10 year is down to 2.447%......flight to safety at any price?
Does anyone else think it ODD....that energy and electricity, mine production goes into GDP?
Unseasonably hot summer led to more energy use and there you have most of the reasoning behind the 1.6% surprise.
A lot of the data supplied to make a point is rather not worth the paper they might print it on.
IMHO, and take it for what its worth.....I wouldn't be taking ANY unnecessary bets on long on the market in general....I feel FAIR VALUE is not in nsiffing distance to todays print.....bonds are telling us that.
D
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
LEAP OF TRUTH, NOT DOSE OF
HEADLINE READ ALL ABOUT IT BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
"Stocks rise on surprise jump in consumer strength"- AP
Sorry, here goes the profanity..WTF???!!!!
What passes for UNEXPECTED and JUMP these days.....from briefing.com
"The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index unexpectedly rose from 51.0 in July to 53.5 August. The Briefing.com consensus called for the Confidence Index to fall to 50.0. "
PERSPECTIVE TO MY READERS:
The "surprise" 53 isn't within a sharks sniff to 80.00 at BOTTOM of last bear 2003......and not light year close to 100 or better this far into supposed "recovery"
If stocks rally as whatever dumbass is quoted for yhoo finance etc for reasons for stock action, on this not even the flimsiest of reasoning but downright assinine!..what more can I say?
D
DEAF DUMB AND BLIND SPOT
When stock prices go up, and you see the 10 year bond yield plop to 2.49%........do more than scratch your head.....
Bernanke's deaf dumb and BLIND SPOT READ
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Bernanke's deaf dumb and BLIND SPOT READ
D
BACK BONE SEMI'S BREAKING DOWN
Let THEM make speaches, we'll watch what the market is saying. any ideas on stocks or sectors you would like to see charted drop me a comment.
Japanese markets fell hard last night erasing prior gains, down over 300 pts back to 8,800. In 1990 Japan's mkt was 45,000.
D
TIME FOR WORDS IS OVER
President gives a speach tonight on Iraq Pullout. We'll leave behind 50,000 or so and now our war efforts are in Afghanistan....a net gain in troops in the region....don't expect that to be mentioned.
What's really on the mind of those who vote is the economy, and jobs.
What I keep hearing is...."we're doing better than last year, the economy is growing and is creating jobs.....not as fast as we like" and "vote for us, not for those who got us here...."
But we ARE going backwards....1st qtr GDP 5.6%, 2nd qtr 2.8%, 3rd qtr 1.6% after hitting low near 400,000 claims now we're back up to 475,000-500,000. Many just worried about return of their money with 2 years breaking .50%....yes that's 1/2%.
Bank stocks appear to have broken down and look like their back in a bear market....maybe never left.
BULL markets in GOLD, WHEAT, and BONDS.
24 90% volume days in just last 5 months. Not sure before uptick rule suspended we had that many last 20 years. I don't know of any precedent where a BULL MKT (that's what they are calling this) has had SO many 90% days and the majority of them have been DOWN VOLUME!
One of the HALLMARKS of BULL MARKETS is the LACK of volatility...at one point between 2003-2007 the VIX hit single digits! It is now in the 20's neat 27.
The governments ready for more FAILED stimulus, the FED is READY TO FORCE BANKS TO LEND (even though their own policies inhibit it), less government, less business regulation, less taxation, government more than ever stands in the way of business.
Speaches make me sick, let's see some action.
D
What's really on the mind of those who vote is the economy, and jobs.
What I keep hearing is...."we're doing better than last year, the economy is growing and is creating jobs.....not as fast as we like" and "vote for us, not for those who got us here...."
But we ARE going backwards....1st qtr GDP 5.6%, 2nd qtr 2.8%, 3rd qtr 1.6% after hitting low near 400,000 claims now we're back up to 475,000-500,000. Many just worried about return of their money with 2 years breaking .50%....yes that's 1/2%.
Bank stocks appear to have broken down and look like their back in a bear market....maybe never left.
BULL markets in GOLD, WHEAT, and BONDS.
24 90% volume days in just last 5 months. Not sure before uptick rule suspended we had that many last 20 years. I don't know of any precedent where a BULL MKT (that's what they are calling this) has had SO many 90% days and the majority of them have been DOWN VOLUME!
One of the HALLMARKS of BULL MARKETS is the LACK of volatility...at one point between 2003-2007 the VIX hit single digits! It is now in the 20's neat 27.
The governments ready for more FAILED stimulus, the FED is READY TO FORCE BANKS TO LEND (even though their own policies inhibit it), less government, less business regulation, less taxation, government more than ever stands in the way of business.
Speaches make me sick, let's see some action.
D
Monday, August 30, 2010
CONSUMER CYCLICALS
Horrid plunge in 08, after 09 bottom rocket shot back up....longer term I see a bearish wedge formation. Break of support line could a rapid deterioration.
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COME GET YOUR MONEY
FORTUNE -- "Finally, nearly two years after they were bailed out by Congress, big banks are beginning to ease lending standards for individuals and small businesses. But it's not exactly having the reception many believed it would. Just when credit becomes more available, there's little evidence of a surge in demand for it."
I am not sure there is ANY evidence to support claims of "ease of credit standards...." what BS
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I am not sure there is ANY evidence to support claims of "ease of credit standards...." what BS
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ARE WE HEADED FOR ZIMBABWE?
….our “reserve”currency allows us to print money at will to cover debts.
INSIDE Zimbabwe the Z $ had become (and is) worthless…destroying their economy and faith in PAPER….”full faith…”
OUR CURRENCY SAYS:
“this note is legal tender for all debts private and public” FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE
In Gd we trust
U.S. Treasury
Z style inflation….. the electronic notes are cast…..to cover the debts we cannot pay….to me $14 TRILLION current IOU’S is rather significant…..we would need to create $14T fiat to pay them off....but it grows and grows as we dont pay them off, add more to it and JUST pay the interest....DOESN'T ANYONE CARE?
IN a US led FED ponzi scheme….we just keep selling more bonds….(which are as US currency) and FED balance sheet (doubled in 1 yr)more funny money….yeah…that’s inflation…and WILL effect prices at some point, has to .
What pray tell is more important than the efficacy, the value of our countries currency? ASK OBAMA, ASK BIG BEN....ask all of them in COngress....who has a clue? win one battle, delay inevitable, lose the war?
Duratek
INSIDE Zimbabwe the Z $ had become (and is) worthless…destroying their economy and faith in PAPER….”full faith…”
OUR CURRENCY SAYS:
“this note is legal tender for all debts private and public” FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE
In Gd we trust
U.S. Treasury
Z style inflation….. the electronic notes are cast…..to cover the debts we cannot pay….to me $14 TRILLION current IOU’S is rather significant…..we would need to create $14T fiat to pay them off....but it grows and grows as we dont pay them off, add more to it and JUST pay the interest....DOESN'T ANYONE CARE?
IN a US led FED ponzi scheme….we just keep selling more bonds….(which are as US currency) and FED balance sheet (doubled in 1 yr)more funny money….yeah…that’s inflation…and WILL effect prices at some point, has to .
What pray tell is more important than the efficacy, the value of our countries currency? ASK OBAMA, ASK BIG BEN....ask all of them in COngress....who has a clue? win one battle, delay inevitable, lose the war?
Duratek
BREAKOUT or BREAK-A-LEG?
SO many idiot commentaries, just follow the action! BONDS say bleeps hit the fan
KEEP IT SIMPLE "RANGEBOUND"
Bull markets go through corrections, that is true. Bull markets don't display LOTS of volatility, in just 5 months the NYSE has had 24 90% volume days!!!!!!!! and majority 14 have been DOWNERS with 10 up.
Bull markets don't usually have record low bond yields, bond yields rise with optimism.
Bull markets create jobs. Bull markets create sustainable GDP growth. Expanding credit. Business and Consumer optimism.
What we have is musical chairs, and the music playing is MILLI VANILLI
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BUYER BEWARE
SOme AM data, personal income, don't expect market moving......Monday usually bullish.....Friday was 90% up day.
Wheels on the cart are broken, no one has even called AAA yet. Deflated home prices accent highs in wheat and other commodities, with nat gas barely $4......maybe we have stagflation....
Housing WAS in a BUBBLE, yes it did pop, no you can't reflate it.....why WASTE taxpayer $'s?
Over at Yelnick Typepad.com he sees resemblence to 2008.
Have a great week, buyer beware!
D
Wheels on the cart are broken, no one has even called AAA yet. Deflated home prices accent highs in wheat and other commodities, with nat gas barely $4......maybe we have stagflation....
Housing WAS in a BUBBLE, yes it did pop, no you can't reflate it.....why WASTE taxpayer $'s?
Over at Yelnick Typepad.com he sees resemblence to 2008.
Have a great week, buyer beware!
D
Sunday, August 29, 2010
BROAD MARKET INDEX
Puts any rally in context.....fools gold....steaming pile futures. Lying sack of shit for sale....call any politician. The worst of all Obama...one termer......evil enemy of the free market capitalist system....you know the job creating machine.
D
SOVEREIGN DEBT ISSUE
Lowest mortgage rates in history.......look at how the housing market has reposnded! MULTIPLE government GIMMICKs for first time home buyers....it's all in there.
Gov backs, funds 100% of all mortgages now.....Obama is thinking of doing ANOTHER round of housing stimulus.....see how well the others worked?
In the meantime, runaway debt issuance could call into question the very fiat currency we all depend on, that the fed is supposed to protect....unabated GOV DEBT issuance anf FED monetizing threaten our very money system. Maybe Doug Noland and KD talk about it, few others.
I think above chart should put a DAGGER through the head of any speak easy trying to convince you they got your back or we got a plan..they got nothing.
And the market is so manipulated, controlled by the insiders and HFT'S....the real fair market system is broken.
D
UNCERTAINTY THE KILLER OF JOBS
CEO'S speak out about current administration and business environment. Taxes, regulation. and government interference have created atmosphere where business do not want to invest, and obviously don't see even a 3% (cheap money) return on their money.
SO....they don't and won't borrow or invest in this climate, and there is no change in sight.
D
SO....they don't and won't borrow or invest in this climate, and there is no change in sight.
D
Saturday, August 28, 2010
WAY BACK MACHINE
IS IT JUST ME, OR IS 2010 FELLING a LOT Like 2008? by Graham Summers why we are FAR from out of the woods
PAUSE THAT REFRESHES?
Break of 200 SMA above or the 400 below would be GOOD indicator of where IT trend is heading. 400 slightly rising (supportive) 200 flattening (resistance)
Headlines are for fun, the ACTION is all we care about.
D
EYE OPENING CHART
TOTAL CREDIT MARKET DEBT AS % OF DGP CHART LINK
I think this chart more or less speaks for itself.....isn't it OBVIOUS....after a record, historical run of DEBT for growth and consumption....we are now enterring a period of painful of adjustment and contraction....reversion to the mean...and have barely begun....what policies are going to change this?
D
I think this chart more or less speaks for itself.....isn't it OBVIOUS....after a record, historical run of DEBT for growth and consumption....we are now enterring a period of painful of adjustment and contraction....reversion to the mean...and have barely begun....what policies are going to change this?
D
WHAT PASSES FOR THE TRUTH
excerpt from "Let's change the Debate" Doug Noland (weekly MUST read)
"As the great German economist Dr. Kurt Richebacher was fond of saying, “The only cure for a Bubble is not to allow it to inflate.” Regrettably, there is little government policymaking can do in the short run to improve the situation. There is, however, a great deal policymakers are doing to make a bad situation worse. The current backdrop – certainly impacted by the Greek debt crisis, related market tumult and a faltering U.S. recovery – has created an elevated risk of further policy mistakes.
A multi-decade Credit Bubble badly distorted our economy’s underlying structure. The harsh reality is that this structural maladjustment can only be rectified gradually over a period of many years. There’s just no quick fix. Ongoing massive fiscal and monetary stimulus only exacerbates our economy’s ills. Moreover, it risks an inevitable crisis of confidence in our debt markets and monetary system.
The economy is muddling through right now. It’s frustrating and discouraging but, under the circumstances, this is about the best we could have hoped for. I am increasingly troubled by the direction (and tone) of economic analysis and policy discussion. All the inflationism histrionics, including the notion that the Fed and Congress are committing a dereliction of duties by not stimulating more aggressively, are unhelpful. Describing fiscal policy as increasingly “austere” is ridiculous. But mostly, calls for the (un-independent) Federal Reserve to monetize a massive federal spending plan are as irresponsible as they are dangerous."
I could argue we are in some kind of "muddle thru" economy, but IMHO that is a temporary phenomenom that cannot be sustained through FED action and Government stimulus....to UNDERSTAND the issues, the predicament we are currently in is paramount to surviving it.
ONE IN TEN American's are running behind in their mortgage payments. ALL the REAL DATA coming show the housing crisis is very much with us, the only thing that has appeared to change is the perilous plight of the banks. This IMHO is just a smoke screen for many of them as if any of us could show an asset at original or better value instead of CURRENT MARKET VALUE....we'd look pretty good....until we actually had to produce a sale fro the asset at prevailing market value.
Banks are paid on their "excess" banking reserves...of which they got from the FED of which the FED chose to pay .25% of which no doubt they use to buy Treasuries, of which there is no incentive to lend, from which regulators have imposed higher levels of RESERVES to cover potential capital losses leaving less to actually lend, to wit the BANKS have RAISED lending standards to which few can pass, and add to all of that the DESIRE TO BORROW has waned greatly from the masses after decades of debt gourging.......and the topper is the ABILITY to borrow has been crippled by the drop in the average home valuation....good luck fixing all that.
SO as I had said yesterday, what passes for good news to rally these days ain't what it used to be either......a GDP that "BEAT ESTIMATES" and came in a pathetic 1.6% instead of 1.4% or LOWER.....HOORAHHHH? good luck bulls building a rally on that.
D
"As the great German economist Dr. Kurt Richebacher was fond of saying, “The only cure for a Bubble is not to allow it to inflate.” Regrettably, there is little government policymaking can do in the short run to improve the situation. There is, however, a great deal policymakers are doing to make a bad situation worse. The current backdrop – certainly impacted by the Greek debt crisis, related market tumult and a faltering U.S. recovery – has created an elevated risk of further policy mistakes.
A multi-decade Credit Bubble badly distorted our economy’s underlying structure. The harsh reality is that this structural maladjustment can only be rectified gradually over a period of many years. There’s just no quick fix. Ongoing massive fiscal and monetary stimulus only exacerbates our economy’s ills. Moreover, it risks an inevitable crisis of confidence in our debt markets and monetary system.
The economy is muddling through right now. It’s frustrating and discouraging but, under the circumstances, this is about the best we could have hoped for. I am increasingly troubled by the direction (and tone) of economic analysis and policy discussion. All the inflationism histrionics, including the notion that the Fed and Congress are committing a dereliction of duties by not stimulating more aggressively, are unhelpful. Describing fiscal policy as increasingly “austere” is ridiculous. But mostly, calls for the (un-independent) Federal Reserve to monetize a massive federal spending plan are as irresponsible as they are dangerous."
I could argue we are in some kind of "muddle thru" economy, but IMHO that is a temporary phenomenom that cannot be sustained through FED action and Government stimulus....to UNDERSTAND the issues, the predicament we are currently in is paramount to surviving it.
ONE IN TEN American's are running behind in their mortgage payments. ALL the REAL DATA coming show the housing crisis is very much with us, the only thing that has appeared to change is the perilous plight of the banks. This IMHO is just a smoke screen for many of them as if any of us could show an asset at original or better value instead of CURRENT MARKET VALUE....we'd look pretty good....until we actually had to produce a sale fro the asset at prevailing market value.
Banks are paid on their "excess" banking reserves...of which they got from the FED of which the FED chose to pay .25% of which no doubt they use to buy Treasuries, of which there is no incentive to lend, from which regulators have imposed higher levels of RESERVES to cover potential capital losses leaving less to actually lend, to wit the BANKS have RAISED lending standards to which few can pass, and add to all of that the DESIRE TO BORROW has waned greatly from the masses after decades of debt gourging.......and the topper is the ABILITY to borrow has been crippled by the drop in the average home valuation....good luck fixing all that.
SO as I had said yesterday, what passes for good news to rally these days ain't what it used to be either......a GDP that "BEAT ESTIMATES" and came in a pathetic 1.6% instead of 1.4% or LOWER.....HOORAHHHH? good luck bulls building a rally on that.
D
Friday, August 27, 2010
FRIDAY MARKET WRAP
1039 double bottom perhaps. stochastic overbought, Vix took a hit.....but IMHO it all means little to bigger picture, nothing more than reallocation from bonds (sold off) into equities....not much volume this time of year....just bigger guys duking it out....means little to me.
Market up....INTC lowers estimates, consumer confidence falls, GDP comes in a weak 1.6%.
But isn't it super that it didnt drop to 1.4% GDP? what passes for good news these days..... and remember folks what happened to 2.5% first estimate? why even bother...
We should have confidence in the FED, they will do what is needed....if its needed....even if what already done has not translated into a sustainable economy.....we should have faith and BUY STOCKS?
It wouldn't surprise me if Monday into next week turned this thing right back around.....a rally on nothing, less than nothing unless you are couting all the data that points to not only a slowing but an outright punkish environment.....I ask you, if they had real answers.....wouldn;t they already be doing SOMETHING?
Well....why do something now...after saying we were alright...and look panicked....is this a screwed up situation or what?
Lots of reading to do....try to post this weekend, do come back.
Duratek
Todays Action
1039-1061 range....watching for breakout
Short term bottom for yields?
Short term bottom for yields?INTC warns, GDP fall to near minimal growth, consumer sentiment falls again.....= 100 pt rally.....= oversold........players playing by themselves...
D
SICK JUSTICE?
Stock futures pop after GDP revision (from CNN)
Aug 27 8:44am:
U.S. stock futures popped Friday as investors digested a better-than-expected downward revision of second-quarter economic growth.
IS it just me? DO you find the sickness in "REJOICING" ina betternthan expected ugly DOWNWARD REVISION??!!!! That we didn't have 3%....no we didn't even have 2.4% growth....MAYBE we had (2nd revision....why even have the fing #?) 1.6% growth?????????
WELL THANK HEAVEN we didn't have 1.4% !! whoopie! buyer beware
Money base DEAD since MAY
D....see ya'll late...I'm going to eat some glass....
Aug 27 8:44am:
U.S. stock futures popped Friday as investors digested a better-than-expected downward revision of second-quarter economic growth.
IS it just me? DO you find the sickness in "REJOICING" ina betternthan expected ugly DOWNWARD REVISION??!!!! That we didn't have 3%....no we didn't even have 2.4% growth....MAYBE we had (2nd revision....why even have the fing #?) 1.6% growth?????????
WELL THANK HEAVEN we didn't have 1.4% !! whoopie! buyer beware
Money base DEAD since MAY
D....see ya'll late...I'm going to eat some glass....
Thursday, August 26, 2010
TROUBLE AT RENKO RANCH
**late night add on....1 in 10 homeowners have made at least one late payment..june data. High end meaning NEW homes above $750K last 2 months near NON EXISTANT....this is scarey shit folks (existing homes some did)
2 red bars in bull mkt no big deal, 2 red bars in a continuing bear market may be another technical sign of trouble. CCI topped out, MACD not yet crossed. Price BELOW 13 Week Moving AVG on my chart on a close IMHO would not be very good at all...near SPX 1000.
For now, looking at volume, demand for stocks is not there....selling has not been intense during recent spill.....the buyers have dissapeared....
..and until they come back....common sense adding long positions could bring some pain.
FOLLOW the trend, don;t pick it.....the trend is? RIGHT.....you longs IMHO should be patient and cautious.
D
AN OMEN
"HINDENBURG OMEN SPOOKS MARKET" I'm not much for exotic technical analysis, and when it hits the front pages of YAHOO, I'm even less impressed.
If I was a bullish sort thinking of all the possible reasons to buy and hold stocks, I would be at a loss for finding a good reason to do so.....even with 2.4% 10 yr rates! now that is rather scarey....and more and MORE people NEED some return....it is OBVIOUS to me these low rates are hurting more than its helping......lowest mortgage rates in history.....sales near the same.....conservative Americans royally screwed....they do spend the interest many have forgotten...but now there isnt any.
GDP tomorrow will be putrid IMHO.
D
If I was a bullish sort thinking of all the possible reasons to buy and hold stocks, I would be at a loss for finding a good reason to do so.....even with 2.4% 10 yr rates! now that is rather scarey....and more and MORE people NEED some return....it is OBVIOUS to me these low rates are hurting more than its helping......lowest mortgage rates in history.....sales near the same.....conservative Americans royally screwed....they do spend the interest many have forgotten...but now there isnt any.
GDP tomorrow will be putrid IMHO.
D
MORE THINGS THE SAME
It always amazes me how MSM like to make mountains out of molehills, a 31,000 drop in claims and look at futures rock. But 4 wk moving average still rose by 3,000.
At this point in recovery? we should be well under 400,000, how is 475,000 claims good?...less bad.
The deleveraging is just in its infancy where I read just to get back to the norm we have some
$6 - 7 Trillion of debt to go.....we may be at the head of a new SECULAR trend of less spending, more saving and little job creation.....that doesn't spell a rockin stock market to me.
Nikkei under 9,000 again
D
At this point in recovery? we should be well under 400,000, how is 475,000 claims good?...less bad.
The deleveraging is just in its infancy where I read just to get back to the norm we have some
$6 - 7 Trillion of debt to go.....we may be at the head of a new SECULAR trend of less spending, more saving and little job creation.....that doesn't spell a rockin stock market to me.
Nikkei under 9,000 again
D
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
GAG REFLEX
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. – "President Barack Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office and visit troops at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Tuesday to mark the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq."
Make sure you remind them big O you sent them all to Afghan....let the applause die down first....forget to tell them how many you will LEAVE in IRAQ for like forever....
WOW, what a finish to todays stock market, all of MSM is cheering..."DOW HOLD 10,000" (like that means anything anymore!) "Dow reverses earlier losses" or love this one from the worthless street.com "After the Bell: Stocks Recover on Bargain Hunting" (what bleepin bargains! you morons)
How about this one from me "DOW HAS GONE NOWHERE IN TEN YEARS!" or "DOW HAS NOT RALLIED FROM 2009 LOWS IN TERMS OF REAL MONEY" or "YOU CAN'T SPEND YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT OR TO PROSPERITY"
or "WE'RE NOT AS STUPID AS WE LOOK......stop lying to us"
D
Make sure you remind them big O you sent them all to Afghan....let the applause die down first....forget to tell them how many you will LEAVE in IRAQ for like forever....
WOW, what a finish to todays stock market, all of MSM is cheering..."DOW HOLD 10,000" (like that means anything anymore!) "Dow reverses earlier losses" or love this one from the worthless street.com "After the Bell: Stocks Recover on Bargain Hunting" (what bleepin bargains! you morons)
How about this one from me "DOW HAS GONE NOWHERE IN TEN YEARS!" or "DOW HAS NOT RALLIED FROM 2009 LOWS IN TERMS OF REAL MONEY" or "YOU CAN'T SPEND YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT OR TO PROSPERITY"
or "WE'RE NOT AS STUPID AS WE LOOK......stop lying to us"
D
A story about no one or anyone (OT)
Self loathing, self centered, sociapathic bastard...that about sums up the personality and life of self gratuity of the main character of this story.
And life isn't about the enjoyment you get being around others, sharing and giving, it's about what HE can get out of it....because HE isn't giving anything to anybody, unless maybe it has 4 legs of which if it can't reproduce and become a champion breed, you stay locked up in the kennels.
I don't know what happens to a person to become this way, void of almost any human emotion....and I don't care. Many people experience hardships and mistreatment in childhood and become good people, look at Michael Oher.
Quiet, nice man to those unschooled in his ways of mistreatment give an outward different impression to many, those in the know have a much different opinion from their interaction with the wooden man.
To become involved in others lives one must be able to listen and care, and as always actions speak louder than words, HE has neither.
SO destined to live out what time is remaining in solitude of sorts, with his distorted view of the world and his place in it. Given many opportunities to change and grow, the choice has been made to continue in a life that gratifies or tries to only one person, himself.
As the lights dim on a quiet life, uninspired, not affecting many....in a positive way.....it will get even more quiet when the light flicker out, and when one doesn't leave his mark in life, one is quickly forgotten.
Duratek
And life isn't about the enjoyment you get being around others, sharing and giving, it's about what HE can get out of it....because HE isn't giving anything to anybody, unless maybe it has 4 legs of which if it can't reproduce and become a champion breed, you stay locked up in the kennels.
I don't know what happens to a person to become this way, void of almost any human emotion....and I don't care. Many people experience hardships and mistreatment in childhood and become good people, look at Michael Oher.
Quiet, nice man to those unschooled in his ways of mistreatment give an outward different impression to many, those in the know have a much different opinion from their interaction with the wooden man.
To become involved in others lives one must be able to listen and care, and as always actions speak louder than words, HE has neither.
SO destined to live out what time is remaining in solitude of sorts, with his distorted view of the world and his place in it. Given many opportunities to change and grow, the choice has been made to continue in a life that gratifies or tries to only one person, himself.
As the lights dim on a quiet life, uninspired, not affecting many....in a positive way.....it will get even more quiet when the light flicker out, and when one doesn't leave his mark in life, one is quickly forgotten.
Duratek
PATTERN OF DECLINE
Until broken, lower highs and lower lows shown. If NEW trend develops we'll see it.
D
Headlines
Recovery in Danger as Firms, Homebuyers Cut Back- AP (yahoofinance.com)
The economic recovery appears to be stalling as companies cut back last month on their investments in equipment and machines and Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in decades.
But wallstreet journal says ("case for economic optimism)
Investment in equipment and software is strong (HUH????????), as is the outlook for exports.
The economic recovery appears to be stalling as companies cut back last month on their investments in equipment and machines and Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in decades.
But wallstreet journal says ("case for economic optimism)
Investment in equipment and software is strong (HUH????????), as is the outlook for exports.
STOCKS BREAK DOWN
50/200 in Bear cross mode, it's up to bulls to show they can rally long enough to bend these MA'S back up or both will begin to decline. When the 200 does the decline will probably pick up pace.
BOONE PICKENS N CNBC pushing his rediculous NAT GAS energy plan, what a good somaritan....isn't he big in nat gas? GEE what will happen to NAT GAS price is NAT GAS demand risies substantially? great solution BOONE! not
We already HAVE what we need! hybrids, clean burning high milage DIESELS!!!! just a switch to diesel by good % will bring down demand for oil dramatically.
**breaking data (free at link briefing.com)
Durable goods EX transports FALLS BIG 3.8% !! experts looking for .5% gain (why listen to analysts?) futures took a hit after the data.
Data continues to weaken, no proof economic recovery is sustainable....10 yr falls below 2.5% !!!
2 yr is under .47% !! return of your money is about all you can hope for.
I can be bullish stocks, in the right environment, at the right price, I think this is neither. Near record visits to my blog yesterday.....this is mostly word of mouth....welcome to any new readers....hope you find some value here and we keep growing in number....like an audience at a concert.....can feed off of that but I would do it for one.
Lots of stock writers using data going back to when it might have meant something, all the new rules passed since 2000, the uptick rules suspension....causing 23 90% volume days since APRIL!!! this is madness.....little by little the avg Joe has had enough. And with FED policy at 0% int rates JUST to prop up banks...its helping no one else....and leaving soured avg joe much less that avg returns if risk is whathe doesn't want, if saving is what he wants....savers getting hosed down reall good.....
GOV and FED policy is abject failure.....no alternative policies on the horizon folks
D
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
FALSE DAWN
•Total home sales fell 27.2% from 5.260 mln in June to 3.830 mln in July.
10 yrs fell to 2.5%........
SPX has fallen BELOW the 1063 support level I drew....I am out soon, my band has evening gig downtown, might post chart later tonight.
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10 yrs fell to 2.5%........
SPX has fallen BELOW the 1063 support level I drew....I am out soon, my band has evening gig downtown, might post chart later tonight.
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NOT A SIGN OF STRENGTH
I'd almost have to agree BOND BUBBLE, BUT.......it is fear not greed chasing BILLIONS into the bond funds....it a WEAK ECONOMY worldwide that has many seeking yields......and the stock market doesn't yet agree with the much larger vote being cast in the bond markets....but I think it will....in due time.
D
HOME HOME ON THE RANGE
You see the housing recovery? You see the LIMP stats "outside" shaded Recession area?
Chew on this: Apps for new home purchase declined 38% over last year (was already putrid),
people poking around new home developments and recent conf board surveys showed near historic lows of pessimism. The survey also asks Americans if they "expect to buy a home" there wasn't much response.....they should have asked again.
ALL this is ocurring with 30 yr rates below 5% !! AYKM!!! To get your ass in a new homoe you might have to actually qualify and would need some kind of DOWN PAYMENT...imagine that.
With the rate of home ownership still above historic norms....expect pressure in the housing industry to continue.....and if you add the under and unemployed.....a BOAT LOAD OF PEEPS have been taking OUT of the potential buyer stream.
And you know.....who is afraid that rates will jump up quickly? WHO is afraid prices will begin to rise all of a sudden? what does this mentality sound like? DEFLATION SPEAK!
I have a friend I spoke with yesterday, young man, doing well with Fidelity, one child 5 another on way, he's in townhome, has been eyeing a development for a step up.
20 homes mostly vacant, many in banks hands short or foreclosed.....they did average around $520,000.....after several MARK DOWNS....maybe $450K now......but he's not so jiggy just yet....as he expects prices to fall some more.....he feels he has got time...plenty of time.....prices will fall some more....UGLY LOOP....DEFLATION.
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Japans Woes continue
NIKK back below 9,000, off 14% this year.....stronger YEN hurting their exports.....deflation is there like a shadow.
More later
More later
Monday, August 23, 2010
Reference previous SPX chart
1063 low next level to watch for support.
I think the market is setting up for some kind of rally, unless selling volume comes into market, this time of year however low volume is the norm....with MANY individual investors exiting because of lack of returns over last 10 years....storming into bonds.
That said, IMHO we have a traders, a pros market....so if you are trading...you better be good.
Many pros laughed as some poured into junior miners and commodities during and after 2000 bear market....only to see those who did hit the JACKPOT!.....I think in a lot of ways, easy money has been made....
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I think the market is setting up for some kind of rally, unless selling volume comes into market, this time of year however low volume is the norm....with MANY individual investors exiting because of lack of returns over last 10 years....storming into bonds.
That said, IMHO we have a traders, a pros market....so if you are trading...you better be good.
Many pros laughed as some poured into junior miners and commodities during and after 2000 bear market....only to see those who did hit the JACKPOT!.....I think in a lot of ways, easy money has been made....
D
JAPAN'S SAD TALE OF DEFLATION WOES
20 YEARS FIGHTING DEFLATION, BATTLE LOST AND FEW TOOLS REMAIN....and it was caused by Real Estate and Financial bubbles....sound familiar?
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DEFLATION vs INFLATION DEBATE
from Karl Denninger site "you can't have inflation without rising wages....." in other words how can you sustain rising prices, inflation w/o having people able to afford to pay for them?
We have collapsing values, the one most people watch is the stock market and THEY are doing all they can to keep IT from collapsing.
Home values have collapsed, not re-inflated, Bond yields have collapsed and show no signs of inflation.
WE have excess capacity.
Where many are looking, FIAT created, is not causing inflation (as yet) because it sits as excess reserves. REAL money gets into system when a loan is made…..banks not doing much of that
My 2 cents
Duratek
We have collapsing values, the one most people watch is the stock market and THEY are doing all they can to keep IT from collapsing.
Home values have collapsed, not re-inflated, Bond yields have collapsed and show no signs of inflation.
WE have excess capacity.
Where many are looking, FIAT created, is not causing inflation (as yet) because it sits as excess reserves. REAL money gets into system when a loan is made…..banks not doing much of that
My 2 cents
Duratek
WAR AND LIBERTY
TALES FROM THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER
" The Founding Fathers would not agree and would be horrified if they returned to America today. They saw clearly that foreign entanglements would bring about the death of the Republic and granted only to Congress the power to declare war. In spite of that, however, the United States has sent its soldiers into combat situations more than seventy times since the defeat of Japan in 1945, all without a declaration of war by Congress, and the president has acquired pretty much a free hand to initiate military action."
Thought provoking essay, agree or disagree.
D
" The Founding Fathers would not agree and would be horrified if they returned to America today. They saw clearly that foreign entanglements would bring about the death of the Republic and granted only to Congress the power to declare war. In spite of that, however, the United States has sent its soldiers into combat situations more than seventy times since the defeat of Japan in 1945, all without a declaration of war by Congress, and the president has acquired pretty much a free hand to initiate military action."
Thought provoking essay, agree or disagree.
D
MONDAY AM SPX CHART SET UP
Another Monday rally setup, it seems gross majority of Mondays begin as rally days, especially when no data.
I hope you read weekend Doug Noland I posted. VERY good backdrop to the fundamental issues that may plague us for years.....yes appears system WAS stabilized....as Mauldin s fond of saying we got a "muddle" kind of recovery......but every time the FED takes the easy way out, somethnig WORSE takes shape than the previous pain....of which they apply the same and ever increasing amounts of elixr....to where it goes they have no control.
It is obvious to me, FED policy has LITTLE effect on the housing market......but look at the bond market GO!
ISn't the most important aspect of our economy the sovereignty of government debt? That my friends with profligate government spending.....is very much at risk
D
Sunday, August 22, 2010
THE BIGGEST AND MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL
credit bubble report weekend read
"Push the inflation/deflation debate to the backburner. The critical issue these days is whether global debt markets have succumbed to Bubble Dynamics. Are investors and speculators, once again, participating in a historic bout of (Hyman Minsky) “Ponzi Finance”? Is flawed policymaking fomenting yet another dangerous speculative Bubble and period of deepening economic maladjustment? Are central bankers and markets accommodating history’s greatest expansion/inflation of non-productive government debt?"
I wonder, as I usually do when I post, do people really want to read what I write and post....it's not uplifting reading. Why do I read the endless stream of depressing articles I do? Because someone has to, because I want to know the truth, I want to TRY to understand and then I want to share and try to help others.
My goal is not to depress anyone, does it do any good to act like everything is great when IMHO it really isnt?
The markets, economy and related are like the most complicated puzzle, and so I am one of those wierdos who "enjoy" trying to unravlel its secrets.
On the way in my approx 20 years of study, I have met the best teachers, experts and columns to help guide me....Richard Russel, Jim Puplava, Daily Reckoning, KD, Zero Hedge, Prudent Bear Credit Bubble report, Lowry's subscription service for PURE market data, 20 years of technical analysis study, Elliot Wave Theory, and countless articles written by many intelligent writers including Adam HAmilton and Martin Armstrong.
The path to knlwoledge is different for everyone, but there is no fast, or easy way to get there.....but is available to anyone willing to seek it.....and whatever conclusion one comes to,,,,doesn't have to agree with anyone else...and you wil own it.
Duratek
"Push the inflation/deflation debate to the backburner. The critical issue these days is whether global debt markets have succumbed to Bubble Dynamics. Are investors and speculators, once again, participating in a historic bout of (Hyman Minsky) “Ponzi Finance”? Is flawed policymaking fomenting yet another dangerous speculative Bubble and period of deepening economic maladjustment? Are central bankers and markets accommodating history’s greatest expansion/inflation of non-productive government debt?"
I wonder, as I usually do when I post, do people really want to read what I write and post....it's not uplifting reading. Why do I read the endless stream of depressing articles I do? Because someone has to, because I want to know the truth, I want to TRY to understand and then I want to share and try to help others.
My goal is not to depress anyone, does it do any good to act like everything is great when IMHO it really isnt?
The markets, economy and related are like the most complicated puzzle, and so I am one of those wierdos who "enjoy" trying to unravlel its secrets.
On the way in my approx 20 years of study, I have met the best teachers, experts and columns to help guide me....Richard Russel, Jim Puplava, Daily Reckoning, KD, Zero Hedge, Prudent Bear Credit Bubble report, Lowry's subscription service for PURE market data, 20 years of technical analysis study, Elliot Wave Theory, and countless articles written by many intelligent writers including Adam HAmilton and Martin Armstrong.
The path to knlwoledge is different for everyone, but there is no fast, or easy way to get there.....but is available to anyone willing to seek it.....and whatever conclusion one comes to,,,,doesn't have to agree with anyone else...and you wil own it.
Duratek
DEFLATION.....YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND, CAN'T Happen HERE?
Some MONSTER RALLIES...but in the end for 20 years the SECULAR TREND was deflating asset prices, to this day Japan has NOT been able to escape velocity the dog of deflation biting its ass. The images are eerily similar, though most experts say it wont happen here, its different this time...and we have RESERVE CURRENCY.
I can't stress enough the need to be LIQUID and OUT OF DEBT during these tough economic times. I don't want bonds at these prices, even if I have NO alternative. At some point the bond market will EXPLODE and so many crammed in there for saefty and yield, but 2.5% for 10 years to me is like NOTHING, I'll take my chances staying liquid.
REcord need to finace debt PLUS record LOWS On yield, has me worried of a bond bull trap......certainly yields can go even lower before they POP!
Stay thirsty my friend, stay liquid, be on guard. Most indexes have fallen back below their 50 and 200 MA'S.....23 90% volume days since APril, majority were downers, sorry that doesn't sound like any BUll Mkt I want anything to do with.
Duratek
Saturday, August 21, 2010
WHAT LOST MOMENTUM
"if the economy had any, I must have missed while pulling weeds from my garden...." Caroline Baum Bloomberg
FIBS AND MORE WEEKEND WRAP
AT 1217 high, very close to the .618 fib #. ALSO wedge forming and possible head and shoulders also (dashed lines and arrows).
You know anyone alive during 1930's? 70 plus year cycles do exist, one of EXPANSION....eventually leads to ONE OF CONTRACTION.
A BREAK of lower dashed line IMHO would again be ominous sign of BEAR REIGNITING.
Many think FED policy and Bank Bailouts thwarted a financial meltdown and saved the world....these SAME (no bear no lehman GS competitors....) banks are now even BIGGER....have even MORE control....you see any evidence of behind door goings on becoming more public? who owns what derivitives?
Thursday employment report backing up to 500K claims and 4 wk at 478K....how is ANYONE to come away feeling good about that? GDP revision again next week, most figure this massaged # to drop below 2%.......if in "RECOVERY" why don't the data support that?
Growth can be traced 100% to gov stimulus....there are no 2 feet here standing.....just 2 smart hands foisting bad debt onto the public, and stocks to weak hands....the perverbial BAG HOLDERS....don;t be one of them.
There have been 23 90% volume days since last APRIL!!!! 14 have been downers, 9 uppers....last 2 were down volume days...unprescedented....more down volume days than up in a bull market????
Up days continue pattern which began shortly after 2009 bottom of rally days on low volume and decline days on rising volume....hardly a bullish sign IMHO.
SO I don't buy into MSM calls for "birth of new bull mkt" as I dont see technical and I sure don't see normal economic expansionary data and consumer confidence as one would expect....I can only conclude we are in the grasp of a long term bear market interupted by periodic rallies, when concluded could lead to new lows.....so I suspect March 2009 lows will get tested.
2 years of unemployment benefits....then millions run out, and give up...unemployment stats kept by government are erronius at best, fraudulent at worst.
Interest near historic lows, amount of stimulus already applied, and the health of the $ are all at odds as to what is left in the tool shed to avert disaster....FED rates at 0% already.
Secular trend has baby boomers wanting to unload larger homes, can't do that in this environment......young people are wondering about how smart it is to OWN a home.......others can't get approved, stricter standards for sure. ANother group wants to refi.....but huge number of them cannot because of lowered home values.
Trend is more to save (rate up to 5-6% from zero) maybe back to historical NORM of 10%.
Bear Market bottoms of substance usually see SPX dividend yields avg 6% or better and single digit PE ratios......will that happen again?
We cannot SEE the future, it is hard enough to see the now the trees in the forrest....but we can see the past and hopefully gain some knowledge and raise the odds of doing somethng right VS doing somethng wrong.
Can you live off of Money MKT returns of near 0%? How about holding 10 yr notes for 2.5%? $2,500 TAXABLE income per $100,000.......
Are the 8 MILLIONplus out of jobs since 2007 contributing to 401k'S? How is that mutual fund cash levels looking? 70% of volume churning from HFT black boxes......becoming harder and harder to distinguish reality from fantasy....my spidey senses are on full alert
Duratek
STEP BACK. LOOK AT S&P MONTHLY FROM 1980
Technical analysis for me is observation, patterns....probabilities. We can look at charts and not think of any news, earnings or Jim Cramer rants.....we just observe.
Last 30 YEARS no period looks like last 10 years. NOWHERE do we observe "MULTI YEAR" NEW LOWS on the chart....as we have above.
Nor do we see 2 highs spanning 7 years or so ending at near same level (DOUBLE TOP...) If MACD crosses down again, that would be evidence BEAR growling once again (if not already)
Recession declared OVER in media, not by gov BLS, not by economic data nor BOND YIELDS.
IMHO it is tread lightly, stay OUT of debt....own some gold......for me personally I choose not to be long stocks in general......from a technical standpoint, I guess one can always find a few to play....but I understand its play not to love.
D
Friday, August 20, 2010
GOLD SHARE PROXY
Could be double top but 2010 uptrend appears still intact......gold hasn't given much back from highs, not all paper shares performing alike.
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KING OF BIG BOX ELECTRONICS AND GADGETS
This chart has no opinion, TV commentary not needed. Previously the stock was in a healthy uptrend. A loss of 30% from the top we could argue the uptrend has been halted....WHY?Don't need to know, you wanna get long, then we look for early signs then sure fire uptrending charts....this isn't one.
I could offer opinion on why......If COnsumer was healthy and spending I could conjecture, this chart would NOT have broken down. It could be bottoming who knows.
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HEALTH OF US COMPANIES WHAT THEY SEEM?
"This new rule, proposed on August 17th by the two regulators (IASB and FASB), has shocked companies everywhere.
The change will make a lot of firms look wobblier: a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting firm, found that it would add about 58% to the average company’s interest-bearing debt.
Many companies are close to their maximum debt limits, and the new rules could push them over the edge. Small wonder they are howling.
Other companies will see their apparent return on capital plunge. Many firms will see their debt-to-equity ratio rise and their ability to borrow fall."
More detail here
The change will make a lot of firms look wobblier: a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting firm, found that it would add about 58% to the average company’s interest-bearing debt.
Many companies are close to their maximum debt limits, and the new rules could push them over the edge. Small wonder they are howling.
Other companies will see their apparent return on capital plunge. Many firms will see their debt-to-equity ratio rise and their ability to borrow fall."
More detail here
MEASURE OF FEAR
That's what the VIX does, it rises usually during selloffs, falls during rallies.....but during recent period of weakness it has been range bound.
We could be consolidating for move higher after WEAK PERIOD ends in sept/oct....would need a piece or 2 of POSITIVE news would be helpful.
D
MORE ON SLIPPERY SLOPE OF HOPE
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly half of the homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration's flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out.
A new report issued Friday by the Treasury Department said that approximately 630,000 people who had tried to get their monthly mortgage payments lowered through the effort have been cut loose through July. That's about 48 percent of the 1.3 million homeowners who had enrolled since March 2009. That is up from more than 40 percent through June. "
NO EASY FIX FOLKS
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A new report issued Friday by the Treasury Department said that approximately 630,000 people who had tried to get their monthly mortgage payments lowered through the effort have been cut loose through July. That's about 48 percent of the 1.3 million homeowners who had enrolled since March 2009. That is up from more than 40 percent through June. "
NO EASY FIX FOLKS
D
Thursday, August 19, 2010
THE NEW NORMAL V SHAPED RECOVERY
Stocks socked by economic trifecta
Aug 19 4:58pm:
Investors were hit with a triple whammy of bad economic news Thursday: manufacturing still stinks, more people are jobless and confidence in the future is less than hoped.
Aug 19 4:58pm:
Investors were hit with a triple whammy of bad economic news Thursday: manufacturing still stinks, more people are jobless and confidence in the future is less than hoped.
IS THE DOW STILL IN CYCLICAL BULL MARKET?
April was last HIGH for DOW, action now below both 50 and 200 SMA. Bond yields are beyond Recession looking......now diving towards lowest levels we've seen last FEB 2009....when stocks hit 6,600...food for thought.
Todays "employment" report was rather sad, sad looking, sad for those wanting to work.
Payroll taxes should be CUT IMMEDIATELY! LOW INTEREST LOANS SHOULD BE MADE TO SMALL BUSINESSES up to $500K...if you have a face, can at least show you are NOW breaking even and can service the loan and employ between 20-50 employees.
What will companies do if as it would appear, their bottom line is at risk with SLOWING sales and no way to raise prices, and costs rising?
WE have a job crisis, and others.....and I'm sorry I don't see the administration taking it seriously....high level action is needed.......and fast....and not the raise your taxes kind!
We are sinking into the pit of iniquity or which no certain return can be promised, not for a long time.
D
BREAKING ECONOMIC DATA
Unemployment claims come in at 500,000 ! 4 week moving avergae rises 8,000 to 482,000....some V SHAPED recovery folks.
And all the POOBAH'S have been claiming we're in recovery not REcession.......we're certainly NOT in Kansas anymore. Now watch the spin put in all this...corporate profits have been scorching...how bout that....
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And all the POOBAH'S have been claiming we're in recovery not REcession.......we're certainly NOT in Kansas anymore. Now watch the spin put in all this...corporate profits have been scorching...how bout that....
D
THE GUNS OF AUGUST
Lowering the flag on the American Century by Chalmers Johnson
"Where exactly are we, as we continue to garrison much of the globe even as our country finds itself incapable of paying for basic services?"
Take a moment, think about the last 3 years, look around.....try to think of where we are NOW......are we headed in the right direction? What if the US pulled in its horns and instead of being the worlds policeman, we poured that money and invested it back into ourselves? Why is it that our government feels the way to world power is through military power? even as we DECLINE soically? economically and have taken such actions as to fan the fire which is CHINESE POWER? People say.." This is made in China?....I don't want it......" Then in my case I have to tell them that ALL the US manufacturers have plants in CHina or similar and don't make entry level products anymore......but if they want US made....it will cost them 3X as much....they then put their flag down, fold it up and smile about all the cash their saving...BUY AMERICAN? in many cases no one can afford to do so.
I know you have heard Obama's CAR speech, drive the car, R's want keys back now economy is out of the ditch, blah blah....blame game and stump is all we get.....from either party.....there is NO VISION.....NO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE....just politics.
It has been said "let NO crisis go unused..." well instead of introducing REAL REFORM....banks got bigger, more power.....the American people even if paying attention think the adm actually did something......what a joke
Our economy has near ground to a halt, the ENGINE, the US CONSUMER is on the endangered list. Near 8 MILLION have lost jobs and MAYBE some have found LOWER paying or part time jobs. They have cut back on spending, and they dont have a NEW ENGINE to borrow from...like their HOMES during the END of the GREAT CREDIT BUBBLE.
If you paid $300,000 in 2006 for your home, that is now valued at $250,000 WHAT BANK will let you REFI at todays LOW LOW RATES?
Savers get near 0% returns, can't spend that! STocks below levels of 10 years ago....can't spend that.
When is the last time you saw an application for a credit card come in the mail?
The demand for stocks has waned, but for BONDS it has boomed.....am I the only one who finds this continuing rally from MArch 2009 a little puzzling? suspicious? ON PUTRID VOLUME?
2 years of FED policy of ZERO interest rates, lowest mortgage rates in HISTORY......and all we have done is enrich banks, and destroy savers.....and leave NO CHOICE FOR SAFE LOW RISK RETURNS.....great plan!
I am sorry to tell you IMHO we are in the EARLY STAGES (denial?) of the aftermath of the exploding historic credit bubble.....and its collapse has left deflating values and ruin in its path.
Businesses face uncertainty with government policy health care and taxation, State and local governments are forced to CUT back.............in an HISTORICL CONTEXT we are witnessing one of the weakest recoveries from Recession n recorded history and how can anyone DENY even the jaded BLS data coming forth is showing a weakening diminishing economy?
ALmost all of the growth coming from government spending. Profits shown at financial institutions that are using change of GAO accounting urles to NOT HAVE TO show mortgages held at REAL VALUES...mark to market.....their profits which FEED the SPX 500 are mostly bogus.
Good luck in the new normal.....my only hope is that the new normal has you seeing things more for what they are,
Duratek
"Where exactly are we, as we continue to garrison much of the globe even as our country finds itself incapable of paying for basic services?"
Take a moment, think about the last 3 years, look around.....try to think of where we are NOW......are we headed in the right direction? What if the US pulled in its horns and instead of being the worlds policeman, we poured that money and invested it back into ourselves? Why is it that our government feels the way to world power is through military power? even as we DECLINE soically? economically and have taken such actions as to fan the fire which is CHINESE POWER? People say.." This is made in China?....I don't want it......" Then in my case I have to tell them that ALL the US manufacturers have plants in CHina or similar and don't make entry level products anymore......but if they want US made....it will cost them 3X as much....they then put their flag down, fold it up and smile about all the cash their saving...BUY AMERICAN? in many cases no one can afford to do so.
I know you have heard Obama's CAR speech, drive the car, R's want keys back now economy is out of the ditch, blah blah....blame game and stump is all we get.....from either party.....there is NO VISION.....NO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE....just politics.
It has been said "let NO crisis go unused..." well instead of introducing REAL REFORM....banks got bigger, more power.....the American people even if paying attention think the adm actually did something......what a joke
Our economy has near ground to a halt, the ENGINE, the US CONSUMER is on the endangered list. Near 8 MILLION have lost jobs and MAYBE some have found LOWER paying or part time jobs. They have cut back on spending, and they dont have a NEW ENGINE to borrow from...like their HOMES during the END of the GREAT CREDIT BUBBLE.
If you paid $300,000 in 2006 for your home, that is now valued at $250,000 WHAT BANK will let you REFI at todays LOW LOW RATES?
Savers get near 0% returns, can't spend that! STocks below levels of 10 years ago....can't spend that.
When is the last time you saw an application for a credit card come in the mail?
The demand for stocks has waned, but for BONDS it has boomed.....am I the only one who finds this continuing rally from MArch 2009 a little puzzling? suspicious? ON PUTRID VOLUME?
2 years of FED policy of ZERO interest rates, lowest mortgage rates in HISTORY......and all we have done is enrich banks, and destroy savers.....and leave NO CHOICE FOR SAFE LOW RISK RETURNS.....great plan!
I am sorry to tell you IMHO we are in the EARLY STAGES (denial?) of the aftermath of the exploding historic credit bubble.....and its collapse has left deflating values and ruin in its path.
Businesses face uncertainty with government policy health care and taxation, State and local governments are forced to CUT back.............in an HISTORICL CONTEXT we are witnessing one of the weakest recoveries from Recession n recorded history and how can anyone DENY even the jaded BLS data coming forth is showing a weakening diminishing economy?
ALmost all of the growth coming from government spending. Profits shown at financial institutions that are using change of GAO accounting urles to NOT HAVE TO show mortgages held at REAL VALUES...mark to market.....their profits which FEED the SPX 500 are mostly bogus.
Good luck in the new normal.....my only hope is that the new normal has you seeing things more for what they are,
Duratek
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
HOW IS THIS IDIOT STILL IN OFFICE OF ANY KIND?
2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be abolished rather than reformed as part of the Obama administration's planned overhaul of the government's role in housing finance, Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services committee, said on Tuesday.
"They should be abolished," Frank said in an interview on Fox Business, when asked whether the mortgage giants should be elements in housing market reform. "They only question is what do you put in their place," Frank said.
BUT WHAT ABOUT GAY LOVE CONNECTION?
2008
Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection
Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be abolished rather than reformed as part of the Obama administration's planned overhaul of the government's role in housing finance, Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services committee, said on Tuesday.
"They should be abolished," Frank said in an interview on Fox Business, when asked whether the mortgage giants should be elements in housing market reform. "They only question is what do you put in their place," Frank said.
BUT WHAT ABOUT GAY LOVE CONNECTION?
2008
Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection
Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive.
DISHONERABLE RECORD
Total Credit MArket Debt as % of GDP
Chart courtesy of ritholtz visa vi tcw
Historic debt levels
STill another look
It is hotly speculated and talked about how much CASH corporations are sitting on, but why is it that the FACT corporations are also SADDLED with record DEBT ($7T vs $2.6T cash) is never mentioned?
EWT alerts that at record low yields in 2009 Bond bulls were 99%, current reading is 98%.
OK, the chart above is suggesting to me that we have BARELY begun to deal with the debt bubble and that once a record historic credit expansion ends....as did in 1930, that ratio shown falls back to NORMAL historic levels....an historic HIGH is UNSUSTAINABLE.
IN 1929 the ratio was near 265%. SO even now more than year after the PRICK of the bubble we are near 370% ! This is as current as I could find. ATTEMPTS to reflate or send this game into "extra innings" will be futile....and maybe make matters even worse.
Our deficits show NO sign of slowing near $1.8 T a year!!! Accumulated US debt near $14 Trillion. UNFUNDED US liabilities said to be near $50 Trillion (or more?).....yet 10 yr bonds yield 2.6% ??? just above HISTORIC panic lows....good luck with that.
D
Chart courtesy of ritholtz visa vi tcw Historic debt levels
STill another look
It is hotly speculated and talked about how much CASH corporations are sitting on, but why is it that the FACT corporations are also SADDLED with record DEBT ($7T vs $2.6T cash) is never mentioned?
EWT alerts that at record low yields in 2009 Bond bulls were 99%, current reading is 98%.
OK, the chart above is suggesting to me that we have BARELY begun to deal with the debt bubble and that once a record historic credit expansion ends....as did in 1930, that ratio shown falls back to NORMAL historic levels....an historic HIGH is UNSUSTAINABLE.
IN 1929 the ratio was near 265%. SO even now more than year after the PRICK of the bubble we are near 370% ! This is as current as I could find. ATTEMPTS to reflate or send this game into "extra innings" will be futile....and maybe make matters even worse.
Our deficits show NO sign of slowing near $1.8 T a year!!! Accumulated US debt near $14 Trillion. UNFUNDED US liabilities said to be near $50 Trillion (or more?).....yet 10 yr bonds yield 2.6% ??? just above HISTORIC panic lows....good luck with that.
D
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
MY FEARS ARE NOW "EASED" !
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Industrial production rose in July as manufacturing remained a key engine of the flagging economic recovery.
The Federal Reserve reports that output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities increased 1.0 percent last month. But it says June's results were revised to a loss of 0.1 percent, reflecting the economy's sluggishness.
Factory output grew by a robust 1.1 percent in July, helped by auto plants that kept operating when they normally shutter for summer renovations. Factories are the largest single component of industrial production.
The strong manufacturing growth should ease fears that the economy could begin to shrink again. The nation emerged a year ago from its deepest recession ??????since the Great Depression.
No official call yet! what a JOKE!
The Federal Reserve reports that output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities increased 1.0 percent last month. But it says June's results were revised to a loss of 0.1 percent, reflecting the economy's sluggishness.
Factory output grew by a robust 1.1 percent in July, helped by auto plants that kept operating when they normally shutter for summer renovations. Factories are the largest single component of industrial production.
The strong manufacturing growth should ease fears that the economy could begin to shrink again. The nation emerged a year ago from its deepest recession ??????since the Great Depression.
No official call yet! what a JOKE!
RECOVERY IS A METAPHOR FOR RECESSION
August NAHB Housing Market Index 13.0, worse than the 14.0 Briefing.com consensus and prior figure in July of 14.0.
Briefing.com data
Briefing.com data
Monday, August 16, 2010
YIELD TO ME
Here's the real breaking news, 10 yr bonds now yield a scant 2.57%. Sure the FED doesn't control interest rates (LONG TERM) DIRECTLY....they DO control SHORT TERM rates....but that pulls ALL rates down.
FEAR....is pushing swarms to safety of bonds......even as many warn its getting crowded. It would seem the potential exists, especially if stocks grow weak, for yields to push down evern further before they attempt to bottom and mount a counter trend move.
SO is all we can hope for from world govt's and bankers is a flood of paper currency is the FIX we all need? sounds like ZImbabwe strategy.
2 years we sit here at record low rates,, real problem is banks wont lend to ONLY the highest quality near 100% no risk customers. Those who could benefit from REFI'S WELL they DONT QUALIFY WITH SINKING HOME VALUES....of which may be stagnant or head down for years to come.
1980-2007 the longest recorded, strongest bull market in history. Bear markets usually last 30% of that time frame....we just getting started in the changes that may last some of our lifetimes.....unless printing money is the way to regain prosperity?
If banks aren't making money on loans, on trading profits, 0% savings accounts aren't attracting new money to the banks.
Houston we have a problem, and at some point, IMHO boy is the stock market ever going to reflect that. GOLD has been resilient...I just wonder about the paper gold when baby goes out window
D
FEAR....is pushing swarms to safety of bonds......even as many warn its getting crowded. It would seem the potential exists, especially if stocks grow weak, for yields to push down evern further before they attempt to bottom and mount a counter trend move.
SO is all we can hope for from world govt's and bankers is a flood of paper currency is the FIX we all need? sounds like ZImbabwe strategy.
2 years we sit here at record low rates,, real problem is banks wont lend to ONLY the highest quality near 100% no risk customers. Those who could benefit from REFI'S WELL they DONT QUALIFY WITH SINKING HOME VALUES....of which may be stagnant or head down for years to come.
1980-2007 the longest recorded, strongest bull market in history. Bear markets usually last 30% of that time frame....we just getting started in the changes that may last some of our lifetimes.....unless printing money is the way to regain prosperity?
If banks aren't making money on loans, on trading profits, 0% savings accounts aren't attracting new money to the banks.
Houston we have a problem, and at some point, IMHO boy is the stock market ever going to reflect that. GOLD has been resilient...I just wonder about the paper gold when baby goes out window
D
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Deflation TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Read complete Arstrong Essay here
Martin A Armstrongs thought provoking essay....from the hole. "we better find a BOULDER not a rock to hide under...."
We live in very complicated times, so it will take much effort to get some handle on what has happened and what MIGHT happen. Part of that effort comes from reading, especially pieces that make you think. You cannot afford to go ignorant into the night.
Armstrong says no REPEAT of 1929 style Depression, but he doesn't say road ahead will be easy, perhaps he suggests it might be paved with gold...
At near $14 TRILLION (with a "T") in debts, the US is head closer and closer to a yearly SHORTFALL of near $2 T !!! With the world economies weak, WHO will lend us our ever increasing borrowing needs? And you can see, the US will NEVER be able to pay off its debts.....we will be lucky to just pay the interest, which for now (THE RATE) is historically LOW.
Unemployment stress is comig from the local and state levels as they downsize to come in line with the tax and revenue stream....but don't expect your property taxes to come down....those getting HIKES in 2007 (3 yr phase in to 2010) will not see relief next tax asessment.
WHY LOW RATES HURTING NOT HELPING? No returns on savings, more are saving.
WHY LOW RATES DONT LEAD TO HUGE REFI BOOM? because unlike before, housing values NO longer SUPPORT increased valuations. SO Like a mirage of water to a man dying of thirst in the desert, MOST DO NOT QUALIFY because of loss of home equity BELOW THE ORIGINAL VALUE of the home....the LOW LOW RATES sit there teasing....but out of reach.
D
Martin A Armstrongs thought provoking essay....from the hole. "we better find a BOULDER not a rock to hide under...."
We live in very complicated times, so it will take much effort to get some handle on what has happened and what MIGHT happen. Part of that effort comes from reading, especially pieces that make you think. You cannot afford to go ignorant into the night.
Armstrong says no REPEAT of 1929 style Depression, but he doesn't say road ahead will be easy, perhaps he suggests it might be paved with gold...
At near $14 TRILLION (with a "T") in debts, the US is head closer and closer to a yearly SHORTFALL of near $2 T !!! With the world economies weak, WHO will lend us our ever increasing borrowing needs? And you can see, the US will NEVER be able to pay off its debts.....we will be lucky to just pay the interest, which for now (THE RATE) is historically LOW.
Unemployment stress is comig from the local and state levels as they downsize to come in line with the tax and revenue stream....but don't expect your property taxes to come down....those getting HIKES in 2007 (3 yr phase in to 2010) will not see relief next tax asessment.
WHY LOW RATES HURTING NOT HELPING? No returns on savings, more are saving.
WHY LOW RATES DONT LEAD TO HUGE REFI BOOM? because unlike before, housing values NO longer SUPPORT increased valuations. SO Like a mirage of water to a man dying of thirst in the desert, MOST DO NOT QUALIFY because of loss of home equity BELOW THE ORIGINAL VALUE of the home....the LOW LOW RATES sit there teasing....but out of reach.
D
Friday, August 13, 2010
Fed official calls low rates a `dangerous gamble'
Thomas Hoenig one voice of truth in a cadre of liars, read AP story here
Will be offering an extensive update sometime tomorrow, off for beer and bass.
D
Will be offering an extensive update sometime tomorrow, off for beer and bass.
D
CONSUMER SENTIMENT RISES MORE THAN EXPECTED?
AT 69.5 (blues line total) it is a rather WEAK number, hardly cause for joy! You can see in a TYPICAL recovery the reading should be 90 or above......
CPI rose because OIL rose, final sales weak.
D
TRIM TABS "FED INTERVENTIONS ARE POINTLESS"
Read it on zerohedge.com
Expect market to try and rally from uber selloff 97% down volume day....what market does will not change life on the street
D
Expect market to try and rally from uber selloff 97% down volume day....what market does will not change life on the street
D
Thursday, August 12, 2010
MARTIN ARMSTRONG
Interesting case, interesting writings
Not much of a snap back today from 97% downer.....see lower prices coming, if not now after some failed rally.
D
Not much of a snap back today from 97% downer.....see lower prices coming, if not now after some failed rally.
D
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
*Update alert....4 week moving average of claims VAULTS 14,000 to 472,000. weekly claims surprises to upside at 484,000.....export prices continue to FALL.
I am sorry to say a DEFLATIONARY one. That is obvious isn't it? So current FED strategy will not do any more than the previous FED strategy, and we still have the debts and mistakes of OTHERS foisted over to US without much to show for it.
What I think many don't understand is it IS different this time, we are not suffering from the classic Recessionary issues, but from those of a credit bubble cycle.....maybe last seen in 1930.
If you look closely to the data coming out, it really hasn't improved all that much from the period ending in early 2009, yet stocks are up 75% or so......which asset can now appreciate to support expanding consumer spending? Then how much more can the Gov be expected to do to stimulate with funds it doesn't have? This is not just a US phenom and I thnk is why the US $ may not be ripe for extinction just yet, will the Euro replace it? I don't think so just yet.
The race for yield has been on and AGAIN Bonds are outpacing most others in gains, but the yields are getting rather skimpy with the 10 yr dipping to 2.7% ......what seems like a very crowded trade just keeps getting more crowded....some say 1.5% yield within next year is possible....before that bull mkt ends.
SOme also reccomend looking at QUALITY CORPORATE BONDS as an option (consult your financial advisor).
In an up and down market that has gone nowhere in 10 years, allocation is key IMHO, NOT LTBH.......and we could be in for 10 years of corrective activity AFTER the bubble burst around 2007.....or longer
How much can the shorts be counted on at these levels to cover and support market? more likely these areas may attract more of their kind.
With little improvement in housing and employment, this close to the coming xmas season.....what outlook can retailers possibly have?
As many EXPERTS call this a recovery, NBER has not declared Recession over.....
You understand what can drive an economy, it's not the public sector....its the private sector. TOO MUCH IS IN LIMBO, TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY....about costs and taxes.
Investment in future business does not like uncertainty.
We must stop trying to create jobs with GOV spending and hiring and resuscitate small business.
Freddie and Fannie doing so good....they need another $2B from US.
The "recovery" has been unlike others in the past by this time, and it seems in almost any measure to be descelerating, and IMHO the chance corporate profits can continue to surprise upward are getting slimmer and slimmer.
Yesterday was another in a series of 90% down volume days, puncuated by some 90% upside days, but there have been more downside volume days and in a new bull mkt that seems rather odd....
D
I am sorry to say a DEFLATIONARY one. That is obvious isn't it? So current FED strategy will not do any more than the previous FED strategy, and we still have the debts and mistakes of OTHERS foisted over to US without much to show for it.
What I think many don't understand is it IS different this time, we are not suffering from the classic Recessionary issues, but from those of a credit bubble cycle.....maybe last seen in 1930.
If you look closely to the data coming out, it really hasn't improved all that much from the period ending in early 2009, yet stocks are up 75% or so......which asset can now appreciate to support expanding consumer spending? Then how much more can the Gov be expected to do to stimulate with funds it doesn't have? This is not just a US phenom and I thnk is why the US $ may not be ripe for extinction just yet, will the Euro replace it? I don't think so just yet.
The race for yield has been on and AGAIN Bonds are outpacing most others in gains, but the yields are getting rather skimpy with the 10 yr dipping to 2.7% ......what seems like a very crowded trade just keeps getting more crowded....some say 1.5% yield within next year is possible....before that bull mkt ends.
SOme also reccomend looking at QUALITY CORPORATE BONDS as an option (consult your financial advisor).
In an up and down market that has gone nowhere in 10 years, allocation is key IMHO, NOT LTBH.......and we could be in for 10 years of corrective activity AFTER the bubble burst around 2007.....or longer
How much can the shorts be counted on at these levels to cover and support market? more likely these areas may attract more of their kind.
With little improvement in housing and employment, this close to the coming xmas season.....what outlook can retailers possibly have?
As many EXPERTS call this a recovery, NBER has not declared Recession over.....
You understand what can drive an economy, it's not the public sector....its the private sector. TOO MUCH IS IN LIMBO, TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY....about costs and taxes.
Investment in future business does not like uncertainty.
We must stop trying to create jobs with GOV spending and hiring and resuscitate small business.
Freddie and Fannie doing so good....they need another $2B from US.
The "recovery" has been unlike others in the past by this time, and it seems in almost any measure to be descelerating, and IMHO the chance corporate profits can continue to surprise upward are getting slimmer and slimmer.
Yesterday was another in a series of 90% down volume days, puncuated by some 90% upside days, but there have been more downside volume days and in a new bull mkt that seems rather odd....
D
NO MIXED MESSAGE HERE
"Declines in new default notices, which were down on a year-over-year basis for the sixth straight month in July," he said, "have been offset by near-record levels of bank repossessions, which increased on a year-over-year basis for the eighth straight month."
A near record number of people lost their homes to mortgage payment problems in July. Lender repossessions amounted to 92,858 homes, the second highest monthly total ever behind the 93,777 recorded this May."
A near record number of people lost their homes to mortgage payment problems in July. Lender repossessions amounted to 92,858 homes, the second highest monthly total ever behind the 93,777 recorded this May."
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
UGLY DOWNER
Most likely another in ednless stream of 90% days, majority have been DOWN volume days....does that sound like bull mkt action?
1088 is being called out here and there by this dude or that one as big deal....so we got that low with a BIG RED BAR.
I think themin rally trend from June is broken, as I like to use trendlines and that one was broken as drawn. SPX has given back its 200 and now challanges the 50 again.
Under we could challenge 1056 then 1040 area, IMHO if 1040 gives a heave ho.....more evidence of bear lurking.
VIX rose but doesn't shout panic. But enough buying has been put down with putrid volume to be very suspect and might not offer much support on the down low.
Of course you can parse through all the stocks and find some that fare much better than others.....but if a double dip vision seems more and more likely......who is left to buy and put a bid on?
Lowest ever recorded bid on the 2 yr note.....what a mess!
Duratek....keeping it real and not falling asleep
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, DONT IT
Current administration and FED
GRAVITY of our situation (black hole)
GRAVITY of our situation (black hole)D
WHO CARES ABOUT FED ACTION?
Record low mortgage rates do little for demand- Reuters
...so lower them some bleepin more....buy them, print them and buy them yourselves...tell me how YOU are GURU of the great depression.....tell me how fing clueless you are ..BEN
Tell me how the stock market shows a V shaped recovery that never came... tell me why a 2.69%!! 10 year yield is bullish.... for crying out loud.....lost generation #2 coming up
D
...so lower them some bleepin more....buy them, print them and buy them yourselves...tell me how YOU are GURU of the great depression.....tell me how fing clueless you are ..BEN
Tell me how the stock market shows a V shaped recovery that never came... tell me why a 2.69%!! 10 year yield is bullish.... for crying out loud.....lost generation #2 coming up
D
RALLY TIME
IN the US $ and Bonds!
FED comes clean like a pick getting hosed down in a mud pen.
Yields signal severe economic contraction. Small BUsiness does not see blue skies (NFIB SURVEY)
WHY rag on the US $ when all fiat currencies are getting shredded? then there's the YEN. Slowing in China? can't they keep making stuff even as economies contract, consumer spending slows?
RECORD GOV and FED intervention, almost 3 years after crisis began in 2007......do you see the results? now they say...oooops, we dont see expansion....credit still contracting....but DO NOT WORRY WE GOT YOUR BACK!
I'm not worried at all.....
Futures ugly red (lets see if buyers step in late) NIKK down 3% overnight.....their 20 yr chart says it all folks....get used to it.
D
FED comes clean like a pick getting hosed down in a mud pen.
Yields signal severe economic contraction. Small BUsiness does not see blue skies (NFIB SURVEY)
WHY rag on the US $ when all fiat currencies are getting shredded? then there's the YEN. Slowing in China? can't they keep making stuff even as economies contract, consumer spending slows?
RECORD GOV and FED intervention, almost 3 years after crisis began in 2007......do you see the results? now they say...oooops, we dont see expansion....credit still contracting....but DO NOT WORRY WE GOT YOUR BACK!
I'm not worried at all.....
Futures ugly red (lets see if buyers step in late) NIKK down 3% overnight.....their 20 yr chart says it all folks....get used to it.
D
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
EXPLANATION "LIMITED HANGOUT"
FROM WICKPEDIA SITE MUST READ (puts FED disclosure today and Obama's and others statements on HEALTH of economy into perspective)
"A limited hangout is a public relations or propaganda technique that involves the release of previously hidden information in order to prevent a greater exposure of more important details. It takes the form of deception, misdirection, or coverup often associated with intelligence agencies involving a release or "mea culpa" type of confession of only part of a set of previously hidden sensitive information, that establishes credibility for the one releasing the information who by the very act of confession appears to be "coming clean" and acting with integrity; but in actuality, by withholding key facts, is protecting a deeper operation and those who could be exposed if the whole truth came out. In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones."
And should show you, cannot believe a WORD any gov office tells you.....or the DATA they spew out from BLS or BS or FU university....
ALL YOU NEED TO SEE link here
thanks to a friend for heads up
D
"A limited hangout is a public relations or propaganda technique that involves the release of previously hidden information in order to prevent a greater exposure of more important details. It takes the form of deception, misdirection, or coverup often associated with intelligence agencies involving a release or "mea culpa" type of confession of only part of a set of previously hidden sensitive information, that establishes credibility for the one releasing the information who by the very act of confession appears to be "coming clean" and acting with integrity; but in actuality, by withholding key facts, is protecting a deeper operation and those who could be exposed if the whole truth came out. In effect, if an array of offenses or misdeeds is suspected, this confession admits to a lesser offense while covering up the greater ones."
And should show you, cannot believe a WORD any gov office tells you.....or the DATA they spew out from BLS or BS or FU university....
ALL YOU NEED TO SEE link here
thanks to a friend for heads up
D
ALERT: FED RATE DECISION AND COMMENTS
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said it would begin funneling proceeds from its maturing mortgage bonds into longer-term government debt in an effort to support a sputtering economic recovery.
Just 2 months ago there was talk of how they would begin taking away stim and begin normalizing positions......
Obama "economy is strengthening minute by minute"
Decide if good or bad, more FED medicine....when some $2TRILLION etc etc didn't do job....they got our back, now take knife out...
Market will go thru several headfakes, but admitting how sour things are, when telling us constatly how they are improving....no CRED IMHO
D
Just 2 months ago there was talk of how they would begin taking away stim and begin normalizing positions......
Obama "economy is strengthening minute by minute"
Decide if good or bad, more FED medicine....when some $2TRILLION etc etc didn't do job....they got our back, now take knife out...
Market will go thru several headfakes, but admitting how sour things are, when telling us constatly how they are improving....no CRED IMHO
D
OWN 2 FEET?
BALTO AREA HOME SALES
Baltimore-area home sales fall in July
Fewer are buying in the absence of the homebuyer tax credit
Baltimore-area home sales fall in July
Fewer are buying in the absence of the homebuyer tax credit
ZEROS
Chinese market was off almost 3% overnight, seems like there is a slowing in their economy...what a surprise.
But don't worry here, FED meeting and rate decision today, and seeing as how everything the FED has already done has worked so well, surely stock bulls will be encouraged if they say they will do more....some suggest they just "add some ZEROS to bank reserves"
Keep in mind, now everyone is sure the $ is going to 0, and talk of deflation is commonplace......this sets up a contrarian rally in both( $ and Yields)
SO many taxes and costs, make it prohibitive for employers to ADD new employees.
Descelerating economy 100% addicted to gov stimulus, businesses not hiring, housing not reviving even in face of record low interest rates, possibility of tax increases, distinct change in Consumer behavior with savings rates rising, still have stock outflows and bond inflows (who is buying stocks and contributing to rally?)......we have a secular theme, we have STRUCTURAL problems that are NOT being dealt with.....with structural solutions....and the band played on.
*($ rallied overnight, oil fell back below $80)
D
But don't worry here, FED meeting and rate decision today, and seeing as how everything the FED has already done has worked so well, surely stock bulls will be encouraged if they say they will do more....some suggest they just "add some ZEROS to bank reserves"
Keep in mind, now everyone is sure the $ is going to 0, and talk of deflation is commonplace......this sets up a contrarian rally in both( $ and Yields)
SO many taxes and costs, make it prohibitive for employers to ADD new employees.
Descelerating economy 100% addicted to gov stimulus, businesses not hiring, housing not reviving even in face of record low interest rates, possibility of tax increases, distinct change in Consumer behavior with savings rates rising, still have stock outflows and bond inflows (who is buying stocks and contributing to rally?)......we have a secular theme, we have STRUCTURAL problems that are NOT being dealt with.....with structural solutions....and the band played on.
*($ rallied overnight, oil fell back below $80)
D
Monday, August 09, 2010
"DANGEROUSLY CLOSE"
Martenson thinks we’re “dangerously close” to entering a stage of ‘stagflation’ that crippled the economy and market in the 1970s. “That really squeezes the workers even harder than any other condition you can experience," he says, because wages are stagnant while the price of goods and services rises.
With both fiscal and monetary stimulus winding down, Martenson is convinced a double-dip recession is imminent, if not already under way: "The early data is saying, 'weakness still is here' and we’re going to have to live with this for a while,” he says.
Not everyone thinks we're good as gold.
D
With both fiscal and monetary stimulus winding down, Martenson is convinced a double-dip recession is imminent, if not already under way: "The early data is saying, 'weakness still is here' and we’re going to have to live with this for a while,” he says.
Not everyone thinks we're good as gold.
D
DRAMA
Tuesday is the FOMC interest rate decision day at 2:15 PM, usually markets are quiet ahead of that data. Futures point to a green open, I don't expect a lot of volume or volatility....markets sit on ST overbought condition.
Markets will try to confound as many as possible before taking them out. Diversified portfolios still the strategy of most financial advisors.
Lowest mortgage rates in history, many may try to refi...IF they have HOME EQUITY......is it like the man in the desert who thinks he sees a pool of water....but always just out of reach...
WHile we could argue for hours whether we are in a cyclical bull market or not, my argument remains were are in SECULAR BEAR MARKET maybe only half way through.
D
Markets will try to confound as many as possible before taking them out. Diversified portfolios still the strategy of most financial advisors.
Lowest mortgage rates in history, many may try to refi...IF they have HOME EQUITY......is it like the man in the desert who thinks he sees a pool of water....but always just out of reach...
WHile we could argue for hours whether we are in a cyclical bull market or not, my argument remains were are in SECULAR BEAR MARKET maybe only half way through.
D
Saturday, August 07, 2010
THE CONNECTABLES
Yes the dawn rises, the already sataurated housing market which hasn't responded to all the gimmicks and stimulus nor record low rates. There is the "SHADOW INVENTORY" the banks hold off the market like the Russians keeping diamonds in underground vaults to suppress supply and keep prices high....as Debeers raises their advertising budget....show her you LOVE HER.
And the demographics of baby boomers now just coming onto the scene, and many want to DOWNSIZE, just around the time prices have crashed and that NEW inventory will be met with a generational buyers market.....deflation of housing may be here for awhile...and our problems which are not being dealt with by those in power.....will not go away.
But the bankers are connected, you are not. There are so many to thank for FOISTING THEIR debts and BAD BETS on the PUBLIC.....I don't have enough space....I DO know not one single person has been brought to justice.....do you ever wonder why the major banks and finacials didn't have their top guys replaced?....an honest man put in place would uncover TOO MUCH...and they don't want you to know....too much
D
And the demographics of baby boomers now just coming onto the scene, and many want to DOWNSIZE, just around the time prices have crashed and that NEW inventory will be met with a generational buyers market.....deflation of housing may be here for awhile...and our problems which are not being dealt with by those in power.....will not go away.
But the bankers are connected, you are not. There are so many to thank for FOISTING THEIR debts and BAD BETS on the PUBLIC.....I don't have enough space....I DO know not one single person has been brought to justice.....do you ever wonder why the major banks and finacials didn't have their top guys replaced?....an honest man put in place would uncover TOO MUCH...and they don't want you to know....too much
D
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