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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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Posted in: Economics, Everything You Know About Money Is Wrong, Uncategorized

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 7 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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Large cap tech has seen the majority of the money flows in the past two weeks. At this point, it could just be rotation. However, bulls don't want to see the new tech titans roll over here. $NDX $MSFT $FB $GOOG $AAPL

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Investors have been piling into large cap tech at the expense of the new tech titans. $SHOP $TEAM $MDB

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The breadth of the NASDAQ tech stocks has been deteriorating subtly. You can see it in the % of stocks over the 50 day moving average. $NDX

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Three different ETFs from iShares.

For 3 bps you get the S&P 500

For 15 bps you get to “drive innovation by embedding sustainability risk into our active investment process”

For 30 bps you get “a sea change in global investing”

Tell me which is which.

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