Smart Money

Here's a chart of the S&P 500 over the last three years. Contrary to what CNBC would have you believe, it's the S&P that's the real gage of the market as a whole, not the Dow. Hell, even the NASDAQ is a far better gage than the Dow. (Click the chart for the large version.) Incidentally, at around 1365 currently, the S&P is still quite far from it's all-time intra-day high of 1552.87, reached on March 1, 2000. It's not way off; a 14% gain from here will get it there. But where is the smart money, even though smarts sometimes prove wrong? Notice how the chart has tracked along a 100-pt wide channel pretty generally for the last three years. It's running at a slope of around 10% gain per year. Average. We're in the midst of a pretty serious housing correction and the economy is clearly slowing. Where's the smart money? And, oh, here's the NASDAQ Composite over the last 10 years (click it for large). It has not even recovered to within 50% of it's all-time high. Now, of course, the NASDAQ was most representative of the Internet bubble. But does this paint a picture of Tulip...


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Richard Nikoley

I started writing Free The Animal in late 2003 as just a little thing to try. 20 years later, turns out I've written over 5,000 posts. I blog what I wish...from diet, health, lifestyle...to philosophy, politics, social antagonism, adventure travel, expat living, location and time independent—while you sleep— income by geoarbitrage, and food pics. I intended to travel the world "homeless," but the Covidiocy Panicdemic squashed that. I became an American expat living in Thailand. I celebrate the audacity and hubris to live by your own exclusive authority and take your own chances. ... I leave the toilet seat up. Read More

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