How big is the asset bubble? This big:

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1458057666647953409 The HELOC ATM machine is back. pic.twitter.com/HKEFaY7k92 — SolidusMax (@SolidusMax) November 9, 2021 spicy https://t.co/8PWVRajif4 — IV (@iv_technicals) November 9, 2021 The most intoxicating feature of mania is buying into the fallacy that "fundamentals" created the paper gains in …

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Evergrande CEO in Hong Kong for restructuring and asset sales as the Chinese developer battles against default on more than $300 billion in debts. That’s a whole lotta debt.

HONG KONG – Evergrande Group’s chief executive is holding talks in Hong Kong with investment banks and creditors over a possible restructuring and asset sales, two people said, as the Chinese developer battles against default on more than $300 billion …

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What Is Crypto Asset Protection?

Crypto assets are decentralized, which means they’re beyond the control and regulation of any central authority. This is good because it means no government can tell you what to do with your crypto assets.   The paradox of cryptocurrencies is that …

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Perhaps an interesting trio of charts for asset allocators…

🌍 Perhaps an interesting trio of charts for asset allocators… pic.twitter.com/PY4lnwPslJ — Mikael Sarwe (@MikaelSarwe) August 17, 2021 Macro expectations vs. equity allocation 👇 Draw your own conclusion. Ht @MikaelSarwe (BofA) pic.twitter.com/5muXG046y5 — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) August 17, 2021 …

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Fed Starting Campaign To Taper Its Asset Purchases

by Lance Roberts  Over the last couple of months, the Fed started its campaign to prepare markets for a “taper” of its asset purchases. Michael Lebowitz noted that Jerome Powell repeatedly affirmed the Fed “isn’t even thinking about thinking about tapering.” “As Chairman …

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Two Pins Threatening Multiple Asset Bubbles

Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Powell Says Fed Policies “Absolutely” Don’t Add To Inequality” – Bloomberg May 2020 The headline above is but one of countless times Fed Chairman Powell and his colleagues confidently said their policies do not …

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The Fed would rather keep inflating the everything asset bubble & keep expanding the wealth gap as opposed to risk a single sell off in markets…

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1386672704170991620 Commodity Momentum, initial stages of a new commodity bull market like the early 1970s, or does it represent the typical post-recession recovery roadmap? India caving in to COVID19 is already a big negative sign if we think they should …

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There’s so much money sloshing around the system we’ve had to invent new asset classes (crypto, SPACs, art and music NFTs, meme stocks, sneakers, sports highlight videos, etc) to absorb it all.

There's so much money sloshing around the system we've had to invent new asset classes (crypto, SPACs, art and music NFTs, meme stocks, sneakers, sports highlight videos, etc) to absorb it all. — John Arnold (@johnarnold) March 14, 2021 OK, …

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