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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: Don’t Sell Montana!

February 19, 2019 Contrahour 1 Comment

  A petition to sell Montana for $1 trillion is gaining traction on Change.org. Canada might like to own Montana…

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A Checklist For Spotting Bubble Tops (Repost)

January 5, 2021 Contrahour Leave a comment

A lot of the kids (well…one) have come up to me in 2021 and asked: “Uncle Contra, Uncle Contra…how will…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: How Soros Broke The Bank Of England

August 7, 2019 Contrahour 1 Comment

Everyone knows George Soros as the man who “broke the Bank of England.”  But nobody has ever explained why his…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: How A Country Turns Itself Into A State

July 29, 2019 Contrahour Leave a comment

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you some…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: The US Won’t Turn Into The Weimar Republic

April 8, 2019 Contrahour 1 Comment

When you say the “government prints money,” the first image that pops into people’s heads is the Weimar Republic. There’s…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: The Recipe For Inflation

March 17, 2019 Contrahour 1 Comment

Truth is borne from extremes. Nothing is more extreme than depression or war.  This is how, in the aftermath of…

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Japan Reveals Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong

March 2, 2019 Contrahour Leave a comment

Japan is a real-world example that shows traditional macroeconomic theory is wrong. Every myth that you have heard about government…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: China Doesn’t Own The United States

March 1, 2019 Contrahour 2 Comments

Most people assume China “owns” the US because it holds so many of our Treasury securities.  Both China and Japan…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: Why Does The Government Issue Treasury Securities?

February 28, 2019 Contrahour 3 Comments

The government always prints money.  That’s why there’s a printing press in Washington DC.  That’s how you get the currency…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: If The Government Can Print Money, Why Do We Pay Taxes?

February 25, 2019 Contrahour 6 Comments

Why does the piece of paper in your wallet marked “One Dollar” have value? Is it because the military tells…

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Everything You Know About Economics Is Wrong: The United States Has A Very Efficient Monetary System

Contrahour 3 Comments

The United States Federal Government prints money because that’s how our monetary system is designed.   Could we use a different…

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$GE busting out of its range would either be 1) a sign of how much the bubble has inflated, or 2) a sign the bull market is just getting going.

I haven't decided which.

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Riddle me this. If the Fed is down, how come the markets are still going up?!?

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Yesterday morning's sell-off was so fast, it didn't even register on the 4-hour closing chart. Still need a solid close above $ES_F 3,900 to confirm the uptrend is intact.

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Futures up, Europe up, Asia down. Powell plays down inflation. Hong Kong sellsoff on trading stamp tax. $SQ beats. $INTU good, guidance flat. $MCFE beat. $LOW & $TOL on fire with housing demand. $TJX missed. $VRSK missed. $PXD beat. $FLS guides below.

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When you grow up and realize all your idols are false. 😱

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