China’s 10-year government bond yields have just hit a historic low at 1.64%. Despite this downward trend continuing for a while, there is still a great deal of misunderstanding about what’s happening here in the Western part of the world (with many mainstream media and social media “gurus” not missing…
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WHAT IF MICROSTRATEGY BECOMES TOO BIG TO FAIL?
After markets closed on December 23rd, MicroStrategy shocked the world by filing a proposal to increase its number of authorized Class A shares by a staggering 10 billion, equivalent to approximately 97% dilution for current shareholders (SEC Filing). Crazy, isn’t it? Indeed, but there’s definitely more to this than meets…
THE RACE AGAINST TIME TO DEFUSE ANOTHER INCOMING VOLMAGEDDON
What can go wrong when call options written on $6 trillion worth of notional expire simultaneously? Today will be the largest OPEX expiry ever, with equity options tied to a total of $6.6 trillion worth of notional expiring simultaneously. What’s special about this OPEX besides its enormous size? For every…
MICROSOFT CEO KNOWS HIS REVENUES ROUND-TRIPPING SCHEME IS FALLING APART AND IS PREPARING TO CONTAIN THE DAMAGES
Have you noticed how more and more people are distancing themselves from S(c)am Altman? Microsoft’s CEO, who according to his own words “bet the farm on OpenAI”, is the latest high-profile figure showing signs of frustration towards OpenAI’s CEO, despite his best efforts to hide them. Who can blame him?…
THE SMCI CANARY IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR SECTOR COAL MINE STOPPED SINGING MONTHS AGO
At the beginning of the year, something very interesting happened around SMCI that no one, including myself, paid attention to: despite the stock hitting an all-time high of $118.81 (post-split) on March 13th and falling hard to $75 in just a month, Wall Street analysts kept increasing their target prices…
FARTCOIN IS THE LATEST PROOF OF HOW DIAMETRICALLY WRONG CENTRAL BANKS POLICIES ARE
As I write, “Fartcoin” is worth more than HALF A BILLION USD, and many observers are shocked by the meteoric rise of this crypto meme coin. Why are people willing to pay to buy Fartcoin? The answer is very simple: there is so much excess liquidity sloshing around in the…
HOW A FIAT CURRENCY SYSTEM DIES OF A THOUSAND CUTS
The result of the US elections should have rung warning bells everywhere in the world, but apparently, it didn’t. Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea – the list of economies that persist in feeding asset bubbles is long. The US is still part of it, considering the market is forcing (sorry,…
IS THE GREAT AGE FOR FINANCIAL CRIME COMING TO AN END?
The past 4 years of the US Biden administration have been disastrous, to say the least, but that isn’t the whole story. In many articles, I did my best to highlight how financial criminal activity was running wild and in plain sight, with authorities turning a blind eye to it….
WHY A TSUNAMI OF STOCK OPTIONS SPECULATIVE MONEY IS GOING TO FLOOD CRYPTO ALTCOINS
If you think that the semiconductor stocks bubble popping will mark an end to the speculative mania, I am afraid that won’t happen for 2 reasons: How are institutional investors going to reposition? As I already anticipated long ago, they will keep rotating into financial stocks and Bitcoin: Don’t believe…
MARKETS ARE QUIET – TOO QUIET
This is supposed to be a “quiet” week ahead of US Thanksgiving that ushers in the last month of the year when no money manager is willing to spoil their performance and put their year-end bonus in danger by trying to make changes in asset allocation. The VIX term structure…