Traders are pricing stocks to levels that make sense only if sailing an open sea of glassy calm as far as the eye can see. Priced beyond perfection as though we are gliding through the economy of a gilded age, the market’s rosy optimism is causing both Bloomberg and Bill Maher (and others) to ask […]
Archive for March, 2021
Stocks Stacked High in a Shipwrecked Economy
Posted March 28, 2021 By David HaggithCalifornia Approves Prayer in School … So Long as it is AntiChristian
Posted March 24, 2021 By David HaggithThe state’s new ‘Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum’ extends the left’s cultural dominance of California’s public education system, and seeks to destroy the ‘Christianity, capitalism and racism’ white settlers brought to America. The Department of Education in California – where else? – has approved a 900-page “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum†designed to “decolonize†America. The program […]
Fed and Treasury Steer Their Unsinkable Ship toward Iceberg
Posted March 20, 2021 By David HaggithThis past week we got to observe Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the US stock market and the US bond market do everything I said they would do in their complicated shuffle of ships-and-icebergs: “I’m sure many helium-headed stock investors believe the lilly-livered Fed will turn tail and run from its goal of letting inflation […]
Stocks in Bondage but Fed Not Fazed
Posted March 15, 2021 By David HaggithChairman Powell of the People’s Bank of the USSA would have you believe inflation is no concern because the Federales are in control. The bond vigilantes, with their pistols shoved into his back, would have you believe Powell is their prisoner and is being hauled off to the stockade where his friends in stocks are […]
Stock Market as Forward Looking as a Caboose
Posted March 4, 2021 By David Haggith“Remember that the market is a forward-looking indicator. Ideally, it is pricing in the gains of the next six to 18 months.” (Seeking Alpha) Famous last words again and again. That sunny advice about today’s overpriced market was repeated again about a week ago. It is the same excuse that was routinely deployed at the […]