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TSP Market Update
Something changed this week in the markets. It has us on heightened alert.
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TSP funds: Going Terminal
Seventeen trillion dollars of negative yielding bonds and climbing is not the result of free market capitalism. It is the terminal phase of the global credit bubble.
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TSP Special Report – RISK OFF
I’ve posted a special report on today’s market events and what they mean to our investment allocations for our members (all levels).
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TSP Funds: Wake Up Time
Don’t be fooled by short-term pops in price due to plunging interest rates. We it comes to fixed income funds, past performance can no longer be achieved again. We are simply accelerating to the point of no returns in the US bond market.
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Wall Street decimates US National Security
Matt Stoller is trying to wake up America to another crisis already baked into the cake. After reading his article (excerpts below) my view is simple, wall street greed is guilty of treason.
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TSP Charts: Quicklook August 3rd 2019
There is nothing like another “raising tariffs” tweet during a global industrial recession and busted interest rate expectations all in the same week to push the market off the top of its price channel. Let us hope speculators don’t start… Read More ›
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TSP Charts: “Unthinkable Harm” (Updated)
Inquiring minds are asking why the Fed is considering an interest rate cut when the SP500 is sitting at an all-time high, unemployment is near an historical low, wage growth is solid and of course we keep hearing we are in “the greatest economy ever”.
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TSP Charts: If the markets could talk…
Small caps have not bought into this last rally. Nor have some other financial sectors. At least the trade war is progressing nicely…
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Doug Noland: Rejoicing Central Banker Capitulation
A crisis-period experiment in QE came with profound repercussions. The Fed’s 2011 “exit strategy” was supplanted the following year by Draghi’s “whatever it takes” – and there’s been no turning back. The prospect of Whatever and Whenever It Takes QE as essential to the global central banker toolkit has Changed Everything.
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TSP Funds: Time to Get Defensive
It is hard to get people to listen when the SP500 is near an all-time high and the US economy appears strong, so I wrote “Why I Am Defensive and You Should Be Too”. Take a look please.