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A Dive Into Near Term S&P 500 Implied Volatility: Looking At How The Markets Are Upside And Downside Risk

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (ARCA: SPY) is currently experiencing historically low levels of relative volatility, ranking in the bottom 3 percentile for relative historical volatility over the past twelve months. However, examining the near-term Implied Volatility (IV) term structure reveals interesting patterns.

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What If America’s Economic Growth Data Is Fake? An Economist Considers The Evidence

What If American's Economic Growth Data Is Fake? One of the mysteries of the current economic cycle is that we've had lots of recession indicators without the actual recession. One of my favorite economists to follow on Twitter, Philip Pilkington, may have figured out the mystery: our economic growth is fake. On Thursday, he laid out his reasoning in this thread:

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