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Consumers Worried About Inflation. Investors Worried About the Fight. – Ep 810
· More downside to go as investors panic buy stocks. · Robinhood will ultimately go bankrupt. · Jerome Powell gets reappointed as Fed chair. · Consumers are borrowing more, despite rate hikes. · Oil positioning for a big move up.
Bitcoin May Luna After All – Ep 809
· Gold and silver remain strong while gold and silver miners continue caving. · Lisa Cook was not the most qualified person for the FOMC. · Neel Kashkari had a Freudian slip. · Companies are imploding and massive layoffs are coming. · Crypto is collapsing.
Black Monday 2: Electric Boogaloo – Ep 808
· Investors resorted to indiscriminate selling amidst today’s carnage. · The Fed can’t do the impossible. · Housing foreclosures will go through the roof. · Covid shutdowns were just a dress rehearsal for what’s coming next. · Weak hands sold precious metals today.
The Fed Has Already Lost the Inflation Fight – Ep 807
· Stock market gets clobbered. · Crypto market gets clobbered. · Markets still closer to the top than the bottom. · Productivity sees biggest drop since 1947. · We may already be in an inflationary depression.
Fed Hawks Turn Chicken – Ep 806
· Fed raises benchmark interest rates higher than it has in 20 years. · Lyft stock hits 52 week low. · Jerome Powell admires Paul Volcker, but not for his policies. · New York Times argues for less courage and more cowardice.
GDP & Stocks Down + Inflation Up = Recession – Ep 805
· NASDAQ has worst first 4 months since 1971. · S&P has worst first 4 months since 1939. · FANG stocks enter bear market. · Prices increasing faster than wages. · Cathie Wood is the guru of mindless meme stock investing. · Bitcoin HODLers are deer staring into the headlights
Outrageous Positive Spin on Negative GDP – Ep 804
· Mortgage are rates too high for anyone to refinance for better rates. · Markets rally on horrific economic news. · Russia ranks higher than Ukraine in economic freedom.
Good Politics Is Bad Economics – Ep 803
· Elon Musk buys Twitter. · NASDAQ has weakest day since September of 2020. · Indonesia bans palm oil exports. · Bad politics are good for the economy.
Investors on High Wire Without Fed’s Net – Ep 802
· Jerome Powell triggers market selloff after IMF roundtable comments. · Higher inflation is lowering the minimum wage’s barrier of entry. · Bill Ackman loses almost half a billion dollars on his recent Netflix bet. · Bitcoin will crash hard once Paul Tudor Jones bails on it. · Elon Musk’s
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