by Michael Markowski | May 13, 2020 | alerts, Crash of 2020, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears, Uncategorized
The S&P 500’s rally from its March 2020 low to within 13.2% of its 2020 high has been primarily fueled by the US Federal Reserve’s monetary stimulus. The Fed has and continues to spend trillions to provide the economy with liquidity and to artificially prop up...
by Lance Roberts | May 12, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice
“The stock market is not the economy.” Such is the latest rationalization to support the “bull market” narrative. The question, however, is the validity of the statement. As I noted in this past weekend’s newsletter: “There is...
by Charles Hugh Smith | May 9, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, The Daily Reckoning
The increasing concentration of the ownership of wealth/assets in the top 10% has an under-appreciated consequence: when only the top 10% can afford to buy assets, that unleashes an almost karmic payback for the narrowing of ownership, a.k.a. soaring wealth and income...
by Lance Roberts | May 9, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice
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by Michael Markowski | May 8, 2020 | alerts, Crash of 2020, Crashes, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
The Bull & Bear Tracker’s (BBT) core or automated signals to trade S&P 500’s SPY and SH ETFs outperformed the S&P 500 and also the BBT’s managed signals for the eight months ended February 29, 2020. The risk for BBT’s automated and its managed signals was...
by John Mauldin | May 8, 2020 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
We live in truly historic times. “There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen,” says a quote usually attributed to Vladimir Lenin. It certainly fits now. For thousands of years, people who lived through what we call “history” didn’t realize...