July is running hotter than expected. The Fed is hell bent on tightening until everything implodes. Trump's team of Supply-Side retards are keeping the heat on the Fed from the Fiscal side. Human history's biggest bubble is set to explode:
Powell's first testimony to Congress was back in February, as shown below, this week was his second attempt to bullshit yields higher.
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"Bear in mind, we can only continue this asinine level of borrowing for a couple of quarters. At most..."
Tuesday's casino bid was sponsored by volatility compression:
Banks are also not impressed by Fed b.s., now wrapping up a three wave retracement off of last week's weak earnings and this week's Fed meeting:
The oil bubble is now imploding:
So it will be interesting to see how this bubble gets unwound:
Netflix handed the world's greatest bubble baton to Amazon which bounced off the upper trend line:
Which means that the casino is operating on all one cylinder:
Casino weakness biased towards the latter part of each month is correlated with Fed quantitative tightening which is also biased towards the end of the month.
A bad time for a buyback blackout.
China is in full 2016 mode. Likely far worse...
"Confirmation that China’s economy is slowing amid an escalating trade war is a worrying omen for global growth"