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Military Misadventures\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
No Coincidence<\/strong><\/div>\n
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BALTIMORE \u2013 The Dow rose 126 points on Thursday \u2013 just shy of 1%. Not enough to reverse the market\u2019s apparent downward bias [ed note: the rebound gathered pace on Friday<\/em>].<\/p>\n

Stocks are most likely headed down because the thing that sent them up has come to an end. Here is a chart that tells the tale:<\/p>\n

\"1-stocksFederal Reserve assets vs. the S&P 500 Index<\/p>\n

As you can see, over the last six years or so, gains for the S&P 500 have closely tracked the ballooning of the Fed\u2019s balance sheet under QE. After shelling out almost $4 trillion on bonds, the Fed\u2019s QE is on pause. And stocks are struggling. Coincidence? We don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

Deep State Cronies in Action<\/strong><\/p>\n

We stuffed a few copies of the\u00a0Hindustan Times<\/em>\u00a0in our bag before boarding the plane back from Mumbai. On the front page, French president Francois Hollande is receiving an awkward hug from India\u2019s top man, Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n

Over in the entertainment section is another note of interest. Actress Julie Gayet has put together a film production company. And lucky for her \u2013 she has backing from one of India\u2019s biggest conglomerates, the Reliance group.<\/p>\n

Nowhere does the paper mention that Ms. Gayet is Mr. Hollande\u2019s main squeeze. She is the woman for whom he snuck away on a motor scooter from the presidential palace, where he lived with his then First Girlfriend, journalist Valerie Trierweiler.<\/p>\n

\"francois-hollande-ladies\"Mr. Hollande and his old squeeze Valerie Trierweiler (left) and her replacement Julie Gayet (right)<\/p>\n

Reliance is owned by the Ambani family, which lives in Mumbai in the most expensive house ever built. It is 60-story skyscraper, put up at a cost of $1 billion, which now takes a staff of 600 to keep the furniture dusted. On Sunday, the two events were reported.\u00a0On Monday, the paper added the connective tissue. It announced that India and France had inked \u201c$15 billion in business deals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Military Misadventures\u00a0 No Coincidence BALTIMORE \u2013 The Dow rose 126 points on Thursday \u2013 just shy of 1%. Not enough to reverse the market\u2019s apparent downward bias [ed note: the rebound gathered pace on Friday]. Stocks are most likely headed down because the thing that sent them up has come to an end. Here is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[5728,12101,6190,1625,333,334,12102,12100],"class_list":["post-17199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-acting-man","tag-ambani","tag-bill-bonner","tag-cronyism","tag-france","tag-francois-hollande","tag-julie-gayet","tag-reliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17200,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions\/17200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}