A bounce of 50% of what was lost is not unusual. That’s what happened after the Crash of ‘29, for example. So, there’s nothing exceptional about what we’re seeing on Wall Street.
November 17th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "stock prices"
Only Hope for Obama is that the Economy Revives
Why not? Wait a minute…you already know the answer to that question. Because it’s a depression. It’s the end of the road for the consumer credit economy. Consumers did their best.
October 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
We Expect No Recovery from the Economy
..how does it all work? We’re doing some serious thinking this week. What is it that actually causes a depression? A stock market collapse? Or too much debt?
September 29th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Substantial Doubt
But GM has friends in high places…ready to lean on the scales of Mr. Market’s justice. The automaker has already borrowed $13.4 billion. It is asking for another $30 billion. But what kind of a dope would lend $30 billion to a company whose own auditors say they’re worried that it might go out of business?
March 10th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Commodity Stock Prices Meltdown
The prices of commodities are likely to crack short term, but this will be just a tease. In the next decades, the prices of all future raw materials will be priced as just what they are: irreplaceable. Oil, for example, will never again be priced on the marginal cost of pumping a marginal barrel from some giant Saudi oil field, as has been the practice for most of the last 100 years of oil production.
September 10th, 2008 | Chris Mayer | 0 comments | Continued
Conflicting Forces Acting Upon the Stock Market
Stock prices in the ’70s, for example, tended to bear up or fall a little. In real terms, however, they fell a lot. We seem to be coming upon a similar situation now – popularly known as stagflation. The economy is sinking… while inflation pushes up consumer prices.
March 4th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
U.S. Stock Prices are Down about 9% so far this Year
Still, the most important thing is to stay out of the crossfire. In any given month, the battle could go either way. Any day now, we could have a buoyant rally in stocks…and a breathtaking correction…
February 12th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued