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Short the living hell out of it. Honestly.
Because what, exactly, will it mean when the government fully re-opens for business? Well, what it’ll mean for the markets is that the one huge uncertainty before them disappears, and everyone already has their index fingers poised over the Buy button for that almost-assured event. (more…)
Well, my fellow Slope-a-Dopes, we are heading straight into the fierce fiery ferocious fangs of FFFF! And yes, macro event risk & economic data points can and will have an immediate impact on our capital markets. (more…)
Now that PFC Manning has been convicted of 19 charges (his crime, lest you need reminding, was to expose a morsel of our corrupt government), I thought I’d share the video that was the centerpiece of what he unveiled to the world: U.S. military personnel – – basically boys who got to live our their puerile Shoot ‘Em Up fantasies in real life instead of on their XBox – – slaughter civilians. We all have an unwilling part in this, remember: (a) you work hard to earn money; (b) you are forced to hand over a sizable part of your earnings to the government, lest you be imprisoned; (c) some of the money goes to operations like this. Makes you feel warm all over, right? If not, maybe you should watch the video. Seriously. Press Play. (more…)
