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" ... Chief among those causes: Duer. He had borrowed widely and freely, conducting business in both America and Europe. His fortune had collapsed, bringing down countless other wealthy Americans thanks to the complex web of credit that underpinned his empire. While Duer today is confined to a dusty place above history’s mantle, his position at that time cannot be overstated. Neither can the consequences nor the significance of his fall. He was a founding father, a Revolutionary War colonel and political insider; an associate of George Washington, Henry Knox, John Jay and John Adams; the first assistant secretary of the Treasury and Alexander Hamilton’s close friend and cousin by marriage. Duer was also an entrepreneur, speculator, backstabber and fraudster who gleefully conducted a Ponzi-like scheme that took in the rich and poor alike, triggered the first financial crisis in American history and, less intentionally, sparked the creation of the modern securities market. ... "
" ... The commodity markets are usually the favored home of the speculator. This is not really the case for the market in WTI as there are times when the volatility is just too extreme. For example, during 204/15 when WTI fell from $110.26/barrel to $26.21/barrel, -76.23% the level of crude oil volatility rose from 30 to 75, +250%. ... "
" ... These two flavors of short-squeeze are of course two sides of the same coin. When central banks print money to buy bonds at higher and higher prices, the money ends up as an enormous amount of excess liquidity in the system. This money has to go somewhere. It is not hard to see that once this money finds its way into the pockets of every speculator, large and small, in the market, it is optimal for each of them to lever up the exposure to the stock market and risk assets, as they have done. Since short-dated options provide the most leverage for the same amount of money, we can connect the dots to conclude that the stock market short squeeze is a direct consequence of the bond market squeeze engineered by central banks. Perhaps, for the first time, the power of social networking has enabled the aggregated power of retail investors to match the power of institutions. The bond market squeeze has weaponized the stock market squeeze. ... "
" ... Trees don’t grow to the skies, says the old speculator’s proverb, but actually they do, at least from where I stand 100 feet below. So what is an investor—let’s read speculator— to do? ... "