But Stephen’s warning is not supposed to pinpoint the moment when stocks sell off. As he put it, the 50%-plus decline in U.S. stocks he sees coming “appears likely to start within the next three months.”
If he’s right, we are just at the beginning of that decline, not the end. What you’ve seen so far was just the cat’s first pounce.
On paper. Unless the companies go belly up, or they were planning on selling the stocks, it hasn't really changed their wealth. If you owned 5% of a profitable company a week ago, you still own 5% of a profitable company.
It’s called “Deflation” and it’s a Bitch.
Central banks around the world know it and are using the only mechanism they have to fight it.
That mechanism is to create “Inflation” by printing money via QE* in order to boost “asset prices” that “may/should/could” be used to secure capital for investment.
Risk has its rewards, and there is no “trickle down” risk occurring.
I am an appraiser (and an investor--not in RE but in biotech and tech--mostly IBB and QQQ) so I watch RE prices daily. And demand and supply.
If When Trump wins the general election, this market will take off.
I’m going under the assumption that they’ll just keep the global printing presses going until it all comes down and the single currency and world government can be ushered in without any resistance.
But long before then the elites will be well positioned to profit from the collapse, or at least out of harm’s way, and ready to take their seats at the NWO table.
That day may be tomorrow or a decade from now. It’s safest to assume it’s tomorrow.
If you predict doom every year, one year you will eventually be sort of right. But some of us will remember you were wrong for seven years.
There will be a flight to quality in the stock markets as investors get more conservative. Real estate will respond to market pressure primarily location also
I do not see a huge market crash coming. A caveat. If the Fed raises rates now the economy will contract