These days there are a lot of comparisons being made with what happened in previous financial crises that unfolded after times of irrational exuberance and reckless monetary policy, but many are failing to grasp how the current situation is hardly comparable to what happened in the past for many reasons….
Category:Educational
A KIND PIECE OF ADVICE FOR EVERYONE
Just a week ago, people were cheering yet another guru predicting mind-blowing growth for stocks like #NVIDIA (Nvidia’s market cap will soar to $50 trillion—yes, trillion—says early investor in Amazon and Tesla). Then, why were they holding their breath so anxiously when the stock was dangerously heading fast towards the…
THE PROOF THAT THE US BLS IS MAKING UP NUMBERS OUT OF THIN AIR
By now we know that US BLS data are totally unrealistic for anyone who lives in the real world. My goal in this article is to demonstrate how, after 2020, the BLS has been literally making up numbers that go against any law of statistics. First of all, let’s start…
GME EPISODE 6: THE RETURN OF THE JEDI
What’s going to happen now to #GME? A straight answer to this question is going to be quite technical and boring, which is why I decided to borrow a bit from George Lucas’s Star Wars saga today to have some fun with it. Episode 1: “The Phantom Menace” If you…
THE CRITICAL LOOPHOLES IN THE LAW THAT MAKE NAKED SHORT-SELLING “LEGAL”
Why did the South Korean financial services regulator commence investigations into potential illegal naked short selling? In September 2023, over 50,000 citizens, frustrated with their losses in the Korean stock market, petitioned the government to investigate unfair trading practices, especially naked short selling, purportedly carried out by brokers and banks….
HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DUMB (CENTRAL BANKS) AND DUMBER (GOVERNMENTS)
Have you ever watched the movie “Dumb and Dumber”? If you have not, you should. If that’s not your genre, at least do me a favor and watch this 41-second video clip here before reading this article. “That’s as good as money sir, those are IOUs”, isn’t this sentence striking…
THE ETHEREUM ETF IS A BIGGER DEAL THAN YOU THINK
Earlier this year in “WHY A BITCOIN ETF WILL REMOVE THE BARRIER BETWEEN CENTRAL BANKS’ MONEY PRINTING AND CRYPTO” we saw a great leap forward being taken toward the fungibility of the crypto and Fiat ecosystems. Was the SEC on board with it? Of course, it wasn’t, and not because…
HOW TO FABRICATE REVENUES FOR DUMMIES (A GUIDE)
Dear readers and followers, considering all the material and inspiration provided lately by great corporate barons and myopic regulators, for fairness, I decided to write a brief guide on how to fabricate revenues so everyone can benefit from it, and not only the big corporations that can afford to pay…
THE DANGERS OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING AND, WHEN THAT IS NOT ENOUGH, ACCOUNTING FRAUD
I have to admit, yesterday was one of those days when I personally struggled quite a bit. While I was going through #UBS financial statements, finding something incredible (if not shocking) on every other page, #UBS share price was skyrocketing in the market (UBS Q1-24 RESULTS REVIEW – THE “LA…
IF YOU WANT TO BECOME RICH, THERE IS NO POINT IN TRYING TO TRADE A STOCK MARKET CRASH, BUT YOU SHOULD START PREPARING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NEXT CYCLICAL BULL RUN THAT WILL COME AFTER
Last week ended with the #VIX closing at 13.49, well below its ~19.50 long-term average, while the CNN “fear and greed” index closed at 40 in “fear” territory. Warren Buffett disclosed his cash “war chest” grew to 189bn #USD and socials have been fantasizing all over the weekend about the…