Preface to all three parts: The next few weeks might – – might!! – – be a bearish oasis in a vast bullish Sahara. I offer below one-third of my Bear Pen:

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Preface to all three parts: The next few weeks might – – might!! – – be a bearish oasis in a vast bullish Sahara. I offer below one-third of my Bear Pen:
$14,000,000,000,000 (that’s Fourteen TRILLION dollars) has been pissed away on the military since 9/11, and here is the net result. This is the Taliban. For real.
I offer to you below two updated ratio charts which vividly illustrates how at-risk the equity “market” is right now.