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A Record Stock Market with Record Federal Debt: Does This Make Sense?
Forbes ^ | 04/01/2013 | Bill Conerly

Posted on 04/04/2013 11:14:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: lucky american

Yet... those rates will be coming back. They are being held artificially low.

We’re going to have high interest rates, high inflation, and negative economic growth when our creditors say “enough”.


21 posted on 04/04/2013 12:03:59 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: swamprebel

“The Federal Reserve is handing over $85 Billion a month to Wallstreet with bond purchases. The Market is being fed sugar. This is not going on the US Debt ledger, so it’s above and beyond the $16 Trillion in US debt. “

“More Americans than ever in prison, yet the crime continues to decline.”

Same people making the same error in logic.


22 posted on 04/04/2013 12:08:52 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: MattinNJ
If you have a mortgage, park it there. Anybody that holds a 401k and debt at the same time will be hit double in a bank crash. With Congress and Bammy talking about nationalizing the 40k’s and the looming bridge out of currency printing run amuck it is not like you have not seen it coming from a long ways off.

A roof over your head is tangible goods, as long as the bank does not own the last 1% of it. Because they will be glad to repossess it if there is an economic collapse.

The Banks got a good gig set up, if it all goes down, all their worthless cash becomes land at cents on the dollar, and if it does not collapse they rake in the interest.

Run away, run away!

23 posted on 04/04/2013 12:12:10 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump


24 posted on 04/04/2013 12:19:43 PM PDT by Vasilli22
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To: SeekAndFind

bump


25 posted on 04/04/2013 12:36:56 PM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: SeekAndFind

bfl


26 posted on 04/04/2013 1:14:33 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: MichaelCorleone

But what earnings justify these sky high stock prices? Glen Beck is even musing that one day America will be China’s bitch; yet the stock market is telling us all is roses and honey in the world.


27 posted on 04/04/2013 1:47:47 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: WhiskeyX

Buying stocks on margin has increased at a pretty clip since QE Eternity was announced. It was $366B at the end of February..


28 posted on 04/04/2013 1:48:50 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: WhiskeyX

If it is a result of inflationary monetary policy over the last 9 months, why is it gold is lower than it was 9 months ago?


29 posted on 04/04/2013 1:49:19 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Much of the inflationary pressure on the gold market was due to sovereign nation stockpiling gold as a hedge against the deposing the U.S. Dollar as the international trade currency. Note how Germany called home its gold deposits in the New York depository. some of this sovereign nation purchasing as abated somewhat for the moment, allowing market valuations of gold to fall to more affordable levels for any future tranches of bulk purchases of gold for their depositories.


30 posted on 04/04/2013 2:01:10 PM PDT by WhiskeyX (The answer is very simple and easy to understand economics. The U.S. Treasury is printing vast)
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To: EVO X

Don’t forget there was a mass exit from stocks into bonds and other securities in the last few years, so it is to be expected that margin volumes should increase as investors and traders return to stocks, stock options, and short premiums.


31 posted on 04/04/2013 2:04:39 PM PDT by WhiskeyX (The answer is very simple and easy to understand economics. The U.S. Treasury is printing vast)
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To: lucky american
When we bought our first home in 1986 our interest rate was 13% and 20% down

20% down? What were those draconian banks thinking? My God! Didn't they know that every one has a right to own a house? /s

32 posted on 04/04/2013 5:16:07 PM PDT by llevrok (2013: The USA is in a Cold Civil War.)
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