In all the years I’ve heard the media tout soft landings, I’ve never actually seen one. What I have seen are liquidation events that were turning disastrous for bubble participants (which if we own a home or equities, are most of us) until this guy, his predecessor and those who followed him sprang into (inflationary) action, fighting the dreaded deflation monster heroically until victory – and bubble maintenance – were secured.
The problem is that this policy was not heroic on the big macro picture. Quite the contrary, this “victory” was destructive… of the middle and lower classes and by extension, society itself. This policy of micromanaging the markets and the economy through various means of money printing (inflation) and debt leverage has made the poor (pay-check to paycheck, at best) poorer and the rich (asset owner class) exponentially richer.
That may sound like a commie or a socialist (or just plain old Robin Hood), but what I actually am is a former manufacturing person who had to manage the economy from a nuts and bolts perspective, then fell down the rabbit hole of finance and found a pit of grift, lies, ignorance, mass herding and swindling on a large scale macro level.
The mechanics of this perverse macro came courtesy of our financial Maestros and heroes (monetary), along side both entrenched aisles of government (fiscal). In other words, they did all they could to inflate (at will) and sustain an economy and associated markets with policy that punished savers and sound risk management, and rewarded asset (paper and otherwise) owners and risk taking.
Despite that, the charter here is to manage the market as we see it. That means not trying to will the stock bull to end, but to (personally) play it and manage risk into its end, currently projected for H1. On the flip side of that coin, a real end of the bubble (in policymakers’ ability to ably remote-control markets and the economy) will, theoretically at least, boost the ANTI-bubble in the eyes of the herds that now listen to the likes of the cartoon character shown above along with other less obvious cartoons.
NFTRH 785 then went on to analyze and update the macro status of the ANTI-bubble, gold, and the precious metals sector along with global stock markets, currencies, commodities and in our current Summary segment, sentiment and macro indicators.
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