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Because God is just and merciful, we’re actually going to be treated to our quarterly data trove of earnings to provide some fodder for market movement as opposed to the pathetic mewing of that garden gnome Janet Yellen or the silken-smooth lies of Jerome Hayden Powell. Earnings will start to kick in this week, peaking the week of April 22nd. It will be a welcome change!
As a follow up to my Eclipse post, I’d like to give credit where credit is due. During our vigil in Brownwood, Texas, the chap below – Phil – had come with a very serious telescope. He actually drove from San Francisco to get it safely there, which takes day. The amazing images you saw in my post were creating by him, and those were just a sneak peek of the 1,000+ he took.
It’s seriously unbelievable how much $100 has gained in value across various assets (or, looking at it the other way, how much a dollar has plunged in value).
The latest everyone-has-to-stop-trading-until-the-event-happens is the CPI report on Wednesday morning, an hour before the opening bell. Anyone with a lick of sese knows these numbers are completely made up and are about 1/5th the actual rate of inflation, but everyone pretends they are real anyway. Here is the year-over-year CPI, with 3.4% being the predicted value (HA!!!!)
