Is there a hidden bubble growing?

Are the banks building a bubble in the dark pools?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 75.0%
  • No

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • I don't know

    Votes: 3 15.0%

  • Total voters
    20
Quote from risktaker:

"... US is becoming communist while the communists quietly become capitalists!

Why are they so far ahead of us?

Why must we go through this Communistic/Socialistic phase first.. before people wake up?

"A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from mistakes of others".. :( :(
 
Quote from risktaker:

Like I've been saying for last several years...

US is becoming communist while the communists quietly become capitalists!
So true.

But back to the main topic, yes, I agree this is a bubble. Let's just ride this thing all the way up, and get off when the party gets too good. Low interest rates is what got us into this mess in the first place.
 
Quote from gastropod:

With the numbers that some of the banks are posting (huge profits in trading), but with the relatively low volumes we are seeing places (like on the Dow), are the banks playing in the dark pools...amongst themselves and "propping up" the markets?

Just curious to your thoughts!

-gastropod

over fee'd accounts = huge profits

fewer charge-off's = reporting larger (anticipated) profits

fewer services and free accounts = higher fees, begets supposedly higher profits

fewer lendings, raising of interest rates on existing accounts, more late fees = higher profits

hmmm, accounting tricks that push others into default, and move them from one balance sheet column into another that is not registered on the profit and loss statements...

classic definition of a bubble....
 
It is a bubble for sure, propped by stimulus monies (taxpayer monies), companies cost cutting (read: firing people) and weak dollar (increases revenues from abroad). All of them are not sustainable

look, bubbles happen on capitalism. HOWEVER, A BUBBLE CREATED BY THE FED WITH OUR MONEY is really, really stupid. The thing "feels good" for many Americans that have portfolio, but when this bursts (and it is going to burst), we will be worse off than when we started.

It is still time to control this bubble, by propping the dollar up, sucking liquidity out of the system, and maybe rise(s) interest rates. let's see in the near future how responsible our fed is
 
Quote from jjj1000:

".. let's see in the near future how responsible our fed is

Why bother to look? We should already have observed.

The Fed has debased the $USD by a factor of about 100:1 since its inception in 1913.

What different should we hope for or expect?
 
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13: 16–17)

S&P low was 666
 
Quote from dave74:

But back to the main topic, yes, I agree this is a bubble. Let's just ride this thing all the way up, and get off when the party gets too good. Low interest rates is what got us into this mess in the first place.

I guess that is the SCARIEST thing to me - what is the "tell" (if you are a poker fan") or the sign or the "pivot point" or whatever you may want to call it that indicates, "Get the hell out - she's gonna (sic) blow!!!!!" I guess you can "play" gold/silver physical/stocks/ETFs for now, but when do you say, "OK, "F" this sh!t - I am heading to my mountain retreat - you guys can fight for scraps - I am outta (sic) here!"

-gastropod
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

We've been running a series of bubbles... tech, housing, credit... now what... deficit borrowing?

One of these bubbles WILL be the "end game" for the USA. Could be that we're in it RIGHT NOW...


too much alex jones and too few IQ leads to this kind of distorted and immature conclusions.
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

Why bother to look? We should already have observed.

The Fed has debased the $USD by a factor of about 100:1 since its inception in 1913.

What different should we hope for or expect?


i suppose you prefer to have a deflationary environment, isn't it?

ohh my, what a fool.
 
Quote from Scataphagos:

Why bother to look? We should already have observed.

The Fed has debased the $USD by a factor of about 100:1 since its inception in 1913.

What different should we hope for or expect?

The economy, in real terms, has grown by a factor of more than 1000:1 since 1913. If I'm wrong someone please correct me.
 
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