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I honestly thought the whole “meme stock” thing was dead and buried, but as the past few days have proved, this is not the case. The desperate desire to gamble and make huge gains overnight is hard to shake for 19-year-old “traders“, and the stars of the past, AMC and GME, are again the stars of today. At least until about 30 hours ago. Both of these stocks, quite predictably, are getting clobbered, and I am highly confident the blood is just going to keep flowing.
The latest completely-made-up and watered-down inflation numbers came out, and they are, surprise, surprise, exactly as anticipated. We’ve become like China in that respect: a number is “supposed” to be certain level (let’s say: Real Inflation divided by 10) and then, oh mah garsh, the official number is the same.
