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Stocks have entered a kind of speculative frenzy. You’ve no doubt heard or read about Gamestop (GME) the bricks and mortar video game retailer. The company has been in trouble for months, failing to turn a profit since 2018. And this is happening  despite revenues growing. Because of this, hedge funds have taken MASSIVE short positions in this company, borrowing shares from their brokers to bet that GME’s stock will collapse as the company lurches towards bankruptcy. How big were the bets...

Dear Reader, One of my favorite reads to start off a new year is Byron Wiens list of 10 surprises, which hes published for 36 years. While I could spend an entire article debating each point in his  2021 list, today I want to tackle the last part of No. 8: "The equity market broadens out. Stocks beyond healthcare and technology participate in the rise in prices… "Big cap tech… stocks are laggards for the year." Big techs lagging the broad markets this year would indeed be a surprise....

David Merkel had a great post up that he titled The Retirement Bubble. The post was thought provoking as were the comments on the Seeking Alpha version of the post. David covers a lot of ground and if I am reading him correctly, he and I draw some similar conclusions about the idea of traditional... Read More... Dont Miss Any Updates! News Directly in Your Inbox Subscribe to:

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Drew Angerer/Getty Images John Hussman is calling for a 65-70% drop in the S&P 500. He says he sees "fresh deterioration" in a key market indicator. His comments come as stocks sit at record highs amid euphoric investor sentiment. Investors are by now conscious of the heightened risk of a stock-market pullback in the near future, given the euphoric speculation that has continued to drive valuations upwards. Eighty-nine percent of financial professionals surveyed by...

Big techs lagging the broad markets this year would indeed be a surprise. But I'm making the opposite bet—that tech will be the year's top-performing sector.

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Jim Rogers says bubbles are developing in some areas of the market, especially in tech stocks. Rogers also said bitcoin appeared to be in bubble territory. He is bullish on several assets and shared four he would invest in for his daughter in the next decade. Jim Rogers is worried about the state of the market. And he says you should be too. That may seem biza...

Calling Tesla A Bubble Is Normal Now, I Guess Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images) The Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isnt your time more important? On the face of it, Tesla is a small car company that produces lots of electric vehicles. But Tesla is also a hype machine that stands in for the future, and as such its stock has ballooned greater than the heights of the dot com bubble. All that and more in The Morning Shift for January 11, 2021. Advertisement 1st Gear:...

Cash Flow Never Lies Dec 31, 2020 | 12:00 PM EST We are the Renegades of Funk. Or, if you prefer The Jedi. Sometimes it feels like treating the valuation of equities as a SCIENCE, as it should be, is a lost art practiced by only a few of us. I try not to disrespect those who serve by using a military metaphor to describe something as prosaic as attempting to fairly value a company, but it does feel like a war sometimes. There is just an army of people on the American financial media that never ...

DollarCollapse.com by John Rubino ◆ This year has been one for the record books. From all-time highs in the major indices to the Coronavirus meltdown… and then for the market to race back and hit new all-time highs, it’s been quite the ride. If you felt like your head was spinning this year by some of the moves you were seeing, it was for good reason. 2020 was one of the most volatile years in history for the stock market. In the next chart you’ll see the number of weekly 5% or greater...