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Stock Markets and Common Sense.
Blain’s Morning Porridge April 16th, 2026 – Stock Markets and Common Sense.
“There is a knack to learning to fly. It lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Stock markets are on a buzz. Central banks are expected to ease immediately. Joy unlimited. What war? Peace in the Middle East! Really? There are none so blind as salesmen wanting to talk a market higher.
Blain’s Market Mantra No 1 states; “The market has but one objective: to inflict the maximum amount of pain on the maximum number of participants.”
Global stocks are at an all-time high, sniffing the nitrous oxide of…
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