Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ Fiat Failures Currency failures are coming faster and faster due to the speed of technological evolution. Debt worsens and fiat debases until it has to reset as history has shown over many cycles. All currencies break down at some point because the human psyche says we want to believe we can get something for nothing. We vote for the politician who makes empty promises, then th...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ Fiat Failures Currency failures are coming faster and faster due to the speed of technological evolution. Debt worsens and fiat debases until it has to reset as history has shown over many cycles. All currencies break down at some point because the human psyche says we want to believe we can get something for nothing. We vote for the politician who makes empty promises, then th...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ To taper or not to taper... The CPI in December jumped 7% from a year ago, below the 7.1% estimates. This was its highest level since Feb 1982. Core CPI hit 5.5% from 4.9%. And this is so despite the grossly manipulated CPI. Stock and crypto markets rallied because the number was below estimates. On a monthly basis, the CPI climbed 0.5% in December vs 0.4% estimates. Powell&apo...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ To taper or not to taper... The CPI in December jumped 7% from a year ago, below the 7.1% estimates. This was its highest level since Feb 1982. Core CPI hit 5.5% from 4.9%. And this is so despite the grossly manipulated CPI. Stock and crypto markets rallied because the number was below estimates. On a monthly basis, the CPI climbed 0.5% in December vs 0.4% estimates. Powell&apo...

The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ I titled the last chapter in my first book for Wiley & Sons “How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market” which became a bestseller, “Trading is Life; Life is Trading”. I would update it now to read “The Metaverse is Life; Life is the Metaverse”. Even Metaverses can have bear markets. Indeed, two of the leading Metaverse cryptocurrencies Decentraland (MANA) and Sandbox (SAND) are off around -70% from their peaks in late 2021 despite whale activity...

The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ I titled the last chapter in my first book for Wiley & Sons “How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market” which became a bestseller, “Trading is Life; Life is Trading”. I would update it now to read “The Metaverse is Life; Life is the Metaverse”. Even Metaverses can have bear markets. Indeed, two of the leading Metaverse cryptocurrencies Decentraland (MANA) and Sandbox (SAND) are off around -70% from their peaks in late 2021 despite whale activity...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ A Perfect Storm The "perfect storm" of cross currents from tapering to inflation to C19 mutations to a very weak jobs report to another Evergrande flare-up vs. QE money printing pushed most markets into a correction only to be seen by a straight-up-from-bottom bounce due to waning C19 mutation fears, but we are not yet out of the woods. The taper tantrum is still at issue. Whil...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ A Perfect Storm The "perfect storm" of cross currents from tapering to inflation to C19 mutations to a very weak jobs report to another Evergrande flare-up vs. QE money printing pushed most markets into a correction only to be seen by a straight-up-from-bottom bounce due to waning C19 mutation fears, but we are not yet out of the woods. The taper tantrum is still at issue. Whil...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ All-time records for debt and rates With interest rates at all-time lows and debt at near all-time highs, any increase in rates beyond 25 bps would hamper GDP as payments on debt would materially increase. The world currently stands at 4:1 debt-to-GDP. The U.S. fed cannot therefore hike rates more than a couple times or risk tanking markets. With new crises on the way with the ...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ All-time records for debt and rates With interest rates at all-time lows and debt at near all-time highs, any increase in rates beyond 25 bps would hamper GDP as payments on debt would materially increase. The world currently stands at 4:1 debt-to-GDP. The U.S. fed cannot therefore hike rates more than a couple times or risk tanking markets. With new crises on the way with the ...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ Remember 2017-2018? One may remember that Powell started hiking rates in 2016, then accelerated hikes from 2017 to 2018. The discount rate rose from 1% at the end of 2016 to 3% in 2018 before markets finally started into a deep correction. While both stocks and cryptos rose strongly in 2017 despite the rate hikes, the dollar weakened all year until 2018 when it then strengthene...

Market Lab Report / Dr. K's Crypto-Corner by Dr. Chris Kacher The Metaversal Evolution Will Not Be Centralized™ Remember 2017-2018? One may remember that Powell started hiking rates in 2016, then accelerated hikes from 2017 to 2018. The discount rate rose from 1% at the end of 2016 to 3% in 2018 before markets finally started into a deep correction. While both stocks and cryptos rose strongly in 2017 despite the rate hikes, the dollar weakened all year until 2018 when it then strengthene...