Harry Dent on dead economy: “The dumb money is small traders loading up on call options.” LOL Smart money will “start the downtrend that breaks the back of the dumb money.”

Nearly a fifth of public companies are “zombies” propped up by debt, Harry Dent says. With its “zombie” public companies and small-business failures, the U.S. economy is “dead,” and a second stimulus won’t revive it, Harry S. Dent Jr. argues …

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Bubble Monster? Total Option Call Volumes Versus Fed Balance Sheet (S&P 500 Index, Home Prices, Mortgage Originations, Commercial Real Estate Too)

by confoundedinterest17 Call option volume has soared with The Fed’s endless monetary easing. But it isn’t just call option volumes that increased with The Fed’s balance sheet, but the S&P 500 index and commercial real estate have increased as well. Home …

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‘Paris, London, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Leipzig, Valencia, Liege, Rome. All Have had large Protests/riots in the last week, yet no media outlet wishes to show you”

pic.twitter.com/bt20bcPP4x — Enough. (@HumanUnchained) December 4, 2020 pic.twitter.com/nZQQcevII8 — Enough. (@HumanUnchained) December 4, 2020 pic.twitter.com/7BZcmlxdXS — Enough. (@HumanUnchained) December 4, 2020 https://tweetsave.com/samuel_hall11/status/1334965486044450818 https://nitter.net/Samuel_Hall11/status/1334965486044450818 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKAuWGaqMgU        

Trump Invokes Foreign Interference Provision Of His 2018 Executive Order, Authorizing Military Response (Update)

https://merrileebeazley.org/situation-update-dec-3rd-trump-invokes-foreign-interference-provision-of-his-2018-executive-order-authorizing-military-response-to-cyber-warfare-see-nspm-13/ pic.twitter.com/BnHTnYQgum — Kryschris (@krystalsmom68) December 4, 2020 https://twitter.com/LtlM55/status/1334795571161427968 .@GenFlynn on the MG Show. Listen carefully. @intheMatrixxx @cblcrshr pic.twitter.com/p4G1XjO0WR — intheMatrixxx (@intheMatrixxx) December 4, 2020     h/t JADR

CNBC’s Bob Pisani says the new influx of options traders gets their plays from “educational material” from traditional brokerages such as TD Ameritrade

Is options trading the new sports betting? CNBC’s Bob Pisani joins “The Exchange” to discuss how young retail traders have been pouring into the markets during this pandemic. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/12/04/young-retail-traders-looking-at-options-trading-as-the-new-sports-betting.html

GME Short Squeeze: An In-depth Analysis

by nafizzaki Seeing that a significant interest has developed around the fabled GME short squeeze, I have written this post and I hope this writing provides an overview of the situation. The case for a squeeze: The entire argument for …

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