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Seventy-eight days have passed since the April 7th low. Since that time, life for the bears has gone from Awesome to Unbearable (so to speak). This became even more unbearable-er as the semiconductor fund SMH stopped dicking around with its trendline and made the leap higher.
Quantum computing has been a red-hot sector until just recently. To my way of thinking, this is just a hot potato, and everyone is passing it around, hoping not to be the one who gets burned. There is no business at all in quantum right now, and this technology might still be decades off. People get hyped about stuff like fusion energy, 3-d printing, gene editing, and all kinds of other stories that investment banks like to push. This is just the latest.
Here’s some genius-level government management of business for you: the car brand most affected by the (surviving) tariffs will be none other than………..Buick. That’ll show ’em!
Here’s an example of how dangerous it is to jump on board some hot-sounding idea: earlier this week, on the heels of the success of drones in the battlefield around the world, people decided to pile into American companies that make drones. These equities ripped higher, but by today – – all gone.
