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At least so far, the majority of Brits haven’t been directly affected by the goods shortages caused in part by a chronic shortage in lorry drivers in the country. Nevertheless, almost a quarter report having been unable to purchase their desired non-es…
Here’s the 2 hour bar chart. While we still have an hourly bear market, the 5 day cycle count and pattern of the past two weeks certainly looks base-y. The levels to watch on the downside are 4327 and 4309. Break those and we could have a bear party.
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Today’s Fed QE
When all feels hopeless is usually when a bottom arrives. Right now feels semi hopeless. Maybe not a good thing.
If this was a daily chart, it would be a bear market. It’s not. It’s just 2 hour bars. And last week’s triangle breakout looks like a bottom. The current pullback would be a test of the low, and it appears to have reversed in the last hour, as of 6 AM …
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
One might anticipate that the bottom 50%’s meager share of the nation’s exploding wealth would have increased as smartly as the wealth of the billionaires, but alas, no.