By almost any measure, stocks are sharply overvalued. Warren Buffet’s favorite value metric for stocks is Total Market Cap of the market/ GDP. Today we find this metric showing stocks as sharply overpriced. As Doug Short recently noted,...
Earnings may very well have peaked. MarketWatch notes that adjusted profits (even after all of the accounting gimmicks), FELL last year. This is the first time this has happened since we entered the alleged “recovery.”
Greece, as a country, represents 2% of Europe’s GDP. The country lied in its financial to enter the EU. Since that time, it’s been officially bankrupt since 2010. The country has since gone through a series of “bailouts” and experienced a...
The markets staged a brief dead cat bounce yesterday. We are coming up on the critical 126-day moving average (DMA), which has acted as support for the S&P 500 multiple times since the beginning of 2014.
he US is once again at its Debt Limit. Despite all of the talk of cutting the deficit and the like, the political class continues to throw taxpayer money around at a pace that is bankrupting the nation. To wit: the US is set to hits its...
The global economy is literally imploding. Investors believe that China’s economy is chugging along, but the non-fraudulent data says otherwise.China’s GDP numbers are a total fiction. And Chinese Government officials even ADMIT it! Back...
If your job is to sit in front of a camera selling the notion of getting rich from investing, you’re not going to talk about bonds or currencies (maybe the latter is of interest but only with insane amounts of leverage which usually...
The 2008 Crisis was not THE Crisis. The 2008 Crisis was largely a banking crisis focused on securities. The REAL Crisis will hit when the bond bubble collapses.
The S&P500 continues to trade in a tight range. Despite all the moves over the last two months, we’ve really gone nowhere.
Back in 2012, Mario Draghi promised to “do whatever it takes” to hold the Euro together. A lot of analysts interpreted this statement in a literal sense. However they are incorrect.