When I woke up this morning, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I had finished drafting this post before going to sleep, and the first thing I see on @X after waking up is Gary Gensler’s post claiming that the @SECGov account was hacked and that the #Bitcoin ETF wasn’t actually…
$HSBC – A TURNAROUND STORY, A SECRET TAKEOVER OR A PUMP & DUMP?”
On October 30 2023, after the latest $HSBC financial report release, I took a deep dive into their numbers, highlighting how the bank was still “walking on waters” (Post below). Prior to that, I highlighted many things within their balance sheet that simply didn’t add up (TwitterX). Nevertheless, the stock…
IS THE 2024 EDITION OF US REGIONAL BANKS (NOW JOINED BY PENSION FUNDS) “HUNGER GAMES” ABOUT TO BEGIN?
Last week I wrote about the end of the “hide till maturity” trick (post in quote below) that helped banks hide their growing mountain of troubled assets. A few days later, the news reporting CalSTRS pension fund, the second largest in the US, is considering borrowing $30bn becomes public. The…
WHAT COMES NEXT AFTER A #BTC ETF? INVESTMENT BANKS WILL STAMPEDE INTO #CRYPTO STRUCTURED PRODUCTS!
Investment Banks love risk-free (for them) “fee business,” but as of late, their “structuring” divisions have been struggling quite a bit because you can easily get 5% from a Money Market fund. Even if Jamie Dimon has been pretending to hate #Bitcoin, perhaps because he needs to play every side…
EXPLAINING WHY PINDUODUO #PDD “DAVID” HAS A SERIOUS CHANCE TO KNOCK OUT ALIBABA #BABA “GOLIATH”
Alright, ladies and gentlemen, it’s about time to get a few things straight about what’s going on with #BABA. First of all, the stock itself has a significant problem called “SoftBank”. In the post quoted below, I explained a while ago why SoftBank’s derivatives shenanigans have been hammering BABA’s stock,…
2024 THE YEAR WHEN “HIDE TILL MATURITY” ENDS
During 2023, we have discussed so often how (ridiculously insolvent) banks have made extensive use of “Hold To Maturity” accounting to the point that it is now more appropriate to rename it “Hide Till Maturity” (TwitterX). Dump any asset with a market value implying a steep loss in the HTM…
WHY A BITCOIN ETF WILL REMOVE THE BARRIER BETWEEN CENTRAL BANKS’ MONEY PRINTING AND CRYPTO
The Fiat “On Ramp” and “Off Ramp” is a concept that is key to #crypto. Buying $BTC or any #crypto asset has never been easy and has always been constrained in one way or another by the “bottlenecks” of the stablecoin structure. In a nutshell, to buy crypto and “enter…
VALUE INVESTING ON CRYPTO BLOCKCHAIN PROJECTS
How many people would love to get their hands on a time machine, travel back in time, and invest in internet #stocks right after the aftermath of the dotcom bubble? I am sure everyone. With the benefit of hindsight, things look obvious, but at that time, almost no one would…
WHY IS THE FED PREPARING TO BAIL OUT A JAPANESE BANK? BECAUSE OF THE “NORINCHUKIN” DANGER
First of all, who the hell is the latest counterpart added to the #FED Standing Repo Facility: “Norinchukin Bank”? “Officially,” it is a Cooperative Bank owned by Japanese agricultural, fishery, forestry cooperatives in #Japan. Yes, that’s right, an “agricultural” bank from Japan got a seat at the #FED big boys…
YES – THEY ARE IN COMPLETE PANIC
One month ago, I wrote about the “PANIC BEHIND CLOSED DOOR” (TwitterX), and at that time, I literally said: “Imagine what would happen to Joe Biden’s approval rating if the #stocks bubble he inflated to the stratosphere implodes right now. With Jerome out of the game, Joe needed his Janet…