call Looks Like: the Consequences of Stock Market Mania Financial World A couple of weeks ago, we reported on various examples of stock market mania that have exploded in 2021. Now it’s time to examine a major event that could be a clear harbinger for “the big one” to come. It starts […]
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 […]
GameStop: Why the elites hate peer-to-peer power
GameStop: Why the elites hate peer-to-peer power During Great Britain’s golden age of gambling, a Scot named William Cunninghame Graham—losing at cards, out of money, but not yet ready to quit for the evening—secured a loan of 1,000 pounds from a Colonel Archibald Campbell. Graham pledged as security the use of his estate to Campbell […]
944 Trillion Reasons Why The Fed Is Quietly Bailing Out Hedge Funds
944 Trillion Reasons Why The Fed Is Quietly Bailing Out Hedge Funds On Friday, Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari, who just two months earlier made a stunning proposal when he said that it was time for the Fed to pick up where the USSR left off and start redistributing wealth (at least Kashkari chose the proper entity: […]
The Wealthy Are Hoarding Physical Gold
The Wealthy Are Hoarding Physical Gold The world’s rich are hoarding gold – this according to data buried in a recent Goldman Sachs note to clients. In the note published over the weekend, Goldman recommended diversifying long-term bond holdings with gold, citing “fear-driven demand” for the yellow metal. Hedge funds and other large speculators boosted their […]
Oil Prices Unlikely To Breakout Or Collapse
Oil Prices Unlikely To Breakout Or Collapse Oil prices took a breather in the second half of July, but the price correction may have been a temporary reprieve rather than the start of another downturn. On Monday, WTI breached $70 per barrel for the first time in over two weeks, rising once again on fears […]
The Greek Fraud Reads Like a Crime Novel
The Greek Fraud Reads Like a Crime Novel Tamara de Lempicka The refugees 1937Note: I feel kind of sorry this has become such a long essay. But I still left out so much. You know by now I care a lot about Greece, and it’s high time for another look, and another update, and another […]
Blockbuster Story – How Hedge Funds Invest Heavily in Washington D.C.’s Culture of Corruption
Blockbuster Story – How Hedge Funds Invest Heavily in Washington D.C.’s Culture of Corruption Earlier today, Ryan Grim and Paul Blumenthal published a blockbuster piece in the Huffington Post, titled: The Vultures’ Vultures: How A New Hedge-Fund Strategy Is Corrupting Washington. It details the secretive world of the dark money groups representing mercenary hedge funds in their insatiable […]
Chaos & Volatility On The Rise
Chaos & Volatility On The Rise The systems that support us are breaking down No, that’s not a ‘click bait’ sensationalist title. Things are getting ‘weird’ out there if you’re trying to be polite, and downright ‘chaotic’ if you’re being blunt. Everywhere we look, we see signs that the systems that support us are breaking […]
Unmanageable Money, Part 2: Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters
Unmanageable Money, Part 2: Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters How do you make money in a world where history is meaningless? The answer, for a growing number of big fund managers, is that you don’t. Hedge funds, generally the most aggressive species of money manager, do a lot […]
This Is What A Financial Crisis Looks Like
This Is What A Financial Crisis Looks Like Just within the past few days, three major high yield funds have completely imploded, and panic is spreading rapidly on Wall Street. Funds run by Third Avenue Management and Stone Lion Capital Partners have suspended payments to investors, and a fund run by Lucidus Capital Partners has […]
If The Economy Is Fine, Why Are So Many Hedge Funds, Energy Companies And Large Retailers Imploding?
If The Economy Is Fine, Why Are So Many Hedge Funds, Energy Companies And Large Retailers Imploding? If the U.S. economy really is in “great shape”, then why do all of the numbers keep telling us that we are in a recession? The manufacturing numbers say that we are in a recession, the trade numbers say that […]
Canadian Mortgage Insurer Tells US Hedge Funds Why Canada’s Housing Bubble Is Immortal. Hilarity Ensues
Canadian Mortgage Insurer Tells US Hedge Funds Why Canada’s Housing Bubble Is Immortal. Hilarity Ensues Home prices in Canada’s two largest metro areas have been red-hot for years. In May, the average selling price for all types of homes in the Greater Toronto Area jumped 11% from a year ago to C$649,600 on a 6% […]
Something Smells Fishy
SOMETHING SMELLS FISHY It’s always interesting to see a long term chart that reflects your real life experiences. I bought my first home in 1990. It was a small townhouse and I paid $100k, put 10% down, and obtained a 9.875% mortgage. I was thrilled to get under 10%. Those were different times, when you […]
