Paul B. Farrell: Wall Street’s profits addiction and $100 million trading days will drive America over a new 1929-style cliff and into a new Great Depression II…It’s Inevitable!!!

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

 

Wharton School economist Jeremy Siegel, author of two classics, “Stocks For the Long Run” and “The Future for Investors,” is one of America’s most respected financial minds. He recently told cable channel CNBC that Dow 15,000 was “definite,” with 50-50 odds of Dow 17,000 by year-end 2013.

He even doubled down in Kiplinger’s: “My Dow 17,000 projection may turn out to be too timid.” Now that’s real [...]

Morgan Stanley Sees QE3 Rally Lasting Hours Not Weeks

We have quite vehemently reminded readers of the dismal drop in US (and global) macro data over the past few months. These disappointing economic surprises and the ensuing global growth weakness will, Morgan Stanley believes, lead to a global policy response (rate cuts where rates can be cut and QE where they can’t) and while they expect this monetary policy to work in many important emerging economies, they are doubtful [...]

Commodities are losing steam as the USD is rallying (and concerns over China’s willingness to ease given RBA’s explicit inflation concerns) leaves Copper down 2% on the week and Gold the outperformer though in the red on the week

Overnight excitement from the RBA (no rate cut) and concerns at China’s GDP growth given a European recession did nothing to initially slow risk markets early on as they reached up to yesterday’s highs as ES (the e-mini S&P 500 futures contract) and BE500 (the broad Bloomberg equity index for Europe) pushed higher out of the gate (as AUD strength sustained carry trades – which appear now to be leaking [...]