Can Stocks Avoid Unlucky (Year) Number 7?

by Dana Lyons The 4th quarter of years ending in “7? have historically exhibited the stock market’s worst quarterly performance of the decadal cycle. Exactly 3 months ago, we published a post highlighting what we discovered to be serially poor historical performance …

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Global Markets: Never before has price ascension been this uni-directional with volatility this compressed and flatlined. There has always never been this much central bank intervention. There is no market history for this to continue.

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/918389272301973504 The $VIX’s corollary, the inverse $XIV, embarked on an explosive near one way journey since the US election coinciding with over $2 trillion central bank intervention in just the first 9 months of 2017… Tech rally stall? @TgMacro sees …

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President Trump,… Please Reinstate the Smith-Mundt Act

We will not be lied to! Quit lying to us! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reinstate-smith-mundt-act H.R.5736 – Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 – Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of …

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Negative Press Coverage of Trump Quantified

by Robert Carbery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trump_vs._CNN.jpg I thought the press coverage of President Trump was slanted but I didn’t think it was this bad.   The obvious bias has now been quantified in new research done by Pew Research Center looking into …

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