Well, Prof. #RicahrdMurphy is angry and very worried for our financial systems. A report in the FT has triggered his fear of a global markets collapse. This is because #Traders are selling #bonds to cash out and invest in #Stocks in fear of losing out. They are buying into over valued assets, and sometimes shares which do not have assets backing. Murpy predicts a #1929 style market #Crash *This* *Year* :

“I am angered by most in the media, who are completely distorting this story to say that markets have lost confidence in governments, when in fact the true story is that we should have lost confidence in markets.

I am angry with the media that says nothing about the idiots trading this way, whilst demanding that governments must serve them.”

Read more:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/16/this-could-be-as-bad-as-1929-and-maybe-very-much-worse/

This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse

As Katie Martin has noted in the FT this morning, there is something exceptionally strange going on in the world's financial markets at the moment, and we should be taking note. Since 30th March this year, the S&P 500 index in the USA has gone up by approximately 17%: This, as Katie...

Funding the Future
Bloomberg: Dip buyers drove #technology #stocks higher, with #traders betting #chipmakers have more to run. #UK #bonds steadied after a bruising selloff #markets
#traders #αγορά_πετρελαίου Ύποπτα στοιχήματα 7 δισ. δολαρίων στην αγορά πετρελαίου, πριν τις «καλές ειδήσεις» Τραμπ για το Ιράν https://www.zougla.gr/money/ypopta-stoichimata-7-dis-dolarion-stin-agora-petrelaiou-prin-tis-kales-eidiseis-trab-gia-to-iran/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

How this #weekend will be like at #SwindonHub #community #centre.
A record fair with many #traders #selling #vinyl #records and #CDS from 10am to 3pm.
All money created by this event goes back into the community. #music all day, refreshments and a good environment for everyone who loves music.
Organised by: Festival Trade Records
Supported by: Swindon Hub Community Centre
Every first #sunday of the #month

#recordfair #vinylcommuniy #recordcollectors #newvinyl #usedvinyl #swindon #Wiltshire

Hearing of believing is believing of #traders.

Thomas F. Woodlock: "The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

cited by Edwin Lefèvre in his book "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator"

#stocksMarkets #trading #traders #finance #speculation #quote #quotes #markets

📢 Another Record Fair is on its way!
First Sunday of the month - 03/05/2026
From 9am to 3pm at The Hub community centre in #Swindon

🎧 Many #record and #CD #traders, #music playing all day and the usual gathering of #recordcollectors.

#recordfair #vinyl #records #music #community #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #fediverse #MusicCommunity

#Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran #war. What is going on?

Perfect timing

On 7 April, right before Donald #Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with #Iran, #traders bet $950m that #oil prices would come down. They did

On night of 27 February, the day before the #US and #Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on #Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day. A New York Times analysis ...

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