source / The Money GPS The most overlooked asset finally gets some love. Financial companies absolutely hate precious metals. They joke about it at the water cooler. I’ve heard it with my own ears. Even the consideration that a precious metal even exists has perplexed those in the fee-driven industry. But now today we have […]
source / The Money GPS With the retail trading frenzy taking place, everyone is wondering which stock is next to pop, but also, what will eventually come of this? Historically, over the last 100 years, every single event ended with retail buyers in last, and the fallout occurred. Now this time there’s massive coordination on […]
source / The Money GPS The prominence of passive investments, as in ETF’s have grown to such a degree, they’re truly pervasive. There’s an ETF for everything. More investors are choosing ETF’s instead of mutual funds, instead of single stocks. They just want exposure to a particular index and this makes it extremely easy. The […]
source / The Money GPS It looks like we could be at a pivotal moment in the financial system. Where an organized group of traders are taking on a strategy that isn’t new but has never been implemented on this scale. As a result, stocks that were previously little known, low on liquidity, bankrupt, destined […]
source / The Money GPS Alternative Data Show Growth Stumble on Fresh Virus Fear: Chart – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/alternative-data-sho… Pandemic aftershocks overwhelm global supply lines Pandemic aftershocks overwhelm global supply lines One year after the coronavirus pandemic first disrupted global supply chains by closing Chinese factories, fresh shipping headaches are delaying U.S.
source / The Money GPS Let’s face it, the market is broken. But to clarify, it was broken a long time ago. What we are seeing today in some ways has escalated beyond what we saw in 2000. Beyond the subprime nonsense. This is simply speculation to the highest degree possible. Even the remnants of […]
source / The Money GPS We went from overvalued, to just plain ol’ dumb. The markets are now buying stocks that were basically dying and on the way out. Is Blockbuster Video still around, might want to pick up a couple shares of that while we’re at it. It’s nonsense. Now certainly there are people […]
source / The Money GPS We can leverage our stock positions, our entire portfolio in fact, to the maximum level. We can borrow money from everyone we know, from our credit cards, cash advance places, and every other means of acquiring more capital, because the Fed has my back, right? I mean, if you truly […]
source / The Money GPS We are living in fantasy land right now. Everything has been pushed back. All pain has been delayed. We have taken a painkiller, but the emergency is not gone. It’s only covered up. As Bernanke promised, Fed activities would be temporary and once the economy was strong, these actions would […]
source / The Money GPS If It Looks Like a Bubble and Swims Like a Bubble… – WSJ If It Looks Like a Bubble and Swims Like a Bubble… I have been resisting the comparison between the dot-com bubble and today’s stock market, but the similarities have grown too strong to ignore. Here are five […]
