{"id":27208,"date":"2017-10-25T05:57:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27208"},"modified":"2017-10-25T05:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:57:15","slug":"markets-we-got-trouble-debt-brain-dead-retail-investors-prop-up-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27208","title":{"rendered":"MARKETS\u2026 WE GOT TROUBLE: Debt &#038; Brain-Dead Retail Investors Prop Up Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header clearfix\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\">MARKETS\u2026 WE GOT TROUBLE: Debt &amp; Brain-Dead Retail Investors Prop Up Stocks<\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">As the Dow Jones Index hits another all-time high today, smart money is rushing to the exits.\u00a0 You see, smart money knows when something is too good to be true.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the retail investor who is suffering from acute BRAIN DAMAGE, they are doing quite the opposite.\u00a0 As institutions sellout on each new market price rise, retail investors are happily buying\u2026 hand over fist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p>And why shouldn\u2019t they?\u00a0 These are good times.\u00a0 Well, maybe not for Americans living in Houston, parts of Florida, California or in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Whatever happened to the news on the massive flooding and hurricane damage in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico?\u00a0 I remember seeing videos of Miami Beach High-Rise Condos with seawater 5-8 feet surrounding the entire area.\u00a0 Does anyone have an idea of what happens to electrical systems when salt water floods buildings?\u00a0 It\u2019s not good.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless\u2026 the amount of destruction major U.S. cities have experienced in the past three months is like nothing we have witnessed before.\u00a0 Regrettably, a lot of these homes and businesses will never be rebuilt.\u00a0 Not only don\u2019t we have the money to do it, more importantly, we also don\u2019t have the available energy.\u00a0 While the massive destruction by hurricanes, flooding and fire have not impacted the stock market currently, they will.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned at the beginning of the article, retail investors are propping up the markets.\u00a0 However, they aren\u2019t the only ones, or should I say, the only factor in keeping the markets from falling off a cliff.\u00a0 <strong>Thanks to Uncle Sam, total U.S. debt has increased by $590 billion in just the past month and a half.<\/strong>\u00a0 Here is a table of U.S. debt\u00a0 from the data published by the fine folks at TreasuryDirect.gov:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARKETS\u2026 WE GOT TROUBLE: Debt &amp; Brain-Dead Retail Investors Prop Up Stocks As the Dow Jones Index hits another all-time high today, smart money is rushing to the exits.\u00a0 You see, smart money knows when something is too good to be true.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the retail investor who is suffering from acute BRAIN DAMAGE, they [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[195,7551,16664,14206],"class_list":["post-27208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-retail-investors","tag-srsrocco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208","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=27208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27209,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27208\/revisions\/27209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}