SPX%20%20April%2027%202012.jpgIs this time going to be different?

Sure, why not? Don’t let the fact that we had pretty nasty sell-offs the last 4 Mays dissuade you from being gung-ho bullish into this one – after all – it takes bulls and bears to make a market, doesn’t it?

We’ve been prone to focusing on the negative lately – mostly because the positive is pretty much all you hear in the Corporate Media and we like to have balance. If they were too bearish, I’d make a bullish case but this weekend we focused on “Money, Power and Wall Street,” and the deteriorating Global situation, which got no better this morning with Spain’s -0.3% GDP Report, Eurozone Inflation above forecasts at 2.6%, the S&P downgrading 16 Spanish Banks, California’s Tax Collections are running 26% behind schedule, gasoline is hitting record highs in Europe while Business Investment in Europe drops BELOW the 2008 lows:

SPY DAILYShould we be concerned? Why should we be – look how high the market is! Doesn’t that prove that everything is OK? It sure proved it in October of 2007, when the Dow was at 14,000 and it was still proving it on Monday, May 19th, 2008 – when the Dow was at 13,028 for the last time until March 13th of this year, when 200-point one-day pop sent us all the way to 13,177. We topped out around and fell all the way to 12,700 a month later but now we’re back and THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT, right?

For one thing, the SNB spent $4.1Bn propping up the Euro in Q1 – that’s a lot of money for a country whose entire GDP is just $500Bn! Fortunately for the Swiss, their insane money printing did cause their gold holdings to rise by $1.2Bn so their net loss in manipulating the Global economy was “only” $2.8Bn so I’m sure they can sustain this farce for another quarter or two if they wish.

IN PROGRESS