SocGen’s Albert Edwards On “The Biggest Scandal Of The Last Decade”: Plunging Labor Force Participation

by Zh

Seven months ago, when the horrendous August 6 NFP print set the stage for Jan Hatzius to lower his outlook for the economy (and all the other sellside lemmings to follow suit), resulting in the announcement of QE2 three weeks later at Woods Hole by our dangerous monetary Dr. Moreau (not our definition: Sean Corrigan’s – more on that later), we dubbed an article [...]

At The Current Rate Of Growth, The S&P 500 Will Surpass Its All Time High On June 27, 2011

by Zh

Since it is obvious that Bernanke is now taking his central planning tips from Laszlo “Let Me Just Whip Out My Ruler” Birinyi, and is dead set on growing the market in basically a flat line (there has been no volatility in stocks in the past 6 months – none), we decided to extrapolate the market based on the Woods Hole event, and determine [...]

Charting The “Success” Of QE2

by ZH

One chart as usual does more to convey a simple message than all the Fed speeches equating the economy with the Russell 2000 ever could. Below we demonstrate the performance of three key market data points since the August Woods Hole speech: the performance of the S&P (via the ES), the price change in the 10 Year bond (TY1 inverse scale), and of course [...]

Tom DeMark sees a drop of at least 11 percent in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

The Market Studies LLC president told Bloomberg that U.S. stocks are within a week of “a significant market top” that is likely to precede a drop of at least 11 percent in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. “I’m pretty confident that in one to two weeks, the market will be in a descent,” said DeMark, founder and chief executive officer of Market Studies LLC. “It could be pretty [...]