WM 8 May 2021

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In a system where income is taxed, money is debased and debt is aplenty, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer


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Ethereum on track to reach 12000


Bitcoin vs other asset classes

Even Germany is experiencing a return of inflation

ISM at peak?

When money is spent, yields rise

Can't find worker

10 y yield pause probably temporary


Money excesses starting to come to the economy in Europe


Inflation set to rise further in coming quarter as commodity prices and wage inflation filter through the supply chain

First interest rate hikes in high inflation countries..

Liquidity rush may have reached climax

An elongated rally

Topping?
50 d moving averages show first sign of divergence



When too many people chase too few things, price rise... until they don't...Beware the reversal



Some  (old enough to remember) see the strange parallels between 2000 and 2020.

The trend is your friend?

Chopiness index says "calm, too calm"


Margin debt = speculative fever at climax



Higher prices = lower forward returns


Hot IPO + loss making stock indices corrections say = liquidity waning



Options = leverage
Risk elevated

Breadth is at All time high! Everything is rising. So beware of correlations!


Traditional seasonality says Sell in May

Post election seasonality says rally could last til the summer

Decennial seasonal pattern says Sell in May

VIX ready to rock the house (of cards)


Commodities still the place to be as money goes back into the economy


Bottom of a long cycle. GS say 12 y down
cycle. This is wrong. 18 year down cycles normally

One of the biggest YOY rise is ongoing

Copper reached an all time high



Yields are stubbornly ignoring the commodity spike as if it was temporary post recession fluke

Some say China is already trying to put cold water on the red hot commodity space

Lumber parabolic rise will make houses very expensive in the US. Have you got paper & packaging forest investments?











Themes, Sectors & Corporate news


Value creation in the XXI century: attention grabbing x network effects



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