johnbee

ETF Trends: U.S. Dollar Attracts Flight to Safety Capital

Money has to go somewhere. Banks deposits are only guaranteed to very small amounts. US $ Treasuries are a safe haven only until interest rates rise or inflation creeps in as they surely will. Equities can be a hedge against inflation and currency depreciation but only if you cherry pick.
The rise in equity prices has little to do with reality. If some earnings are up its because of low interest rates, sacking of staff, temporary withdrawal of advertising, low inventory charges etc.
Funny that the lucky ones this last few months have been the gamblers and the uninformed unless you have been a banker in the Fed elite. It should have been obvious with hindsight that they had to be the first to be saved or we were all done for, but thats not a slam dunk just yet, and most equities have long uphill climb to go.

S&P Futures Move Lower; Forex Market Fails to Follow

Bernanke did not make good reading. There is no rebound yet; 2011 is the new forecast. The $ is the world's only reserve currency and safest place to be meantime.

Global Economic Revival Plan Must Include Realignment of Exchange Rates

I agree- but all major currencies competitively devaluating to save their skins, including now the Swiss, and so we will get no trade as Lok Hang So says, and as I see it a deflationary spiral, as no-one will move to stop it.



On Mar 12 04:18 PM Tom E. wrote:

> Rigging currency is not free trade.

Bear Trap Has Been Set; Now It's Time for Short Sellers to Enter

will someone tell me what good news bulls expect? the Obama stimulus plan has all but been written off and now even Democrats intend to oppose it. Every country in the world is in freefall on just about every chart and indicator and no-one is saving as there is no reward but no-one is buying as prices continue to fall. Bulls to me are like gamblers shoving money on red on every turn of the wheel hoping that one day the odds will turn in their favor. This market is not a game of odds.

Greenback's Slumped on the Canvas

when England ruled the world it had no middle class. the masses did as they were bid and were rewarded. It was a command economy. just like China today.

Return of Weimar Monetary Policies?

Re Attila's email.
I should think McCain could do a good resemblance as a warmonger and Obama as bleeding heart both printing money to serve their ends. Either way we will get inflation and this is the route the US have used to solve their debt problems ever since they forced the world off the gold standard in the 1973/4 crash,which suited other Governments also.
The big question is what do you invest in to counter raging inflation?
Cigarette makers and cheap food stocks used to be the answer. What now?anyone got an answers?