{"id":35708,"date":"2018-07-03T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35708"},"modified":"2018-07-03T07:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:20:06","slug":"blinking-red-bubble-light-stock-market-investor-margin-debt-reaches-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35708","title":{"rendered":"BLINKING RED BUBBLE LIGHT: Stock Market Investor Margin Debt Reaches New High"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header clearfix\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srsroccoreport.com\/blinking-red-bubble-light-stock-market-investor-margin-debt-reaches-new-high\/\">BLINKING RED BUBBLE LIGHT: Stock Market Investor Margin Debt Reaches New High<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p>The world is standing at the edge of the financial abyss while most investors are entirely in the dark.\u00a0 However, specific indicators suggest the market is one giant RED BLINKING LIGHT.\u00a0 One of these indicators is the amount of margin debt held by investors.\u00a0 What is quite surprising about the level of investor margin debt is that it has hit a new record high even though the market has sold off 2,500 points from its peak in February.<\/p>\n<p>It seems as if investors no longer believe in market cycles or fundamentals.\u00a0Instead, the Wall Street saying that \u201cThis time is different\u201d has become permanently\u00a0ingrained in the market psychology.\u00a0 For example, it doesn\u2019t seem to matter to the market that Amazon makes no money on its massive online retail business.\u00a0 The only segment of Amazon\u2019s business that made a decent profit last quarter was from its Cloud hosting services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, the new Amazon way of doing business in the United States is to destroy the retail industry so it can break even<\/strong>.\u00a0 I gather once many of the retail chains have gone out of business; Amazon might then increase its prices and shipping costs.\u00a0 But for now, the mighty online retail chain is firmly entrenched in the U.S. RETAIL CANNIBALIZATION mode.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, if Amazon is successful in destroying a significant portion of the brick and mortar retail industry, it will spell bad news for Americans when the next financial collapse takes place.\u00a0 \u00a0Why?\u00a0 Well, the simple answer is that we can\u2019t go backward.\u00a0 Think about this for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLINKING RED BUBBLE LIGHT: Stock Market Investor Margin Debt Reaches New High The world is standing at the edge of the financial abyss while most investors are entirely in the dark.\u00a0 However, specific indicators suggest the market is one giant RED BLINKING LIGHT.\u00a0 One of these indicators is the amount of margin debt held by [&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":[977,195,4426,12073,2443,860],"class_list":["post-35708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-amazon","tag-debt","tag-margin-debt","tag-srsrocco-report","tag-stock-markets","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708","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=35708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35709,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions\/35709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}