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HSOM Part 4 of 10
Japan Approaches Exhaustion
It just kills me how hardly anyone cares about what the central banks are doing. The federal government promising as many trillions as Larry Fink of Blackrock wants, so that he can buy infinite LQD, should have people rioting in the streets. But, nope. This is the equivalent of the Fed telling Tim Cook he can buy as much AAPL as he wants in the open market with infinite trillions. Just vomit-inducing.
In a similar vein, the Japanese equivalent of our Fed has been making direct purchases of their stock market for years, in order to prop up their zombie economy. I’d say the recent lift is coming close to an end, as we approach the price gap.
The entire thing is a global farce, which 99.9999999% of people are too lazy or ignorant to grasp. It’s pretty sad.
(more…)China and Australia Indices: An Abnormal Divergence
As can be seen on the following monthly comparison chart of China’s Shanghai Index (SSEC) and the Australian 200 Futures Index (AUS200), their price swings began to markedly and, abnormally, diverge from December 2017 to present day.
While the AUS200 continued to make new swing highs, the SSEC failed to do so.
The AUS200 has plummeted and has now made a new swing low, while the SSEC has not…yet.
We’ll see if this significant weakness in the AUS200 is a harbinger of much further weakness to come in the SSEC in the next few days/weeks.
(more…)The Stanford Null
Consider this a “cone cleaner.”
Yesterday morning, I drove to what is normally the “Rodeo Drive” of the Silicon Valley, which is the Stanford Shopping Center. It is an outdoor mall, typically crammed with zillionaires eager to spend money. With the exception of a police cruiser parked out front, it was utterly abandoned. I doubt I’ll ever a scene like this again……….
