If you have any funds tied to US stock indices....
Technically, this parabolic rise can go on forever as long as the gains are exponential, but for anyone to suggest that this is the case is insulting my and your intelligence. The person with a functioning brain knows that the markets are melting up, and with each layoff, each foreclosure, each business bankruptcy, the US market melts higher.
That being said, there is an expiration date to this melt up, and none of us know when that melt up will end. The consumer is the weakest they've been in the US since the great depression a century a go, and the credit cycle is in the same place. This time, the US is discussing negative interest rates and pumping this through the mainstream media to condition the audience. Don't be fooled, if the US goes into nominal negative interest rates then Americans are royally hosed. Unlike other nations that are in negative or zero interest rates, the US is in a much worse position as they owe much of their debt to foreign nations, which means the debt can't simply be forgiven without bloodshed.
If you have any investment funds that are tied to US stocks, you will only have yourself to blame when the rug is pulled out from underneath. Put your money into sound investments and into something secure, or shut the eff up afterwards when you get crushed and try to say "well no one could have known when it was going to come crashing down," like that somehow justifies your stupidity. If you want to gamble money that you can afford to lose, all the power to you. If you want to gamble away your family's future, I have no sympathy for you and I hope your family is taken care by someone with a brain.
That being said, there is an expiration date to this melt up, and none of us know when that melt up will end. The consumer is the weakest they've been in the US since the great depression a century a go, and the credit cycle is in the same place. This time, the US is discussing negative interest rates and pumping this through the mainstream media to condition the audience. Don't be fooled, if the US goes into nominal negative interest rates then Americans are royally hosed. Unlike other nations that are in negative or zero interest rates, the US is in a much worse position as they owe much of their debt to foreign nations, which means the debt can't simply be forgiven without bloodshed.
If you have any investment funds that are tied to US stocks, you will only have yourself to blame when the rug is pulled out from underneath. Put your money into sound investments and into something secure, or shut the eff up afterwards when you get crushed and try to say "well no one could have known when it was going to come crashing down," like that somehow justifies your stupidity. If you want to gamble money that you can afford to lose, all the power to you. If you want to gamble away your family's future, I have no sympathy for you and I hope your family is taken care by someone with a brain.
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