"End The Fed" Rallies Are Exploding Throughout Germany

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-21/end-fed-rallies-are-exploding-throughout-germany

Fast-food workers in NYC stage strikes, rallies

Another strike among San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers is looming.  Now fast food workers in New York are striking.  Workers are demanding higher wages because the cost of living keeps soaring--despite official government statistics denying inflation exists.

Higher wages are the last peg in the inflation stool, because rising labor costs permeate throughout the economy.  Those who have declared inflation is dead will be be proven dead wrong.

We're already have monetary inflation.  The missing components are rising wages--and the velocity of money.  At that point, we will have consumer price inflation, and it is game over for the Fed, because they won't be able to fight inflation with rising interest rates.

Debt kills.  Absolute debt absolutely kills.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fast-food-workers-nyc-stage-strikes-rallies

Quant funds are shrinking

Not only are retail investors retreating from the stock market, but so are the "smartest-guys-in-the-room" quant funds. It appears the smart money lost big in 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/business/20quant.html?_r=2&dbk

With fewer retail and institutional participants, any liquidity-induced market rallies will be short-lived and shallow, in my opinion.