Saturday, December 23, 2017

Fuzzy Math

The US today has 95.4 million American adults not in the workforce. That's about 40% of the adult population. That's more than the number of adults working and paying taxes! But the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that we have only 4.1% unemployment.
Screen capture from the BLS' own website:


Someone is lying and doctoring the data!

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Smart Money Quietly Exiting the Market

A similar phenomenon occurred during the spring of 2017, but no stock sell-off occurred. Historically, such smart money sell-offs are a bad omen.