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Whoa! Look at what the banks models say!

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Secret bank modelling points to a boom for the ages.

I get a bit of access to some insider info every now and then. Not that I’m an insider. I have a mole.

But that mole turns up some gold from time to time.

So let’s have a look at what CBA’s internal model says about the outlook for prices.

The model says, “I’m so hungry. But I look good in jeans. And property is going to boom!”

No, it’s a mathematical model. And it charts out like this.

So the model is telling us that prices are very quickly going to go double-digit, and stay there through 2021.

That’s a boom.

It’s the biggest boom since just before the GFC. It even leaves the 13/14 mining-boom driven boom for dead. (Did I mention there’s a mining boom this time too?)

There’s actually not even much speculation here. CBA’s model does a very good job of predicting the near future, because it’s based on things that are pretty reliable indicators – finance, auction clearance rates, things like that.

So they reckon there’s a boom coming. A major boom.

(Not that that’s news to anyone reading my blogs.)

What’s interesting though is that CBA reckon that there’s even some upside risk to this scenario.

The boom could be even bigger:

The key upside risk to our forecasts is sustained exuberance combined with FOMO (’fear of missing out’) which could generate a turbo-charged rise in prices. Indeed we consider this to be the biggest risk to our forecasts given the demand impulse from interest rate cuts, the level of interest rates relative to the rental yield and the recent spike in momentum indicators. History shows that prices can rise very quickly when the housing market is on a roll.

Indeed it may turn out to be the case that the growth profile for price outcomes over the next two years ends up more front loaded than our current projections.

A second upside risk is any further policy changes to boost housing demand such as first-home-owner grants or lower stamp duty (to domestic or foreign buyers). This looks unlikely, however, given the current state of the market.

Finally, if the RBA do not remove or increase the target yield on the 3yr Australian Government bond that would mean that fixed rates are unlikely to drift higher in H2 2021 and 2022 as we expect. However, the risk overall of interest rates being lower than we expect is small given the cash rate is at the effective lower bound, the economy is on an entrenched recovery path and negative interest rates remain, “extraordinary unlikely”.

And their concluding thoughts are something every investor should print out and stick to the fridge right now.

Monetary policy and more specifically the cost of money impacts all asset markets, including housing. The reason that asset prices, including dwelling prices, can seemingly decouple from the economy comes down to largely one thing – central bank policy and changes in the cost of money.

Yup.

And in case you forgot, this chart shows us the pace of money growth speeding up, all thanks to the RBA’s printing press:

Forget what you know.

This boom will be one for the ages.

JG

No BS: how to turn mood to energy

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No B.S Friday: Sometimes emotions are just energy stories.

Are you depressed, or just resting?

Serious question.

Think about it.

Why do we describe moods as ‘buoyant’? Why do we say things like “her smile always lifts me up” or “I’m feeling down”?

Why do we think like that – like there’s some vertical scale with negative emotions down the bottom, and positive emotions at the top.

Why do we talk about getting ‘high’? (I mean, not me personally, but you know what I mean.)

Why do we give emotions this ‘direction’.

Emotions aren’t directional. They’re not going anywhere right? They’re not traffic.

But this is how we talk about them, and this is sort of how it feels.

My theory, and I’ve talked about this before, is that often when we talk about emotions, what we’re actually talking about is energy.

When we’re “lifted up”, we are given more energy. We become more energized.

If someone brings us down, then we’ve lost energy. We become de-energized.

Emotions – and maybe not always but definitely sometimes – are just the stories we tell to explain our energetic state to ourselves.

Coffee is the classic example. If I have a coffee, I start enjoying anything I’m doing. Suddenly going through the quarterly accounts is awesome. So much fun.

I tell myself a story about being happy. I like these numbers. I like doing this task. It’s nice to be working in the office.

I’m happy.

But I’m not happy. I’m energized. My adrenals are firing up to deal with the caffeine and my energy levels spike.

I’m not happy, I’m energised.

So back to my original question. How do you know the difference between being sad and being tired?

Are you depressed or just resting?

I do think these are distinct things – that they are qualitatively different states of being.

However, I think often when we’re feeling sad and down, what we’re actually feeling is tired and depleted.

And we live in a world that keeps us constantly chugging on the treadmill. We’re all burnt out.

And depression is epidemic.

I think there’s a connection there.

And I think it is useful to remember that what we really want isn’t necessarily to be happy – it’s to be energised.

A happy life is an energized life.

And if you think about it like that, then you start to get much more protective of your energies – you become much more careful about where your time is going

And you become less interested in what makes you happy, and more interested in what energizes you.

Food, nutrition and exercise is obviously important here, but so is living with purpose, having autonomy over your time, and having exposure to people and things that stimulate your soul. Things like that.

Maybe it’s not about ‘managing emotions’. Maybe it’s about cultivating energy.

So remember this. Sometimes emotions are just stories we tell ourselves to help us understand our energetic state.

But they can just be stories.

Energy has to be one of the central focuses of our lives.

JG.

My guru’s thoughts on Crypto

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Ray Dalio has runs on the board. This is what he thinks about Bitcoin.

So, crypto hey? Here we go again.

Fascinating times.

It does feel like a rehash of 2017 to me – an amazing new tech, smothered in a stinking pile of hype and crap coins.

Don’t get me wrong. There’s some gold here. There’s also money to be made. But it’s still the wild west. Play it safe peeps.

Anyway, I thought it’d be interesting to look at what Ray Dalio has to say about Bitcoin.

You know I have a boy crush on Ray Dalio – one of the most successful fund managers of all time, entering his statemanly years, with all the time and resources he wants to ponder the big questions.

So when he ponders Bitcoin, I pay attention. He’s got the experience to understand asset markets as deeply as anyone. He also has a large team of highly trained people to do some of the pondering for him.

That helps.

Anyway, TLDR: he’s impressed with Bitcoin, but cautious.

I like how he places Bitcoin in the right historical context:

Bitcoin… like the creation of the existing credit-based monetary system, is of course a type of alchemy—i.e., making money out of little or nothing. It, like the making of credit that made bankers rich starting with the Medicis around 1350, is making its inventors and those who got in on it early very rich and has the potential to make many more people very rich and to disrupt the existing monetary system.

But more than as a currency, it’s proving its use as “an alternative gold-like asset.”

There aren’t many alternative gold-like assets at this time of rising need for them (because of all the debt and money creations that are underway and will happen in the future). Because of what is going on in the world, besides there being a growing need for money or storehold of wealth assets that are limited in supply, there is also a growing need for assets that can be privately held. Because there aren’t many of these gold-like storehold of wealth assets that can be held in privacy and because the sizes of their markets are relatively small, there exists the possibility that Bitcoin and its competitors can fill that growing need.

This is the money quote for me.

The key here is the huge amount of money currently in the pipes heading towards the economy. It’s massive. We’ve never seen anything like it. Even in the GFC.

That means we’re going to get a devaluation of the world’s currencies. Which is another way of saying we’re going to get an upward valuation of the things money buys.

That means everything, but assets in short supply in particular.

(Hey, know what else is in short supply? Property.)

Anyway, Bitcoin has shown that it’s got legs.

It seems to me that Bitcoin has succeeded in crossing the line from being a highly speculative idea that could well not be around in short order to probably being around and probably having some value in the future.

However, ‘some value’ is not the same as a particular valuation, and he’s sceptical that governments will just hand the reins of money over to Bitcoin, and would likely move to curtail or shut it down.

… it seems to me that the more successful Bitcoin is the more likely these possibilities would be. Starting with the formation of the first central bank (the Bank of England in 1694), for good logical reasons governments wanted control over money and they protected their abilities to have the only monies and credit within their borders. When I a) put myself in the shoes of government officials, b) see their actions, and c) hear what they say, it is hard for me to imagine that they would allow Bitcoin (or gold) to be an obviously better choice than the money and credit that they are producing. I suspect that Bitcoin’s biggest risk is being successful, because if it’s successful, the government will try to kill it and they have a lot of power to succeed.

Yeah. I think that’s fair enough. A world where Bitcoin replaces fiat is a radically different world to the one we live in now – and different in ways that are hard to imagine. But I wouldn’t expect the tables of finance to be turned without a fight.

And is Dalio happy to take a punt on Bitcoin? He is, but only with his play money.

That is why to me Bitcoin looks like a long-duration option on a highly unknown future that I could put an amount of money in that I wouldn’t mind losing about 80% of.  

Ever heard of anyone losing 80% on a house?

JG

Best business conditions… ever?

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Everything is lining up for the biggest economic boom in a generation.

So, I’m picking up on something.

The talk in the economic commentary I follow (which is a lot) has shifted. We used to be talking about whether we would recover, or whether we could keep the recovery on track.

Now, it’s about how big the coming boom is going to be.

This is almost across the board. The only dissenting voices are the ones saying that things are too hot, and some asset markets are too bubbly, and they’re at the point of breaking.

But there isn’t anyone I’m reading who doesn’t think economic conditions are hot.

But pictures paint a thousand words, so here’s a ten-thousand word essay of why Australia might be on the cusp of the most incredible economic boom in a generation.

Let me lay it out.

1. The Recovery is V-shaped

It’s now pretty clear that the economy is bouncing back quickly, and the Covid downturn will be deep but brief:

2. Unemployment is Contained

Unemployment never got anywhere near what was feared, and is already trending downwards.

3. Jobs market is heating up

With unemployment contained, the jobs market is picking up. Job ads are now higher than they were pre-Covid…

… and the number of people on Jobseeker has already fallen by 7%.

4. Household Income is Up

With employment income holding up, and with the surge in government benefit payments through 2020, household incomes are up 14% year on year.

5. Expenses are Down

At the same time, with the interest rate cuts, expenses are down, and household disposable income is booming.

6. Households are Flush

With disposable income booming, households are saving at a strong pace, and have got a stash of cash at the bank:

7. Consumer Confidence is High

With all that money in the bank, and having held on to their jobs, consumer confidence is booming:

All that gives the Australian consumer plenty of capacity to support economic growth in the years ahead.

8. The RBA will Run the Printing Press Hot

Despite improving economic conditions, the RBA will continue to run the printing presses hot, maintaining their current $5bn a week pace right through the year. (They’ve already committed to September, and I expect it to be extended.)

They don’t really have a choice. Out money printing program is small compared to the rest of the world, and if we don’t print as well, the Aussie dollar will go to the moon.

8. Businesses are Flush…

Coming into this ‘recovery on steroids’, thanks to the RBA, business conditions are already solid. Businesses are reporting the best cashflow conditions in years:

9. … and Bullish

Business confidence is also already at some of the highest levels in recent memory:

So you put all that together, you have a fantastic outlook for profits and share prices, and a fantastic outlook for the economy in general.

10. Rebounding Trading Partners

You can probably add to that the impact a rebounding global economy could have on the Australian outlook as well.

Many countries, particularly the US, haven’t had the easiest run of things when it comes to Covid.

If the vaccine roll out goes well, and their recoveries gather pace, that just adds further upside to the Australian outlook.

BOOM

It’s actually hard to see much downside risk from where we stand right now. The economic conditions are stacking up favourably, and the Australian economy is set to boom.

It’s not a question of if.

Now it’s a question of how big.

JG

No BS: Why this salesperson FAILED

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No B.S Friday: People just like different things. This is how you weaponise it.

This one is just because it’s fun to think about how humans work.

You might be able to apply some of this to your wealth journey. I’m sure it will come in useful at some point. But really, I just find this interesting.

So, there are different ways of selling to someone.

I remembered this because once someone was trying to sell me some resources for my business. At the end of their pitch they said, “And look. It comes wrapped in this black leather case with gold embossed writing. When you come in and lay it on the desk, people are going to be impressed.”

I’m like, “What? I couldn’t give a stuff about what the box looks like. It could come wrapped in camel intestines for all I care, as long as it gets the job done.”

He had misread what I was about, and what was going to appeal to me.

I’m more of an outcomes guy. I don’t really care what it looks like, or how popular it is. I’ve got no interest how many pixels or pistons it’s got. All I want to know is it going to get the job done.

There are (at least) three other types.

Some people are technical people. They want it to be the best and the best value for money. They want to know how much ram it’s got or how many thrashing turbines. They want to know how many turbines competitor models have, and whether it’s worth sacrificing a few gig of ram to pick up another turbine.

They’re into the details of the product.

Other people again are people people. They want to know how this product is going to make everyone feel. Will everyone like it? How many people prefer the old version? How can bring the dis-beleivers round to the party? Will it make people happy to use it?

And finally, there’s image-people. They care what it looks like, and how it looks when the slap it down on a desk, step out of it at a restaurant, or slap it on their wrist after a session at the pool. They care whether it helps them project strength or power or whatever it is they’re trying to present.

And they’re your four types.

If you know what your prospect cares about, you know how to sell them.

So that sales guy misdiagnosed me. I’m not an image person. I’m an outcome person.

And that’s why he didn’t get the sale.

Anyway, keep this in mind. It’s obviously not totally clear cut in the real world, and there might be more types of people out there.

But you’ll go a long way if you can remember that some people just like different things.

People are funny like that.

JG.

Proof: money printing is a boom on steroids

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How exactly will all this fresh money spark a boom in property? I tell you.

So this one is for the folks who want to understand just how epic the money-printing madness is right now, and just how it’s going to make asset markets explode.

So last week the RBA committed to print another $100bn – at a pace of $5bn a week.

Yeah. Like it’s nothing.

Which it actually is. It is literally nothing to the RBA because they just press a button on the computer and BRRRR – brand new money.

Hooray!

Anyway, this means that the RBA is further expanding their balance sheet. So when the RBA prints money, it uses that money to buy assets (typically government bonds), and so their balance sheet ‘expands’.

(Don’t you wish you could do that?)

Anyway, this is what their balance sheet looked like before the most recent announcement:

So the RBA’s balance sheet was already looking bloated, even before the most recent announcement.

Since Covid struck, the RBA’s balance sheet has doubled, from $160bn to over $320bn.

Pew.

On top of that, you can add what’s left on the current printing program, which ends in April, and the fresh commitment of another $100bn, which will take us through until September.

All told, we’re looking at a tripling of the RBA’s balance sheet.

It’s massive.

What impact does this have on the economy?

Well, that’s where I thought this chart was interesting. This is the American story:

This comes from Lyn Aiden Investment Strategy, via Twitter. The point Lyn is making is that when money printing happens without huge government spending, then it just sort of gets mopped up by the financial sector.

Huge demand for government bonds drives down their prices, which suppresses interest rates across the economy.

That obviously has a real impact – particularly on financial assets (remember the US stock market tripled between 2010 and 2019) – but it mostly ends up being contained to financial markets.

What happens though when there’s massive government spending to go with it, is that that freshly printed money escapes the financial system, and gets into the real economy.

The government takes the money they get for their bonds, and spends it, on roads or schools or trips to Thailand or whatever.

When it enters the real economy, it pushes up the money supply.

And that’s what the most recent episode shows us. Massive money-printing, combined with massive government spending, has caused a massive expansion in the money supply.

That, in theory, should bid the price of everything up, but hard assets in particular. (That is, it’s super bullish for property.)

So what’s happening in Australia? We’ve got the expansion of the balance sheet. We’ve got the money printing. Do we have the spending?

Yes. Yes we do.

On current estimates, the government (state and Federal combined) are spending the equivalent of 15% of GDP in 20/21 alone!

It’s huge!

That means, that we’re going to see a huge expansion in the money supply.

Which means an explosion in prices, and particularly hard asset prices.

This is where we’re going.

So hold on to your assets folks. The RBA’s is printing and printing hard. This is going to get wild.

JG

RBA commits to ‘run things hot’

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More money, more money for everyone.

So the RBA announced last week that they had another lazy $100bn to throw at the market.

That’s nice.

Interest rates were on hold. No surprises there. At 0.1% they’ve got nowhere to go, especially since Phil Lowe reckons they’re unlikely to rise until 2024 at the earliest.

So with interest rates out of the picture for now, the focus becomes centred on what the RBA is doing with its Quantitative Easing (aka money printing) program.

And just what they’re doing shocked everyone. No one saw it coming. They’re going to print another $100bn, on top of the first $100bn program which ends in April.

Yep. $5bn a week, just gushing on in to the economy.

As I said, this took people off guard. I don’t know anyone who saw it coming.

If anything, people thought the RBA might be trying to dial things back a bit.

Because the truth is, on pretty much every metric that matters, the Australian economy is doing a lot better than expected.

The RBA were well aware of this. Take a look at this chart, which compares their earlier forecasts for unemployment, with what actually happened.

That’s the public policy equivalent of smashing it out of the park.

The unemployment rate was expected to get to double-digits. In the end it looks like topping out at 7.5%.

And this isn’t an isolated case. Across the economy, things were doing much, much better than expected.

And yet, the RBA decided to double down, and let the money printing presses go Brrrr for another six months.

Their thinking must be, or seems to be, that to generate enough inflation, they have to run the economy hot until the labour market gets tight enough to generate wage inflation.

(It’s a long way off.)

The Governor has said he reckons we need to get the unemployment rate down to “4-point something”.

When you compare how long it took to bring unemployment down a comparable distance (from 6.8% now to 4-point something – so like 3 percentage points) it normally takes years.

Like, 3 to 4 years on that clock.

So does that mean the printing press stays on for all that time? That’s massive.

Because if we’re talking about running the economy hot, it’s already looking a bit over-revved, especially when it comes to the property market.

I mean, auction clearance rates are at boom time levels:

Housing finance is exploding:

Household incomes are booming:

And households are sitting on a stack of cash thanks to government support packages.

So what happens if you run an economy hot when asset markets are already this tight and primed for growth.

KA-BOOM!

That’s what happens.

JG

No BS: My advice to newly-minted millionaires

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No B.S Friday: Old uncle Jon gives you some advice for relating to money.

Ok, there’s a lot of young ‘uns making some good money right now.

Some of those guys on the early side of the Gamestop trade have made a killing. Like millions overnight.

And then there’s crypto, or other stocks or property deals. Whatever.

(There is always good money to be made).

So I thought I’d stroke my long grey beard and offer some advice to these newly-minted millionaires.

And I thought I’d share it with you, because even if that doesn’t describe you exactly, you are still one of the richest humans to ever walk the face of the earth. Maybe not relative to your cohort, but definitely in an absolute sense.

Anyway, my advice to you is that you have build your life around something other than money.

This is not because it’s a righteous thing to do and the angels will give you a pat on the head when you get to heaven. This is about preserving your sanity and being able to enjoy life.

You have to find something to build your life around that you can control. This is why the stoics focused on creating a virtuous life.

If you’re focused on wealth, well, you just can’t control that. It’s a question for fate. Whether you win or lose. Whether your city state collapses under the onslaught of the barbarians. Whether you lose your fortune in a fire.

It’s just not up to you.

There are things you can do, yes, to maximise the chances of hanging on to your wealth. But you can’t control it.

And if you have made it the purpose of your being, then your mind is constantly looking for a way to defend your wealth (and “accumulating even more wealth” seems to be the most common strategy.)

And with our mind, grinding away in the background, always thinking about how to defend our wealth, you are always on your guard. To some degree.

Because you are living in a fear state. Afraid that the universe might just come along and take it all away. Because it always can.

The result is that we start to slow-boil in paranoia. Not a shaking on the floor and yelling at windows kinda paranoia. Just a steady, slow-boil paranoia that starts to flavour everything we do.

It’s just kinda there. It’s in everything, though you can’t even see it.

You just start to wonder why your kid’s smile doesn’t light you up like it used to. You realise you can’t remember the last time you actually laughed out loud. Everyone and everything feels boring.

Trust me, you don’t want to go there.

And this is why, I think, we need to build our lives around something other than money – something we can control.

Find something to give your life mission. Be a virtuous being. Give as much as you can to a cause you love. Be an awesome member of the surf club.

And that’s not to say that money can’t be important to you, or you can’t give it energy.

But train your mind to focus on something it can control, so it stops scanning the forest’s edge for wolves.

Choose your focus, defuse your fear, and let the colour come back into your life.

JG.

Banks let me hold their crystal balls

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The banks data is painting a very rosy picture.

I know I’ve got access to a lot of info that most people don’t. It’s what happens when you’ve been around as long as I have.

(… and have a paid researcher on staff!)

At any rate, today I thought I’d do a whip around the data coming out of the big banks – particularly their sentiment data.

On the whole, it paints a very rosy picture. It paints a picture of an economy rebounding very quickly, and set to push on to even greater highs.

First up, let’s take a look at Westpac’s Leading Index. This pulls a whole bunch of things together – confidence, employment intentions etc.

Anyway, it shows just how sharp the recovery has been. The way down was pretty similar to the GFC experience. But the ride back up? It’s a totally different story, and is paving the way for a booming economy in 2021.

And this isn’t some outlier result. All the banks are telling a similar story.

Take the NAB business survey. Business Conditions and Business Confidence (both taken from surveys) have fully recovered from their Covid glums.

The other really interesting thing from this survey is the cash-flow position. Check it out:

That’s telling us that businesses right now are enjoying the best cash flow position in years. That’s going to give businesses a warchest to invest and hire with, both of which will push economic growth even higher.

Now just to cross-check, this doesn’t come from a bank – it comes from a Roy Morgan survey, but it is also showing that Business Confidence in Australia is very solid.

Over to CBA now. CBA have an interesting data release called the Household Spending Intentions series, which surveys households on their spending intentions over othe coming year.

The general trend is up, with some strong points in particular. Travel is bouncing back (presumably on domestic travel, which is good news for our economy), while retail spending intentions are booming!

This survey also gives us an insight into Home Buying Intentions. They’ve bounced back pretty strongly, and are now holding around normal levels.

Finally, Westpac’s Consumer Confidence survey tells us that Consumers are feeling positively jubilant, with the strongest reading in almost ten years.

So put it all together and you have a very consistent picture about an economy recovering quickly, driven by a confident consumer and strong retail spending, which in turn is supporting the business outlook (and profitability).

If there’s a cloud to this silver lining, I can’t see what it is.

JG

My take on Gamestop

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Greenville – Circa April 2018: GameStop Strip Mall Location. GameStop is a Video Game and Electronics Retailer I

The Gamestop saga has been fascinating viewing. Here’s my key takeaways.

Ok, I know this is a little out of my usual range, but it is pretty much the biggest story in investing markets right now, and heaps of people have been asking me about it, so let’s go there.

Gamestop.

So let’s kick off the basics. Gamestop is a been-around-for-ages bricks-and-mortar video game retailer. Computer games began the move to streaming about 5 years ago, so a lot of people thought Gamestop didn’t have a future.

So they shorted it.

That is, they took out a bet that it shares would fall in price.

Basically, they borrow a share of Gamestop from a broker and immediately sell it at the current price. Then, if things go well and the price goes down, they buy the stock back and repay the broker the stock that they owe.

Because they’re buying at a cheaper price than they sold, they’ve made a profit.

However, if the price goes up, then they’re buying at a higher price, and they make a loss.

And if they’re buying at a price that is 1600% higher, which is what the share price of Gamestop has done over the past month or so (much of it in the last week), then they stand to lose a lot.

And because we’re talking hedge funds who always bet big, then we’re talking about them losing billions.

There’s another dynamic at play. It’s called the ‘short squeeze’. So if the price does start going up, the short sellers start to panic, and then need to buy the stock to close out their positions.

However, that just adds to demand, and if no one is selling because, you know, prices went up 400% this week, then that extra demand just throws fuel on the fire, and prices go even higher.

It becomes something of an avalanche, and this dynamic is what’s called a ‘short squeeze’.

So this is what we do know.

But let me clear a couple of things up.

First up, the media wanted to tell a story about cowboy amateurs ganging together on social media and taking an irresponsible bet that just panned out luckily for them. Like, they had no idea what they were doing.

This is sorta true, but it’s not how this story started. It started with someone taking a good look at the company and seeing that there was value there – a new management team, a deal with X-box, digital sales up 300% in the December quarter.

So sure, there’s some pretty crazy hype that’s followed, but it was on the heels of a solid investment thesis.

Wall Street and the media might want to paint it all as the digital equivalent of a ‘mob riot’ but there was more substance to it than that.

That said, people are talking about it like its some sort of revolution – sticking it to the hedge funds and ‘eating the rich’. Sure. There was at least one hedge fund that took a bath. Awesome.

But short-squeezes always end in crashes, and the question is, who’s holding the baby then? My bet is will be the mum and dad traders who were just a few hours late.

The Hedge Fund managers will lose their bonuses. The late traders will lose their house.

If you think that’s a victory against capitalism, you’re dreaming.

And this goes out to the crypto community as well. Capitalism is a speculative orgy. True enough. But you can’t overthrow that with a speculative get-rich-quick orgy of your own. That’s not how it works.

You’re not overthrowing the system. You are the system.

So that’s what I reckons going on. That’s the key takeaways for me.

It is a pretty wild story. Its fun to watch.

But let’s not lose our heads.

JG