Eat Our Dust, Norway!
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Approaching Dow Fifty K
If invading other countries is this good for the market, I guess we’d better get used to more takeovers. Greenland next, I hear? In any case, the Dow Industrials is many hundreds of points higher and within spitting distance of the never-before-achieved 50,000 level. Go back farther and farther, even as much as a century ago, and you can see how important this resistance line is.
Caracas Muchachos
On the heels of the major international news of the U.S. abduction of the President of a large nation accompanied by military action, asset markets around the world shrugged their shoulders. Indeed, some of the reactions are quite the opposite of what one might expect. For example, if anyone thought seizing Venezuela was all about getting “cheap oil”, take a look at what crude oil futures are going this morning.
