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I’ve been noticing companies that cater to people with horrible credit aren’t doing that great lately. For example, one Sloper has been asking me to do a write-up on Affirm, which is a company founded by one of the Paypal Mafia (Max Levchin) which has been a complete freak show.
Today was an important step forward in the market’s breakdown. When the biggest banks, which have unlimited access to however many trillions of dollars they demand from the US Government, can’t manage to blow earnings expectations out of the water, you know something is wrong. From a charting perspective, the financial sector leaped to the other side of its breakout (note arrows), thus completing a failed bullish breakout.
The earnings season for Q4 2021 begins in earnest tomorrow morning, and as is customary, the banks lead it off. I guess the banks go first since it’s so simple to calculate profits when all they have to do is ask for free money from the government. Here are the “big four” that declare their criminal, ill-gotten gains before the opening bell:
It has strengthened a bit since I took this screenshot, but I wanted to point out that bonds, by way of the TLT fund, have closed their price gap and look poised to rally (as counter-intuitive as that may seem in a world of ostensibly rising interest rates):
