Worldwide QE !

[Mega]

I guess its oneway to beat China:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...isis-live.html

[unlucky]

Re: Worldwide QE !

I guess its oneway to beat China:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...isis-live.html

The UK has been doing a great job at generating inflation, and is ahead of the pack in this respect. There has never been a better time to inflate! Investors are so terrified of defaults and losses, they will buy debt from any large government with its own printing press at any yield whatsoever.

[Starving Steve]

Re: Worldwide QE !

Let's call a spade a spade: Investors would have done better in bonds paying zero than they have done in stoxx. And maybe there are several reasons for this: a.) earnings of companies have been lies, fudged, and "mickey-moused"; b.) stocks have been over-priced in terms of what their companies really earn; c.) there is no energy plan in America, nor even a broad plan for economic recovery; d.) dividends have been a joke, and paid out of the principle of the stock rather than the earnings of the company; e.) many companies such as gold mining companies have refused to raise their stock dividends even when gold is near $2000; f.) stock-holders have been played for suckers; g.) company insiders earn fortunes in salaries and perks, thus bleeding-off company earnings; h.) the entire Western World is in de-industrialization and decline; i.) interest rates might go up in future, thus making stoxx an even worse investment; j.) company costs such as energy costs are rising and not accounted for in company outlooks; k.) eco-frauds and their lawyers have made doing business in the Western World impossible; l.) stoxx have been hyped and promoted, literally paraded out on television as a buy, one after the other, and for decades; m.) gamblers using computers have taken control of the NYSE. playing derivative and index games, and especially in the climate of de-regulation; n.) stoxx are direction-less, choppy with waves of buying of the entire market followed immediately by waves of selling; much like the occurrence of red or black on a roulette table, and with the house raking in a fraction of the action whatever occurs; o.) everything possible to know (except for inside information) is already in the market and arbitrated into the stock price; p.) risks are unknown and everywhere in the stock market; q.) in the end, stocks are pieces of paper, much like paper money but even more abstract; r.) tax accounting is difficult and time-consuming; s.) the trend is for another "lost decade" in stocks, much like what happened in Japan; t.) companies can go bankrupt, and many will go bankrupt because companies have a life-span just like people have a life-span; u.) quantitative- easing makes stocks a joke; v.) stocks can be diluted, and often are; w.) dividends can be cut and often are cut; the knock-on effect of a dividend cut is to immediately reduce the value of a stock, and reduce the value after people have bought into a stock for its dividends; x.) dividends have been used as bait to create an artificial (synthetic) market for a stock, in spite of a company's earnings and long-term prospects; y.) de-flation and in-flation are both a risk to stock prices; stoxx have a long-term value only in non-inflationary, sound and growing economies; z.) stocks can be manipulated by insiders, often are manipulated, and by withholding (inside) information from the public, or by disclosing such (inside) information at times (prices) in the market to their advantage.

Twenty-six reasons to stay the hell out of stocks! Need more reasons to stay OUT: Bernanke, "operation twist", QE-3?, Greece and the PIGS slow-motion default with extend-and-pretend by the ECB, possible negative interest rate policy (NIRP) next, the ZIRP, California slow-motion default, over-priced real estate, unemployment and double-dip recession, grid-lock and drift in America, more debt, unknowns and uncertainties about the SIPC and FDIC safety net, and the risk of a black swan (one-off) event, robotic trading ( robo-trading ), and the inertia of a long-term down-trend in stocks, QE and paper-printing worldwide, green-energy "dreamland" especially in Club Med, the UK, Germany, California and British Columbia.

[lektrode]

Re: Worldwide QE !

whooo! mr steve!
i must say, thats one of the best indictments of 'the casino' that eye have ever!
after watching my initial foray into a 401k melt away, began with 500shares@6.08 of PLUG in 2003, now worth about 17cents ea - and never even mind the fact that those of us who _didnt_ over-extend ourselves, _didnt_ buy too much house/car/vacations using their houses as ATM's and _didnt_ spend more than we make, are getting ROBBED by ZIRP to bailout these fool lyin/thievin bastards

we can only hope the people who are 'occupying' lower manhattan this week WONT just 'go away'

Let's call a spade a spade: Investors would have done better in bonds paying zero than they have done in stoxx. And maybe there are several reasons for this: a.) earnings of companies have been lies, fudged, and "mickey-moused"; b.) stocks have been over-priced in terms of what their companies really earn; c.) there is no energy plan in America, nor even a broad plan for economic recovery; d.) dividends have been a joke, and paid out of the principle of the stock rather than the earnings of the company; e.) many companies such as gold mining companies have refused to raise their stock dividends even when gold is near $2000; f.) stock-holders have been played for suckers; g.) company insiders earn fortunes in salaries and perks, thus bleeding-off company earnings; h.) the entire Western World is in de-industrialization and decline; i.) interest rates might go up in future, thus making stoxx an even worse investment; j.) company costs such as energy costs are rising and not accounted for in company outlooks; k.) eco-frauds and their lawyers have made doing business in the Western World impossible; l.) stoxx have been hyped and promoted, literally paraded out on television as a buy, one after the other, and for decades; m.) gamblers using computers have taken control of the NYSE. playing derivative and index games, and especially in the climate of de-regulation; n.) stoxx are direction-less, choppy with waves of buying of the entire market followed immediately by waves of selling; much like the occurrence of red or black on a roulette table, and with the house raking in a fraction of the action whatever occurs; o.) everything possible to know (except for inside information) is already in the market and arbitrated into the stock price; p.) risks are unknown and everywhere in the stock market; q.) in the end, stocks are pieces of paper, much like paper money but even more abstract; r.) tax accounting is difficult and time-consuming; s.) the trend is for another "lost decade" in stocks, much like what happened in Japan; t.) companies can go bankrupt, and many will go bankrupt because companies have a life-span just like people have a life-span; u.) quantitative- easing makes stocks a joke; v.) stocks can be diluted, and often are; w.) dividends can be cut and often are cut; the knock-on effect of a dividend cut is to immediately reduce the value of a stock, and reduce the value after people have bought into a stock for its dividends; x.) dividends have been used as bait to create an artificial (synthetic) market for a stock, in spite of a company's earnings and long-term prospects; y.) de-flation and in-flation are both a risk to stock prices; stoxx have a long-term value only in non-inflationary, sound and growing economies; z.) stocks can be manipulated by insiders, often are manipulated, and by withholding (inside) information from the public, or by disclosing such (inside) information at times (prices) in the market to their advantage.

Twenty-six reasons to stay the hell out of stocks! Need more reasons to stay OUT: Bernanke, "operation twist", QE-3?, Greece and the PIGS slow-motion default with extend-and-pretend by the ECB, possible negative interest rate policy (NIRP) next, the ZIRP, California slow-motion default, over-priced real estate, unemployment and double-dip recession, grid-lock and drift in America, more debt, unknowns and uncertainties about the SIPC and FDIC safety net, and the risk of a black swan (one-off) event, robotic trading ( robo-trading ), and the inertia of a long-term down-trend in stocks, QE and paper-printing worldwide, green-energy "dreamland" especially in Club Med, the UK, Germany, California and British Columbia.

[touchring]

Re: Worldwide QE !

You forgot to mention, Sino-Forest, the best stock in Canada. An insight to what may happen next year.

So much of the money Ben Bernanke printed as flowed into emerging markets. They will literally vaporize.

Let's call a spade a spade: Investors would have done better in bonds paying zero than they have done in stoxx.