Wall Street was caught off guard by this year’s big oil rally. The spread of negative interest rates has befuddled economists. Most polls failed to predict Brexit.

Into this vacuum slipped a muscle-bound former baseball outfielder who exposed baseball’s rampant steroid use and nearly blew off his middle finger with a handgun. Jose Canseco, who slugged his way through the major leagues, has now developed a cult following after some of his contrarian predictions about financial markets came true.

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