Barron’s: Investors are calling the Federal Reserve’s bluff. “We don’t believe you,” the futures market is effectively telling the Fed

https://www.barrons.com/articles/stock-market-hawkish-fed-51624052659 The Federal Open Market Committee’s latest policy communications raised more questions than answers. Perhaps the biggest one: Can the Fed ever really raise interest rates? ​ At face value, and with a big dose of relativity, this past week’s …

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Investors Won’t Buy the “Transitory” Inflation Line

by Daniel Lacalle via Mises The Federal Reserve and European Central Bank repeat that the recent inflationary spike is “transitory.” The problem is that investors do not buy it. Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon, and this time is not different. What central banks call transitory effects, and …

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Investors are estimated to have lost $930 million on their short positions in meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment over the last five trading days

LONDON (Reuters) – Investors are estimated to have lost $930 million on their short positions in meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment over the last five trading days, data from financial analytics firm Ortex showed on Tuesday. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamestop-amc-short-sellers-sit-110554197.html

Uber investors finally see the costs of treating drivers as employees, and the stock is falling. Uber sets aside $600 million for U.K. drivers as a result of court finding

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-investors-finally-see-the-costs-of-treating-drivers-as-employees-and-the-stock-is-falling-11620265604 Uber Technologies Inc. has spent and fought to keep its drivers from becoming classified as employees instead of contractors, and investors finally got a glimpse of the financial reasons on Wednesday. Uber UBER, -3.42% broke out $600 million from …

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At this time, people are convinced that Debt is infinite & the FED will protect the Economy, investors & population…as ever

At this time, people are convinced that Debt is infinite & the FED will protect the Economy, investors & population…as ever😈 pic.twitter.com/JQs05kFgzg — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) April 18, 2021 https://twitter.com/RetirementRight/status/1383932098247938053 https://twitter.com/RetirementRight/status/1383880662340444166 In Elliott Wave (Social Mood) terms, we call this …

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Elon Musk scamming consumers and investors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWOtzTnEAkk When Telsa was going bankrupt he started false promises in the area of self driving cars scamming billions from consumers and investors. They are also risking lives by promising their self driving tech works when it doesn’t.   h/t  …

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The Fed Has Forced Investors To Take On Excess Risk

by Lance Roberts Since the “Financial Crisis,”  the hope was that inflating asset prices would trickle down into economic growth. Unfortunately, after a decade of monetary interventions and artificially suppressed interest rates, the wealth gap has exploded. More problematic is the …

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