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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Repeat: Paedo-In-Chief Trump Is Not Coming To Save You Or 'The Children'When will the Trumpstein brigade get it into their heads all politics is theatre. All puppeticians are actors with skeletons in their cupboards - that’s how they get the job in the first place |
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Overall, then, the stock market stands at the highest level of valuations in U.S. history, easily eclipsing the extremes of 1929 and 2000.
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
Mark Twain
When desire disagrees with judgment, there is a disease of the mind: and to make a man forget the past, and blind him to the future, is as easy as making him drunk. The impression of invincibility is disaster itself. The stronger the illusion, the greater the fall.”
– Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly
The Impression of Invincibility
John P. Hussman, Ph.D.
President, Hussman Investment Trust
July 20, 2025
Monday, July 21, 2025
Blind Man’s
Bluff!
Are we in
a new era of unstoppable security prices??
Or
Another
history making bubble??
Sentiment Changes
Saturday, July 19, 2025
The High-Tech
Market
Distortion
Waiting for the Year 2000 Market Redo!!
The top 10 companies in
the S&P 500, as measured by market capitalization, represent approximately
38% of the index's total market capitalization. This indicates a high degree of concentration
within the index, as a relatively small number of companies account for a
significant portion of its overall value.
NVIDIA (NVDA): $4.022
trillion.
Microsoft (MSFT):
$3.740 trillion.
Apple (AAPL): $3.153
trillion.
Amazon (AMZN): $2.388
trillion.
Alphabet (Google) (GOOG):
$2.192 trillion.
Meta Platforms
(Facebook) (META): $1.804 trillion.
Broadcom (AVGO): $1.290
trillion.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B):
$1.026 trillion
Tesla (TSLA): $1.009
trillion.
JPMorgan Chase (JPM):
$797.20 billion.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Inflation
Stocks versus
Bonds
Has the inflation
dragon retired to his cave with the latest annualized 2.7% increase? So far the long end of the debt market hasn’t
thrown in the towel with the bell weather 30 year Treasury bond breaking the current
yield level of 5%. Worries are abounding
with inflation determined to remain along with budget deficits massively
growing as far as the eye can see.
If history is any guide
the first sign of trouble in the equity markets the Federal Reserve will turn
back into doves creating a floor instead of ceiling of 5% for the 30 Treasury
bond.
What does all of this mean
for long term investors??
DYI’s Earnings Yield
Coverage Ratio - [EYC Ratio] as the stock market is close to my crash alert
level under 0.50! Today 7-16-2025 the
Shiller PE stands at 38.03 and Vanguard’s Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund at
5.48% pushing the EYC Ratio to 0.53 any number below 0.50 it is a high
probability bonds out performing stocks.
The S&P 500 index
with its tiny dividend yield at 1.24% as compared to Vanguard’s Long-Term
Investment Grade fund at 5.48% is a 342% difference in yield. Shiller PE at 38 investors is not just
expecting but demanding earnings growth way beyond anytime in history to
maintain the expansion of equity prices.
Bottom line: Long-Term high grade corporate bonds
(reinvesting the interest) bought today go to sleep like Rip Van Winkle waking
10 years it is likely to outperform the S&P 500. When DYI’s EYC Ratio drops below 0.50 (low
0.40 level) your probability is so high of outperformance the expression is “shooting
fish in a barrel!”
Friday, July 11, 2025
The (Declining) Status of the US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into other Currencies & Gold
by Wolf Richter •
The dollar’s status as dominant foreign exchange-reserve currency has been diminishing for years as central banks have been diversifying to other currencies and over the past three years massively into gold. The decline of the dollar has been slow and halting, a couple of steps forward, one step back, sometimes bigger steps, other times smaller steps, and it remains by far the dominant global reserve currency. But the long-term trend is clear – and this has significant long-term consequences for the US.
The share of USD-denominated foreign exchange reserves declined to 57.7% of total foreign exchange reserves in Q1, according to IMF’s data today. In Q3 2024, the dollar’s share had dropped to a 30-year low.
Why is the dollar’s status as global reserve currency important?
Central banks other than the Fed have purchased $6.7 trillion in dollar-denominated financial assets, largely US Treasury securities. This money flow into the US has helped the US fund its twin deficits – the huge trade deficit and the even huger budget deficit – and thereby has enabled the US to incur those two deficits.
The dollar status as the dominant reserve currency has been crucial for the US, it has enabled the US to live beyond its means. As that dominance declines slowly — two steps forward, one step back — all kinds of risks pile up ever so slowly, including the sustainability of the government deficits and the debt.
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DYI: Our debt pile up. 1st gear 1980; 2nd gear 2000; 3rd gear 2009; 4th gear 2020.
When the next recession hits will the Fed's push the panic button and push inflation into overdrive? So far history says yes they will driving the U.S. economy back into the 20 year inflationary cycle of 1965 to 1985. The current ploy for individual investors is not the return on your principal but the return of your principal after inflation!
I've added to my sentiment indicators Swiss Treasury Securities as another possible safe haven from the long term effects of U.S. inflation.
Smart Money - Buys Aggressively!
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Kennedy gutted FOIA offices months ago. Gee, I wonder why.
This lying scam artist now wants to see every American wearing a “wearable” aka “injectable” within 4 years and promotes the CDC’s quackcine schedule that he knows perfectly well is not safe and knows or ought to know is not needed.