Wall Street’s volatility game masks exhaustion before crash. Amazon prime day sales are down 41% year over year. Yield curve’s sharp rise stokes fears recession may already be here

Market runs on manufactured momentum and ticking clock… $VIX puts are being bought just before $SPY ramps like what's shown below to suppress vol further and cause an automatic rise in equity prices. This also happened yesterday and Monday. They …

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Gold is breaking away from the dollar index. Price hit $3,288 on July 1. Dollar index down 6.4% since March. Central banks added 1,145 tons last year. Foreign treasury holdings collapsing. 2007 signs all over the board.

Gold is no longer tethered to the dollar index. It’s been moving sideways from currency markets for months. The break became visible in April when the dollar index fell 6.4% off its March high, but gold kept climbing. It hit …

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