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TSP Smart: Oil Prices Go Negative
I would think that the price of oil dropping to negative forty dollars a barrel (-$40) on the May Futures qualifies as interesting. It brings up the question of “what does that mean” from many angles such as:
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TSP Funds: Don’t Tell Me
Don’t tell me you saw an article saying now is the time to buy the dip or hang on and wait it out. Don’t tell me you are still listening to all the clowns trying to freeze retail investors in place. Please don’t.
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Doug Noland: The Solvency Problem
Somehow, we must convince younger generations that the culprit was unsound finance. And it’s absolutely fixable. Deeply flawed, experimental central banking was fundamental to dysfunctional markets and resulting deep financial and economic structural impairment.
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A Call to Arms – Occupy Congress
l your Congressman, NO free bailout until corporations are financially restructured. Period.
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TSP Charts: Inadequate Fear-mongering
I have come to the realization that my attempts to overcome the euphoria in many TSP investors has been grossly inadequate to overcome years of “it always bounces back” marketing.
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TSP Advice: Don’t Listen to Advice
We have NEVER experienced anything like this in modern history. So NOOOO, you can not use history as your guide for long-term investing as suggested in this article and many others over the years…
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TSP Funds: Don’t Even Think About It
Don’t even think about it
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TSP Charts: Follow the Flows
A market rally built on unsustainable market inflows is always unsustainable.
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TSP Charts: Running on Repos
… last September when the repo market failed (overnight repo rates jumped to 10%), our fearless money-printing Federal Reserve stepped in and loaned the repo borrowers whatever they wanted. And they kept on. And they STILL are.
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TSP Funds: Wrong Medicine, Wrong Patient
The five top mega-caps which I am renaming the “monopoly-caps” have accounted for 67% of the SP500’s gains so far this year while reaching a record 20% of the SP500’s market value. Five companies (1% of the SP500) accounts for 1/5 of the entire value of the SP500 index today – otherwise know at the TSP C fund.