Don’t listen to what you’re being told. Just look at what you’re actually spending.
Inflation is Thriving!
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Giving You a Wedgie
A new educational video I put together:
What Was THAT?
If you could see inside my brain a few days ago, you knew this day was coming. I was actually toying with just giving up and buying dogshit like KLAR, only because it seemed the market was never, ever, ever going to go down again.
And then Friday happened…………
Options Snapshot
Below are my options holdings. They share a number of things in common:
- They have tons of time (an average of 5.1 months until expiration!)
- They are all simple directional plays (long puts)
- They are all in the money (ranging from 30% to 92%)
- I believe they have much higher profit potential than presently shown
Set Free from Gold
…………..the Fed and Both Aisles Ruined America
With gold no longer an austerity anchor, the Fed and both aisles of government have brought America to this point – call in the Screw Worm!
Pardon the mostly non-market related post. But it’s something I’ve wanted to put in writing for a long time. The Fed is at the controls of the inflation-making machinery in the US (as are global central banks in their own countries).
Inflation does not just appear, as if by some mystical financial mechanism. Inflation is produced with the ease of firing up the printing press. More dollars + finite assets = asset prices rising in those inflated dollars. Not rocket science.
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