scholastica8

Crazy P/E Ratios

Just bear in mind that Warren Buffett just bought CEG... one of those companies with the highest YTD% drops... & the 2nd highest in the list of P/Es.

Granted, he has enough cash to weather anything... but his goal is to make more cash.

As for the world's involvment protecting us from droping into single digits... a broader market, a supposed greater spreading of risk, has made for a much more volitile situation. It seems to have enhanced the fear rather than containing it.

In Light of Peak Oil, Financial Diversification Is a Bad Idea

My brain says you're right.

But, as a Californian, my gut says that it's Enron revisited... & the world is being gamed... at least by 50%. My portfolio has not been very diversified in a long time. I've tended to energy, mining, food, infrastructure. Those are things that I can get my mind around.

However, I'm beginning to have those butterflies in my stomach that I tend to regret when my brain says put them on ignore. Those butterflies are warning that we'll see another energy crash like in the early 1990s.

It benefits all of these oil producing countries from Iran to Venezula to Nigeria to Saudi Arabia to slow the tap & skew their figures to the worst case scenario. But, it's a tight rope that they walk. They'll open the taps, oil will flow, & we'll revert to same ol' same ol'... but at a somewhat higher price.

The real question is how many times will we go thru this scenario with peak oil?