Posted on 02/12/2016 6:59:26 PM PST by MtnClimber
Global stock markets are on their shakiest footing in years.
Investors are fleeing stocks and running to safe-havens like bonds and gold, driven by concerns about economic growth and the effectiveness of central banks' policies.
At the same time, tumbling energy prices are upending the economies of oil-producing countries, further slicing into global economic growth.
Only six weeks ago cheap oil prices were still expected to cushion the global economy, and the Federal Reserve's decision in December to raise interest rates for the first time since the end of the financial crisis in 2008 was widely seen as a vote of confidence in the world's largest economy.
In addition to the fall in U.S. stock markets, major stock indexes worldwide have also been hit hard, despite efforts by the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank to spur growth through lower interest rates.
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QE by the central banks is a big part of the problem.
The contagion of fear.
It’s a conspiracy to cheat me out of my hard earned retirement fund. And its working.
The Obama economy has been a complete fraud.Whatever growth their has been was fueled by cheap debt and money printing by the fed. The music is finally stopping and the party is over
Anti-growth government policy.
How long HAS Cruz been in D.C.?
How many people LIKE him in D.C.?
The New World Order.
Should this drive up gold, bonds, other investments?
Money printing, negative interest, inflated commodities, rigged markets (Why are paper gold/silver and physical gold/silver linked? So PM prices can be manipulated by issuing more phony paper gold & silver shares at will).
QE to infinity & zero interest has distorted markets dramatically. And has caused horrible mis allocation of investment capital as well as serious over capacity in some commodities. Think coal, iron.
Or to sum it up in two words: CENTRAL PLANNING
I think they are selling off oil so that the American shale companies go under (or are so cheap) that they can be bought up by the Oligarchs (Rockefeller, Bush, du Pont, Morgan, Mellon, etc...) for pennies on the dollar. They will be bought through private equities/funds like Blackrock or companies they own indirectly like Carlyle Group.
Stocks are going down in sympathy. And to push Yellen to lower interest rates, possibly go negative. (Which is taking money out of savings accounts instead of adding.)
Either:
They know something we don’t know
or
Just the usual whipsaw to scare the old folks into selling low before running up the prices and convincing them to buy back in high.
Take a look at NUGT the last two weeks.
It seems that it is putting upward pressure on gold. I think bonds are risky since city, state and federal government debt looks like default is a big risk and bond rates are beink kept very low. If the rates go up the defaults will spike.
I agree.
Bush family are behind the Carlyle group and are allied with Saudi Prince Alwaleed.
Alwaleed wants to destroy the emerging US domestic oil production but ...
if you can’t beat them, buy them, which is pretty much what you’re saying but buy them at pennies on the dollar.
Oligarchs never give up power and always seek to control the outcome.
I missed out on benefiting from the last financial crisis, because I didn't buy property I could not afford.
I missed out on the one before that, when I didn't invest in companies whose only income was derived from advertisers and “investors” in a product that was “free” to consumers.
I fully expect to miss out again, in not profiting from the next financial crash, since I still haven't bought any of the nonproductive “assets” I was supposed to invest in.
Oddly enough, I still have to pay for the stupid people who “invested” in stupid investments. Because for some reason, it is my fault so many stupid people made stupid investment choices! Again, oddly enough, I never get any credit points for NOT making stupid investments in nonproductive concerns I can't afford.
If they want to play this I will dump my entire savings into undeveloped Mtn property in TN.
Satan needs chaos so that he can frighten people enough to accept him, and his horrible rule. By the time he shows up in the flesh, to “solve” the problems of his own creation, the people left alive will beg him to rule them. He is fighting for his life, and for the lives of his followers who wish not to be judged and destroyed.
I just today asked one of my banks how much notice they need for a large cash withdrawal.
Was told that anything under $100,000 wasn’t a problem.
(I’m probably on a list now)
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