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On today’s show we discuss:
- The $1 trillion supporting the economy
- High debt-to-GDP ratio is here to stay
- Inequality in the stock market
- Squeezing the middle class
- Covid-19 is dividing the American worker
- The markets are not the economy
- Tail risk hedges are the new bonds
- Hedging your portfolio with wine and stocks
- The correlation between the S&P 500 and the equal-weight version is breaking down
- Bad breadth isn’t necessarily bad
- Existing home sales are on fire
- Seinfeld destroys Altucher
- Parenting this fall
- Tesla shorts are losing a lot of money
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Let's say it another way….
You know how many times the S&P 500 Advance-Decline Line has been at a 10-day low when price was at a new high in the last 30 years?
Once…. Friday.
— Andrew Thrasher, CMT (@AndrewThrasher) August 23, 2020
and it's only getting bigger… pic.twitter.com/OPQF2Vc1hG
— Copley Fund Research (@CopleyFR) August 23, 2020
Things that make you go hmmm. pic.twitter.com/elwYgNrXuz
— Drew Dickson (@AlbertBridgeCap) August 23, 2020