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That just means I can afford more shares! |
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This has been building up for some time. The world economy is completely rebalancing, and dealing with high debt and a credit crisis which Susan Strange saw coming way back in 1999. Where this will land is anybody’s guess, the distance between the best and worst cases scenarios is huge, and I doubt we’ll be close to the best case scenario. |
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Scott Erb
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I thought Erb had been arguing that it was just the decline of America. |
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JWG
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Since everyone leaches off the American marketplace, as America goes, so goes the world.
Anyway, the Feds just did an emergency 0.75% rate drop. Although I think it will help, in the next few days the market will be in some chaos regardless. |
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so far the DOW is just down 59...far better than the -500 they were predicting earlier. |
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Looks like a bit of a bloodbath, seeing as the Dow is currently down 450 points right now.
Would it be inappropriate to lay odds on Jim Cramer making it to the closing bell? |
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InebriatedArsonist
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The Fed bailed them out from a short term collapse. I still think the long term points to some difficult times ahead, especially for the US economy. With that kind of emergency rate cut, they might even end the day higher. |
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Scott Erb
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A speculation based economy is no way to live. |
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jpm100
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When the dust settles, we’ll be told that we have been in a recession for the last two quarters, the layoffs will increase, and unemployment will increase to 7%. It will be a bit worse than recent recessions because of the credit crunch and dollar spiral on top of the cyclical slowdown.
Good times to buy.
I think I agree with most of you on stimulus packages, while I’ll take the money, I think it’s impact on the economy will be negligible. The sad reality is that the best position to be in at the end of a growth cycle is to be in a fiscal surplus position to mitigate the deficit spending endemic to a slowdown, but sadly the conservatives were not conservative, and deficits will become bigger deficits.
When do you think we’ll learn to be responsible in good times?
I’m thinking never.
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Captin Sarcastic
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When do you think we’ll learn to be responsible in good times?
I’m thinking never. You’d probably be thinking right, there...not that it is the end of the Universe.
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Gosh, you mean the lack of government oversight when it comes to lending practices has had a bad effect?
Who could have guessed that would happen? |
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Gosh, you mean the lack of government oversight when it comes to lending practices has had a bad effect?
Who could have guessed that would happen? actually i would say that people applying for and accepting loans they knew they couldn’t pay had a bad effect.
But i suppose there are those out there that refuse to take personal responsibility for their own actions and will say "shame on the gov’t for letting me get a loan i can’t pay" |
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Gosh, you mean the lack of government oversight when it comes to lending practices has had a bad effect?
Who could have guessed that would happen?
Gosh you mean that Congress drawing and quartering lending institutions for their alleged racism ,might contribute to lenders making poor loans? Who could ahve guessed that would happen?
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I think I agree with most of you on stimulus packages, while I’ll take the money, I think it’s impact on the economy will be negligible
I actually think it will have a negative impact, especially if it’s just more borrowing. The dollar sinking, money we spend on our oil addiction coming back to bail out our banks and keep our equity markets reasonably strong (but at a price — equity and banks now have high levels of foreign ownership), US politicians not really addressing the problem...I tell ya, add some kind of unexpected event like a terror attack or turmoil in the Mideast beyond the norm, and instead of risking 70s like stagflation or Japanese like deflation, we may be looking at a global economic slowdown like the 30s. I still think we can avoid that, but the imbalances in the world economy have reached a point where they can’t be maintained, and weak oversight over credit markets is a primary cause.
I don’t think we’re there yet — the rate cut might spur enough spending/investment to keep things going, but we’re on increasingly weak ground. I don’t know who to trust to deal with this in the Presidential race. |
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Scott Erb
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Gosh, you mean the lack of government oversight when it comes to lending practices has had a bad effect? Yeah, because, GOSH! the government would never mishandle money, now would it?
You’ll piss your Fruit of the Looms over NSA Data Mining (not wiretapping), but
having a bunch of bureaucrats determine who should get a home loan and for how much is A-Ok with you?
The housing market is already beginning to correct itself. Any govt. intervention is simply going to prop up those who can’t afford their homes, while at the same suppressing willing buyers from taking advantage of a sluggish market.
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Dale,
I think you get a chance to show a little wisdom here. When I linked to you earlier today I noted you were right about bear market rallies, that in fact there were three rallies of more than 20% in the last downturn. Given the furious rally today, we now get to see if that pattern holds.
As a bear, I have a feeling you are right.
As for the stimulus package guys, I am very skeptical. On that I’ll just keep it short by just linking here, here,and here. |
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Lance
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