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That's right, he was not banned. Maybe he can just take some time to do some self-evaluation. He is obviously passionate about the market and the board needs that, but he lacked delivery skills. I would welcome him back were he to have an epiphany (A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization). Is that too much to ask?I don't want to short anyone's talk. If Tech left, it was his choice! and we need to move on.
Oh, and FundSurfer - in case you missed it: Birchtree is bullish.A 15% drop from Dow 13,000 would be more inclined - in the meantime one will miss the next 1,000 point run. Reminds me of the Del Shannon song "Runaway", this is a runaway market.
A 15% drop from Dow 13,000 would be more inclined - in the meantime one will miss the next 1,000 point run. Reminds me of the Del Shannon song "Runaway", this is a runaway market.
Oh, and FundSurfer - in case you missed it: Birchtree is bullish.
robo, shouldn't this posted in another thread?
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Forever Blowing Bubbles
The Federal Reserve has a history of misjudging the economy, but some of that may be due to the fact that they are saying one thing, but thinking and doing something else. Here, we are referring to their constant references to their desire to control inflation. If you want to find out what the Fed is really thinking, you have to look at what they do instead.
What they are doing is expanding the money supply at a rate of 10% per year. That's the fastest rate in many, many years. It is approximately four times as fast as the economy is growing. Now, if the Fed were really concerned with inflation, they would not allow the money supply to grow at this rate, so there has to be another reason why they are pumping money into the economy at this prodigious rate.
The most likely explanation is that they are worried about the housing bust bleeding the economy into recession. The decline in housing, which has much more to run over the next few years, is something the Fed engineered after they inadvertently created the bubble in housing with the wrong response -- Depression-level interest rates -- to the recession of 2000-2003. Since ratcheting short term interest rates back to a level which broke the housing bubble, pumping excess money is designed to offset that drag from the declining housing sector.
Since the economy has been unable to use that excess money, guess where the excess ends up? Stock, commodity and bond markets, that's where it ends up. In the stock market, prices are at nose-bleed levels of valuation. In the bond market, bond prices are so high that the interest rate on 30-year bonds is far below the rate for an overnight loan. And, in commodities, real goods prices have soared, yet have not slowed the economy or even created measurable inflation (if you believe the government reports on inflation, that is). Consequently, we are actually seeing inflation show up in the markets instead.
This is the ultimate outcome of a managed economy. A central authority, the Federal Reserve Bank, run by officials who are not elected by the people, are centrally-managing the economy by blowing asset bubbles to prop the whole economy up. It's a system the communists tried to implement, but it took the capitalists of the world to perfect the process. And, you have to hand it to them: when it works, it's great. When it doesn't? Well, you have depressions like the 'Thirties.
Here's hoping the Fed keeps all those bubbles under control.
http://www.nowandfutures.com/key_stats.html
http://marketclues.blogspot.com/