Take Time from March Madness for 2010′s Most Important Investment Report
by ilene - March 19th, 2010 9:36 pm
Take Time from March Madness for 2010′s Most Important Investment Report
Courtesy of Elliott Wave International
You got your brackets filled out before the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament’s opening game on Thursday afternoon. Good — now sit back and enjoy the games. But if you’re looking for a good read during the numerous and lengthy time outs, we’ve got just the thing. Our most important investment report for 2010. Forget the theoretical and hypothetical sorts of analysis that occupy so much space online. Bob Prechter gives 22 real-life examples of how deflation is beginning to spread in the U.S. economy — along with 13 charts that make the examples even clearer.
You want to know whether to prepare for inflation or deflation? This report will answer your questions. Read this excerpt to see what we mean. Oh, and try to forget that a No. 2 seed (Villanova) almost got upset in the first round and that Georgetown, a No. 3 seed, got beat by Ohio University, a 14 seed.
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States Are Broke and Approaching Insolvency
While state “regulators” clamp down on profligate banks, the same states’ legislatures continue to blow money. For years, state governments have been spending every dime they could squeeze out of taxpayers plus all they could borrow. (The lone exception is Nebraska, which prohibits state indebtedness over $100k. Whatever Nebraska’s official position on any other issue, by this action alone it is the most enlightened state government in the union.)But now even states’ borrowing ability has run into a brick wall, because the basis of their ability to pay interest—namely, tax receipts—is evaporating. The goose—the poor, overdriven taxpayer—is dying, and the production of golden eggs, which allowed state governments to binge for the past 40 years, is falling. The only reason that states did not either default on their loans or drastically cut their spending over the past year is that the federal government sucked a trillion dollars out of the loan market and handed it to countless undeserving entities, including state governments.
“It’s hard to imagine what happens when stimulus money runs out,” says a budget expert. (USA, 10/29/09) But it is not at all hard to imagine what will happen. Conquer the Crash imagined state insolvency seven years ago. The breezy transfer of money from innocent savers to state spenders is going to end,…
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Bob Prechter Points Out The Many Signs Of Deflation
by ilene - February 19th, 2010 11:20 am
Bob Prechter Points Out The Many Signs Of Deflation
Yes, You Heard Us Right
Courtesy of Elliott Wave International, by Nico Isaac
Everywhere you look, the mainstream financial experts are pinning on their "WIN 2" buttons in a show of solidarity against what they see as the number one threat to the U.S. economy: Whip Inflation Now.
There’s just one problem: They’re primed to fight the wrong enemy. Fact is, despite ten rate cuts by the Federal Reserve Board to record low levels plus $13 trillion (and counting) in government bailout money over the past three years — the Demand For and Availability Of credit is plunging. Without a borrower or lender, the massive supply of debt LOSES value, bringing down every exposed investment like one long, toppling row of dominoes.
This is the condition known as Deflation.
And, in a special, expanded November 19, 2009 Elliott Wave Theorist, Bob Prechter uncovered more than a dozen "value depreciating" developments underway in the U.S. economy as the two main engines of credit expansion sputter: Banks and Consumers. Off the top of the Theorist’s watch list are these "Continuing and Looming Deflationary Forces":
- A riveting chart of Treasury Holdings as a Percentage of US Chartered Bank Assets since 1952 shows how "safe" bank deposits really are. In short: today’s banks are about 95% invested in mortgages via the purchase of federal agency securities. Unlike Treasuries, IOU’s with homes as collateral have "tremendous potential" to fall in dollar value.
- Loan Availability to Small Businesses has fallen to the lowest level since the interest rate crises of 1980. In Bob Prechter’s own words: "The means of debt repayment [via business growth] are evaporating, which implies further deflationary pressure within the banking system."
- An all-inclusive close-up of the Number Of Banks Tightening Their Lending Standards since 1997 has this message to impart: Since peaking in October 2008, lending restrictions have soared, thereby significantly reducing the overall credit supply.
- Both residential and commercial mortgages are plummeting as home/business owners walk away from their leases at an increasing rate.
- The major sources of bank revenue — consumer credit and state taxes — are plunging as more people opt to pay DOWN their debt. Also, a compelling chart of leveraged buyouts since 1995 shows a third catalyst for the credit binge — private equity — on the decline.
All that is just the beginning. The November 2009 Elliott Wave Theorist includes 13 pages of commentary, charts, and unparalleled…
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Elliott Wave International
by ilene - August 19th, 2009 3:30 pm
Our friends over at Elliott Wave International (EWI) are offering Bob Prechter’s recent 10-page market letter, FREE. It challenges current recovery hype with facts, independent analysis, and insightful charts. In Bob’s view, the worst is NOT over. Learn more.
From EWI: "In this issue, Bob gives a warning he’s never had to include in 30 years of publishing – namely, that the doors to financial safety are closing all over the world. There are but a few opportunities left and little time to take them. Even as this happens, the terrible irony is that so many people believe the conventional wisdom, which claims ‘the worst is over.’"
Go here to download Bob Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist now.
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