Oh my GOD, today is dull. I can only assume everyone’s already left the premises to make plans for the amazing Juneteenth celebration tomorrow. The /ES hasn’t budged for eons………..
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Government Investment Advisors
Take this as a truth: the government will never…………ever…………..EVER……….tell you to sell stocks. Not ever. They’re liars, but they’re Super Liars when things are about to go terribly wrong. I offer into evidence Exhibit A, from February 2020, and I’ve marked the precise moment in time when stocks, evidently, “very good.” Uh-huh.
Retail Real-Tell
This morning’s key economic report was retail, and it was a bit of a whiplash for futures. The core retail month over month figure was expected to be +0.2% but was instead -0.1%. They also had to update the prior month’s figure lower since it was, ya know, totally made up out of whole cloth.
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