On Wednesday, perverted central bankers went well beyond showing the markets some leg to tempt investors into buying. Instead, Bernanke and his prurient friends at the central banks of Europe, Japan, Switzerland, England and Canada full on flashed investors.
December 3rd, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "stock market"
Why Should You Be Focussed on Dividends?
Suddenly dividends start to look enticing. Actually, it’s not sudden at all. Investors take a while to realise the bull market is long gone. It’s been just on four years since the market peaked back in November 2007 and we’d guess there are plenty of punters who think the next bull market is just around the corner. Maybe they think we turned that corner today?
December 1st, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
The Staying Power of Debt
It doesn’t matter what you say…too much debt is too much debt. And someone will have to pay for it.
All of the crisis and hoopla of the last 4 years has been just an attempt to avoid facing up to reality. Christmas comes but once a year…but investors have looked under the tree every day…hoping Santa paid an un-announced visit.
November 30th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Why Reinvested Dividends Are Crucial Investments in the Next Ten Years
It’s the sort of boring fact that the investment industry doesn’t generally alert you to. And to be fair, it’s not very exciting. At all. But it does appear to be true, at least up to about 2003, that reinvested dividends massively increase your total return in common stocks over time.
November 30th, 2011 | The Daily Reckoning | 1 comment | Continued
The Stock Market’s Law of Unintended Consequences
When it comes to the stock market you’re usually right until you’re wrong. Winning streaks are rare. But Slipstream Trader Murray Dawes has been on fire recently. Murray’s been persistently bearish, even as each false rally has sucked more investors in. He’s been calling this downdraft correctly for months.
November 24th, 2011 | The Daily Reckoning | 2 comments | Continued
Trading Inside With the Feds
Since the beginning of time, the insiders have always had an advantage. That’s why people want to be insiders; they know that’s where the money is.
In actual fact there’s a very special form of ‘inside trading’ going on where the feds and the insiders work together.
November 17th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The Market Volatility Big Picture
Today, the market is up nearly 100 points (at the time of writing). Who would have thought Greek Referendum could have such an influence on the Aussie market?
But as we’ve said many times before, such market volatility is not a sign of strength – it’s a sign of extreme fragility.
November 4th, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 8 comments | Continued
Almost Every Mortgage Written Last Year Underwritten by US Government
And they took over the auto business too. They should be able to do for autos what they did for passenger trains. That is, they should turn Detroit into an Amtrak…
March 30th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Obama Lets Zombies Loose on US Health Care Industry
This new reform measure just increases the weight. Now, there’ll be more parasites than ever. Health care is about to turn into a zombie industry…run by brain-dead bureaucrats…
March 24th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Inflation is a Reality in China
Bloomberg reports that consumer prices rose by 2.7% in February. That’s the fastest monthly growth rate in 16 months. And it eclipses the annual yield on savings deposits of 2.25%. Savers aren’t beating inflation. And if they can’t do that, they may as well spend the money. That could ignite a rising price cycle in China that monetary authorities want to avoid.
March 12th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 7 comments | Continued
A Rally in a Bull Costume
This rally has gone on for so long most people think it is not a rally at all, but a new bull market.
March 11th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 79 comments | Continued
Griffon Corp, a Very Rugged Cockroach
So simple and so crude – yet so very effective. The cockroach is hard to kill and fit for any environment. In markets, we also have cockroaches. One of the types would be the holding company with lots of cash…
March 10th, 2010 | Chris Mayer | 2 comments | Continued
Shadow Banking System: A Murky World of Credit, Securitisation and Derivatives
Most of these are interest rate and credit derivatives. As we learned in the last two years, the big risk here is to institutions which owe and own these obligations amongst one another. In our view, the degree of interconnectedness among these obligations (they still aren’t unwound) still makes the entire global financial system vulnerable…
March 10th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 14 comments | Continued
As a Wealth Survival Strategy the Stock Market is a Death Trap
You should, by our reckoning, own a small portfolio of stocks leveraged to positive Black Swans (low probability but high magnitude events that drive a share price higher…like the discovery of a new ore body or the development of a new drug). These are the sort entrepreneurial ventures that will create new wealth.
March 5th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 25 comments | Continued
Barack Obama, a Throwback to Jimmy Carter?
The politicos in Washington regard Carter as a failure. Yet, to us, he is still a hero. He was the only presidential candidate your editor ever voted for.
February 18th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
