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If there are ANY bears left out there – – and I’m having my doubts – – there’s getting to be precious little room left until there’s essentially no hope. And by “no hope” I mean “central bankers will just keep pushing this thing up year after year until it stops working, which could be decades from now.” Here are some major cash indexes and their lines in the sand:
I can’t feign surprise at the market getting bid up right out of the gate this morning. It’s the New World Order. Looking at some ETFs, there are a few interesting areas of strength. One, broadly speaking, is commodities, although I don’t think the potential from here is substantial. I’ve tinted what I think is a reasonable target area.
The champion of stock market bulls these days is thrice-married buffoon Larry Kudlow, who – – whenever the market is falling – – is rolled out to utter some kind of banal bromide to calm everyone down and convince them to keeping buying equities, irrespective of valuation metrics. And, frankly, it keeps working. Last week during a big morning selloff, Kudlow saved with one word: “glitch.” He completely dispatched a raft of valid economic data by shrugging it off as a glitch, and markets went soaring.
Personally, I think Larry Kudlow is an amoral, feckless nimrod. But allow me to use history, and not just my own debased opinion, as evidence. I present to you some gems of Larry’s past, just so we can see how prescient this chap really is.
Some of my very favorite bits from a favorite comic of mine; be warned, this is very much NSFW:
This is a nice example of how customer feedback can make Slope better, even in small but important ways. Recently some folks who use mobile devices have been complaining that the symbol is too hard to make out. Until now, there have been a couple of “watermark” choices in SlopeCharts which you could choose if you wanted to augment the center of the chart. You could put in the SlopeCharts logo or the corporate logo, like this:
