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Bubble, bubble toil and no trouble!

There are a number of arguments being advanced to suggest the stock market is in a gigantic bubble that is at risk of bursting imminently. Some of the arguments relate...
Roger Montgomery
Montgomery Investment Management
Macro

Druckenmiller: 3 plays for the 'wildest cocktail' in 40 years of investing

Stanley Druckenmiller has been running money for the Duquesne Family Office since 1981, and to date, he hasn't recorded a negative calendar year return. No down years...
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Macro

Dig deep and buy Australian

In the depths of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Billionaire Warren Buffet published an article in the New York Times titled “Buy American, I Am”. The article was a...
Michael Skinner
Michael Skinner
Macro

A rare thing: the RBA snookered in public debate

It's not often the boffins at the RBA are snookered in a public debate. But so it was on Friday, when the very bright Governor of the RBA, Dr Phil Lowe, and his...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Aussie QE will not fuel asset price bubbles

In the AFR this weekend I write that the Reserve Bank of Australia has launched a new and entirely necessary monetary policy regime that will involve sustained...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Heading for “QE: Infinity” -- reactions to the RBA this week

This week the RBA Governor Philip Lowe has delivered his outlook for the year and an additional $100 billion in QE, bringing the total expanded balance sheet to over...
Mia Kwok
Mia Kwok
Livewire Markets
Macro

“I’m very nervous” – The big risk on Chris Joye’s radar

An even-bet chance of a “hot war” with China poses a grave threat to Australian investors and the economy overall, warns Coolabah Capital’s Christopher Joye. “We’ve...
Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Macro

QE3 and QE4 are coming...

In this flash note, we forecast a very high probability of a $100 billion QE3 program succeeding the $100 billion QE2 commitment the RBA sensationally announced this...
Kieran Davies
Coolabah Capital
Macro

2021 infrastructure outlook

To state the obvious, 2020 was a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges the likes of which individuals, businesses and governments have never...
Sarah Shaw
4D Infrastructure
Macro

Are risk markets entering a correction zone?

The market adage of January being the barometer for equity market performance for the year will always get tossed around as investors outline their roadmap for the...
Chris Manuell, CMT
Chris Manuell, CMT
Jamieson Coote Bonds
Macro

China's cunning plan to become integral to Western growth

'Chris Johnson is the best expert on China the CIA has ever had'. That's the view of former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell. And if Johnson's views on his country...
Nicholas Plessas
Livewire Markets
Macro

COVID-driven structural trends

The spread of COVID-19 across the world had a dramatic impact on everyday life for many people, as governments imposed restrictions on their citizens to limit the rate...
David Bruty
Escala Partners
Macro

4 key macro signals and how to position your portfolio

Alas, the start to 2021 is not as ‘fresh’ as we would have liked. We have not exited 2020 with a clean slate. A renewed global surge in the pandemic through December...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

Jeremy Grantham's four signs of an upcoming crash

When Jeremy Grantham speaks, the market listens, and he believes the market is on the brink of a catastrophic downturn that will rival the 1929 Wall Street crash....
Mia Kwok
Mia Kwok
Livewire Markets
Macro

RBA delivers $100 billion of QE 2.0, as we forecast last week...

As we predicted last week with our detailed QE 2.0 paper (see here), the RBA today surprised the market by announcing another $100 billion of Commonwealth and State...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Is this bull market just getting started?

Following a year of stark contrasts, many investors are left scratching their heads. By traditional definitions, the long bull market that started in 2009, finally...
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Macro

Why Gamestop is so significant for markets

A signpost for a permanent change in the operations of financial markets, or is it just another footnote in the absurd history of social media's growing influence on...
Nick Morton
Nick Morton
Resonant Asset Management
Macro

Aussie dollar would be much higher were it not for RBA

In the AFR today I write that while we are very bullish on Antipodean growth over the next 12 months, there is certainly a lot to be anxious about at present. We have...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

It's hard not to laugh when you see GME Resources

It's hard not to laugh when you see GME Resources, an Aussie nickel play, open and trade to 12c (+60%) on no news that I can find. Could it be that the company spiked...
Chris Weston
Chris Weston
Pepperstone
Macro

Neoliberalism is greatly misunderstood

The last decade has seen the concept of Neoliberalism go out of fashion. Today it is typically used as a slur against people holding small government and free market...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Macro

QE 2.0 is coming: do you know why?

In this new paper, Coolabah's Chief Macro Strategist, Kieran Davies, and its Chief Investment Officer, Christopher Joye, examine the case for the RBA launching QE 2.0...
Kieran Davies
Coolabah Capital
Macro

How to make money despite low rates and the zombie threat

Abnormally low-interest rates have been the most important factor governing financial markets for more than 10 years. Initially, these rates rescued debt markets....
Pengana Capital
Pengana Capital
Pengana Capital Group
Macro

The key opportunities in 2021

Persistently low-interest rates and anaemic inflation are forcing investors to ratchet up their risk, but there are a few bright spots to consider in 2021, say...
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Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Macro

Will Biden cause Market boom or bust?

In today's investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth's Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith and Head of Advice Tim Fuller ask the...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

The RBA has many more bullets to fire...

In the AFR today I write that markets are focused on what the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Governor Phil Lowe and Deputy Governor Guy Debelle decide regarding how they...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
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