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Record 71% Of Household Net Worth Is In Financial Assets
Another quarter down, and another $3 trillion in net worth added.
On the surface, the increase in household net worth to a record $80.7 trillion is good news. The problem is that with $2.5 trillion of thie $3 trillion purely thanks to an increase in financial assets, which as has been made quite clear over the past several years, benefit only the 1%, what the lede should say is "another quarter down, another $3 trillion added to the net worth of America's richest." Put another way: of the $94.4 trillion in total assets (gross, not excluding $13.8 trillion in household liabilities), a record 71% or $66.9 trillion, is in financial products. And now you know why the Fed can not possibly allow any hiccups on the road to trickle down Fed balance sheet nirvana. If only for the 1%.
The breakdown of the household balance sheet by quarter based on the just released Z.1 Flow of Funds statement is shown below.
A snapshot of the household balance sheet as of Q4.
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Mission Accomplished.
My guess...not for much longer. Dollar dump is on.
And then the market will go up even more.
If you have any doubts that the entire U.S. Economy (as well as those of most EU nations as well as Japan & China) are complete illusions, wonder no more.
But seriously, when companies such as salesforce.com & priceline are "the wealth" of nations, what could possibly go wrong?
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You are not to blame for
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Dare not speak its name
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In rainbows
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correct. all gains go to the 1%. anyone opposing this will be labeled socialist. carry on.
I don't agree with the categories here.
Housing is a financial investment IMHO because it is only supported by the massive debt-based financial leverage provided by the government. Take that financial leverage away and see where housing goes. Simiarly I'd view stock investments in solid real-asset firms to not be a financial asset but part ownership of basic infrastructure.
Exactly.
Time for TPTB to crash the system in 3,... 2,... 1,...
And lowly physical gold would be what, 0.1%? (Say, 10% of the 1% - 2% of gold owners?)
Hard to believe. If paper burns..., look out!
dupe, sorry
TOOOO MANY 1%'ERS!
TOO MANY PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE!
THEY TOO WILL GET THROWN UNDER THE BUS.
Tick tock, til you're sucking banksters cock.
A result of lower real estate values.
I wonder if this subtracts from "financial holdings" how much in HELOC got plunked down on Apple stock.
It'll be interedsting to see how the retail sheeple investors react this time when the shit hits the fan and they're left holding the bag so to speak.
QE forever,get it ? They can't let it dump or it will be game over.
Permanently High Plateau?
This is going to be very very painful.
I'd drop real estate from the assets category because when you go to sell you might find out it isn't worth as much as you thought, just like stocks.
Mr. Media told me my house went up in value by 25% over the past four years. Mr. Bank ended up making me take a 30% loss from what I paid. The real value ended up somewhere around 40% of what the media claimed my house was worth.
The only real asset is a skill worth something to someone else when they need it. If you can't fix your pipes and need water but can't find anybody willing to fix them, 10k shares of Tesla aren't going to help you.
adr
The beauty of hyperinflation is that regardless of the value of money or the dollar value of real estate...you still have the property (or gold in the case of 'durable goods' and other real assets).
Not when hyperinflation causes a six million dollar property tax bill due at the beginning of the year. Nobody owns property in the USA other than the government.
If I was part of the 1% I would begin worrying that much of my wealth is in the form of debt owed by the bottom 80%.
I'd be worried about what happens when cow disappears from the gourmet supermarket shelf and the largest pasture within 100 miles is central park.
The farmer upstate probably isn't going to trade food for a S-class or Netflix shares.
I might take a G-wagen.
The beatings will continue until morale improves
It's the government workers, and "those people" getting all the wealth.
It's going to be epic to see that 2.5 trillion in 'assets' that it took a quarter to build get wiped out in nano-seconds.
It's funny. I know what I created exists because I can go to a store and see it. I can feel it with my hands. If the company that sells it goes out of business, what I created still exists. Even if the products are dumped in a landfill or dropped into the Marianas Trench, they still exist.
These financial assets don't have a physical form. They only exist as a figure in a computer, like a design I think of but never make. The financial assets are as easy to erase as a line of an illustrator drawing. In that case do they really exist at all?
So what happens when Vlad and the gang fire up their Atari's and tryout a few anti- algos?
"The algos" don't matter. In the end, the casino will still win because there are gamblers out there. "The Algos" are just another way to screw them, but if they were to disappear another way would be invented.
It's like "Keynesians" or "Conservatives". If all the bullshit they believed could somehow magically be erased, the sociopaths would spontanously create new bullshit for them to believe within seconds which accomplished the same thing.
The doomers will never be satified. Regardless of what happens, the immoral people will win.
The Righteous Sword of Libertarian Justice is just a myth.
Because the immoral have made the moral believe it is immoral to do harm. The immoral do not have that problem of conscience.
Only a great cleansing act of absolute immorality can set the world back to a moral path. Witnessing this act focuses society on morality for a short time until the immoral gather thier strength again.
You won't find many people claiming Hitler acted in a moral fashion, but one can't argue that the results of this immorality did not lead to a more moral focused America in the short period after WWII.
Moral focus leads to presumptive arrogance, such as we have today in places like NYC. Eventually moral focus changes to justify not what is right, but what we want to do. That's because moral focus leads not to judging ourselves, but others.
You are pretty smart for one them "worthless govmint workers" (that most people on here despise so much because you and your comrads get most of the 2 trillion dollar the government spends each year).
Re: Only a great cleansing act of absolute immorality can set the world back to a moral path
AND assuming that humans aren't naturally self-serving sociopathic assholes, yes. (So, really no).
"Phantom wealth".
I guess most of my wealth is in "Other tangible assets". Real estate is only partly tangible, that being the part you actually own (or equity). But I imagine the gummint could drain equity away in the form of ofsetting tax liens if the property tax bill gets too high and no one can pay it.
Let us fix it for the household of America:
Equities = Promises of cash flows in the Future
Debt = Promises of cash flows in the future
Equities and bonds (debt) are financial assets (depending on future cash flows0
GDP = circulation of present goods whose value is immediate, depending on their consumption value
Those goods include goods and services and consumable commodities. (Gold is a present good with immediate value)
We have too much debt to GDP =
We have too many promises of cash flows in the future in relation to the nominal circulation of present goods. Buy the present physical goods because the ratio of Financial Assets to Present goods (Dow Gold ratio is one interpretation) (Debt to GDP is another) will SHRINK.
The shrinkage is unlikely to come from numerator falling i.e. bankruptcies debt at pennies on dollar and equities at 0 (Cyrpus or US 1929). Why? Because US prints its own money.
The shrinkage will likely come from expansion of denominator. But only in nominal terms (i.e. inflation) because the capex is dismal in teh US which prevents GDP expansion in real terms.
THOSE WHO DO NOT OWN GOLD DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRESENT GOOD AND A FINANCIAL ASSET.
Did you ever hear that joke about Communism? Good idea, wrong species.
The "gold people" tend to forget they are dealing with humans too.
If your prediction calculations don't include the value-of-bullshit, you aren't predicting reality.
bullshit + goverment = politics
bullshit + morals = religion
bullshit + craft = spatter art
bullshit + sex = romance
Bullshit ADDS value.
X + bullshit = $ ** bullshit (Money to the power of bullshit)
An illusionist show always has an end, in the meantime and for a while people are mermerized in the bullshit. People drinking have 2 choices, they drink continuously until they die or they stop drinking and they have an overhang. There is no precedent in history where financial assets (cash flows promises in the future) rise faster than GDP forever. Be patient, death or overhang will come.
Third choice: they can stop drinking before they get drunk and just feel a little groggy. Oh, right we are talking about the human species.
I think its funny that people don't think the FED will pull the rug one more time. Like the .001% give a shit about the top 10 or 20%. Not sure when it will happen but it will. They have to steal from someone.
Re: They have to steal from someone
Yes, but as this is Merica the bottom gets eaten first. The top 30-20% range still have at bit of loot, and the 20-10% range have quite a bit. So, the top 10% are still safe.
There's still lots of loot to take and lots of dumbasses willing to die for the top 1% in their wars of Empire.
The US has the most loyal dumbasses on the planet.
A steady bout of inflation will turn a lot of the loot to dust, won't it? The squeezed retirees will get slaughtered. Even those sitting on a pile of several millions. A $5 million beach house can inflate to a $10 million house, but would have to be funded out of a relatively fixed pile of loot.
If and when any substantial number of these financial "asset" holders ever actually want the cash to spend on living, that 71% will be worth a LOT less rather quickly...
You are exactly predicting the turn # 4. John Fullarton wrote in 1844 that money printing does the following 1. Lower interest rates (LIBOR and money market spikes are repressed) 2. Price of land rise 3. Price of interest bearing securities (equities) rise. 4. Price of commodities in general rise.
So when the base money stops toying in financial assets and enter the circulation (GDP), the price of everything rises.
They have to get a few more moving their wealth into fake assets. At a certain point they will bring another grand theft. So far so good.
Can someone confirm my math that this works out to about $300K of assets per capita in the US? If that is the case, my family and I (6 of us) are much poorer than average. I aways thought we were doing much better than average. How sad for us.
Cheer up, I am sure the median is much lower.
The median is probably negative.