the problem is buy some time for what??? to kick the can down the road just long enough so the house of cards doesn't fall on your watch?
Posted on 09/06/2015 10:27:16 AM PDT by blam
Elena Holodny
September 6, 2015
The stock markets continue to get whipsawed.
Stocks plunged on Monday and Tuesday, bounced back on Wednesday, burbled along on Thursday, and then got slammed on Friday after the jobs report.
All the major US indices closed down about 3% for the week.
This action follows the previous week's wild ride when stocks started deep in the red; the Dow plummeted 1,089 points (before recovering), and, somehow, ultimately both the S&P and Dow closed 0.6% and 0.8% higher for the week, respectively.
People who are invested in the stock market might not want to hear this, but we could be in the midst of a stock market crash.
(For what it's worth, the fact that there's a small chance of something happening doesn't mean that it's not worth acknowledging and thinking about the possibility that it could happen.)
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Yes, cash is king right now. Silver is big now that it’s so cheap.
Some of our members are savy investors. One’s going into reits. I thought that might be a mistake but we all have our opinions now don’t we.
later
5. The big money gets out of the market before three-day holiday weekends
This will only help Trump.
Did the feds printing press break down?
Thankfully no.
Please understand what is at stake here and what our FED and virtually ever central banker around the world has been fighting.
Deflation.
And it is a B88ch!!!
These folks aren’t stupid and are using the only tools available to them to fight this.
I don’t like it, but it is what it is and short of a complete collapse I understand why they are printing money.
Deflation is a real Bi**h, and is not generally understood.
The Feds and other central bankers know damn well that the only thing they can do to fight this is to create inflation by printing money.
They are literally trying to buy time in between natural economic cycles and the next innovation.
Short of a massive reset and a full blown depression, what would you do?
If you were at the Fed and your choice was to do nothing and watch the country go into a full blown depression or print money to buy some time. What would you do?
Bubbles Don’t Correct, They BURST!
I’d get the government the hell out of the way, off our backs and out of our lives.
The fed’s borrowing and bond buying is the only thing keeping the economy going as well as it is.
Short term municipal bonds 2-5 years...
As long as the markets are CONTROLLED and ramped UP & DOWN by the high speed computer trading systems employed by the mega-wire houses then the SHEEP will continue to be sheared.
Very good. Thanks.
Then it will eventually collapse.
I agree.
...and if it doesn’t???
A pretty good read at Mises there.
Thanks for the link. A very interesting, informative article.
the problem is buy some time for what??? to kick the can down the road just long enough so the house of cards doesn't fall on your watch?
So these are the reasons that over the past decade the NASDAQ's more than doubled and the big caps are up 60%--
--or they're the reasons that stocks blipped in the past two months. Hey guys, nobody thinks that these prices are what happens when free people decide to buy and sell their own private stuff because that's what they decided to do out of their own free will?
tx! Maybe I’d better go to bed, sometimes I get in trouble when I try & post stuff this late at night...
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