Before the financial crisis of 2008, Michael Burry’s massive bets against the housing market made him incredibly rich, and the subject of the Hollywood movie “The Big Short,” and now he is convinced the market is about to implode again.
Michael Burry became famous for correctly predicting the epic collapse of the housing market in 2008, and according to CNN, Burry has bet over 1.6 billion dollars that the stock market is about to crash again.
Burry is making his bearish bets against the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, according to Security Exchange Commission filings released Monday. Burry’s fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $866 million in put options (that’s the right to sell an asset at a particular price) against a fund that tracks the S&P 500 and $739 million in put options against a fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100.
Burry is using more than 90% of his portfolio to bet on a market downturn, according to the filings.
If he is wrong, he will look like a fool. But if he is right, he will go down in history.
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Per Discern Report:
Without a doubt, the stock market is overdue for a crash.
So far in 2023, the S&P is up about 16 percent and the Nasdaq is up about 38 percent…
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 have both notched big gains so far this year. They’re up nearly 16% and 38%, respectively.
In the mid-2000s, Burry was famous for placing a wager against the housing market and profited handsomely from the subprime lending crisis and the collapse of numerous major financial entities in 2008. The event was chronicled by Michael Lewis in his bestseller “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” and later adapted into a film where Burry was played by Christian Bale.
This stock market rally has been happening even though the overall economy has been really struggling. As economic activity has slowed down, demand for trucking services has slumped, and at this point the Cass Freight Index is down 8.9 percent on a year-over-year basis…
In terms of shipment volume in the for-hire market, the Cass Freight Index – which is concentrated on trucking but includes rail and other modes of transportation – fell again in July, to the worst July since July 2020, and July 2016, which had been in the middle of another freight recession (fat red line in the chart below).
Year-over-year, the index was down 8.9%, and compared to the peak in this cycle, in May 2021, it was down 12%.
And UPS and FedEx are both reporting that demand for package delivery is way down as well…
We’ve heard similar messages from UPS and FedEx. UPS reported a 9.9% drop in daily package volume for Q2, with June volume down 12.2%. FedEx reported an 18% drop in average daily shipments in its quarter ended May 31.
The economy is really struggling right now, and so the stock market should not be booming.
But for the moment, the rich are getting richer while homelessness absolutely explodes all over the nation. The following comes from Zero Hedge…
The Biden administration’s fight against homelessness is faltering ahead of the 2024 presidential election cycle.
A new Wall Street Journal report reveals the number of Americans ending up on the streets is happening at a “record rate” despite ‘Bidenomics‘ being touted as an economic savior for the middle class. Every working-class folk understands Biden’s policies have been absolutely horrendous — two years of negative real wages forced many to rack up insurmountable credit card debt during the highest interest rate environment in a generation while draining personal savings — all to make ends meet, like putting food on the table and paying rent. Compound this with the worst housing affordability period in decades (maybe relief in 2H24 or ’25), and it’s not hard to understand why the homelessness crisis is beginning to spiral out of control for Democrats.
I could go on and on about the dire state of the U.S. economy, but I am not going to repeat all of the statistics that I have shared in other articles over the past few weeks. if you are interested in seeing those numbers, this is where you can find them…
Of course it isn’t just the United States that is experiencing an economic slowdown. As Jim Rickards has aptly noted, “major economies are falling into the ditch” all over the globe right now…
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that we’re looking at a global recession, if not a global financial crisis. These are highly unusual. It’s often the case that one or more major economies are in recession while others display growth and help pull the weak performers out of the ditch.
But today, we’re facing a case where, one after the other, all of the major economies are falling into the ditch.
So many of the things that we have been warned about for a very long time are starting to happen right in front of our eyes.
We are clearly headed for very big economic trouble, and that should be apparent to everyone at this point. Michael Burry is planning to make a giant pile of money when the stock market finally crashes just like he did in 2008.
Will he be correct? I don’t know, but you certainly cannot accuse him of not putting his money where his mouth is.
The stock markets pyramid selling It’s a royal racket. Why do you think they only let you go aboard under the custodians hip of their licences broker.?
If it were legit you could have total control over your portfolio and buy and sell exactly the minute you wanted too.
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You need to study this
Fromtne Valley of the 7:
Confrssions of a Former Swiss Banker
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You need to a alysd it. You need to understand 7 and Rpugemont. You need to know why he’s Catholic And why the Swiss guards are in residence at the Vatican
You need to know the history to see the present
You need to teize that he’s telling the truth about the social credit system and who started it and why it will mean those who own nothing means they will own no debts too.
You need to see which CIVIL LAW he’s describing g and u derstand why the swius ba kers are on drugs and who makes them join secret societies.
You need to think about every sentence he says.Why he thinks working for IBM luring Africa into their Social Credit system using the internet he sees as a blessing from God And maybe it is People weren’t mea t to be Debt Slavrs They were nea. T to have an abundance The Bible promises that everyone is entitled to an qbu dance, not a lifetime of Debt as their symbols of wealth. You need to think laterally. But I understand it as them saying you will work work work own nothing and get a living wage which means toy will be slaves. IMO.
But most of all you need to see how he’s being used By whom. And I have relations in Europe who are farmers and in Germany too and I ve never heard of them digging mass graves to Bury live animals in. I’ve only known of them to kill them when science the health departments have declared a pandemic of hoof and mouth. You can see why they selected him to be one of the workers can’t you.
And I have to say this because I know how people just see what they want and hear what they want When he tries to say its the money masters and tries to scapegoat the bankers, who were drugged for years and forced to join secret societies and forced to participate in all of the rituals a d customs to rise up through the steps to the top of the pyramids he under plays his own confession that they are ruled by secrecy by the Rule of Civil Law and that the reason the world’s a mess is because they are forced to comply to BAD LAWS. Confessing that its the MORALITY FOR RULE OF LAW running the world USING the bankers.
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