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Ignore the Financial Media… Now is the Time to Prepare
“Buy stocks! It’s a great opportunity! They present great value.”
This is the non-stop mantra espoused on financial media. It’s simply astounding given that
1) Everyone with a modicum of sense knows stocks are in a bubble
2) Financial media viewership is plunging to multi-decade lows (you think they’d consider changing the content?)
Here are a few thoughts no one in the mainstream financial media seems to address.
First of all, corporate insiders are dumping shares at a pace not seen since 2000.
That’s correct. The folks who know more about their companies and future growth prospects than anyone in the world are unloading their shares as quickly as possible.
Investment legends are doing the same. Warren Buffett, perhaps the single biggest fan of stocks in the last 100 years is currently sitting on over $50 billion in cash. Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger recently commented that he has not bought a single stock in his personal portfolio in over two years.
Aside from Buffett and Munger, Carl Icahn, Stanley Druckenmiller and numerous other investment legends have warned of a potential market catastrophe. George Soros has even taken out a record size bet on the market collapsing.
Beyond the legends, institutional investors have been net sellers of stocks for most of 2014. The same goes for hedge funds. Do you think they’d be doing this if they thought stocks were offering a lot of opportunities and value today?
Market volume is collapsing to a dwindle and fewer and fewer companies area participating in the rally. Both of these are clear signs of a top forming. Nearly half of the stocks on the NASDAQ are down over 20% from their recent peaks.
Global growth is slowing down sharply. The only non-manipulated economic data point out of China (electricity consumption) shows GDP growth there is HALF of the official 7.5%. In Europe, Italy is back in recession for the third time since 2008. Germany’s economy contracted in the second quarter of 2014 and will likely be in recession before the first quarter of 2015. France has registered zero growth for six months now. And the US is showing anemic growth if any.
So we have corporate insiders selling the farm, investment legends warning of a collapse, institutional investors selling stocks, and global growth slowing rapidly.
And now is the time to buy stocks?
No, now is the time to prepare.
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OK, there, Mr. Phoenix, if every rope dick hot shot insider guru is a bear, then why, again, it that not a contrarian indicator?
load: Because the insiders have a better view of thier own company's future that any one else; same phenomena played out in 2007.
Forget Ebola and ISIS. We have a plague of Chicken Littles; ie, this post is the 7 trillionth, 422 billionth, 703 millionth, 465 thousanth, nine hundredth and thirty-tooth (?) Chicken Little post about our economic future.
Ignoring the financial media also mean ignoring this blind research/spin.
What a stretch to say that HFs are selling stocks. HFs are having so many market opportunities with carry trades. Selling stocks on the hypothesis that the real economy declines will be translated to markets is such a low level spin for today's even rookie traders.
Traders have generally been focused on front running the printing presses and know that all markets are disconnected with the real economies. The game in town is the carry trade and viewing markets through the defunct prisms of econ data or some investment (non trading) activities of past masters like Druckenmiller is hogwash.
Not recommeding that you pile into stocks but all preparations based on faulty analyses are also asinine.
Ignoring the financial media also mean ignoring this blind research/spin.
What a stretch to say that HFs are selling stocks. HFs are having so many market opportunities with carry trades. Selling stocks on the hypothesis that the real economy declines will be translated to markets is such a low level spin for today's even rookie traders.
Traders have generally been focused on front running the printing presses and know that all markets are disconnected with the real economies. The game in town is the carry trade and viewing markets through the defunct prisms of econ data or some investment (non trading) activities of past masters like Druckenmiller is hogwash.
Not recommeding that you pile into stocks but all preparations based on faulty analyses are also asinine.
Uber dollar is bad for growth and The End for debt so Caviar Emptor.
Doesn't have to be bad for equities as equities produce dollars.
You do get "killer competition" though as foreign goods start flooding the US market. This should be great for retailers.
Shoes and cars should be the top of the list. "Shoes and cars that las forever" actually. Those who have been buying inflation protection are being murdered.
Some of these Federal projects will absolutely be deflationary.
I say again "NASA is the top of the list." So is anything having to do with hydro-power and transportation via water. (Great Lakes shipping, Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio River Complex, Columbia and Snake Rivers.)
With Tesla's and Leafs the Age of the All Electric has arrived. I think an all electric drive system is a bigger deal than battery power...but we will get both.
I've been preparing all day - spent a few hours at the shooting range, then went to the gun show to get a few more magazines and now I'm reloading some 9mm.
Thinking about picking up some more toilet paper though, after seeing the shortages in Venezuela.
Compare the rates between toilet paper and Korans. Koran paper is usually more durable...you just have to wad them up to soften them before use. A little bacon grease on the page and you've got Preparation H style comfort.
the market is going up until 2017 bitches
please shutup!!
Yup, they'll keep the whole stinking corpse afloat with the stinking gasses of its own corruption until Hillary the Canyon Yodeler gets elected.
'canyon yodeler',,,that is just too funny!
"Charlie Munger recently commented that he has not bought a single stock in his personal portfolio in over two years."
Hahahahahahahahah......he just missed a 40% profit. No wonder those imbeciles are so bitter.
Btw, David Faber has been barking the same song for the past 30 years. Sure, he's been right a couple of times
Every now and then a very notable and important event occurs, sometimes it slips by without even being noticed. For months the major world currencies have traded in a narrow range as if held in limbo by some great force. This has allowed people to think we were on sound footing as central banks across the world continued to print and pump out money chasing the "ever elusive growth" that always appears to be just around the corner.
Weak demand for goods and most of this money flowing into intangible investments inflation has not been a major problem, but the seeds for its future growth have been planted everywhere. John Maynard Keynes said By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
While there are not many Bond Vigilantes there are a slew of Currency Vigilantes and they are ready to make their presence known. Weakness in the value of the Yen, Pound, and Euro must not go unnoticed. More on why this may be a signal that currency trading is about to get very wild in the article below. It may also be a signal that the system is near collapse.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/09/caution-alert-currencies-may-get-...
STAWKS with receivers and barrels firmly secured to them!
And a nice piece of long, hard wood to hold onto with both hands.
I've got one of those for you, assuming you're of the female persuasion, of course.
I'VE BEEN PREPARING FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS, YOU MISERABLE PHOENIX CAPITAL RESEARCH @#8,] OF §$/& !!! WILL YOU PLEASE BRING IT ON ALREADY ?!! I AM SOOOOOO READY !!! FOR GOD'S SAKE, PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY AND BE DONE WITH IT !!!
Sorry, I really had to get that off my chest. In my village I've become that weird guy with the chickens, the water filter and that crazy look in his eyes. But it's the wife and kids they feel most sorry for.
Oh, my gosh...I am laughing so hard right now! I feel the same as you. I've been at it for about four years and the condemnation and grief I get from my brother is appalling. Everytime the DOW moves up and/or gold drops, I get a scathing email. It's tough being us right now. :)
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Fcuk Norway and your Peace Prize for terrorists and idiots.
blah blah blah is right. You are a fucking retard if you don't have plenty of physical...Pb that is.
Stocks haven't finished their run by a long shot. It used to be that 'the system' could handle a healthy dip. Not now. A 'healthy dip' now, with all the leverage out there, will utterly smoke it, turn it to ashes. Stocks will not be permitted to go down much. DOW 20000 before 14000.
A 'healthy dip' now, with all the leverage out there, will utterly smoke it, turn it to ashes.
Can't be Black Thursday All Over Again... it's Friday!
To keep the system from crashing - stock value will have to continue to rise at an ever increasing rate. It's already to the point where many are having wtf? moments. At the point when the rate undeniably goes full-retard, we're going to see the advent of an inflationary crisis in the USD due to loss of faith.
Either the US financial markets must reset, or the dollar must crash. Even TPTB can't have it both ways.
What a bunch of vomit.
The only having wtf moments are gold bugs raped into oblivion. Most people in the market make tons of money.
It's not a profit until you sell.
TPTB have backed themselves into a corner where the only survival option left is hyperinflation. If they don't mind dying now, they will not hyperinflate. That's all there is to it. The rest is just noise.
Buffet has 50 billion in cash? That makes things interesting. He's not a stupid person.
Buffet doesn't exactly day trade. He makes maybe a few moves every other year. Him sitting on cash is a normal posture.
Soros? You know only half his bet, the other half he isn't telling you or anyone else but his closest jewish brothers.
I haven't seen a whole lotta anyone in the fiancial media telling everyone to load up on paper.
Corporate insiders are notorious for making wrong moves consistently.
There's a possibility that the market could back down to 665 on the S & P but there is an equal or greater possibility that the Jewish FED and/or its jewish surrogates on Wall Street are holding this market up to take out the shorts, bolster pension funds payouts as millions of baby boomers cash out each month, from now until 2060, and just generally stick a thumb in the eye of the chicken littles.
But if you did as Budgie Twitters did yesterday, buying the Dow index you would be up nearly 100 points in 12 hours just by buying the fucking DIP!!!!.
He doesn't buy stocks, he buys businesses.
There's all the difference in the world.
Corporate insiders are notorious for making wrong moves consistently.
Gartman, maybe?
Buffet has 50 billion in cash
Not a big deal - and totally expected. He's just hedging toilet paper.
I see no alternatives being offered other than cash.
DC fools poking the bear. Stocks overvalued. Warmongers own your country. Americans fat, stupid, lazy and asleep. Politicians owned by every corporation, special interest, foreign government and crazy billionaire that has their price. Time to build a very deep, self contained, underground bunker on your well stocked farm. That's how you prepare.
Amen!
Still got a fat one in *my* pants...come & get it, girls!
My tool is so good I built a shed over it.
Hey! gimmee a break! I've been losing weight!
"Protect Your Portfolio"
If you have a "portfolio" you have a problem.
Seen the price of corn and beans lately, try selling that $12,000 an acre farmland you loaded up on three short years ago.
It was going for over 20 large here not that long ago, and has come back down quite a little since then. I have several friends who own farm implement dealerships. I would call it the ag version of channel stuffing, and they both admit as much. All those purty new machines sitting there waiting for a home and not moving nearly as fast compared to the last several years. Those guys have been making good coin right along with the farmers during that time........now they are feeling the squeeze.
Both will come back up. Our cost per acre of yield is still fine, even at $3.00 corn. Looking at 230 bushels/acre this year, good for our little 600 acre operation. Plus, we can store it in our own bins (no storage fees) and only pay the electricity for fans and augers for conditioning and wait for it to come back up. The worlds quest for Doritos and Mountain Dew is insatiable.
Not trying to pick a fight here but just curious how much uncle sugar kicks in each year at your operation?
Guys around here get mad as hell becuase it's public knowledge if you know the name of the farmer of the corp. Granted many of those are farming 5k acres and up.
That said we are looking at record yields again in this area, it's been a wet and cooler than normal spring. Four cuttings of hay was normal for most guys here, even the later cuttings were great.
Yummm... Cooooorn. BEEEENZ....
Edible commodities! And corn is kinda "golden". Ingestion turns beans into WMDs... good useful stuff! Better than that nasty old gold. But taking delivery on a few thousands of tons of it... ummm... tricksy.
And.. 'scuse me... SELL farmland? I don't care how much you paid for it, it's worth more than the money you paid, or an equivalent amount of gold. You can eat gold, but it it's kinda thin on the vitamin A and protein...
Silver at $17.50 is mouthwatering and I'd be buying with both hands if I had any cash left.....of course it could be looking better at $16 or $15 or.....
Exactly, you buy farmland to farm it, not sell it. This isn't house flipping. Most farm land deals I've seen around our area have been all cash with plans to keep it in the family for generations to come.
If you don't have $$$$ for farmland, you still can get far ahead of the problem with Square Foot Gardening.
See this site and get the books... you just need to plan to work through the program and start eating great fresh food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_foot_gardening
Long vermiculite and cedar boards.
And as soon as I'd done that and built 4 8 by 4 10 inch beds and broken the bollocks sifting the vermiculite mushroom compost and peat and building the ground hog proof fence, the wife get's a new job and we move in the next 12 months. I'm tempted to bulldoze the whole thing, after settlement, of course.
I see farm land plunging where I live. The long time farmers are fine but the Big Speculators are getting murdered. Price drops every week and few takers. I htink they're in some big trouble esp since that new leader in China Xi is clamping down on the corrupt officals who were flooding market around the world with Loot. A good reflection fo this is Singapore where I read house prices have 'corrected' 15% this year and luxury goods sales have plunged since much fewer Mainland buyers fly over for a weekend of shopping, away from the prying eyes of the peasants.