Being negative can be great. Staying negative can be deadly. Because, almost all of 2022 will be remembered as a year of disappointment and discouragement. Not for bears. They were sometimes pushed back – but for the most part they had the seal race. Every time you got too excited, too optimistic, you got your …
To start a fire, but not to destroy the market by doing so. That’s the goal right now. It’s not as easy as in Jack London’s famous short story (“Too Build a Fire”) where in the end the survivors profit rather than freeze to death in their sleep. At the beginning of this decade, we …
The market is so obsessed with technology that it cannot see the forest through the industrialists. If the talk isn’t about the cloud slowdown, it’s about who is stepping down from the now-private Twitter, or how disappointing it is that co-CEO Bret Taylor has left Salesforce (CRM). Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms (META) might sneeze …
Let’s say you wanted to design a program to reduce inflation. Wouldn’t you do exactly what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is doing? You would raise rates aggressively, and I defy you to say that it does more than that. You’d ignore positive numbers like the weak consumer price index printed last week by sending …
Jim Cramer: Why the two-day rally that ended last week matters – and what to expect next Read More »
Never have bulls been more modest and timid. Never have the bears been so ascending and so bad. Oh sure, the bears nailed Meta Platforms (META) and knocked Microsoft (MSFT) out of the park. Amazon (AMZN) flopped. Just like Alphabet (GOOGL). But when the bears – with the help of all the media I know …
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