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  • The Best TSP Allocation for 2019

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    I’ve updated my Best TSP Allocation for the new year.  The discussion on the best TSP funds has not changed significantly this year other than discussing the new TSP I fund index.  What has changed is our view of where… Read More ›

  • Doug Noland: True Start to U.S. vs. China Trade War

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    At this point, markets have become quite enamored with the notion of Quadruple Puts – the Fed, Trump, Xi/Beijing and corporate buybacks. When historians look back at this period, they will surely be baffled by the markets’ capacity for disregarding major risks and negative developments. We’re at the stage of a historic – and especially protracted – cycle where it has repeatedly paid to ignore risk. Over time, the successful risk ignorers and dip buyers have ascended to the top. Risk-takers systematically rewarded; the cautious banished.

  • TSP & the Unstoppable Bull Market?

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    Why is it unstoppable? Because this Bull has NOT been driven by the economy or profits. When the driver ends, the bull market ends. In the meantime it continues to frustrate those using historical tools that worked so well in prior bull markets. Invest safe, invest smart starting today.

  • TSP Funds & the Unstoppable Bull market

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    The one thing about market tops is the forecast for the future HAS to be good and there HAS to be expectations for it to “continue for years” otherwise the selling would have already started.

  • TSP Charts: Do You Feel Lucky?

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    The market is sitting in a precarious position as the trade deal with China falters.

  • Doug Noland: Bubbles Always Burst

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    In my 30 years of studying Bubbles, a few things have become clear – I would argue indisputable: They always burst.

  • TSP funds & Reaching the Neverland

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    Who needs an economy when you can print-baby-print or leverage up the whole stock market via buybacks on the open market or with leveraged mergers and acquisitions that come with golden parachutes for the CEOs.

  • Officially on “Periphery” Contagion Watch

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    Beijing has had ample time to research Bubbles, yet they still have limited actual experience with Credit booms and busts. China has no experience with mortgage finance and housing Bubbles. They have never before managed an economy with a massively leveraged corporate sector – with much of the borrowings via marketable debt issuance. They have no experience with a multi-trillion (US$) money-market complex – and minimal with derivatives. Beijing has zero experience with a banking system that has inflated to about $40 TN – financing a wildly imbalanced and structurally impaired economy (not to mention fraud and malfeasance of epic proportions).

  • TSP in the new economy

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    The bottom line is consumer spending which makes up the bulk of the GDP model was down and business investment was down. And large inventory building is never a good sign and points to weaker growth in the out quarters.

  • TSP Charts: A walk around the markets

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    I am reading a lot about the divergence in small caps from the large cap funds. It is worth watching, but it might just be seasonal tendencies.