High-Risk Regime’s 6-Month Anniversary
Submitted by Salil Mehta of Statistical Ideas High-Risk Regime’s 6-Month Anniversary We are more than 1/2 a year since the August stock market crash, sometimes known as China’s Black Monday. …
Read moreWhat Happens To The Market Next: JPMorgan’s Head Quant Explains
JPM’s head quant, Marko Kolanovic, who turned somehwat gloomy in the past few months, has seen some hits and misses in his recent forecasts. On one hand he did accurately…
Read moreMonth-End Market Weakness Looms As Monetary Base Trumps Buybacks
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com, A Useful Leading Indicator? We often see charts comparing the S&P 500 to the growth in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, or more specifically,…
Read moreAnother Former Fed Employee Pleads Guilty To Stealing Secret Fed Data
Another day, another criminal Fed employee admits to being just that. Recall that just yesterday we wrote about former NY Fed employee Jason Gross who somehow managed to avoid a…
Read moreHacker Group “Anonymous” Releases Trump’s Social Security, Phone Numbers
Earlier this month, infamous hacker collective Anonymous declared “war” on Donald Trump who they accuse of being a fascist and seeking to institute a dictatorship in America. We’re not sure…
Read moreNew Documents Reveal “Hillary Clinton Knew Her BlackBerry Wasn’t Secure”
Was Hillary Clinton just arrogant and ignorant (which is a decisively bad combination as it is) or did she knowingly traffic in state secrets on an unsecure server? That’s pretty…
Read moreFive Reasons A Trump Presidency Would Be Good For Gold
Submitted by Peter Diekmeyer via SprottMoney.com, The campaign rhetoric so far indicates that a Trump-led Republican administration would implement “big government conservatism,” policies, financed by increased borrowing and money printing.…
Read more“Data Dependent” Fed Ignores Data But Valuations Matter
Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Data Dependent Fed” Ignores Data I wrote on Tuesday of this week: “The Fed currently finds itself in a tough spot from a “data…
Read moreFed ‘Downgrade’ Sends Stocks To Largest Quarterly Comeback…Ever
It’s easy… [embedded content] But, before we start, some context for just how different it is this time… if The Dow is able to hold this gain through the end…
Read more“Is This Who We Want” – Hillary Strikes Back With Attack Ad Mocking Trump
When yesterday we showed Donald Trump’s first long overdue Hillary Clinton attack ad (which starred Jihadi John, a laughing Putin, and a barking Hillary) which had a simple message “we…
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