Juggling Dynamite

From the madness and minutiae of markets, a much needed look up. Over the past 3 years as Quantitative Easing and algorithmic traders have churned world asset prices round and round, up and down, our sun–the ultimate source of all power on our planet–has been silently spinning as captured in this remarkable video.

“In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day.

This version of SDO: Three Years in Three Minutes is extended and narrated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center heliophysicist Alex Young. He highlights many interesting aspects of the video and points out several of the single-frame events that appear in it.”

Here is a direct video link.

Danielle was a guest today on Talk Digital Network with Phil Mackesy talking about recent trends in the world economy and markets. You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.

The consensus view tends to be thick and slow to acknowledge economic downturn. There is no doubt that the currency of Central Bank experiments over the past 3 years has bought the bulls additional room to run this cycle. But the “ah ha moment” is building and is likely to hit asset prices just as hard this time, as it did during the last two global bear markets.

Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners Management explains why he thinks the market is extremely vulnerable, with CNBC’s Kayla Tausche and the Futures Now Traders. Here is a direct video link.