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JPM Head Quant Warns Second Market Crash May Be Imminent: Violent Selling Could Return On Thursday
Last Friday, when the market was down only 2%, we presented readers with a note which promptly became the most read piece across Wall Street trading desks, which was written by JPM's head quant Marko Kolanovic, who correctly calculated the option gamma hedging imbalance into the close, and just as correctly predicted the closing dump on Friday which according to many catalyzed Monday's "limit down" open.
North Dakota Becomes First State To Legalize Drones Weaponized With Tasers, Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets & Sound Cannons
It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist. With all the concern over the militarization of police in the past year, no one noticed that the state became the first in the union to allow police to equip drones with “less than lethal” weapons.
"Would You Finance Your Kicks?": Shoe-Backed Securities Are On The Way
Meet "Affirm", a startup from PayPal co-founder Max Levchin whose mission is, according to the "company" section of their website, "[to use] modern technology to re-imagine and re-build core components of financial infrastructure from the ground up… focusing on improving the lives of everyday consumers with less expensive, more transparent financial products." Can’t decipher that? That’s ok, neither can we.
Did Someone Just Hack The San Fran Fed's Twitter Account
Is Janet Yellen's source Fed practicing to make as much sense as Alan Greenspan? Or perhaps this is how the Fed sends coded signals to the HFTs, but if so why isn't it in binary such as the following: 01000010 01010100 01000110 01000100 00001101 00001010? The most likley answer is that the SF Fed's social media intern is about to become a seasonal adjustment to the next week's initial jobless claims report due to a "fat butt" error.
Trump Top But Sanders Surges As Hillary 'Hope' Hammered In New Hampshire
A stunning 78% of Democrats in New Hampshire view Bernie Sanders favorably in the latest polls. As The Hill reports, Hillary Clinton was viewed favorably by that percentage in April, but that has dropped 15 percentage points among Democrats. With Sanders topping Clinton by a 44 to 37 percent margin (VP Joe Biden garnered 9%), and Trump support among Republicans at 35%, it appears serial lying is not paying off for the Oligarchy (for now)...
Did Tim Cook Violate Regulation "Fair Disclosure" By Emailing Jim Cramer To Save AAPL Stock This Morning
Earlier today, as AAPL stock was plummeting and had lost a whopping $75 billion in market cap, dropping as low as $92/share, CNBC's Jim Cramer pulled a rabit out of a hat, or in this case a previously undisclosed email out of his inbox. An email from AAPL CEO Tim Cook which said the following (as subsequently conveyed by Cramer to CNBC viewers): As you know, we don't give mid-quarter updates and we rarely comment on moves in Apple stock. But I know your question is on the minds of many investors.
Debt Is Good: For Funding The Greatest Participation Trophy Ever Created
As the capital markets from Shanghai to New York were melting down in ways hearkening back to the early days of the prior financial crisis - a period of time many would like to forget (or act) as if it never happened - the Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman decided it was time once again to weigh in with what will surely be viewed by the so-called “smart crowd” as a brilliant perspective on what ails the world: Not enough debt.
"The War On Drugs Is Over, And We Lost... We Can't Arrest Our Way Out Of This"
Situated on the coast of Massachusetts, Gloucester’s claims to fame include its status as “America’s original seaport,” as well as being the real-life location on which events in the movie The Perfect Storm (2000) were based. Now, the small town has a new reason to be the center of attention: its police have been granting complete amnesty to drug users who come to the station seeking help, even if they come bearing the remainder of their stash.
The Demands For Another Fed Bailout Have Begun
Back in August 2007, just as the quant funds had their first taste of what the upcoming collapse would look like and when the Fed for the first time realized that the subprime woes were "not contained" despite what Ben Bernanke had promised previously to Congress, financial comedy TV's best known mascot, Jim Cramer had a meltdown on CNBC following Bear Stearns' CFO admission that the fixed-income market turmoil was the worst in 22 years, ranting how the Fed "knows nothing" and how it should...
S&P 500 Breaks Below 2,000, Crashes Into Red Year-Over-Year
The S&P 500 index has broken below the crucial psychological 2,000 level for the first time since late January. This is the biggest collapse in stocks since June 2013 (bigger than October's plunge - which was only rescued by Bullard's threat of QE4). What is perhaps most worrisome for the trend-followers - the S&P is now down year-over-year for the first time since May 2012... which once again brought The Fed out with moar QE. The S&P 500 has broken below the crucial 2,000 level...
Looking Back On The Presidency Of Donald Trump - A Dispatch From The Future
Authored by Jon Lovett, originally posted at The Atlantic, “It was the terrific leader of India, Gandhi, who said, ‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, and then you win.’ Well we won, didn’t we?” That’s how President Donald John Trump began his inaugural address, that clear morning in January of 2017. The fact that Gandhi never said these words was among the very least of our problems. Besides, the line drew rapturous applause from the crowd.
It's A Divorce Lawyer Orgy: "Ashley Madison Hack Is The Best Thing To Happen Since Moses"
Husbands and wives across the world are waking up to their partners' extramarital affairs after, as AP calls it, a catastrophic leak at adultery website Ashley Madison spewed electronic evidence of infidelity across the Internet. Online forums were buzzing Thursday with users claiming to have found evidence that their significant others were on the site. But it's not all doom and gloom...
Presidential Candidate "Deez Nuts" Surges In Polls
If Donald Trump’s unlikely rise to the top of the polls tells us anything, it’s that Americans (or at least GOP primary voters) are sick of business as usual in Washington.
After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed Admits QE Was A Mistake
As you’re no doubt aware, the Fed is fond of using the research departments at its various branches to validate policy and analyze away bad economic outcomes.
Dotcom Bubble 2.0? It's Different This Time
With Bloomberg's IPO index down 20% from its late 2014 highs and pressing 10-month lows (having gone nowhere in 2 years), all is not well in the private-to-public transaction market. Despite the multi-billion-dollar ponzi valuations of various 'disruptors' and leaked data opening the kimono on how insane this reality is, we thought the following clip perfectly summed up how it's different this time... "If you show revenue, people will ask 'how much' and it will never be enough.
The S&P's 13th Trip Thru 2,100 Since Feb 13th: Call It Monetary Rigor Mortis - The Bull Is Dead
The robo machines pushed their snouts through 2100 on the S&P index again yesterday. This was the 13th time since, well, February 13th that this line has been re-penetrated from below. But don’t call it an omen of bad luck; its more like monetary rigor mortis. The bull market is dead, but the robo-machines and talking heads of bubble vision just don’t know it yet. And most certainly, the full-time stock traders who occupy the C-suites of corporate America don’t know it, either.
Immigration - Issue Of The Century
“Trump’s immigration proposals are as dangerous as they are stunning,” railed amnesty activist Frank Sharry. “Trump ... promises to rescind protections for Dreamers and deport them. He wants to redefine the constitutional definition of U.S. citizenship as codified by the 14th Amendment. He plans to impose a moratorium on legal immigration.” While Sharry is a bit hysterical, he is not entirely wrong.
Only The Date Is Unknown
The US and world economies are frauds that are coming unraveled. The Greek bailout is the most recent example of “kick the can down the road” solutions. The US housing bubble was an attempt to cover up/recover from the dot-com bust. Now the US is in a financial bubble engineered to recover from the housing bubble debacle. Soon this bubble will burst. Only the date is unknown. Nothing is ever certain.
From $1,300 Tiger Penis To $800K Snipers: The Complete Black Market Price Guide
Late last year, we said that "hookers and blow" were set to lift Britain over France as the world’s fifth largest economy.
There's Hope America: Anchor Walks Off Live TV, Refuses To Report On Kardashians
Is the distracted citizenry beginning to wake up? We can only hope so. Giving hope to Americans everywhere, after covering the usual local news, Orlando-area news anchor John Brown was transitioning into a segment about one of the Kardashian daughters recently naming her new pet rabbit "Bruce," he stood up and walked off set exclaiming, "I am having a good Friday, so I refuse to talk about the Kardashians today, you are on your own, Amy.
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