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One of the more surprising market developments of 2016 has been the violent obliteration of those who had taken part in the biggest consensus trade of 2015, namely long the USD. As the Fed finally admitted earlier this week, the US economy is sputtering and is woefully incapable of handling 4 rate hikes, or 3 for that matter.

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I’m sure you’ve heard that Social Security is running out of money, so here’s what you need to know about the current state of the program and what could happen in the future.

Authored by Art Berman

Another False Oil Price Rally: Crossing A Boundary

The oil-price rally that began in mid-February will almost certainly collapse.

It is similar to the false March-June 2015 rally. In both cases, prices increased largely because of sentiment. As in the earlier rally, current storage volumes are too large and demand is too weak to sustain higher prices for long.

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Back at the start of the year, when the market was plunging every day and I had the time and mental energy to devote myself to topics besides charts, I wrote this post called My Presidential Election Prediction. The core thesis was, “Status Quo means Hillary. Financial Mayhem means Bernie. Fear means Trump.”

So far, it seems Status Quo is winning. The status-y quo-ish stuff that’s happening is:

+ No terrorist activity or threats;

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Exactly one month ago, when we learned that Goldman was looking to package its Hedge Fund VIP basket of stocks into an ETF we said, half jokingly, that we have discovered a “guaranteed way to make money: Short Goldman’s “Hedge Fund VIP” ETF“, adding that “with 5 of their Top 6 trades for 2016 already stopped out, and their recent heavy losses from sw

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