by irdadmin | Feb 5, 2016 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The global economy, including and especially the United States, is collapsing. It’s debatable whether or not the western hemisphere countries produced true inflation-adjusted real GDP growth from 2009 to present. Yes, I know the numbers the U.S....
by irdadmin | Feb 3, 2016 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, U.S. Economy
There has been no improvement in underlying consumer liquidity conditions. Correspondingly, with no fundamental growth in liquidity to fuel increasing consumer activity, there is no basis for a current or imminent recovery in the housing market. – John Williams,...
by irdadmin | Feb 3, 2016 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, U.S. Economy
First of all, regard this as a warning to get your cash out of any funds at Legg Mason that are touched by Bill Miller. The last time Miller was this bullish on stocks and AMZN, the S&P 500 collapsed from 1550 to 700 in 17 months. Miller bills himself as a...
by irdadmin | Feb 1, 2016 | Financial Markets, U.S. Economy
Toward the end of last week, when the S&P jumped 58 points (3%) for the week, 46 on Friday alone. The negative interest rate announcement by the Bank of Japan triggered the move on Friday. Earlier in the week the bottom-callers in oil were on their megaphone...
by irdadmin | Jan 31, 2016 | Financial Markets, U.S. Economy
The weekly issue of the Short Seller’s Journal has been released this afternoon. This is my best issue yet and includes an options trading resource (emailed separately). I have identified a short-sell idea that takes advantage of a highly leveraged company...