Interest rates have been negative in Europe for years. The global lockdown from 2020 has forced banks now to charge all depositors in Germany to keep cash in their banks. Negative nominal interest rates are real in Europe but here in the United States we also have a REAL negative savings rate on our deposits. … Read more
by howmuch Cryptocurrencies saw their values soar in 2021. Big companies like Paypal dove into the market, creating greater access. Demand skyrocketed alongside equity markets as troves of new investors snatched up various cryptocurrencies. And surprisingly, Bitcoin wasn’t the top performer. Use this visualization A significant amount of the gains occurred alongside the ‘Gamestop’ mania as investors and … Read more
by MetricT There appear to be two schools of wildly-diverging thought among investors right now, and I’ve been thinking how to bridge the two camps, since I can’t imagine them being both so incredibly wrong given the amount of money on the line. On the pessimists side are numerous successful investors (Ray Dalio, Jeremy Grantham, Charlie Munger, … Read more
$spx valuation model pic.twitter.com/JoEOkekI5I — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) March 2, 2021 $spx put /call ratio pic.twitter.com/bvObjQ6nL2 — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) March 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1367102942768205824 Deflation. pic.twitter.com/K6hIutHNGL — The Macro Pulse (@TheMacroPulse) March 2, 2021 I agree. Although I think we will ultimately move away from the Ice Age deflationary quagmire, the reflation trade has gone too far, too soon. After a now fully discounted H1 GDP boom, a growth and Inflation slump towards the end of this year … Read more
"Investors are putting full faith in the idea that there is indeed a free lunch and never a price to pay for the Fed's largess and that is certainly how markets are trading. At some point you start to add up all these transitory items"#FBNhttps://t.co/WrStEUSzlB — Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) March 3, 2021
EU must prepare for ‘era of pandemics’, von der Leyen says https://t.co/hcHgfsaoeN — FT Europe (@ftbrussels) February 28, 2021 AC
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by J. Johnson via JS Mineset Great and Wonderful Tuesday Morning Folks, Late last night, I observed the hammer coming back to nail the precious metals lower. To me, the desperation is becoming more obvious by the day, as Gold reversed with the April contract at $1,725.50, up $2.50 after being dipped to $1,704.60 with the high to … Read more
Following Student Press Freedom Day, FIRE files a lawsuit on behalf of student newspaper and editor-in-chief against Haskell Indian Nations University and its president who issued “directive” forbidding routine newsgathering Federally-operated tribal university in Kansas shorted funding for student newspaper by over $10,000 without any explanation and ignored emails for months LAWRENCE, Kan., March 2, … Read more