Monday, April 6, 2009
As Deflation Rages...
...islands of wealth will emerge as the water level falls. Short them. Nothing is safe.
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Issued May 2007 - Short real estate, home builders, bond insurers and leveraged financials
Current Target - Ongoing declines
Issued Oct 2007 - Conservative investors go 100% cash and Treasuries
Next target - Two years of physical cash in home; Ladder short to medium term US Treasuries with the rest; Minimize bank account balances, CDs, and non-treasury bonds; associate high paying bond yields with capital starvation
Issued Oct 2007 - Short Dow (14,100) and broad market indexes
Next Targets:
by 2012 - Dow 3,800
then - as high as Dow 6,000
by 2025 - Dow 800
Issued Oct 2007 - Short Automakers and Airlines
Next Target - More declines, many luxury makes go the way of Duesenberg
by 2020 - pain
Next Target - Gold $475, other PMs with proportionate or greater declines
By 2020 - Gold $225
Next Target - $25
by 2020 - $4
Relentless DEFLATION
Increasing US Dollar buying power as measured by falling real estate prices, stock prices, most asset prices, and falling treasury yields; Periods of excessively negative 3 month treasury yields
Continued transfer of taxpayer funds, high yield preferred stock, risky loan guaranties, and asset holdings to the Federal Reserve and connected bankers in the face of taxpayer clamor; result: increased strain on commercial and consumer credit accelerates deflation
Main Stream Media to continue promoting Federal Reserve and banker agenda: more debt, more debt, more debt
5,000+ bank failures
More bank consolidations intended to shift FDIC insurance obligations to common stockholder losses
FDIC bailout/restructuring that compromises insurance payouts
Massive "New Deal 2.0" in order to transfer maximum wealth from the poor (taxpayers) to the Federal Reserve, connected bankers and corporations, and to benefit politicians; result: same as the original New Deal, economic depression
Supreme Court Increased to 11 Justices by 2015, unless the conservative majority yields first
Higher mileage vehicles go cheap and dirty, not expensive and "Green"
Continuation of 2007+ global cooling
FDR, can you identify these islands?
ReplyDeleteBanks that pass TiGe's stress test, still to be shorted?
ReplyDeleteAt this point, you can safely (but with very high systemic risk) short anything that hasn't been routed. Preferably stocks with a high multiple (higher than 10 for now, or higher than 5 in the coming years). The specific business/commodity isn't that important, because the trouble is a loss of currency and the overall business environment.
ReplyDeleteTiming is important only if you want instant gratification - less than a one year outlook or so.
Short silver/gold is a good place to be in the near term, clearly an island.
I see where you are going with this. The tide will make the drought look mild.
ReplyDeleteBuy a depth finder to avoid sand bars
FDR. Can you give us a sign, oh FDR?
ReplyDeleteHe has, he has given us a shoe. Let us follow this shoe, and then wait for the other one to drop.
He is the Messiah. I should know, I followed a few.