I know the many will shoot me down as others have tried, but I have been a bear since July 2007. I have traded nearly three decades, all kinds of market disasters, some man-made and others government made and some even nature made. But it doesn't take a genius to see that the economy is going to get much much worse. My Father's generation had produced the "Baby Boomer's", many many people, WE worked hard and long. We bought and bought and bought, we caused the stock market to become the greatest bull market ever. BUT we had much less children plus since there is Abortion, this also reduced the amount of the next generation.
Well, Baby Boomers getting older and buying much less, our kids don't seem to have the same drive as we did, and buying so much less, no sustained effort to buy, so weak companies go out of business, that is normal, the strong survive. But when Clinton was Pres., telling the banks make it easier for those who can't qualify to buy a home, this was the start of over inflating units built, more demand increases extreme prices.
Banks will continue to fail as months go by, the strong can't buy everyone.
Illegal alliens is also another reason of added problems, major concern of why California going under, take them back to the country they came from and use prisoners to pick crops, hard menial work usually makes many not to want to return. Illegals do many more good paying jobs that our citizens can do.
USA no longer is a Industrail country, we allowed China to take our jobs for better stock market profits, USA can't force companies to make factories, so tax the crap out of foreign made products. Free trade is not free, we lose every time. Offer companies huge incentives for new factories, not bailing out the weak companies. We need jobs to make stock market to go up.
Baby Boomers will also completely drain off all monies for retirement and health. Our kids will not be able to come close to paying enough taxes.
So reduced buying of goods, reduction of jobs makes foreclosures. It will become a snowball effect. Kick in extreme government bailout which will never be paid back.
If you can't see the writing on the wall, you deserve to lose your money. So long as unemployment continues to expand, economy will get much worse. Soon people will be taking retirement funds out for bare needs, even less money to keep stock market up.
I bought the S&P futures four weeks ago, but I believe this is a dead cat bounce. I can see the Dow going to 2000. Many of you youngsters will think this funny, but how many of you have thought it would have dropped this far? We will be going lower eventually.
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