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Flatly untrue. 2008 was the first the time Fed did QE since the Roosevelt administration, yet bank lending still increased between 1945 and 2008. 2008 was also our first time for ZIRP. Furthermore, there is no evidence that QE has done what it was designed to do--that is, it has not resulted...

Prosperous??? Gimmee a break. Major short sellers don't go after healthy companies. They go after the walking dead, or at least the irrationally overpriced. You mentioned Tesla (definitely one of the walking dead). It loses money on every car it sells and only makes a profit by getting carbon...

Look at GME's numbers. The company is worthless--well, worth what little you could get for its assets in a fire sale, so there is no way anyone could reasonably describe it as "oversold." It's a money loser with negative earnings and sharply falling revenue. It's book value is 5 a share, but...

(43) Is This The Next Big Hedge Fund To Blow Up... And What Happens Next - YouTube Why the reddit radicals bid up gamestop: not profit seeking, but revolutionary politics.

Yes, and it was worth much less. For example, for the year 2020, GME's earnings per share was NEGATIVE -$5.38! It's future prospects are not promising either, since its 3rd quarter revenue was down 30%. It's book value was +5.10, so if you bought it all for 5 a share and sold it off for its...

But only after private wealth is transferred into public debt. It's a closed loop, although some of this debt is used merely to rollover previous debts so that the total public debt gets bigger and bigger and creates a serious financial imbalance at some point. Debt is raised by selling...

It's a myth, unfortunately widely believed. Fed cannot pump money into the economy. It's flatly illegal. What they can do is QE--pumping bank reserves into the banking system, but that is not the same thing. More reserves in the banking system to back bank deposits (which are created in the...

The problems might have something to do with this: Charles Schwab to lay off 1,000 workers following merger with TD Ameritrade (cnbc.com) Only "redundant" workers of course, but maybe not as redundant as the combined company's senior management hopes.

Yes, start with books and other sources. Newbies should earn a little about the markets before they take the plunge. Soldiers are not sent into combat until they have gone through basic training first. If you wanted to teach an Amishman to drive, you would not yank him out of his carriage...

I suggest looking at firms that specialize in forex and will also let you open a small account and trade mini-lots or micro-lots. TDA does not allow microlots, only minilots. Trade with the smallest lot you can for practice. I use TDA (even though it's platform is not very user friendly for...

"I may not have the correct view on the correlations of markets on SPY." -- Ah, there's the problem with formulas or "laws" versus heuristics (flexible rules of thumb). Let's say oil goes higher. Depending on other market conditions at the time, this may be interpreted as either evidence the...

"Spreadsheets are a complete and self-sufficient strategy in all respects to generate macro ideas as large hedge funds and banks do" I typed profitability of hedge funds into google and very quickly found the following passage: A study by Yale and NYU Stern economists suggested that during...

Maybe one day, but don't hold your breath. USD is preferred currency for global trade, but global trade is depressed by covid problems. When it recovers, demand for the USD will rise. Also, when oil prices finally rise again, demand for USD will rise, since oil is priced in USD. Of if there is...

I hate TDAm's thinkorswim platform for FX, but I use them anyway because I can quickly shift my funds anytime I wish between FX, stocks, and futures. For me, that overshadows their platform's inferior level of user-friendliness for FX trading.

Right, that's because of short squeezes that occur from time to time during bear markets. But if one can ride it out, perhaps with puts, the rewards can be substantial. Or one can just go to cash while waiting for the market to bottom and commence its recovery (assuming we don't do a Japan...

My thoughts too. The Federal Reserve was CREATED (by the bankers) to protect the banking system as a direct result of the financial fiasco of 1907. That is its primary function. Goldman-Sachs executives routinely rotate in and out of White House service. The financial sector is the biggest...

Where's the inflation going to come from? Velocity is in the dumps. People are anxious about the future and more inclined to save than to spend like mad. The Fed does NOT (and is legally forbidden to) monetize the federal deficit. Money creation is done through bank loans, but banks have not...

Even MSM such as CNBC are acknowledging this activity is a threat to the stock market as a whole, and possibly the larger financial infrastructure. From the rhetoric of these robinhood traders who are gaming the price of GME, it sounds like they are less interested in turning a profit than in...

I would say just the opposite. BTW, most people jumping in the stock market today are not investors, just speculators. That's okay if they know what they're doing, but I suspect most of the robbin hooders and their fellow travelers are lemmings. When the market crashes again, they won't...

LOL, yes! Not just Chinese companies. Think of Tesla, GE, or HSBC, and a host of lesser lights. And "zombie" companies are all over the place these days. I have listened to interviews with shortsellers on youtube. Very interesting what they have to say. Fund managers don't care any more...