It's Official: Worst. Recovery. EVER
If there was any debate whether the Fed's policies have helped the economy or just the market (and specifically the Bernanke-targeted Russell 2000), the following two charts will end any and all debate. As the following chart from the St Louis Fed shows, as of the just completed quarter, US GDP "growth" since the "recovery" is now the worst in US history, having just dipped below the heretofore lowest on record.
A slightly prettier version of the same chart created by JPM's Michael Cembalest, is presented below:
But fear not: it is only the worst recovery ever for anyone unlucky enough to still rely on such Old Normal concepts as the "economy" to feed, clothe and provide shelter for themselves.
For those lucky 1% of the US population whose entire wealth is in financial assets (and who once again managed to avoid a tax hike on carried interest or any actual financial assets), times have almost never been so good.
Well, it's not the biggest surge in the market since the economic trough in history, but it is close. Which as Bernanke admitted some time ago (when discussing the level of the Russell 2000), is the only thing that actually matters to the Fed.
Yet oddly enough, the trickle down from the trillions in excess wealth created for those who hold financial assets, as a result of daily POMOs pumping some $85 billion, and soon more, into the stock market each month, has yet to materialize.
Oh well: just keep on doing more of what you are doing Uncle Ben, and if possible destroy the US economy even more than you already have - at this point, at least on a relative basis, you can't destroy it more.
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How many charts will it take for our Econ PhD overlords to realize that inflated digital balances are the road to serfdom and, subsequently, social upheaval?
Look at Apple Fall!
Look! It's gravity!
This is what FED gravy and robot gambling get you!
There is no recovery!
There is only privatized gains with socialized losses!
Watch "Downton Abbey" on PBS. You will see where we are headed. Serving breakfast in bed to lords and ladies and damn glad to have the job.
So this is the new killing it?
http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Real-Mega-Bears.php
... and yet the liberals squeal like little school children every time they see this president. Unbelievable.
Trust me, the free thinking liberals aren't happy with this bullshit, either.
I just can't wait until 2016 when a Republican president gets into the fold, and the economy starts to REALLY tank (it's going to......no matter which side is in there) and the Obamabots (who have defended every single little blip of good news, manufactured or not) start to lose their shit again (over similiar stuff that is happening NOW, like declining incomes, job rights, job creation, lessening benefits and entitlements) when SHTF.
For the logical thinker, it's going to be both frightening, and hilarious......to see our punditocacy fling poo at the sound of a horn.
"Trust me, the free thinking liberals aren't happy with this bullshit, either."
This is correct. We are not happy with this bullshit.
none of us will make it to 2016 at this rate.
I also fear 2015 could be the date when this all comes to pass, especially due to the fact that folks like Geithner, Solis are jumping the ship already....with Benny Boy leaving in 2014 (My guess? He sees the writing on the wall).
Plus, it seems like we have one of these bubble pops near the end of 2 term presidencies during the "Non-Bretton Woods" Era:
- 1987 Flash Crash (Reagan)
- 1999 Dotcom Crash (Clinton)
- 2007 Housing Crash (Bush)
IMO, these are designed to influence public opinion and funnel the hysteria of said market crashes into the greater control the wealth of the taxpayers into those at the top.
Also, the lobbyists and their corporate masters can crowbar their way into forming these "solutions" to problems easier during times of transition.
I thought 2011 was the year it all..... well, 2012. 2013 for sure. 2014.....write it down. Unless its 2015. Surely by 2020.......
"Free thinking liberals".
Thanks for the chuckle. What an oxymoron. Liberals can't think, if they could they wouldn't be liberal. They feeeeeeeeeeeeel.
Conservatives don't think; they follow.
And BTW, those "liberals" you speak of who follow around Obama and parrot his every deed, aren't liberals. They are "sheep".
Google Thomas Paine. Now THERE'S a liberal!
Just like with this last election, I don't the the GOP will allow a credible opposition candidate to emerge (with the exception of a controlled tea-party acting type), so I cannot imagine any of them standing a chance against Hitlery.
IMO, she sealed her nomination yesterday with her extremely well played moral outrage card.
No Hitlery, not with O'Blah blah backing Biden. Cheek to cheek? or crook to crook, no Hitlery. Milestones
Probably worst ever because technically it is not a "recovery"...it is a Central bank induced mirage that has pumped up the most important confidence indicator and has stabilized the economy at a level that it always should have been at. Problem now is that they can't ever take the punch bowl away which they now realize.
A+ Neo
Mirage is the perfect metaphor.
Everyone wants to believe. sh-t, everyone HAS to believe..
Exactly.
There has been no jobs recovery. Not even a little bit. None of the lost jobs have been recovered. This tool at the federal reserve of St Louis can be quite handy for what little government data is still real.
BTW, QE will never end. Why would it? What incentive is there to end it vs. the incentives to continue it?
Well, some may not have realized it until now. Those people are known as tools (or as Uncle Joe used to say, "useful idiots").
Yeah, but they only pumped in 8 trillion dollars into the economy!!
THEY SHOULD HAVE DOUBLED IT!!
That's what I wrote on that text message to Ben but did he do it? Nop...
I did everything I could... I swear...
AAPL down 12%...there goes $50 billion of wealth! I can't help but feel like Kramer in the Seinfeld episode in which Jerry got a bad stock tip (i.e. revelling in the misfortunes of others).
I feel like I'm watching Ben do the Elaine Dance.
Apple always helped lift the market. It has been lock step with the SPX since Nov 2008, until beginning of Dec 2012. The Bernack is still trying to hold up the market regardless of Apple stock. When is the last time you saw Apple down 60 points but the SPX and DOW are positive at the open???????
This is why I do not trade this market anymore....... technicals DO NOT work anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only recovery Bernanke cares about is that of GS stock. #retirementplanning
Actually, Bernank's largest holding is Altria Group. Probably because smoking is recession proof and with increasing sales globally.
History repeats until it doesn't.... So why is this a surprise? The real issue is that there is no ism that would bring us back to the bubble economy. That suckah is gone for good...
Any questions?
Yes. Is jism an -ism?
Only if you masturbate.
There was never a recovery. There was a retracement of the 2007 collapse.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/dow-jones-weekly-12-major-top/
And what's next? A resumption of this downturn. Barry and Ben wanted re-election so they spent four years pumping cash into the markets. Barry and Ben are going to regret they did this.
This is the worst Recovery? No. Way. Get Outta Here!
$96 Oil in January. Repeat that to yourselves. $96 Oil in January.
You noticed that too?
Maybe standing athwart markets yelling “STOP!” isn’t such a good idea after all.
Definately time for lower interest rates to spark the economy.
Timing is everything in comedy. You sir, are a genius.
Sure it's the "worst recovery ever." After all, net energy from oil extraction keeps falling. Need energy to do the work to get the growth.
Yes but I am making a fortune being long the market...what would be your point?
But the all knowing Martin Armstrong says its all about the normal market cycle, no manipulation.
He must know.
He has a computer.
But the all knowing Martin Lance Armstrong says its all about the normal market rider on the cycle, no manipulation. He must know. He has a computer one testicle.
Edit: This might have been funnier if I were able the get the strikethrough text to show up...then again, maybe not.
let's see if it calls the Directional Change.
not bad so far.
if it does, methinks you owe Martin an ounce of silver so he can pay to run an ad-free blog.
Love how the Crowded-Hedgie-Space paired AAPL-GLD trade is being unwound.....OUCHIES!!!!
parasite
1,500 S&P print !!!!
Barbecued Shorts flaming out across the board - I can hear the screams of "NO FAIR! It is being MANIPULATED!" all the way from Broad and Wall to 33 Liberty.
Ride the wave bro. Tried any weekly options yet? Do it like the banksters do it!!!!
It's all the same right? When they do it we have to absorb any losses, and when we do it, we have to absorb any losses too.
LOL as S&P kisses 1500
Congratulations to the S&P. 1500! I called the Benz dealer and have an appointment booked for 9PM after the dealer closes to go look at the new CLK. My AAPL is doing so well that I thought I just may say WTF! and buy one. All of my money is in this bull shit market so I think I am safe to go for it!
In the meantime everyone put on your DOW14k hats and get ready for the biggest onslaught of mass recovery news when that milestone is soon reached.
I say we call it the RECRAPPERY!
Hey barnank, go fly a 'dreamliner' !
No offense Tyler, but Bernankie must pull up ZH, and laugh so hard he can barely say..... "SCOREBOARD!" (SP 1500).
i just LUV' IT !!!!!
this chart, this economic collapse, these dumbass politiciens with stupid rethoric and inadequate policies show one thing : people are awesomely stupid, let's take advantage of them