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In the end, Jerome Powell will be vilified as a traitor and a con man, and as always, my opinion will be years ahead of its time (and, at its utterance, completely ignored). The cold fact is that (a) inflation, as you can see, is heating up fast (b) there’s not a goddamned thing that scumbags at the Fed can do about it.
It’s all over the news. The U.S. housing bubble, the stock market bubble, and now the crypto market bubble. In fact since the onset of the 21st century we have seemingly stumbled from one market bubble to the next.
(more…)On Monday morning, I got a sympathetic email from a fellow Sloper who was asking if I was holding tough on my XLE puts. I assured him that I was, although I mentioned I felt “horrible” at the surge (tinted below in green) which, evidently, was prompted by the latest stupid government program of waste known as the Build Back Better Boondoggle of $1.2 trillion. Mercifully, since then, the thrill of this latest travesty seems to have eased away.
