Sunday, October 26, 2014

Obama-Holder lawlessness has now been unleashed on American cities. It was bad enough that 30,000 Mexicans perished due to Obama-Holder gun running that was meant to be blamed on the American gun industry in 2009. It was bad enough that the IRS was then unleashed on tax exempt American Historical Societies and Religious groups to harass and defraud them in 2012 because they support basic American principals. It was bad enough a lame duck congress passed socialized medicine on “Stupid Americans” who they say they claim they had to fool to get the bill passed. Now two deaths of “resisting criminals” by the police is the Obama excuse for new racist oriented demonstrations and looting. The death toll this year alone in Chicago today stood at 377 with four murders just on November 7 2014 alone. Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel was the first Obama White House chief of staff and what does he know or care about law or order? According to Senator Chuck Schumer, the democrat party is beginning to melt down due to the rise of the leftists, lawlessness, and the proliferation of stupid government, economic, and social programs and their program leaders.

This administration is causing social disintegration, corruption, and lawlessness which provides several trigger mechanism for collapse and economic disorder.  Electing a president who clearly always hated everything America stands for has potentially set the entire world in the direction of social meltdowns, riots, wars, and economic depressions.  The American Supreme Court needs to reign in this autocratic takeover of America.
 
American Economy
The American stock markets now appear to be moving beyond their all time highs.  It is difficult to predict the exact top.  We expect several declining lows and declining highs and about a 30% to 40% net decline from the top before Wall Street recognizes we are in a bear market.   But once the Bear is recognized the collapse will be much steeper and is usually only two or three months until a bottom is put in.  But it may take another two or three months to know if the bottom will hold.
But there will be opportunities to sell near tops and cover and buy at succeeding lows after major market moves that usually are over reactions.  This will be a volatile time, a time to be nimble or else to get on the sidelines and wait for the bottoming out.   This president is incapable of restoring confidence and could go down as one of the most inept American president in American history. 
Dec 1
ISM Service Business index Nov 58.7 down from 59.0 -
Dec 2
Construction Spending up Oct 1.1% from -0.4%  as demand declines --
Dec 3
MBA Mortgage Index 11/29 -7.3% decline further from -4.3% --
ADP Private Employment Change Nov 208K down from 233K---  About 300k is needed
Productivity-Rev. Q3 2.3% 2.2% 2.4% 2.0% -
Unit Labor Costs - Revised Q3 -1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% -
Dec 4
Challenger Job Cuts increase Nov to -20.7% from 11.9% - -
Initial Claims 11/29 297K slightly better from 313K ++
Continuing Claims 11/22 2362K increase from 2316K--
 
December 3 Famous Quotations     December 3, Honeywell CEO Dave Cote said about the inflated stock market that we can keep going higher if we can get “that feeling going again.”  But remember the NYSE already dropped more than 60% in the 2007-2008 declines similar to the Hover decline, but the worst decline was the FDR decline on top of the Hover decline that took the market down 90% from pre-depression levels. Here are other similar pompous optimistic quotes about the economy and the stock market. 
 
"We will not have any more crashes in our time."
 - John Maynard Keynes in 1927
2."I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future."  - E. H. H. Simmons, President, New York Stock Exchange, January 12, 1928
"There will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity." - Myron E. Forbes, President, Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., January 12, 1928
 
3."No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquility and contentment...and the highest record of years of prosperity. In the foreign field there is peace, the goodwill which comes from mutual understanding."   - Calvin Coolidge December 4, 1928
4."There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash."  - Irving Fisher, leading U.S. economist, New York Times, Sept. 5, 1929
5."Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."  - Irving Fisher, Ph.D. in economics, Oct. 17, 1929
"This crash is not going to have much effect on business."  - Arthur Reynolds, Chairman of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, October 24, 1929
"There will be no repetition of the break of yesterday... I have no fear of another comparable decline."  - Arthur W. Loasby (President of the Equitable Trust Company), quoted in NYT, Friday, October 25, 1929
"We feel that fundamentally Wall Street is sound, and that for people who can afford to pay for them outright, good stocks are cheap at these prices."  - Goodbody and Company market-letter quoted in The New York Times, Friday, October 25, 1929
 
6."This is the time to buy stocks. This is the time to recall the words of the late J. P. Morgan... that any man who is bearish on America will go broke. Within a few days there is likely to be a bear panic rather than a bull panic. Many of the low prices as a result of this hysterical selling are not likely to be reached again in many years."  - R. W. McNeel, market analyst, as quoted in the New York Herald Tribune, October 30, 1929
"Buying of sound, seasoned issues now will not be regretted"  - E. A. Pearce market letter quoted in the New York Herald Tribune, October 30, 1929
"Some pretty intelligent people are now buying stocks... Unless we are to have a panic -- which no one seriously believes, stocks have hit bottom."  - R. W. McNeal, financial analyst in October 1929
 
7."The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin."  - Stuart Chase (American economist and author), NY Herald Tribune, November 1, 1929
"Hysteria has now disappeared from Wall Street."  - The Times of London, November 2, 1929
"The Wall Street crash doesn't mean that there will be any general or serious business depression... For six years American business has been diverting a substantial part of its attention, its energies and its resources on the speculative game... Now that irrelevant, alien and hazardous adventure is over. Business has come home again, back to its job, providentially unscathed, sound in wind and limb, financially stronger than ever before."
 - Business Week, November 2, 1929
"...despite its severity, we believe that the slump in stock prices will prove an intermediate movement and not the precursor of a business depression such as would entail prolonged further liquidation..."  - Harvard Economic Society (HES), November 2, 1929
 
8."... a serious depression seems improbable; [we expect] recovery of business next spring, with further improvement in the fall."   - HES, November 10, 1929
"The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most."  - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale University, November 14, 1929
"In most of the cities and towns of this country, this Wall Street panic will have no effect."  - Paul Block (President of the Block newspaper chain), editorial, November 15, 1929
"Financial storm definitely passed."  - Bernard Baruch, cablegram to Winston Churchill, November 15, 1929
 
9."I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress."   - Andrew W. Mellon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury December 31, 1929
"I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence."
 - Herbert Hoover, December 1929
"[1930 will be] a splendid employment year."   - U.S. Dept. of Labor, New Year's Forecast, December 1929
 
10."For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright."
 - Irving Fisher, Ph.D. in Economics, in early 1930
11."...there are indications that the severest phase of the recession is over..."
 - Harvard Economic Society (HES) Jan 18, 1930
12."There is nothing in the situation to be disturbed about."
 - Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, Feb 1930
13."The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity."
 - Julius Barnes, head of Hoover's National Business Survey Conference, Mar 16, 1930
"... the outlook continues favorable..."
 - HES Mar 29, 1930
14."... the outlook is favorable..."
 - HES Apr 19, 1930
15."While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst -- and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us."
 - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, May 1, 1930
"...by May or June the spring recovery forecast in our letters of last December and November should clearly be apparent..."
 - HES May 17, 1930
"Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over."
 - Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930
16."... irregular and conflicting movements of business should soon give way to a sustained recovery..."
 - HES June 28, 1930
17."... the present depression has about spent its force..."
 - HES, Aug 30, 1930
18."We are now near the end of the declining phase of the depression."
 - HES Nov 15, 1930
19."Stabilization at [present] levels is clearly possible."
 - HES Oct 31, 1931
20."All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S."   - President F.D. Roosevelt, 1933  The IRS was confiscating assets.  Ownership of gold became illegal.
 
December 1 Update
Energy stocks fall rapidly as the price of oil plummets. Russia, Venezuela, and the Mid East will see big budget deficits. Oil companies may have difficulty with the high leveraged debt levels of their junk bonds as revenues drop. The last collapse of oil prices is reminiscent of Obama’s 2008 election several months before Fox News, Squawk Box, and others began to notice we were in a recession. Then it fell to a low of $44 per barrel. See the historical chart.
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CL_/M?anticache=1417442887
You can see from the crude Obama government oil chart that oil dropped significantly in the Clinton’s 2000 recession hitting a low of $10.87 per barrel.
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=F000000__3&f=A
Energy prices are the canary in the mine shaft that dies first and warns of the impending deep recession.  Only this could be the depression of this century.  The FDR recession on top of the earlier Hover recession was the depression of the last century which ended in WWII.  In 1920, before the recession Oil was over $3 per barrel.  During FDR’s Great depression oil fell to 67 cents a barrel.  The EU is now concerned that the world is about to enter another Great Depression.  During a depression, cash and gold are kings because credit collapses.
Remember we asserted by Oct 15 that within five months there would be clear signs we had entered another recession but it would take up to an additional five months for the recession to be known in hindsight, and be half over before most market analysts acknowledge it.
 Energy stocks fall rapidly as the price of oil plummets.  Russia, Venezuela, and the Mid East will see big budget deficits.  Oil companies may have difficulty with the high leveraged debt levels of their junk bonds as revenues drop. The last collapse of oil prices is reminiscent of Obama’s 2008 election several months before Fox News, Squawk Box, and others began to notice we were in a recession.  Then it fell to a low of $44 per barrel.  See the historical chart.
 
You can see from the crude Obama government oil chart that oil dropped significantly in the Clinton’s 2000 recession hitting a low of $10.87 per barrel.
Bond
Energy prices are the canary in the mine shaft that dies first and warns of the impending deep recession.  Only this could be the depression of this century.  The FDR recession on top of the earlier Hover recession was the depression of the last century which ended in WWII.  In 1920, before the recession Oil was over $3 per barrel.  During FDR’s Great depression oil fell to 67 cents a barrel.  The EU is now concerned that the world is about to enter another Great Depression.  During a depression, cash and gold are kings because credit collapses.
 
Liquidity crisis signs are seen in the senior citizen retirement safe-haven of bonds.
Bond Funds have now loaded up on cash fearing a coming crash and a liquidity crisis if bond holders try to get their cash out all at once.
 
Holiday sales slump signals an Obama economic crisis coming.
2014 US and Canadian Holliday Sales have slumped 11% so far with the next big sale coming in two weeks.  Traffic is down 5%.  Domestic sales during the holiday season weighed on the toy maker’s results because stores have cut orders.  The National Retail Federation said that Consumer spending fell to $50.9 billion down from $57.4 billion in 2013.
 
Federal guarantee of pensions of private and government union members said sure to go broke this time,  Unions have bought votes and have been promised by the corrupt politicians they bought, that the US Government would stand behind this union/ and political party corruption.  It is unlikely the other political party will pay for the corrupt promises.  Out going L&G pensions Chief John Pollock, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute weighed in with his opinion,
  
International News
The slowdown in the economy of China means their imports of coal and mineral ores have plummeted.  China’s Oversupply of housing now stands at near five years under normal times but demand is now falling and vacant complexes deteriorate in the weather.  Recycling of the first generation of products will further decrease demand by China for ore resources.
 
November 28 Weekend Update     Our stock market cash flow indicator still shows that the net cash left after advances and declines is in the direction of out of the market.  Even though price has continued higher, we still show peak to peak cash levels and bottom to bottom cash levels getting lower.  We still expect the rally to continue this year and for the bear market to be evident early next year.  It takes about five months for the media to know money has been flowing out and for stock prices to begin to plunge.  That means it could be February or March before MSNBC and Jim Cramer say it is time to get out.   The last cycle when the Dow and the S and P peaked was in July 2007, and the NYSE peaked in October of 2007.  We got our first bear market signal July 26, 2007 and a confirmation on September 28, 2007.  Jim Cramer said Sell on September 18 2008 almost a year later when half the bear market was over.  By then the bear market was about 50% finished.
 
If corporations were forced now to mark their assets and inventories to market, their losses would be tremendous and stock prices would collapse at the net market opening.  But now, as long as they hang on to their dogs and development losses they can pretend earnings are increasing.  But there is a trigger mechanism to start the collapse.  In 2007 we saw the cash flow had turned negative and that means the water level in the economic river was getting lower and the rocks, the triggers, were beginning to surface.  The 2007 trigger mechanism was caused by the Dodd-Frank-Obama liar loans that were supposed to help poor people own houses.  The liar loans were available but the poor people could not afford the interest rate.  So subprime mortgages were made available to the poor because housing prices were rising 6% each year so that in just a few years the poor would either become rich or Dodd-Frank-Obama thought they could just flip their house and bank the profit.  Obama was a relatively poor “community activist” without a steady job and he got a good deal from a corrupt Chicago realtor.   Dodd got a special deal from a realtor in Ireland so they were absolutely certain that the poor or corrupt could get rich quick and own a house if given the chance.  But unfortunately most poor people were not able to sell at a profit within two or three years before the subprime interest rate doubled or tripled.  Only the corrupt were guaranteed a profit.  So almost all the poor people lost everything and there are actually fewer homeowners today than before Dodd, Frank, and Obama became friends and applied their coercive and corrupt get rich quick scheme to try to help the poor.

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