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Discovering the Correct Path in Investing

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From expectedreturnsblog.com - January 4, 2:34 PM

... I don’t know what it is about human nature, but people see the future in broad terms, and they will defend that point of view in the face of all evidence. So you have the “Great Depression” crowd that has been predicting a stock market collapse for years now. People always assume I think stocks are going to crash because I’m a bear, but regular readers know I’ve said stocks are going to explode, as they have. These stock market bears fail to account for the change in our monetary system from a gold standard to the floating exchange rate system. They fail to account for our good friend Helicopter Ben who has been balancing out the natural deflation that occurred in real estate with new money. From a social perspective, people in general don’t account for the fact that all these entitlements are a product of the Great Depression- they did not precede it. So in terms of civil unrest, it will be a lot worse than the Great Depression because if people are promised something and don’t get it, they get pissed off.

 

The “we will grow our way out of this crowd” is arguably worse. Debt at this point is interconnected, and since banks are getting nationalized, the situation will ironically get worse. Basically all the failed investments that went on in the private sector ends up on the government balance sheet. The whole point of getting interest on a bond is to hedge against the risk that the bond will default. If the government makes everyone whole, bankers are the only ones celebrating. The average person is the one who suffers under the weight of higher taxes and austerity. So trust me, if you talk to anyone in the investment community, they will have blinders on, especially if they are a low-level employee (people my age). The people who actually investment successfully in all environments understand a lot better how things are interconnected, and they will just ride whatever wave the government creates.

 

Debt is also growing globally at a much faster rate than revenue ...

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Inflation Propaganda Exposed | Peter Schiff | Safehaven.com

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From www.safehaven.com - January 10, 4:08 PM

Economists who hold the popular view that expanding the money supply will provide the best medicine for our ailing economy dismiss the inflationary concerns of monetary hawks, like me, by pointing to the supposedly low inflation that has occurred during the current period of rampant Fed activism. In a recent blog post aimed specifically at me, Paul Krugman noted that the sub 2.5% increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the past few years are all that is needed to prove me wrong. In fact, Krugman and others have even suggested that the CPI itself overstates inflation and that the Fed would be better able to help the economy if less strict methodologies were used. However, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the CPI is essentially meaningless as it woefully under reports rising prices.

 

Magazines and newspapers provide a good case in point. The truth has not been exposed through the economic reporting that these outlets provide, but in the prices that are permanently fixed to their covers. For instance, from 1999 to 2002 the Bureau of Labor Statistic's (BLS) "Newspaper and Magazine Index" (a component of the CPI) increased by 37.1%. But a perusal of the cover prices of the 10 most popular newspapers and magazines (WSJ, Washington Post, Time, Sports Illustrated, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, People, NY Times, USA Today, and the LA Times) over the same time frame showed an average cover price increase of 131.5% (3.5 times faster than the BLS' stats). This is not even in the same ballpark.

 

Some defenders of the BLS may conclude that prices were held down by the availability of free online news content or the convenience of digital delivery. But that is beside the point. Prior to the digital age, the BLS could have claimed that newspaper costs were held down by public libraries that provided free access. It's also true that online publications deliver less value on some fronts. Not only do many people enjoy the tactile process of reading physical newspapers or magazines, but they offer the secondary value in helping to kindle fires, housebreak puppies, pack dishes, and line birdcages. ...

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