Would you be willing to bet a billion dollars that stock prices are going to collapse? Needless to state, only an extremely little fraction of the population has that much cash. And as soon as you have actually accumulated a billion dollars, one would think that you would be exceptionally identified to protect it. However that is not what Michael Burry is doing. Throughout the financial crisis of 2008, his enormous bets against the housing market made him incredibly rich, and now he is making another “huge short”. According to CNN, Burry has actually wagered over 1.6 billion dollars that the stock exchange is going to crash …
Michael Burry, the “Big Short” investor who became popular for properly forecasting the legendary collapse of the real estate market in 2008, has actually bet more than $1.6 billion on a Wall Street crash.
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 Property Management, bought $866 million in put options (that’s the right to sell a property at a particular rate) versus a fund that tracks the S&P 500 and $739 million in put choices against a fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100.
Burry is using more than 90% of his portfolio to bet on a market recession, according to the filings.
Does he understand something that the rest people do not?
If he is incorrect, he will appear like a fool.
However if he is right, he will be a legend.
Michael Burry places a substantial leveraged brief position on the stock exchange with put choices.
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— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) August 14, 2023
Without a doubt, the stock exchange is ripe 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 huge gains up until now this year. They’re up nearly 16% and 38%, respectively.
In the mid-2000s, Burry was popular for putting a wager versus the real estate market and benefited handsomely from the subprime financing crisis and the collapse of numerous significant monetary entities in 2008. The event was chronicled by Michael Lewis in his bestseller “The Big Short: Inside the End ofthe world Maker” and later adjusted into a film where Burry was played by Christian Bale.
This stock market rally has been occurring although the total economy has been truly having a hard time.
As economic activity has actually decreased, need for trucking services has actually dropped, and at this moment the Cass Freight Index is down 8.9 percent on a year-over-year basis …
In regards to delivery volume in the for-hire market, the Cass Freight Index— which is concentrated on trucking however consists of rail and other modes of transportation– fell again in July, to the worst July since July 2020, and July 2016, which had remained in the middle of another freight economic downturn (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 need for bundle shipment is way down as well …
We have actually heard similar messages from UPS and FedEx. UPS reported a 9.9% drop in daily bundle volume for Q2, with June volume down 12.2%. FedEx reported an 18% drop in average everyday shipments in its quarter ended May 31.
The economy is actually having a hard time today, and so the stock exchange must not be growing.
However for the minute, the rich are getting richer while homelessness absolutely blows up all over the country. The following comes from Absolutely no Hedge…
The Biden administration’s battle versus homelessness is failing ahead of the 2024 presidential election cycle.
A new Wall Street Journalreport exposes the variety of Americans winding up on the streets is happening at a “record rate” in spite of ‘Bidenomics‘ being touted as a financial rescuer for the middle class. Every working-class folk comprehends Biden’s policies have been definitely horrendous– 2years of negative real wagesforced many to acquire insurmountable charge card debtduring the greatest rate of interest environment in a generation while draining personal savings– all to make ends fulfill, like putting food on the table and paying rent. Substance this with the worst real estate price duration in decades (perhaps relief in 2H24 or ’25), and it’s not hard to comprehend why the homelessness crisis is starting to spiral out of control for Democrats.
I might continue about the alarming state of the U.S. economy, however I am not going to duplicate all of the stats that I have shared in other articles over the previous few weeks. if you have an interest in seeing those numbers, this is where you can find them …
–“9 Signs That The U.S. Customer Is About To Break”–“7 Patterns Which Indicate That Economic Disaster Is Approaching Really Quickly”–“10 Signs That The Mainstream
Media Is Not Telling You The Truth About The Economy”Of course it isn’t simply the United States that is experiencing a financial slowdown. As Jim Rickards has actually aptly kept in mind,”major economies are falling under the ditch”
recession, if not a worldwide monetary crisis. These are extremely unusual. It’s typically the case that
one or more significant economies remain in recession while others show growth and assistance pull the weak entertainers out of
the ditch. However today, we’re dealing with a case where, one after the other, all
of the major economies are falling under the ditch. A lot of the things that we have actually been cautioned about for a very long time are starting to happen right in front of our eyes. We are clearly headed for very big economic difficulty, and that ought to be apparent to everyone at this point. Michael Burry is planning
to make a giant pile of cash when the stock exchange lastly crashes similar to he did in 2008.
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