Reminiscences of a Shrub Operator

Reminiscences of a Shrub Operator

"One Last Yolo"

Silly Season Sentiment Assessment & GAG =Golden Age of Grift

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Le Shrub
Dec 08, 2024
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It’s been a great ride. Things are looking “a bit” silly but they can always get sillier, no question.

At the same time, as if the Universe has conspired, all my Contra and Max Stupid signals are lining up as perfectly as a Celestial Event that would make the Mayans call for the End of the World as we know it. Here are a few of my favourite ones:

  • Blackrock says that the World Economy has exited the “Boom and Bust” Cycle. This is reminiscent of when Irvin Fisher famously predicted in 1929, nine days before the crash, that stock prices had "reached what looks like a permanently high plateau”. The only difference here is that Blackrock is running >$10 Trillion in Assets…

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