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On today’s show we discuss:
- U.S. crude turns positive, Brent pares losses on OPEC+ cut rumors
- Was the Nasdaq 100 in a bubble?
- Fed minutes show most officials favored slowing rate rises soon
- Miami nightclubs mourn the absence of high-rolling crypto entrepreneurs
- BlockFi files for bankruptcy
- Investor home purchases drop 30% as rising rates, high prices cool housing market
- Amazon plans to invest $1 billion a year in movies for theaters
- Disney’s theme parks are a sore spot for investors
- The seasonality of weight gain
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Energy Sector +39% vs S&P 500 -5%Three reasons we see the Energy rally continuing:
1: Energy Security Re-Rating,
2: Portfolio Diversification/Hedge, &
3: Momentum Rotation— Warren Pies (@WarrenPies) April 2, 2022
Two-year Treasuries now yield 0.7 points more than 10-years. You must go back to the early 1980s to find a wider spread for this closely watched indicator of future recession risk.$IEF $SPY pic.twitter.com/lbD29tOxIZ
— Nick Colas & Jessica Rabe (DataTrek) (@DataTrekMB) November 22, 2022
FOMC Minutes: It seems like a growing consensus that it's time to wait for data to reflect lagged impact of rapid tightening to date. Terminal rate debate is going on among the "various". Reality is – Fed won't know the terminal rate until its behind them.
— Kathy Jones (@KathyJones) November 23, 2022
Chart strongly suggests inflation in Germany was supply chain driven–not the result of monetary policy. So can ECB pause now with an eye towards continued improvement in supply chains? pic.twitter.com/ATRHyRlt0s
— Jeffrey Kleintop (@JeffreyKleintop) November 28, 2022
Active vs passive fund flows since 2000…
What a chart.
via @emmaboyde pic.twitter.com/4lXaYqh6kl
— Nate Geraci (@NateGeraci) November 23, 2022
From @MorningstarInc Direct: Trailing 12-month flows for Active/Passive Mutual Funds/ETFs.
Notable:
1.) Active mutual funds are the outlier ($797 Bil in net outflows over TTM)
2.) Passive ETFs have gotten way out ahead of index mutual funds ($541 Bil more in net flows over TTM) pic.twitter.com/Sm88oIpC9i— Ben Johnson, CFA (@MstarBenJohnson) November 22, 2022
Credit card debt is near pre-pandemic levels and this is the latest worry.
What they don't tell you is consumers are using only 21% of their total credit, well beneath the 24% avg pre-pandemic.
Also, household debt payments relative to income is near historically low levels. pic.twitter.com/2vR3ImaiYF
— Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick) November 23, 2022
Exotic car market is getting decimated right now.
2021 Mercedes G-Wagon with 3,378 miles just sold for $187K at auction.
that’s nearly an $80K (or 30%) drop in under 12 months.
— Car Dealership Guy (@GuyDealership) November 22, 2022
The one year price chart of #Solana has stretched my imagination and made me rethink everything I thought I knew about investing and markets and venture capital. Exciting and humbling. pic.twitter.com/D314Ym4QBp
— Coronado 'Porch' Lindzon (@howardlindzon) November 4, 2021
5/ As you can see, the majority of the outflows happened in Q4 2021. Things noticeably cool down after that.
To us, this is a sign that they took a huge hit as markets contracted in Q4.
As mindblowing as this might be: it's possible by the time Terra happened, they were broke.
— Lucas Nuzzi (@LucasNuzzi) November 22, 2022
Alameda's massive losses in 2021 indicates that the insolvency didn't just originate in the Luna blowup from
May of this year. https://t.co/Kt2RTBf9EO— Doug Colkitt (@0xdoug) November 21, 2022
A LOT of people have asked me to do a thread on the $GBTC, Grayscale, DCG, Genesis situation but primarily with regard to GBTC. First off.. DCG & Genesis own a ton of GBTC. Almost 67 million shares as of 9/30/22. The bulk of that was added in the second quarter 2022. 1/X pic.twitter.com/4Vhccj4vkg
— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) November 23, 2022
Crypto companies currently in bankruptcy proceedings
3AC
Voyager
Celsius
FTX
BlockFiRestructuring lawyers up big
— db (@tier10k) November 28, 2022
BlockFi's 4th largest creditor is the SEC, to whom the company owes $30m. I presume that's left over from the $100m fine and settlement it agreed to in Feb. 2022. pic.twitter.com/WVmbXXFXsd
— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) November 28, 2022
Case Shiller 20 City M/M: -1.24%, Exp. -1.20%, Last -1.30%
Case Shiller 20 City Y/Y: 10.43%, Exp. 10.55%, Last 13.06%— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 29, 2022
The housing market:
[H/t @jonathanmiller] pic.twitter.com/FQG1MqhRl5
— The Transcript (@TheTranscript_) November 28, 2022
Direct evidence of the decline in VC investment volumes: the unicorn birthrate has collapsed. pic.twitter.com/DcrbnzVJdH
— Brett Winton (@wintonARK) November 23, 2022
Here are six public companies that are now valued way below their total funding since inception 📉$ACAST $BRDS $ROO $RENT $GRAB $BGRY pic.twitter.com/tA8bjiQG16
— Quartr (@Quartr_App) November 23, 2022
IGER SAYS DISNEY PRIORITIES ARE PROFITABILITY AND TAKING HARD LOOK AT COST STRUCTURE — TOWN HALL MEETING$DIS
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) November 28, 2022
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