Once again investors are made to believe that nothing matters. Only 2 trading days after Friday’s sell off $NDX made new all time history highs. Only 3 days after Friday’s sell-off $SPX […]
State of Denial
The Unseen
Yesterday Mohamed El-Erian advised investors not to buy the dip this time. What do they do? Jam fully into markets again. The addicts can’t be stopped. And so the market follows the […]
Addicts
Containment indeed. The PBOC went into full intervention mode last night trying to minimize the market damage that had been building in futures for the week that Chinese markets were closed. Rate […]
Free Zerohedge
For Fintwit the big news last night was not that the Senate voted not to call witnesses (I don’t think anybody was surprised by that) nor that markets had dropped hard following […]
Big Fed Lie
In real life you can always tell when someone has something to hide when they get really evasive in their answers. And boy was Jay Powell evasive in his press conference yesterday. […]
Drowning in Debt
Ignored but true: All the projections about coming growth as a result of tax cuts have been proven wrong. All the promises that tax cuts would pay for themselves: Wrong. All the […]
Virus Fears
Some market perspectives on this Coronavirus. It was listed as one of the risk factors I outlined in Lurking Risks and it appears to now be indeed market impacting as the virus […]
Hubris
One day this bull market will end and the age of the central banking enabled debt bubble will be exposed for the hubris that it is and all the sins of “potential […]
Lurking Risks
According to the current market action there is no risk. None. Risk doesn’t exist. Whatever wobbles there may be on occasion it’s all priced in within a few minutes and markets proceed […]
Backlash
There’s an old adage: There are two guarantees in life: Death and taxes. Let’s modernize this a bit shall we? While it’s true even the rich still die these days (for now), […]
The Tight Rope Market
None of us can know where markets would be trading without the Fed’s constant massive liquidity injections, but now that the bubble recognition has gone mainstream (Bloomberg, FT) and acknowledged by at […]
Market of the Gaps
The bubble keeps on bubbling, the never ending rally keeps on rallying and the charts keep getting ever more dangerously stretched. Intra-day price discovery is virtually absent as volatility remains woefully compressed […]
