here is a chart you may wanna remember for 2021 ...

                    in 2021,  Fed Balance sheet grew about 10x since The Great Recession (2008)

COVID cases surging in Europe & China ... calm in USA

CJC (continuing claims) match to pre-COVID numbers

 plus, solid Chicago PMI (63.1) - the last economic data of the year

Robinhood (HOOD) loses 80% of its values in less than 6 months ...

was it just a hype or super high-tech ..?

PTON down 80% from year High ... so exercise craze is gone ..?

FT says, Bitcoin is worse than Madoff like Ponzi scheme ...

 w/ Madoff, at least the investors got 70% and more expected in future; but BTC, there is no chance ..!

DOW 36K; SPX 4792 ...

 not bad for 2nd year of Covid and its brethren delta & Omnicron

kalakand - a regular in VIP's kitchen

 

BTC up 50% up YTD, but 27% down from the peak

 so take your pick

while a bunch of experts had an year-end target of 100K

DOW @ 200SMA; NASD & SPX @ 100SMA

is R1A1 has a connection with the word Aryan ..?

 

funny Friday

market gives up post FOMC momentum & then turns around, as it funny Friday

Renaissance IPO ETF down 20% in last Qtr

BOE raises rates to 0.25%

ahead of US Feds .. is it due to waiting for JP's re-nomination ..?

ECB left the rates unchanged

IJC 206K

CapUtil 76.8%

PMI Svcs      57.5

PMI manuf.   57.8

Feds left the rates unchanged but doubled the taper ...

 something is better than nothing ..!

market jumps 2% post FOMC minutes & conf.

PPI 9.8% beating all records so far ..

 market drops 2.7% over last two days ..!

PFE has a pill now ...

reduces the need of hospitalization if you have the symptoms ... 

market drops 1.3% on presumtion of faster tapering & rates raising sooner ...

APPL $3T market cap - from 350B since Tim Cook took over from Steve Jobs in Aug 2011

Elon Musk named Time's person of the year

BTC drops to 47 again

BTC going 67-57-47

 what's up with this 7 ..?

funny the wash rule not yet applies to crypto ... but it will starting Jan 1st.

CPI 6.8%

 core inflation 0.5%

consumer prices raise faster rate since 1982

IJC came way too low ...

lowest in half a century ... will it affect CPI tomorrow .. you bet it will ..!

SPX turns around and picks up 4.5%

NASD loses $1.7T over two weeks ...

 subsequent to JP's renomination .. bravo ..!

NASD down 6%

 SPX down 5.3%

The Day when VIP figured out the Market Palmistry ...

 Dec 1 2021 : 1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 9 - an immutable number .. it got to be ..!

[market] Astrology is about what must happen, while [market] Palmistry is about when it happens ..!

together they become seriously powerful.

SPX drops 5.1%

news on Omicron infected found in CA

we know the meaning of word "transitory" - it depends on the context as set by the speaker