Posted on 03/04/2013 7:52:15 AM PST by blam
STOCK MARKET BOOM: Here's Why This Bull Market Could Continue For Years
Sam Ro
Mar. 4, 2013, 4:23 AM
Don't fear the dreaded triple-top...
Stocks are just points away from their all-time highs. And there are plenty of arguments why this could be a top for the markets.
But the bear case for stocks is mostly backwards-looking or based on short-term risks.
Yes, global growth is slow.
But the economy is still growing, and S&P 500 companies are actively increasing exposures to regions where growth is hot.
Yes, profit margins are near all-time highs.
But it's a mistake to think things revert to the mean just for the sake of mean-reversion. There are plenty of reasons why margins will stay high.
Some skeptics think that the stock market is being driven by easy monetary policy. And they warn of a time when the Fed tightens. But evidence shows that stocks can continue to rally amid a tightening Fed. And the Fed is expected to remain easy for a long time.
As you'll see, the bull case for stocks is quite robust.
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THE NEXT STOCK MARKET CRASH: Why Many Pros Think It Has Already Begun
TBI ^ | 2027-2013 | Sam Ro
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:27:54 AM by blam
THE NEXT STOCK MARKET CRASH: Why Many Pros Think It Has Already Begun
Sam Ro
February 27, 2013
I would like to stress that the longer equities remain at these high levels the shorter the odds that there will be one of those “unexpected Black Swan events” at a time that is I suppose, unexpected."
As a bear, love to hear this kind of talk.
The Dow is pretty much an index of the Top 30 Obama Contributors, so I expect it’s no problem for it to go to 50,000 while the rest of the country remains mired in a Depression. /s
Kinda interesting. Last year at the peak of the election campaign, around Sept, gold value declined along with Romney’s chances of winning.
so did the price of gas.
True enough. Both markets involve high degrees of speculation.
Insiders are selling like crazy. Retail muppets drawn in by FED pumped-up market (14,000) are being led to the slaughter. Business (propaganda) media is working double overtime to convince retail that all is well and they need to get back in ... just in time to be fleeced (again) by the HFT insiders.
“The market is heading for a huge collapse. It will all be blamed on those wascally Republicans because they refused to put America first and reach a grand bargain with our most historic first black President that is trying just soooo hard to right the mess that GWB left him. /s”
The “/s” is unneeded.
Your prediction is probably as realistic as any other out there.
And it _will_ indeed be “the Republicans” who are blamed for the collapse.
Very likely that more than half of the American people will swallow that lie, lock, stock, and barrel!
The only major positive signs I see is that China has a billion people who are only beginning to be consumers, and that the FED is likely to keep interest rates low for quite some time.
But the overall debt, gdp, employment and real estate markets are all very bad.
No, Stan’s not making anything up. Stan is being TOLD what to write. And, if he doesn’t, he will be told he is going to “...regret having written that.”
As soon as the media starts pumping (pimping?) investments on the general public, it’s usually a good time to head for the exits.
If the wave looks like the wave might have a ways to go before it crests, you might want to start by walking instead of running, but do start making your way to the exits one way or another to get a good head start because those behind you will soon be running for the exits in a panic
The only major positive signs I see is that China has a billion people who are only beginning to be consumers, and that the FED is likely to keep interest rates low for quite some time.
But the overall debt, gdp, employment and real estate markets are all very bad.
It is "working" at keeping the stock market pumped up so that no one notices the "pit bosses" are sneaking out the back door.
So the fact that the Insider sell/buy ratio has hit an historic high of 50:1 means that all those insiders are selling just as the market is about to take off. I don’t think so.
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