Numbers are important to me. My whole life has been in the realm of numbers. And I know when numbers are being manipulated. I am your canary in the coal mine.
Do you really think that a steady 8%+ unemployment rate for many months just miraculously lost 0.3% points in September? Doesn't that strike you as a little too convenient?
Anyway, I showed you the numbers. I know people will ultimately believe what they want to. I stick to the facts, though, because a Romney Administration vs an Obama Administration would have very different impacts on both the stock market as a whole, as well as various investment sectors. So with my focus on the numbers, I'm able to see trends before most do and adjust my investments accordingly. Why do you think I invested so heavily in MBS (DBLTX) two years ago? I saw it coming. I knew the Fed was going to pump newly printed money into that area until they own most of it. It was a no-brainer for me, because I look at the deep numbers, not just want CNN tells me.
Now, I'm looking at something I never thought I'd look at. Gold. Under Obama, that's going to be a VERY good "investment" (I put it in quotes, because it's not really an investment, but rather a way to safeguard assets in an era of unprecedented currency devaluation). I think one thing is certain under Obama and Bernanke and it is that they will continue to print money, so gold will rise in value against the dollar. Under Romney, I think the likelihood is also high this will happen, though maybe to a lesser degree, if keeps his promise and does not re-appoint Bernanke.
Anyway, so as you can see, my true motivations for understanding the real metrics behind Unemployment is not so much political, as it is economic. I don't like the lies, not because I want Romney to be elected so badly, but because it tends to obscure what's really happening and I need to know what's really happening to make sure I make the right investments. This is why I can't stand Obama and Bernanke's policies. They've done their damnedest to destroy normal market functioning. So it becomes very difficult to evaluate investments on their true merits, which means risk in just about everything is off the charts high. |
