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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

Last week we found out that Dallas Fed president Kaplan knows that the Fed is creating excess and imbalances in stocks. Yes, bloating the Fed’s balance sheet by over $400B  in four […]

We’re still only a few days into 2020 but a very reliable trend has already emerged and bears watching. The trend: No matter what happens anywhere in the world or even if […]

Finally. A glimmer of cognition. An admission. A sense that the Fed knows, but is largely unwilling to admit it. But Dallas Fed president Kaplan let it slip, the truth everybody already […]

Some quick takes here on events of the day: The lunatics are running the asylum and they pretend to be the sane ones. The Fed is not letting up on their liquidity […]