Lol.......stick A Fork In It

For the past 10 years the “stock market” has been a zombie trading platform for algobots stripping the flesh off the carcass of what’s left of Amerika. The rotting stench of capitalism is now dependent upon a collection of PhD’s in physics and computer science from MIT, Harvard, etc  collating data to steal pennies on trades instead of inventing cures for cancer. 

The Fed decided to “save” the “stock market” in December of 2008 by implementing a massive artificial trading platform within the Fed itself. This platform was intricately connected to the algos within the major banks to “protect” our “market”. Gaining and keeping the public’s confidence was paramount to the December planners. 

There would be stumbles during the next years, but overall the plan worked. So here we are. The “stumbles” were often attempts to return to “normalized” market with a “normalized” interest rate or a “normalized” trading week (remember the “flash crash”)… So yes it wasn’t perfect lol.  You put MIT and Stanford rocket scientists in charge of the “stock market” and shit does happen. All of the hiccups in the machines over the past 10 years were repaired with V-shaped recoveries and restoration of public confidence. But WAS confidence truly restored or is something more sinister developing.

The public may own the pitchforks but the big money is owned by a concentrated group of individuals that are becoming not only wealthy within this confidence game but increasingly more distrustful of it. They know that throughout history cycles will be obeyed and even though the algos saved the “market”, this very algo complexity is its achilles heal. 

The bubble this system has created is not a mirror of the underlying economy. In other words, blowing another algobot, debt driven, paper bubble did not have nearly the positive impact on most of Amerika that it did on a relative few inside the Wall Street  paper chase.

We did raise house prices. Now the average person cannot afford them. Now they cannot afford to rent these houses. We did increase car and truck sales.  We all have our new trucks. Sales are collapsing.  The Fed has begun “normalizing” interest rates in a completely abnormal “market” and economy. The collapse has begun. 

The question is what happens next? The leopard will not change its spots. The first step will be rapid interest rate drops later this year. It will fail without printed money and I mean massive printing. The trend is down without a massive underlying printing scheme. Enjoy the free money coming soon to a theater near you.