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.
Anti-growth government policy.
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.
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.
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.
There is absolutely no where else for the money to go. Gold is manipulated, bonds are a joke, and real estate is risky so my guess it comes back. All of it.
What’s behind the global stock market selloff?
In a word Obamanomics.
A=A. Water is wet.