What’s Wrong With This Picture?
by Tyler Durden Feb 18, 2017 5:50 PM Turn on any mainstream business channel (or President Trump’s tweet stream) and you will be told how ‘awesome’ everything is going to be… look at stocks, look at sentiment surveys, look at consumer confidence, look at small business optimism. There is two small problems with all of this… […]
Goldman: Investors Will Soon Realize They Were Too Optimistic
by zerohedge.com Feb 18, 2017 8:03 PM After several increasingly more comprehensive critiques of Trump’s fiscal policies (most recently this past weekend), on Friday, just as the S&P closed at fresh all time highs propelled by a late day ramp, Goldman’s chief equity strategist who has a 2,300 year end target on the index, cautioned that […]
Stocks trade in record territory, on track for weekly gains
Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:13 a.m. ET Marketwatch.com BUT……… All three main stock-market indexes were on track for a third straight weekly advance. “A rally on Wall Street on Thursday, amid the lowest volumes, was very interesting. The minute Trump mentioned “phenomenal” tax reforms, [computer trading algorithms] kicked in immediately, bidding up prices of banking […]
“Euphoric” – S&P Risk-Reward Surges To Worst Level In 23 Years
by zerohedge.com Feb 9, 2017 3:40 PM Despite the constant clamor of money-on-the-sidelines (which Cliff Asness has summarily dismissed as being idiotic) about to take stocks on their next leg higher, and near-record high bullish investor sentiment, it appears institutional selling is doing nothing to affect the ‘euphoric’ levels of risk-to-reward in the markets. Full […]
Coincidence? Dow Hits 20,000 As National Debt Reaches $20 Trillion
by zerohedge.com Jan 27, 2017 12:21 PM Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The Dow Jones Industrial Average provides us with some pretty strong evidence that our “stock market boom” has been fueled by debt. On Wednesday, the Dow crossed the 20,000 mark for the first time ever, and this comes at a […]
Why The Massive Expansion Of “Money” Hasn’t Trickled Down To “The Rest of Us”
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If you create and distribute money only in the apex of the wealth/power pyramid, it can only benefit the few rather than the many. There are numerous debates about money: what it is, how we measure it, and so on. In recognition of these debates, I’m referring to […]
The Five Deadly Sins to Successful Investing
Zerohedge.com 1/4/17 George Dvorsky once wrote that: “The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less […]
Goldman Sachs accounts for a quarter of Dow Jones gains since election
BY PETER SCHROEDER – 12/20/16 10:48 AM EST Nearly a quarter of the post-election stock market rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been driven by gains in one company’s stock: Goldman Sachs. The blue-chip Dow Jones stock index has reached new all-time highs since the surprising win by President-elect Donald Trump, and is flirting with clearing over […]
Descend Into The World’s Deepest Gold Mine
by zerohedge.com Dec 11, 2016 3:58 PM Humans will do almost anything for gold. In fact, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, they will even suspend themselves 2.5 miles into the Earth – braving extreme temperatures, armed thieves, and constant seismic activity – just to mine a 30-inch gold reef. Welcome to another day at Mponeng, […]
Schiller Warns: Stocks Are Partying Like Its 1929!
by Tyler Durden Dec 8, 2016 1:30 PM Careful not send the investing into a panic, Robert Schiller appeared on CNBC this morning to explain just how insane the valuation levels of the market are currently… And MarketWatch.com’s Brett Arends lays out the details… I hate to rain on this parade. But the latest lurch […]