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Mar 24, 2021 | 07:50 AM EDT DOUG KASS
You Done Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
"You keep on stompin'

And my heart is on the floor..."

- Lewis Gizzard, You Done Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
In yesterday's opening missive, "The Market Is a Hard Dog to Keep Under the Porch," I argued that the U.S. stock market remained materially overpriced and that investors and traders should consider using market rallies to reduce equity exposure and to raise cash:
* Value is stretched now (financial and energy) while growth valuations are vulnerable to higher interest rates.

* The current cash price of the S&P Index exceeds my calculus of "fair market value" by a wide 20%.

* The rapid increase in supply in SPACs poses a market threat.
* The economy is not the market.

* We may now be at the polar opposite of March, 2020 - when fear was omnipresent and values abundant.

* Rising interest rates and inflation (and expectations) are moving higher.

* Individual and corporate tax rates will also be climbing in
the months ahead.

* Nearly every traditional valuation metric is stretched.

* Monetary and fiscal largesse has grown more undisciplined and dangerous.

* After the stimulus package is distributed we will likely move back towards subpar domestic economic growth.
* Too many are forgetting the lessons of 2020 - that while the vaccine rollout is great news, many times we have seen that the economy is not the markets and the markets are not the economy. @jimcramer @tomkeene @SquawkCNBC @riskreversal @SquawkCNBC @ferrotv @ScottWapnerCNBC

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@realmoney Mar 25, 2021 | 09:55 AM EDT DOUG KASS
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Mar 25, 2021 | 11:00 AM EDT DOUG KASS
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* Novice traders will likely now flee the markets
For months I have argued (with fellow contributors and with the Twitter community) that the wanton speculation in worthless gewgaws would have profoundly negative consequences
for the markets.
I argued that the rapidly rising supply (of SPACs et al) would overcome demand (which would be soon sated).
I opined that many (especially of a retail-kind) would lose alot of money (while only a few traders will retain their trading profits).
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* In its extreme, a vicious cycle could result in ARK ETFs having liquidity problems
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* The U.S. stock market remains materially overpriced

* I would use market rallies to reduce equity exposure

* Value is stretched now (financials and energy)
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* I am looking towards some SPACtacular failures in 2021-23

* Too many are forgetting the lessons of 2020 - that while the vaccine rollout is great news, many times we have seen that the economy is not the markets
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* In March, 2021 we should consider selling the optimism, as the S&P is selling at more than a 20% premium to
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