Global Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Trends
Tick tock goes the U.S. debt clock. Here’s 25,613,445,552,880 reasons to be fearful of further volatility in the markets: For a few more, go here: https://usdebtclock.org At some stage, this number will become very important and when it does, it will become important to everyone. We are long volatility/fear in the markets as complacency has set […]
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” -Leo Tolstoy Since we last posted on the US Debt on April 14, 2020., the US Debt has grown by $988,212,848,164 That’s almost another Trillion Dollars in 1 month. The National Debt is
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Portfolio Update: 11 October 2018 -Present +30.65% Vs SPY-S&P 500 Index +4% in same time frame. Investment Themes: Short S&P 500, Long Volatility, Meat Shortage, Gold Miners, Coffee Addiction, Investment Grade Corporate Bonds, Water, Gold, Silver, 1-3 Year U.S. Treasuries, Codiv 19 Vaccine, Phone your Doc, Long U.S. Dollar.
We can see from the 6 month chart of the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) above that the beginning of this recent market rally saw huge buying volume in late March. Last week saw dwindling buying volume creep in which is below the average over the past 6 months. Lower buying volume is often
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‘Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences’ – Robert Louis Stevenson Exit stage denial & enter stage anger. We are exiting the denial stage and entering the stage of anger as detailed in Elizabeth Kuubler Ross’s Paradigm of Loss Model in relation to the Covid 19 Pandemic and ensuing economic crisis.
We have added a short on the S&P 500 -IVY, gone long volatility again, and added some Cows.
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” (Sir Walter Scott, 1808). Since we last posted on the UD Debt on April 4, 2020., the US Debt has grown by $219,997,502,898 That’s almost another Quarter Trillion Dollars in 1 week. The National Debt is now over $24.236 Trillion Dollars and
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