I’m getting sick of this. They can get away with it because few understand what is going on and there are so many distractions. From wealth transfer to wealth preservation for the few while the many fall back, again. Excerpt… Read More ›
The Smart Bird
The Early Bird for Investors — Provides a summary of the best commentary and pertinent news
Smart Bird: Robinhood Traders Are the Product
Citadel was front running half of the Robinhood order flow and just got a slap on the wrist from regulators who will probably work for Citadel or another like firm soon.
TSP Smart: The Really Short Pictorial History of TSP and the Markets
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a good are chart worth. Find out.
The Smart Bird – He Knew
We are in a hostile investing environment with poor long-term support for the current prices in the markets. The stock market is simply riding the Fed’s largest intervention in history. And every wave ends the same.
USAA Throws Customers Under the Schwab Bus
I just want to point out how Schwab and other investment companies are making money in the age of low fees and zero trade commissions – your cash accounts.
TSP Smart: Re-opening
So the state of Georgia wants to start re-opening in late April based in part of the “positive data”. Ummmm… the positive data is due to the lock down and social distancing, not because the virus is going away.
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:
TSP Funds: The Fed’s Socialism
Forgive my rant. But when I hear the Fed talk about their concern for inflation expectations, inequality, and now global warming it gets me going. It’s their way of avoiding the truth.
TSP & Faux Capitalism
You had better start trying to understand what is going on because you are about to live with the fallout in one way or another. It will not only affect your TSP investments, it will affect the future of our country. It is hard to get people to listen at the top especially when the naysayers have been “wrong” for so long and reality is so illusive.
TSP: the Bitcoin effect
No one will notice. No one will consider this effect on the markets at large. It does not fit their models. So this month the exchanges are starting to wind down Futures trading of Bitcoin due to lack of trading… Read More ›