Are The Muppets About To Be Slaughtered Again?

Do you get the feeling the Wall Street oligarchs are positioning themselves to pull the rug out from beneath this rigged market? I’ve noticed that Marketwatch, owned by the ultimate oligarch – Rupert Murdoch, has been running dire headlines for the last week. Today’s huge headline appears to be designed to scare the muppets:

 

Warning: That plunge in stocks is just the beginning

 

They are usually cheerleaders, pumping up the market with their propaganda. Everyone knows the market is rigged. We also know their plan has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have used the free money from the Fed and their HFT supercomputers to pump the market to all-time highs without mom and pop investors (referred to as muppets by the Wall Street bankers) being involved. But, as usual, the retail investor has dumped $100 billion into the market in the last few months as every valuation measure is flashing red. They don’t want to miss a chance to sail on the Titanic before its voyage into history.

• Individual investors are plowing money back into the U.S. stock market just as professional strategists say gains for this year are over. About $100 billion has been added to equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in the past year, 10 times more than the previous 12 months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and the Investment Company Institute.

• Professional investors, such as Nick Skiming of Ashburton Ltd., say that individuals investors are attracted to stocks after seeing others getting rich from a big rally, a time when equities are usually overpriced. The bursting of the technology bubble in March 2000 was marked by mutual funds absorbing a record $102 billion in the first quarter.

Guess who has been selling their stock to the muppets? You guessed right. The Wall Street scumbags have lured the muppets into the market for the next slaughter. I believe the Wall Street oligarchs are now positioned short and are attempting to ignite a conflagration on par with 2008. It’s not like these criminals haven’t done this before. They were selling derivatives to their muppet clients in 2008, while simultaneously shorting those derivatives.