Friday, June 2, 2023

Janet Yellen -- Her Champagne Weekend Begins Tonight -- June 2, 2023

Locator: 44830INV. 

The market at 10:17 a.m, ET., Friday, June 2, 2023:

The debt ceiling bill: some call it a kabuki dance. Not me. I call it a Charlie-Brown-Lucy-Van-Pelt-football joke --

  • entirely predictable
  • several frames leading up to the anticlimactic finish
  • Charlie Brown: Lindsey Graham
  • Lucy Van Pelt: Nancy Pelosi

The ending of this story was so anticlimactic it was not even the headline story in The WSJ today. The headline story


Debt bill is passed with incredibly little fanfare. Not even mentioned over at Drudge. I think it was passed before midnight, days before the "x-date."

Question:

  • which party controls the White House? Which party controls the US House? Which party controls the US Senate?
  • if any of your answers included "the GOP," you're not paying attention. LOL.

GOP caved; Lindsey Graham said he would kill the bill. I didn’t even see Lindsey’s name in any headline after the bill passed. Senate fast-track method was incredible — no fanfare, Schumer steamrolled this. The news media certainly didn’t see this coming. Or they hyped it to sell newspapers. As if anyone really cared.

VIX: trending toward 15. Whoo-hoo! The market at the open:


DVN: up almost 2% today and way, way, way off its highs. Let's go, Brandon.

Oil surges, as predicted, once the debt bill passed:

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