Posted on 02/15/2015 10:11:44 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
What is supporting the market? Has there been actual growth of 200% in the last six years?
The supply of Other Peoples’ Money only seems endless because NOW there isn’t even a pretense of grabbing it through taxation.
Instead, taxpayer revenue is now openly and summarily stolen right in front of your eyes and the ‘President’ DARES us to object!
Socialism is PLUNDER and there is no other way to define it.
I always take as much of their literature as possible. Then I trash it. Waste their resources is my philosophy
Not sure if you’ve seen this one yet...
No, we weren’t. That is some good Goldman spliff you’re smoking.
“Trees die, but latinum lasts forever.”
~ Rule of Acquisition #102
prices for industrial commodities are tanking...
I see far to many pointing to oil price as a sign the economy is going to boom, and they ignore the causes that helped oil, as well as, iron, copper, lumber, propane, ethane, etc to fall as well.
Where can I find such a remarkable product?
Did you miss the 2 bouts that seriously depleted a bunch of "average, non-financial-whiz type" folks savings? Many of us are now either retired or ready to retire and do not have the "padding" to be able to absorb a 3rd bout at this time - regardless of "long-term viability", especially with the insane fluctuations that seem to occur daily/weekly. It was never normal for futures to start out -150 and end up +250 (or vice-versa) as a matter of everyday trading. It is being manipulated and those not astute are waiting for those with the shears. I would assume you are one of the more astute - don't confuse your abilities with the average schmuck who just plugs along trying to attain some sort of security for his waning years.
That’s not the collapse I’ve been reading about ... :-) ...
The collapse I’ve been reading about, we’re not going to be posting on Free Republic, much less even have an Internet, and grass and trees will be growing in the middle of freeways ... LOL ...
Thanks for the clarification - the slumps I mentioned will feel like that sort of collapse to many folks who haven't found a safer haven for their funds.
Your problem is this: it might be somewhat different this time.
Sure, let’s take Democrat Paul Kanjorski’s word for it that massive state intervention was needed to keep the economy from halting and never restarting. It sure is fortunate that we have an all-powerful state that can intervene in our personal finances without notice or due process! Perhaps it should be made even more powerful, so that the equity markets can be prevented from going down ever again... </s>
The economy, industry, and our fiscal situation has gotten progressively worse, not better. Yet, the stock market titters to the giddy snickers of these jokers.
I predict that very soon, they won't be laughing all the way to the proverbial bank.
Because of corrupt Fed policies, $4 Trillion has been infused into the market since 2009.
When things crash this time, they will make the crash of 2008 look like a picnic by comparison.
And the Fed will be out of answers.
He described an "electronic run on the banks" that if given another 3 hours, would have taken over $5 Trillion out of our system and generated the end of the global economic economy we have today.
In 2015, we are in a much worse situation. Years of Fed "pumping" has left the system inflated, bloated, and ready to burst. This time, there will be blood on the walls.
They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."
2 Peter 3: 4
What the gub'ment did was to do exactly the opposite of what needed done. They rewarded the idiots who caused the mess with even more taxpayer money. Then they doubled down on stupid and run up even more debt lowered the intestines rates even more then printed even more money and used it to buy their own debt.
It has, it goes down then it goes up then it goes down again.
However, I wonder if the old investment patterns and rules-of-thumb have not changed. Sure, we have seen a climb these last few years but it was to get out of the hole of the Great Recession. The real gain since then, the gain from the peak before the recession is not that good. It does not meet the old 8% target. There was a time not a decade ago when you could buy pretty much risk free investments of 6 to 8% yield. Certainly not now. The only way to make a modest buck is by risky investments.
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