Wall Street Dances in the Ballroom of the Titanic -- Navarro Jan 19 Market Wrap

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It’s déjà vu all over again as hedge fund moguls and pension fund managers on Wall Street continue to party even as danger lurks behind every door.

I’m talking about Houthi missiles, North Korean rockets, China’s tightening noose around Taiwan against the backdrop of its faltering economy, a war that appears to be turning with the Russian tide, a headlong plunge into war with Iran, a looming fiscal cliff, an ever more prolonged future of higher interest rates, falling real wages across blue-collar America, a Congress with all the discipline of a baby’s bowel movements, a Republican Party at war with itself pitting RINOs against the vast MAGA majority, a Democrat party saddled with an octogenarian they can barely remember his name, a coming artificial intelligence tech tsunami that may finally fulfill our worst fears about a machine takeover of humanity, and an alphabet soup of legacy media – ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, and that in resident Fox in the Trump henhouse, Fox news – that refuses to tell us the real truth about just about anything.

So this week, yet again, the band on Wall Street played on with all the concern about the gathering storm as the intelligentsia and landed gentry who danced in the Titanic ballroom had for the water that was gushing into their ship.

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