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Another post thoughtfully composed from the 3 square inches provided on a Southwest Airlines seat. Here we go! This one is focused on Exchange Traded Funds.
First up is gold, by way of GLD, which is in sorry shape (a particular fixation of fellow Sloper TNRevolution). I’d say gold is on a pathway to weakness, which is probably baffling to those of us staring at the $23 trillion in US debt and infinite QE, but there you have it.
The message of this post will be greeted by some with a “Thank God!” and by others with a “Who Cares?“, but I wanted to let you know anyway.
For a while, there has been a quirk in our caching system which resulted in the “latest” blog post shown being rather out of date. Sometimes by an hour, and sometimes by even days. This applied pretty much exclusively to Guest accounts (those who hadn’t even bothered up signing up for a free Sloper account) but a handful of others as well.
(more…)Global central banks have been pumping the liquidity spigots 24/7 and the US Fed is starting to go that way as well. This during a time of supposed economic splendor and fruitfulness (it is these contradictions that are the windows into a ginned up, leveraged economy dependent on monetary policy) while the S&P 500 breaks through the bull turnstile to blue sky.
Just wanted to emphasize a few particularly favorite shorts from this very uncomfortable tiny chair at the Milwaukee Convention Center. Click on any image for a big version so that you can see the ticker in the upper left.
Greetings from snowy Milwaukee. Whenever I travel, I’ll often swing by the newspaper stand at the airport and pick up a New York Times and maybe a Wall Street Journal. It gives me something to do on the plane if I don’t want to bother with WiFi.
A few days ago, I did just that, and there was a feature article about how people were dressing much more casually on planes. The article said that, on the one hand, a business traveler doesn’t want to wear a suit, but on the other, they don’t want to be loafing around in ratty old sweatpants. Thus, there was a happy compromise reached with “nice” sweatpants, and they showed about eight different choices. Here was one of them:
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