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That's my question.... Seems like jpm got a special deal ..I'm sure other big banks are licking their lips

I had 4500 shares I was selling premium against. I sold it before earnings and bought puts 10 strike for .40 cents.. thought it was done after earnings at 12. Sold my puts for a small profit..now those are in the money 5 bucks

This is the most important part. Rising rates have battered the value of First Republic’s mortgages and other loans. The bank’s balance sheet showed $166.1 billion of loans as of Dec. 31, at amortized cost. A footnote said their fair-market value was $143.9 billion. The $22.2 billion...

Another factor is as we slowly increase our earnings to keep up with inflation we bump into new tax brackets ...making 100k 10 years ago is like making 200 today except now your paying more in taxes

When the fed prints money they expropriate value from the wage earning and fixed income classes to the class of people that own inflationary assets . People that work get screwed because their wages lag and go up discreetly .. so wages slowly step up as inflation Is continuous and runs ahead of...

Simply put it's theft...

So no option adjustment?

What does they fed say about how much money they have stolen from inflating away the people's money

Agreed...perfect storm

I agree a big correction is very very healthy. Anyone getting in the way is like Stockholm syndrome

Don't you think the fed is cornered because of inflation at this point?

I agree. But that doesn't mean the ball won't have fallen off the cliff by the time they react...markets tend to exaggerate in one direction ...I would tend to agree with Burry. Prepare for mass amounts of downside.. there is more optionality to being liquid and prepared for downside then...

your right it might not.. but it seems like plenty of drivers in that direction

businesses that were built on lower interest rates will no longer make sense at higher interest rates.. there will be a deleveraging .. plus as they dry up the money supply it will squeeze corporate earnings... liquidity shock i think so... debt is leverage.. the ability to go into larger...

my call is everyone is on the hunt for coins with bad tech basis , and when the next one goes the major ones will sell off along with it.

People are worried about the wrong thing...watch what happens next with the market

Amazing pessimism on that thead

No Read "America's great depression" rothbard... The interventionism and money printing only exasperated in prolonged the issue and the Great depression the problem is that assets need to be liquidated to be reprice correctly that doesn't happen when there's a bunch of money floating around all...

I understand what you're saying but it is best to keep those speculators in the market and especially big speculators to have skin in the game and the largest speculator in the market with respect to securities and monies and all that sort of thing is the government and they aren't exactly good...

I love it I love Rand Paul. Anyone who explains the system of monetary inflation any other way is just trying to mask the reality of what's really going on.