Recap August 15: Mother of all crashes is coming, record highs, Lionel Messi cryptos (Recap Ep136)

In this week’s recap, we found that U.S. and global stocks, in general, ended the week higher and at several all-time highs, despite the expansion of the Delta variant of Covid-19 and global supply shortages. U.S. wholesale prices rose sharply in July for the 6th consecutive month & offered little evidence that a big wave of inflation is on the verge of cresting. The producer price index jumped +1% last month. Analysts had forecast just a +0.6% increase. The pace of wholesale [...]