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Strategies & Market Trends : US Inflation and What To Do About It -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rarebird who wrote (1095)	8/30/2019 6:27:25 PM
From: John Vosilla	2 Recommendations Recommended By pak73 tntpal Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1504

Yes Clinton was way more fiscally responsible, not in favor of gay marriage,tougher on criminals, not in favor of tariffs, in favor of NAFTA. You confusing your hate of Trump, his persona ect. Being from NYC is ironic you are so appalled by him. Is part generational is part a NY attitude. Remember Trumps parents born 1905 and 1912 I believea and he was the youngest of their kids. His mother an immigrant came here when she was 20. In many ways he is a character from a far different time that Millenials can't relate to. I've been amazed how many women over 50 love the guy secretly. He reminds them of a father, uncle or grandfather when they were growing up who was a no nonsense disciplinarian who you knew exactly where he stood.. Was a good thing kept them and their siblings in line and out of trouble back in the day.. Jewish support of Trump only 22% MOL I hear? Is that much lower than Romney, McCain or GWB? Is sad because 20+ years ago we Catholics and Jews were so much more aligned politically. I can tell you overwhelming Catholics by a huge margin support this president now.. Refreshing to listen to a Wayne Allyn Root (NYC to LV) or Mark Levin versus all the Never Trumpers like Frum, Wilson, Stephens, Rubin, Kristol. At least I like so many others who never paid much attention BEFORE have come to understand what has been going on quietly for a long long time under the radar be it in academia, the media or Hollywood.. So many are on to the game now. I am more of a moderate, eclectic in my political views. I believe in single payer and free college tuition for families earning under 125K a year ( the NYS plan). But otherwise, I am all for free market economy. I certainly would not go around and tell business where to conduct their business. Not that far off from me. If I was to abandon free market it would be for health care.. Is a tough call something needs to be done.. College costs like most anything else goes sky high because of liberal policies....Do you know half of black college students default on their student loans anyway after 12 years?? Who pays?? A collapse in cost of health care or college could accelerate a deflationary spiral in conjunction with another housing crash we could never get out of.. So many tough decisions but Trump is not to blame for causing any of this IMHO. All the dogmatic Trumpies think that Trump has some magic plan to resolve or win the trade war. Fact is he is not winning, the losers are the American and Chinese consumers. Well US equity holders of financial assets, private companies and RE are still up $10T and China down $10T since Trump president. To me a good thing stock market has been going sideways the past 20 months. Averages have gotten way ahead of themselves and workers at the middle to lower end are gaining in disposable income for the first time in a generation.. If DOW averaged annual returns since 1981 Reagan in office (9% MOL) comparable to golden age from depression bottom 1933-68 (7.3% MOL) I calculated DOW should be around 15k so we are still 8 years ahead of ourselves. I like Clinton era when revenues and expenditures to GDP were in the 18-19% range or when Eisenhower was president was around 16-17% when we balanced budgets. Today we are 16% revenues and 21% expenditures obviously unsustainable long term.. Wish the tough choices made by Congress and President as we had three recessions under Ike (we survived was a great time) and obviously none under Clinton...Unfortunately none are up to it would be political suicide for anyone who did. GOP pushing growth and more growth get the labor force participation rate up in a very low rate environment. Like the consumer the government in a much better place if rates keep dropping and debt service payments easier to manage.. This will end badly but by then most all the permabears betting on this for most of the past 20+ years will be dead or living in a van by the river.. I look at what Trump is doing. What a refreshing change from Obama and GWB.. As to tariffs what about IP theft , counterfitting, hacking, the Chinese very cheap labor practices and pollutants with no oversight? (yes pulling out of Paris Accord another great move) Navarro would be a hero to the left if they had a president with the balls to do what Trump is doing. fortune.com

To: Rarebird who wrote (1095)	9/21/2019 11:11:32 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1504

Goldman Sachs Has Just Issued An Ominous Warning About Stock Market Chaos In October Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Are we about to see U.S. financial markets go crazy? That is what Goldman Sachs seems to think, and it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that great financial chaos has been unleashed during the month of October. When the stock market crashed in October 1929, it started the worst economic depression that we have ever witnessed. In October 1987, the largest single day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history rocked the entire planet. And the nightmarish events of October 2008 set the stage for a “Great Recession” that we still haven’t fully recovered from. So could it be possible that something similar may happen in October 2019? According to CNBC, Goldman Sachs is warning that the stock market could soon “go crazy again”… For investors taking a breather from the chaos in August, buckle up as the market is about to go crazy again, Goldman Sachs warned. Wall Street is now inches away from reclaiming its record highs, but a rockier ride could be around the corner as stock volatility has been 25% higher in October on average since 1928, according to Goldman. Big price swings have been seen in each major stock benchmark and sector in October over the past 30 years, with technology and health care being the most volatile groups, Goldman said. Goldman derivatives strategist John Marshall is the man behind this new warning, and he believes that there are some fundamental reasons why the month of October is often so volatile… “We believe high October volatility is more than just a coincidence,” John Marshall, equity derivatives strategist at Goldman, said in a note Friday. “We believe it is a critical period for many investors and companies that manage performance to calendar year-end.” And even though October hasn’t arrived yet, we are already starting to see some things that we haven’t witnessed since the last financial crisis. For example, the Federal Reserve had not intervened in the repo market since 2008, but this week the liquidity crunch was so bad that the Fed felt forced to conduct emergency overnight repurchase agreement operations on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. And then on Friday the Fed announced that it will continue to conduct emergency interventions “on a daily basis for the next three weeks”… The New York Federal Reserve Bank said Friday it will inject billions into the US financial plumbing on a daily basis for the next three weeks in an effort to prevent a spike in short-term interest rates. The Fed will offer up to $75 billion a day in repurchase agreements — exchanging secure assets for cash for very short periods — through October 10, it said in a statement. In addition, it will offer three 14-day “repo” operations of at least $30 billion each. In essence, the “plumbing” of our financial system has gotten all jammed up, and calling out Roto-Rooter is simply not going to get the job done. Of course Fed officials are trying to assure us that this is no big deal and that they have everything under control. But if all this is no big deal, why haven’t they had to conduct such emergency interventions for the last 11 years? And this comes at a time when the deterioration of the U.S. economy appears to be accelerating. In fact, on Friday St. Louis Fed President James Bullard publicly admitted that the U.S. manufacturing industry appears to already be in a recession… The US manufacturing sector “already appears in recession” and overall economic growth is expected to slow “in the near horizon,” St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank president James Bullard said on Friday, explaining why he dissented at a recent Fed meeting and wanted a deeper, half-percentage-point rate cut. That is a stunning admission, because normally Fed officials try very hard to maintain the narrative that everything is wonderful because they are doing such a great job of manipulating the economy. The American people as a whole are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the economy as well, and Gallup just released some very alarming numbers… Americans’ confidence in the economy has become less rosy this month as Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index fell to +17 from August’s +24 reading, marking the lowest level since the government shutdown ended in January. At the same time, the public is evenly divided over the likelihood of a recession in the next year. The current expectation of a recession is nine points higher than it was in October 2007, just two months before the Great Recession began but slightly below a February 2001 reading, one month before that eight-month-long recession. Every economic indicator that we have is telling us that big trouble is heading our way, but most Americans are partying instead of preparing. U.S. financial markets have never been more primed for a crash than they are at this moment, and so many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the last recession are happening again right now. Over the past few months, my wife and I have felt a sense of urgency unlike anything that we have ever felt before. You may have noticed a difference in our tone and in the types of stories that we have been sharing. Everything that we have been doing has been leading up to this. The time of “the perfect storm” is here, and most Americans won’t understand what is happening. The storm clouds are looming and disaster could strike at any time. This is one of the most critical times in the history of our nation, and most Americans are completely unprepared for what is going to happen next.