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I believe the SMART stocks should be cornerstones of a portfolio exposed to the rising digital economy we live in. An economy driven by data, digital payments, targeted advertising, streaming and new social interaction at your fingertips.

The stock market looks to be the place to be long term, as it has always been. With all the tools at the disposal of government officials, economic collapse (as in the Great Depression) may no longer be even a minor probability in the decades to come.

The long, long bull market since 2009 has finally matured into a fully-fledged epic bubble. Featuring extreme overvaluation, explosive price increases, frenzied issuance, and hysterically speculative investor behavior, I believe this event will be recorded as one of the great bubbles of financial history, right along with the South Sea bubble, 1929, and 2000.

the market has numerous favorable short and intermediate-term catalysts that should continue to drive stock prices higher from here. In fact, we are very likely going to see S&P 500 5,000 sometime in the next 12-months.

Currently, the Bear-o-meter reads neutral at 4/8. That’s about as “right down the middle” as its gonna get! This suggests that conditions are normal. Its not time to back the truck up and buy high risk stocks, but its not time to start selling out of your positions either.

The rise in the Dow could end tomorrow or perhaps we could see a continued rise for a limited time but trying to catch the last few points of the rise is an extremely dangerous exercise that could lead to ruin.

41 psychedelic drug stocks trade on the various North American stock exchanges and 38 of them are down since the end of February for an overall sector change of -22.6%.

The Hindenburg Omen has appeared before all stock market crashes, or panic events, of the past 35 years with crashes occurring 22.6% of the time and this time round it is warning of a stock market crash sometime between now and July 4th, 2021. The last official Hindenburg Omen came January 30th, 2020 and led to a 36.9% stock market crash through March 23rd, 2020. Will it happen this time round?

In this interview, Grantham discusses the futility of Federal Reserve policy, criticizes the state of American capitalism, and shares his thoughts on gold, Bitcoin, emerging markets and climate change.

Margin debt spiked by 9.6% last November and another 7.8% in December, the two largest month-over-month increases on record and is now up 62% since March of 2020. High margin balances tend to precede epic stock market sell-offs.