Yearly Archives: 2018

Who Is Financing The U.S. Budget Deficit?

In case you missed it in our last post, here’s an interesting chart illustrating how the U.S. budget deficit has been funded since 2010 on a quarterly basis.  The data are annualized. During QE2 and QE3, from Q4 2010 to Q4 … Continue reading

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Major Stock Index Recovery Percentages

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Stocks And Bonds Now Joined At The Hip

Market Recovery The U.S. stock market rallied Friday on the six bps decline in the 10-year Treasury yield.  The S&P500 has now recovered 63.09 percent of its peak-to-low loss.  We are looking for 2,805 on the S&P500 for a green … Continue reading

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Week In Review – February 23

Bonds Are The Dog Wagging The Equity Tail A relatively quiet week on a close-to-close basis as not much movement because of no move in the bond.  The bond-stock correlation is extremely high.   The bond and S&P500 have moved in … Continue reading

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Why Arming Teachers Is A Really Dumb Idea (In Pictures)

Sometimes you need a crayon to illustrate a simple point.  We will use pictures. Where is your market? And one reason why we have this: Looks like the useful idiots in Washington are still taking their dumb-dumb pills.   Queen Victoria

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Sector ETF Performance – February 23

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Global Risk Monitor – February 23

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Jumping On The Comeback Karl Train

Wow!  Seeing more of Karl since our post:  Karl, The Comeback Kid? Bloomberg just retweeted this: Maybe Karl Marx was right https://t.co/BtT0SDPRrY pic.twitter.com/AWMtw4UIYJ — Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) September 26, 2017  

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Manhatten Rush Hour Before Uber

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The Coming “Socialist Wave” – NRA

You heard it here first, comrades! On Tuesday night we posted, Karl, The Comeback Kid? We intended to point out  what may be coming over the next decade as job-destroying automation through artificial intelligence and robotics accelerates and drives the … Continue reading

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