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Feb 23, 2022, 6 tweets

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Short 🧵on recent market action

S&P correction is now 12%, largest since spring of 2020

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The Russell 2000 (small cap stocks) is back into media defined bear market territory.

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NASDAQ Composite approaching media defined bear market levels.

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ARK Innovation ... unspeakable pain and suffering. This is becoming a human rights abuse.

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The most worrisome part, to me, is interest rates are not giving an inch. In fact, the 2-year finished above 1.60%.

Zero flight to quality after all these stock market declines.

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My takeaway, this is about inflation. It is a real problem and needs to be dealt with, and if that means markets suffer, so be it.

Inflation is worse than a bear market.

This is why seven rate hikes are priced in and should be expected.

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