Aside from reporting another blowout quarter, Amazon also dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, announcing that its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in Q3 2021. Bezos, whose stake in Amazon has made him the richest ma…
I give you a 2 hour bar chart for perspective. This is unquestionably, absitively, posolutely, the top of this move. I mean. You can tell. Right?
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.
Today’s Fed QE
Some stuff I’ve been reading that (sometimes) falls into current newsflow: Kalda, Ankit and Loos, Benjamin and Previtero, Alessandro and Hackethal, Andreas paper, titled “Smart(Phone) Investing? A within Investor-Time Analysis of New Technologies …
Unfortunately, the technical picture has turned darker in the short run. The wallstreetbets crowd bullish raid on silver hasn’t meant much for the mining sector…
Super Bowl LV is less than a week away, and many are pegging the championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a classic battle of old versus new. Former New England Patriot and 43-year-old quarterback Tom Brady leads the…
This heavily managed ‘market structure’ is far from equilibrium and extremely prone to instability.
Some while ago, precious rare earths important in the production of microchips, electronics and electric motors were almost exclusively sourced in China. In recent years, several nations have picked up production again while new players entered the mar…
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights group, has released its annual census documenting American hate groups. Even though 2020 proved one of the most politically divisive years in U.S. history with conspiracy theories and white nati…