ECON FUNG ADVISORY: Markets Selling Off

bev

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Nortorious RBG is dead, Lolita Express full disclosure incoming, a third tropical storm impacting the gulf coast, a big volcano just went off bigly, downgraded domestic USA crop numbers, Europe's about to completely skip fall and go straight to winter... a lot of unpredictable stuff all hitting at once on a Monday morning.

Matt Drudge? Is that you?
 

Doomer Doug

TB Fanatic
This robbinhood stock trade app will end up totally destroying these day trader fools. A fool and his money are soon parted. It is really gambling and not investing at this point.
 

Redleg

Veteran Member
Paper gold and silver slammed. My coins in the safe weigh the same as they did a few hours ago. I know that you know the difference Doc, but a lot of people think that the quoted prices are the real thing even though you have to pay much more than that per ounce to actually get your hands on them.
My guns/ammo weigh the same as well. Better to have than gold/silver in my opinion.
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Was going to sell some extra PMs, guess I'll wait a bit longer... I'm no expert but we can probably assume major volatility from here on out... what do you guys think?

What would you sell them for? Unless you need to raise cash desperately with no other option you need to hold on to them. The U.S. in bankrupt and is just printing money to pay it's bills like a banana republic does. In inflation/deflation and hyperinflation the metals do very well. If you sell metal you sell them for dollars which are losing value daily. Yeah, they say that the dollar is 'strong' now compared to other currencies but they are all racing into the basement.

Going through this financial reset process you want to save in hard assets that will maintain their value as the overvalued stock and bond markets implode. Gold and silver are two of those hard assets but they could also be real estate [also in bubblicious territory], tools, long term storage foods etc.
 

TheSearcher

Are you sure about that?
No insult intended, The Searcher! My apologies!

Your post just reminded me of what I used to see on The Drudge Report, back before he went rogue.

Thank you for explaining. I have come to loathe Matt Drudge due to his betrayal. My reaction is visceral in being compared with him. So, my apologies in turn for getting mad.
 

goosebeans

Veteran Member
This robbinhood stock trade app will end up totally destroying these day trader fools. A fool and his money are soon parted. It is really gambling and not investing at this point.

Hey, I resemble that remark! :) Actually, some things go up when the market goes down. I love days like this. Just put a little more dosh toward my new quarter horse.
 

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
How now, down Dow? :D

510 is nothing.
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ETA - some may be interested in seeing this article - very chart heavy so not going to C&P it all, click through to read if interested.
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The Millennials Are Coming For The Boomers’ Money: One Bank Sees Generational Conflict Breaking Out This Decade

The Millennials Are Coming For The Boomers’ Money: One Bank Sees Generational Conflict Breaking Out This Decade

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The Millennials Are Coming For The Boomers' Money: One Bank Sees Generational Conflict Breaking Out This Decade Tyler Durden Sat, 09/12/2020 - 20:00
Late last week, we published the executive summary from Jim Ried's latest must read long-term asset return study titled "Age of Disorder" in which the author makes the case that Economic cycles come and go, "but sitting above them are the wider structural super-cycles that shape everything from economies to asset prices, politics, and our general way of life" Having identified five such cycles over the last 160 years...
  1. The first era of globalisation (1860-1914)
  2. The Great Wars and the Depression (1914-1945)
  3. Bretton Woods and the return to a gold-based monetary system (1945-1971)
  4. The start of fiat money and the high-inflation era of the 1970s (1971-1980)
  5. The second era of globalisation (1980-2020?)
  6. The Age of Disorder (2020?-????)
... Reid thinks the world is on the cusp of a new era – "one that will be characterised initially by disorder."

While there are extensive socio-economic and political implications as this new "Age of Dirsorder" replaces the current outgoing second era of globalization (touched upon here), one key aspect Reid focused on was the market (after all he is a banker), and specifically how current record high global valuations are threatened by the coming "new age", which according to the Deutsche Bank strategist would have tremendous implications for eight major global themes from deteriorating US-China relations, to exploding global debt levels, to the coming runaway inflation and even worse wealth and income inequality, but perhaps most importantly to the coming generational conflict between the young ("poor" Milennials and Gen-Zers) and the old (i.e. rich).

Since the generational divide in not only the US but across the developed world has the potential to be even more disruptive than the record wealth gap, we will take a closer look at Reid's observations on why the intergenerational gap has been widening in recent years and looks set to be even more of an issue in the immediate future.
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The intergenerational divide to end this decade?

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Coulter

Veteran Member
I have always been nervous about Trump's obsession with the dow closing number to validate his economic success. October surprise?
Well the masses buy in to it.

But how many trillions of dollars has our government put in to market to keep this illusion going?
 

goosebeans

Veteran Member
Hey, I resemble that remark! :) Actually, some things go up when the market goes down. I love days like this. Just put a little more dosh toward my new quarter horse.

To be honest, smoking, drinking and racking up the credit card at the mall would far outstrip anything I've had to spend on my horses. And wouldn't bring near as much joy, not to mention the health benefits. My back and hips seize up real quick if I'm not out there doing chores every day. And we don't own a lawn mower - well we might, I don't know where it is. :)
 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
And I'm waiting to see if Germany crashes this Friday as some pastors have predicted.
Deutsche Bank is the largest bank implicated in the FinCEN leak scandal that came out yesterday.

 
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