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Market Tops & A Special Opportunity for Subscribers
Market Tops & A Special Opportunity for Subscribers
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Market Top
Inflation is still running hot.
Core-CPI was up 0.4% month-over-month and up 3.8% year-over-year.
As a reminder, the Fed’s inflation target is 2%.
As I've said for several months, there is zero chance the Fed cuts rates with a CPI number like today or with the stock market at all time highs. Absent some type of Grey or Black Swan (China invades Taiwan?), I don't think we'll see rate cuts at all until 2025.
In fact, if you saw today's number in a vacuum, you'd expect the Fed would be about to embark on a rate-hike campaign. That's how bad the number was.
Meanwhile, the market continues to ignore negative news and keeps chugging along.
Remember, it doesn’t matter until matters.
It is still my strong belief that we are in the process of marking a major market top.
Unlike market bottoms though which tend to be 'V' shaped, market tops tend to be a rounding process.
There are some big macro forces that could keep the party going. We can’t finance our deficits our debt without printing money or letting inflation run hot and a weak dollar would help both those cases.
High inflation would help those with assets but continue crushing the lower and middle class. But that’s a fairly complicated subject for another letter (review my ‘Rock and a Hard Place’ thesis I wrote about last year if you have no idea what I’m talking about).
On the bright side, Bitcoin still running. If you listened to one thing I told you hopefully it was to buy BTC at $25K....or at $38K...or frankly, any number over the past 6 months.
That one trade is a cold triple at this point.
I probably wouldn't chase it here although there is nothing in the way except the Big Round Number of $100K.
Nevertheless, we are probably facing a near term top based on price exhaustion.
Either way, there is still a profound supply-demand imbalance based on the ETF approvals that only resolves with a higher price to jar coins loose from existing holders.
You also have to remember that BTC is one of the only assets out there that's a hedge against our current insanity.
Biden recently released his new budget and it comes in at a whopping $7.3T. That's likely $3T or more than we'll take in next year in tax revenue.
So we're essentially locking in a permanent $3T+ a year deficit on top of the $35T in existing debt.
If you think the $35T and rising number that can be paid back without massive inflation to devalue the dollar (and thus the debt), I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you...
The bottom line, we are on an unsustainable fiscal path and debt spiral and BTC (and to some extent gold) are the only instruments that exist outside of the traditional structure that should serve as insurance and act as a good store of value.
Bottom line: Keep raising cash and trimming exposure. Buy BTC on dips and consider adding exposure to some of the names in the portfolio.
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