What is a Secular Bull Market?, How to Identify this Market

marketbeat.com Stocks don’t always go up, but sometimes a long-term trend persists beyond the daily ups and downs of volatile stock prices. When an uptrend remains intact for a long…

More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market)

nakedcapitalism.com Previously in this series of round-ups, we looked at Covid and global GDP, as well as GDP in various counties; at the effects of interventions, pharmaceutical and not; and…

A Short History of Stocks

ritholtz.com Confused about where we are today? A favorite exercise is to go back to first principles to consider how we got to where we are. (That is a favorite way to find fresh…

The ‘Oracle of Wall Street’ expands on why the ‘crisis of the American male’ will send home prices crashing 30%: Gaming, rampant loneliness, and not enough…

aol.com Meredith Whitney, the one-time “Oracle of Wall Street” who predicted the Great Financial Crisis, doesn’t mince her words. Young single men living at home and playing video…

Posthaste: Fasten your seat belts, the Canadian dollar is in for a bumpy ride

financialpost.com Economists say so far the currency has held up fairly well, as the market pulls back a bit on expectations for a Bank of Canada move and oil prices get support from OPEC+’s…

Stocks are headed for a decade-long 'dead' zone with losses on par with the dot-com bust, fund manager says

finance.yahoo.com None The stock market could be in for a decade of next-to-nothing returns, one top fund manager warned. • None That's because inflation and interest rates could remain…

Office values will plunge another 25% in ‘worst-hit metros,’ Capital Economics says

aol.com Things may have quieted down in the commercial real estate world, but offices are not in the clear. After all, interest rates are still high and remote work has mostly…

What's So Great About The Great Reset, Great Taking, Great Replacement, Great Deflation, & Next Great Depression?

zerohedge.com What's So Great About The Great Reset, Great Taking, Great Replacement, Great Deflation, & Next Great Depression? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “At…

'Animal Spirits' Update (Or Reflections On Another Fake Unemployment Report)

zerohedge.com 'Animal Spirits' Update (Or Reflections On Another Fake Unemployment Report) Authored by Elliott Middleton via 'End Times Meditation' Substack, The BLS is reporting the…

Restaking is a ticking time bomb

blockworks.co A new kind of blockchain architecture is having its moment in the sun — but it’s also casting a long shadow. So-called “restaking” protocols claim they’ve achieved new…

What is quantitative tightening and what happens when the Bank of Canada stops it?

financialpost.com The Bank of Canada could wind down its quantitative tightening program as soon as April and will most likely do so no later than June, an economist at the Royal Bank of…

Office vacancies set new all-time high, blowing past recession-era rates

finance.yahoo.com The poster child of commercial real estate’s downfall is making headlines again, for the worse. “The office sector slashed its vacancy record set just a quarter ago,” and…

Office vacancies set a new record, blowing past recession-era rates

fortune.com The poster child of commercial real estate’s downfall is making headlines again, for the worse. “The office sector slashed its vacancy record set just a quarter ago,” and…

Decoding the Buffett Indicator’s Market Predictions

entrepreneur.com The stock market is a fascinating, ever-changing beast, with a multitude of factors influencing its performance. One of the most respected metrics used to assess the…