What Crash?? Buy Tankers…

I put in these trades April 1.  It's done well.

https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2020/03/13/ignore-the-market-crash-and-buy-tankers/

Here's a video explaining the play on tankers:

https://www.realvision.com/opportunity-in-the-covid-crude-oil-contango?utm_source=contributor&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=43916_HK_GH_CONT_W1_LINK

Blame the Federal Reserve, Not China, for Stock Market Crash

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/august/30/blame-the-federal-reserve-not-china-for-stock-market-crash/

The Crash And A New Depression – The Seeds For The Next Crisis Have Already Been Sown

http://kingworldnews.com/the-crash-and-a-new-depression-the-seeds-for-the-next-crisis-have-already-been-sown/

Gerald Celente – Was The Suspicious NYSE Trading Halt An Attempt To Stop A Crash In U.S. Markets?

http://kingworldnews.com/gerald-celente-was-the-suspicious-nyse-trading-halt-an-attempt-to-stop-a-crash-in-u-s-markets/

Game Over Japan: Real Wages Crash Most In 21st Century, Savings Rate Turns Negative

Japan is toast.  They are trapped in a Keynesian debt (death) spiral.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-26/game-over-japan-real-wages-crash-most-21st-century-savings-rate-turns-negative

The Middle Class Spending Crash Explained

The middle class squeeze is in place.  But hey, government statistics insist inflation is benign, right?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-02/middle-class-spending-crash-explained

Billionaire Eric Sprott Says Stock Market Will Crash, Not Gold

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/10/31_Billionaire_Eric_Sprott_Says_Stock_Market_Will_Crash,_Not_Gold.html

Coming Crash To Create A Human Tragedy Of Epic Proportions

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/8/20_Coming_Crash_To_Create_A_Human_Tragedy_Of_Epic_Proportions.html

Government Likely Hiding Truth in Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Crash

http://www.voicesofliberty.com/audio/government-likely-hiding-truth-in-malaysia-airlines-flight-17-crash/

Russian Dollar Dump Could Crash Financial System-John Williams

http://usawatchdog.com/russian-dollar-dump-could-crash-financial-system-john-williams/

The Frightening Thing That Threatens To Crash World Markets

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/10/31_The_Frightening_Thing_That_Threatens_To_Crash_World_Markets.html

How to Explain the Crash to Your Barber

http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/walter-donway/how-to-explain-crash-to-your-barber?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Billionaire Sprott Warns - This Will Crash The Financial System

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/6/29_Billionaire_Sprott_Warns_-_This_Will_Crash_The_Financial_System.html

The 34 Words That May Have Caused Today's Crash In Stocks

A little truth serum from unlikely sources--bankers, tanks stocks.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-31/34-words-may-have-caused-todays-crash-stocks

Gold crashes but physical demand sees unprecedented demand

This author properly differentiates between paper shorts (seller-manipulators) and physical longs (buyers), but he improperly uses the phrase "short squeeze."  In a short squeeze, prices rebound sharply as a combination of shorts covering and longs buying contribute to the melt up in the aftermath of bear raid reversal.  In other words, the short squeeze hasn't happened--yet.

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2013/04/18/gold-crashes-but-physical-demand-sees-unprecedente?ref=hp

The gold price crash is further evidence of market rigging

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100024081/the-gold-price-crash-is-further-evidence-of-market-rigging/

JPM Crashing After It Convenes Emergency Call To Advise Of "Significant Mark-To-Market" Losses In Bruno Iksil/CIO Group

In another mainstream media's "no one saw this coming" event, JPMorgan implodes.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jpm-crashing-after-it-convenes-emergency-call-advise-significant-mark-market-losses

Eurozone Market will Crash Traders like Alessio Rastani dream about the money they will make

http://youtu.be/aC19fEqR5bA

Libya: jet crashes in Benghazi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J6waCdPe-Y

Dissecting a Manic Bubble and Subsequent Crash

I took an on-line course at MIT on Behavioral Economics, and one of the topics was manias and asset bubbles. I'll leave out the higher math equations, and summarize what seems painfully obvious, but illustrative nonetheless.

Every asset bubble has similar characteristics, whether it's the Tulip Mania, the South Seas Bubble, the Internet Bubble, or whatever we experienced in 2008 (let's call it a Subprime Mortgage crisis).

1) First, you have to have a catalyst (tulips, internet, real estate, easy money),
2) Then, smart money insiders quickly claim stakes (railways, gold, securitization, IPO's),
3) Development of infrastructure to sustain the bubble for the mainstream citizens (setting up exchanges, networks, charters, assessors, government subsidies)
4) Authoritative blessing (government approval, official government support, parliamentary passage, AAA credit ratings),
5) The inevitable crash (stock market crash, real estate crash, defaults, bankruptcies, foreclosures),
6) Post-crash political reaction (regulation, litigation, fraudulent activity, accounting reforms, creation of government agencies).

The discomforting fact is that bubbles need an inflow of progressively more naive investors, much like a malignant tumor needs blood to metastasize. Prognosticators who predict these crashes in the midst of a bull market are demonized as heretics. These manias can be back-dated several hundred years, and the similarities are eerily haunting. Let's hope we don't go overboard with step 6 and put a death chokehold on our economy this time around.