This is a syndicated repost courtesy of Money Morning. To view original, click here. Reposted with permission. The U.S. stock market logged an impressive first quarter. Shrugging off budget cuts, tax hikes, and more Eurozone misery, U.S. stocks climbed to record territory on several occasions. On March 5, the Dow broke through its record close…
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The Market’s Getting a Wedgie
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The “risk-on” stock market is getting a wedgie, and so is its “risk-off” counterpart, the U.S. dollar.
The U.S. stock market is getting a wedgie, and so is the U.S. dollar. That matters, as wedges tend to break up or down in a big way. Stocks…
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The One Chart That Says It All
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Depending on debt to fuel nominal growth leads to an economic death spiral.
Sometimes one chart says it all. Here is a chart of the S&P 500 (a broadly based measure of the U.S. stock market) in a ratio with total consumer credit, courtesy…
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Increasing Volatility: Prelude To A Crash?
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The megaphone pattern in the U.S. stock market typically presages a major decline or full-blown crash.
Market observers have long noted that increasing volatility presages market crashes. If you glance at a chart of September-October 1929, just b…
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New Fed paper: Boomers selling may depress stocks for next two decades…
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Bloomberg link
Stating the obvious. Love the author’s contention that maybe the Asians will buy our (Boomers’s) shares from us.
Excerpt:
Americans born between 1946 and 1964 are beginning to retire as the U.S. stock market is still recovering from …
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Community-Based Alternatives to Corporate America
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As I have often observed, the majority of America’s household income flows to a handful of corporate cartels protected by the Central State. Most of the mortgage payments flow to the “too big to fail” banks. Most of the telecom payments flow to the…
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Warning Signs For U.S. Stock Market
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Maybe this time ISN’T different…..
Humans, for whatever reason, tend to project the past into the future. It is an emotional flaw in our genetic makeup. It is also the reason why so many otherwise intelligent people miss the big turning points …
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Stock Market – Overvalued, Overbought and Overbullish
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Is this a bad time to buy/own stocks? Apparently Hussman thinks so…
In recent weeks, the U.S. stock market has been characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising-yields syndrome that has historically been hostile to stocks. Last…
