I believe the stock market’s rise is inversely proportional to the number of Americans employed by the listed companies; companies’ stocks soar when layoffs are announced, as they shed the costs of American workers.
The rising stock market, which politicians point to as a symbol of our financial health, spells financial doom for Americans. Firms are employing and selling goods to foreigners at this point; we aren’t even in the equation anymore.
They can make a lot of money for themselves that way.
The Shock Market is a balloon ready to pop. Gambling is a dangerous sport.
Money is cheap. It is a depreciating asset in a money printing environment. A solid company is wise to borrow today to buy back it’s stock and reissue stock in the future at a much higher price after an inflationary period, paying back past, depreciated debt with future, hopefully more sound currency.
I was at a recent dinner with MFC from Boston and they had some interesting things to say. He said all the indicators they look at our now green, nothing is in the red. Take a look at the manufacturing numbers as an example. He said this is the one of the most hated bull market in history, he had a lot of really bad things to say about CNBC and Zero Hedge. I’m staying moderately aggressive.
The market is up because of an expectation of low equivalent returns from interest bearing investments.
i am NOT WORRIED about the “market”
I AM WORRIED about the $500 TRILLION in synthetic securities like derivatives, swaps, offsets and other bankster vegas style bets beyond “hedging”......
i could care less if it weren’t for “TOO BIG TO FAIL”
USA GDP $14-15 trillion per year
HOW DOES THAT STACK UP AGAINST $500 trillion the banksters are gambling with backed up by YOU .... THE TAXPAYER GUARANTEEING IT ALL
oh i know you got your $1/2 MILLION BONUS CHECK...and profit sharing and stock options..... RIGHT and your multi million dollar salary and perks like the GS JPM C BAC WFC UBS execs and the hedgefunds and investment advisors etc... right??
didn’t you ..... of course NOT.... but you did bail the banksters out in 2008 and you will do it again, in the event of another collapse.... and DODD FRANK only made it more likely to happen.... not to mention obozo messing with the saudis... and the $21 trillion debt... and counting...
keeping in mind that russia chna iran and perhaps now saudi arabia perhaps turkey already want to cut loose from the petro dollar... and if the petro dollar collapses then you can start using dollars as toilet paper .... these guys been stocking up on GOLD.... WHY??
but dont fret.... the IMF and the FED and the BIG GOVERNMENT cabal have your BEST interests at heart and are PLANNING FOR YOUR WELFARE...... right?? Like doing awy ith currency and using electronic funds... Do you like dealing with the DMV.... well envision dealing with a hack on your electronic fundsa nd calling the treasury.... you and 350 million other callers...
up down sideways goes the market.... but the real threat is the one 99% of the FOLKS dont even know about.... the $500 trillion derivatives etc...floating around out there, only as good as the counterparties involved and we saw how well that worked out with AIG... that is what has me concerned.......