I am being underwritten with $250M to seed an event-driven fund to capture profits in the event of a Donald Trump presidential victory. Symbol: YUGE. The fund will have unrestricted latitude to own assets as it pleases.  The investment committee is building a list. So far it includes: S&P500 long term put options VXX TWTR put options (why not? what do you want to […] Read the rest of this entry »

The Fed and ECB will get the most bank (sorry, I mean bang) for their buck if they wait until after the BEA’s overestimated GDP report on January 29, and the BLS overestimated January jobs report on February 5th. If I were pulling the levers, I’d have the ECB announce a 30B euro/month increase in QE in the second week of February.  This might […] Read the rest of this entry »

There seems to be a spike in scumbag trolls today.  Since it’s Christmas time, I’m in the mood to give the trolls some airtime.  Here’s your chance to take some shots at me / the Greedometers.   Rules: No swearing. You must be original. You must entertain me. You must include the firm you work for.   You know you want to.  Let’s see […] Read the rest of this entry »

In an obvious effort to get Morgan Stanley’s earnings news posted as quickly as possible, CNBC posted an article with the facts left as XX and XXX placeholders. Have a good day, folks….