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Excerpted from Notes From the Rabbit Hole #240, dated May 26, 2013.
Alan Greenspan gave them the playbook (Credit & Debt Manipulation 101) and now Ben Bernanke and global inflators everywhere have taken the ball and run with it in new, innovative and levered up ways. Actually it’s a game of Whack-a-Mole and they play it well, these inflating moles. The minute you think you’re going to drop the hammer on one of their heads, he’s gone and another one pops up elsewhere. (more…)
I read a piece this morning by Josh Brown, the Reformed Broker, in which he destroys the 1999 comparison for the stock market. He makes some excellent points about why the stock market is not only not over valued compared to 1999, but is actually a bargain. You should read it because we should all be considerate of rational views. (more…)
We have a bunch of economic data on tap for the market to get emotional over. Jerk to the left, jerk to the right; as if any one period’s data is anything other than a reason to game a market running on pure momentum.
And then we have Huey, Dooey, Louie and even a couple more popping out to dump even more signals on the market as we go full frontal Jawbone today: (more…)
This is the most obnoxious market I have ever seen. People are like sheep trumpeting everything the dear and great leader wants trumpeted. Ever since gold began to unwind in the 2011 kick off to the Euro crisis, market participants have been following media driven hysteria like schools of fish following the lead fish. Or is it flocks of birds? (more…)
Excerpted from Notes From the Rabbit Hole #237:
Young FrankenMarket Lives
In failing to take a “healthy” correction to the equivalent of SPX 1350 to 1450 from the upside target zone of 1550 to 1590, the market is now running on policy and momentum. Hence we now dub thee Young FrankenMarket; Ben Bernanke’s creation, sustained by government and legacy MBA debt, following Alan Greenspan’s monster that was stitched together with artificially low interest rates that ultimately manifested in a huge commercial credit bubble. (more…)
