Ponzi World (Over 3 Billion NOT Served)

The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Rotation To Obliteration: The Status Quo Is 100% Bullshit 24x7

Quote of the day:
ZH: March 15, 2016
Why Oil Prices May Not Move Higher
"The WTI futures market is one of the biggest gambling casinos in the world. Bets are often made on sentiment that in turn is related to world events. Price fluctuations that are based primarily on sentiment, however, have little chance of lasting longer than the sentiment or related events that produced them."

This latest "rally" was an opportunity for gamblers to pile into the only two sectors still making new highs: Consumer staples and Utilities. Steady rotation out of burned out sectors to remaining high ground has manifested in the S&P outperforming the Nasdaq and the Dow outperforming the S&P:

The rotation to obliteration visualized:
S&P / Dow Ratio

Utilities/S&P ratio:

Staples (red) with Nasdaq 100 (black)

The Nasdaq 100 led all the way up until the end of December and now it's lagging badly...