Dow Theorist: Sell Everything Liquid, You Won't Recognize America By The End Of The Year

The Business Insider ^ | 5-18-2010 | Joe Weisenthal

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Dow Theorist: Sell Everything Liquid, You Won't Recognize America By The End Of The Year

Joe Weisenthal
May. 18, 2010, 8:57 AM

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WHOA!

Richard Russell, the famous writer of the Dow Theory Letters, has a chilling line in today's note:

Do your friends a favor. Tell them to "batten down the hatches" because there's a HARD RAIN coming. Tell them to get out of debt and sell anything they can sell (and don't need) in order to get liquid. Tell them that Richard Russell says that by the end of this year they won't recognize the country. They'll retort, "How the dickens does Russell know -- who told him?" Tell them the stock market told him.

That's pretty intense!

Update: By popular demand, here's more on what he sees in the market:

And I ask myself, "Am I seeing things? The April 26 high for the Dow was 11205.03. The Dow is selling as write at 10557 down 648 points from its April high. If business is even better than expected, then why is the Dow down over 600 points? And why, if there were 674 new highs on the NYSE on April 26, were there only 20 new highs on Friday, May 14? And if my PTI was 6133 on April 26, why is it down 17 points since its April high?

The fact is that I've been seeing deterioration in the stock market ever since early-April, and this in the face of improving business news. The D-J Industrial Average is composed of 30 internationally known top-quality blue-chip stocks. These are 30 of "America's biggest companies." If Barron's is so bullish on the future of America's

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The DJIA is up 62 as I post. See here.

[albie]

The book “Aftershock” says the same thing as this guy. No “stock motives” in that book. With debt as high as it is and going higher, with jobs vanishing, with Obamacare pushing insurance through the roof already and with a record number of banks closing their doors I’m not sure what to think.

If you own gold it’s gone up in value by some 30% over the past 18 months. Levin, Beck, everyone talks about buying it as “leverage”. But leverage for what? To trade for food? Who would want gold for food?

[mountainlion]

Who would want gold for food? That depends on how bad the dollar gets. I could also ask who would trust the dollar? An ounce Gold coin is now worth about $1300. With hyper inflation it could be worth $20,000. A hamburger could cost $300. Gold is the original money and like they say has never been zero. Barter will probably be most common. There is still lots of value to small businesses so lots of them could still function.