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Mar 7, 20244 min read
The Perfect Storm
In markets as in real life, the crazier things get the more human beings attempt to "normalize" absurdity. It's a form of mental defense...
Mar 4, 20243 min read
The Super Minsky Moment
When Nassim Taleb coined "The Black Swan Event" he did Wall Street a huge favour - He gave them plausible deniability to ignore all risk...
Mar 1, 20240 min read
Mar 1, 20242 min read
Artificial Intelligence Is Rampant
This is the morning report for March 1st, 2024. From Barron's this morning: Stocks Are Ignoring The Fed: AI Is A High Risk Catalyst "The...
Feb 29, 20243 min read
Financial WMD
This is the monthly market report for February 2024. This is all an experiment in maximum financial idiocy. The results of which are TBD....
Feb 29, 20241 min read
February RISK ON
As I said on Wednesday, this casino is on fire. For some reason, markets simmered in January and then went parabolic in February. Nvidia...
Feb 28, 20242 min read
The Casino Is On Fire
This is a special report ahead of the PCE inflation report tomorrow (Thursday). The animal spirits are running hot right now ahead of the...
Feb 28, 20241 min read
Morning Market Report: Feb. 28th, 2024
These were two headlines one after the other this morning on Marketwatch: There's a point at which the financial media's desire to pander...
Feb 27, 20243 min read
The Casinofication of Markets
Over the weekend Warren Buffett remarked that markets were increasingly resembling a casino. He came up with several different plausible...
Feb 27, 20242 min read
Closing Market Report: Feb. 27th, 2024
Following last week's Nvidia-driven gap run, this week has been a very boring market. Both volume and volatility have collapsed. As I...
Feb 27, 20242 min read
The Magnificent Seven
For a change from the usual routine this morning, I'm going to give an update on the seven mega cap Tech stocks that were dubbed "The...
Feb 26, 20242 min read
Fed Policy Error Update
It was a boring day on the markets so I was perusing some of my Fed (FRED) database charts and noticed that consumer delinquencies have...
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