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Declining Profits, Rising Defaults Assure 2016 Recession
By David Haggith, The Great Recession Blog I believe a 2016 recession is already a fact in the US, and the Great Recession will return with a vengeance. That recession never really ended. It was simply propped up while all of its fundamental flaws remained, and the props are now all ended or failing. It … Continue reading
Fed Faltering: Reality Takes Bite Out Of Over-Fed Recovery
By David Haggith, The Great Recession Blog Stocks are feeling the love. While the momentum of the stock rally stumbled in the last two weeks of March, the Dow did manage to break ever so slightly above the downward trend line of the high points it established over the past twelve months. (Not enough in my opinion to … Continue reading
ETF Asset Allocation Model For Active Investors: $ACWI Transition Into $SPY, $VGK, $EEM, $EPP, $EWJ & $EWC
By ETFalpha Investors who want to gain exposure to the global stock market can simply buy the iShares MSCI ACWI ETF (Nasdaq: $ACWI). The fund seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of large and mid-capitalization developed and emerging market equities and offers the following features: 1. Exposure to a broad range of … Continue reading
Hedge Fund Like ETF’s Long-term Underperform The S&P 500 Anyway – Hefty Fees Of $ALFA & $GURU Are Not Justified
By ETFalpha Most mutual funds underperform their benchmarks and this statement is common knowledge nowadays. According to different research sources the percentage of the funds losing the market battle is somewhere between 80 and 90 percent. This only proves how challenging it’s to extract the remaining maximum 20% of star asset managers. Only those who have outstanding … Continue reading
ETF Strategy That Loses Its Grip When The S&P 500 Goes Trendless: $ALFA
By ETFalpha Investors and particularly quantitative traders are constantly looking for the best and most optimum strategies to beat market benchmarks. Passive investors know that 90% of actively managed funds underperform their reference indexes, therefore they choose simple index tracking exchange traded funds (ETF’s). As we know, we are greedy from our nature and keep … Continue reading
Similarity In Stock Market Charts From 1929, 2008, 2016 May Show This Is “The Epocalypse”
By David Haggith, The Great Recession Blog Compare the Great Depression to the Great Recession, and you’ll see a similar pattern in how the Dow Jones Industrial Average graphs out. That pattern appears to be repeating now. The nation’s most notorious stock market crash in 1929 did not occur as a single fall off a cliff, but started … Continue reading
The Next Crisis Will Be THE Crisis
By Phoenix Capital Research For six years, the world has operated under a complete delusion that Central Banks somehow fixed the 2008 Crisis All of the arguments claiming this defied common sense. A 5th grader would tell you that you cannot solve a debt problem by issuing more debt. If the below chart was a problem … Continue reading
Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People
By Michael Snyder Should central banks create money out of thin air and give it directly to governments and average citizens? If you can believe it, this is now under serious consideration. Since 2008, global central banks have cut interest rates 637 times, they have injected 12.3 trillion dollars into the global financial system through … Continue reading
The ONLY Buyer Of Stocks Just Stopped Buying… Buckle Up
By Phoenix Capital Research The rally of the last month has many scratching their heads. That is, until you realize: Most of it was driven by “short-covering.” The primary buyers of stocks today are corporations buying back their stock to juice EPS, not actual investors. Actual investors have been selling the farm. Central Banking manipulation only … Continue reading
One Of The World’s Richest Countries Now Has One Of The Cheapest Stock Markets
By Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man One of the wealthiest countries in the world– the place where there are more millionaires per capita than anywhere else on the planet– now has a dirt cheap stock market. It’s Singapore. And right now, the total market value of all stocks traded in Singapore amounts to about 107% of the … Continue reading
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