One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
Today's stock market brought to you the number '25' and the word 'algo'...
What happened during the last FOMC meeting week?
Charts: Bloomberg
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Tens Of Thousands Of Properties To Be "Dumped" On London Real Estate Market By 2017
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
"Fool Me Thrice?" - WTI Crude Nears $38, Up Over 10% In 28 Hours
Presented with little comment.. aside to note that every rip from a dip is greeted by the mainstream stock enthusiasts as a balls-deep buying opportunity in every oil & gas stock... only to be grossly disappointed a day or two later...
Stocks flip-flopped from USDJPY to crude as correlation-algo-in-chief...
But did stops just get run?
And credit is continuing to collapse as stocks bounce...
"Fool Me Thrice?"
Charts: Bloomberg
Why Has The Labor Participation Rate Plunged?
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Combine this regulatory burden with the decline of entrepreneurship, and you get a bubbling brew that is toxic to self-employment/small business.
Why has the percentage of the population that's in the work force declined so dramatically? It's a question many have asked, and Gordon T. Long and I attempt to answer in our most recent video program The Participation Rate Mystery--Solved.
What Happens When Stocks Catch Up With Commodities?
Since 2009, the global markets have been largely steered by Central Bank policy, NOT organic economic growth. With the debt-based monetary system dangerously close to shutting down during the 2008 meltdown, Central Banks stepped in as the “buyers of last resort” to provide a backstop to the system.