by pentoport | May 4, 2020 | Commentary
May 4, 2020 My friend Larry Kudlow always says that Profits are the mother’s milk of stocks. That used to be true when we had a real economy. But sadly, that is no longer factual because we now have a global equity market that is totally controlled by central...
by pentoport | Apr 13, 2020 | Commentary
April 13, 2020 We are all praying for the Wuhan virus to die. But there is something the virus can actually “cure” itself: deflation. I put the word cure in quotes because it’s not an actual issue in reality. Low inflation and disinflation are actually great...
by pentoport | Mar 30, 2020 | Commentary
My clients have known for a long time that the nucleus of the next crisis will be in the over-leveraged corporate bond market. This notion was confirmed recently in an article from the WSJ: companies that borrow in the junk loan market are now in a far weaker...
by pentoport | Mar 23, 2020 | Commentary
The U.S. National Debt is about to surge like never before, along with the rest of the entire planet’s gigantic pile of sovereign IOUs. America started with a $23.5 trillion debt before the Wuhan virus outbreak, with annual deficits running over a $1 trillion; and...
by pentoport | Mar 9, 2020 | Commentary
March 9, 2020 Wall Street hit a new all-time high on February 20th. It was supposed to be smooth sailing from there, riding along the global liquidity wave. But then, that wave crashed into what turned out to be the fastest correction from a new high in the history of...
by pentoport | Feb 25, 2020 | Commentary
February 25th 2020 In Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s appearance before Congress on February 11th, formerly known as The Humphrey-Hawkins testimony, he asserted that the U.S. economy was, “In a very good place” and “There’s nothing about this...
