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by JonLaw
Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:25 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

Promising to keep rates low isn't enough. The Fed needs to give an indication that they will step up and buy trillions in bonds over the next few months if there's to be any chance of more economic expansion/inflation. The political will to do that has been lost. I think it's because any effect of ...
by JonLaw
Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:56 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

Stocks are most closely following the 1929 crash trajectory. The first leg down from the September 3, 1929 high lasted 23 trading days. The rebound from the first leg down was 5 trading days to October 11, 1929. Then came the crash. The first leg down from the July 7, 2011 high lasted 23 trading da...
by JonLaw
Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:21 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

If an industrial arrangement like the US is undergoing a Roman style collapse, the first signal will probably be that, during this crisis period, the energy problem that has been building for 40 years will not be solved, or not solved in a way that benefits central authority. It could be that no so...
by JonLaw
Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:42 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

The crash window would seem to be closed until the next down leg starts, then it's back onto crashwatch. After just 2 hours without a 4% swing you are ready to ring the all clear bell? Seems a bit early. A temporary all clear bell only because we didn't crash this week. When you are oversold, you e...
by JonLaw
Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:01 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

It looks like we have a temporary bear market bottom here. The crash window would seem to be closed until the next down leg starts, then it's back onto crashwatch. I don't have any timeframe or price targets; I just presume that it's going to go up and roll over and I will know it when I see it. The...
by JonLaw
Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:24 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

We're now in the third cyclical bear market of this secualr bear market. At this point, given the market action (a 4% down day is a good tell, these days), one of two things is going to happen. 1) The stock market will experience a true crash. 2) The stock market will put in it's first short term be...
by JonLaw
Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:48 am
Forum: Weblog News Comments and Discussion
Topic: 7-Jun-11 News -- BIS: high US exposure to European defaults
Replies: 4
Views: 6747

Re: 7-Jun-11 News -- BIS: high US exposure to European defau

Barry: You should see if you can re-register for BearChat again. Yogi's now the moderator, so I think you're allowed to return. And yes, lots of the housing stock will be destroyed. John: Here's an article from Paul Craig Roberts. I can never quite tell where he is coming from, except that he is con...
by JonLaw
Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:39 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

John: I don't know if you participated on the old Longwaves forum with Mike Alexander or talked to Bob Bronson back when he was actually arguing with people. I didn't. However, what you keep talking about with your ongoing predictions of the "financial crisis" is Bob Bronson's old "Mass-Correlation,...
by JonLaw
Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:18 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 15692918

Re: Financial topics

John, With respect to the P/E ratio, the best free material I have found has been Crestmont Research at www.crestmontresearch.com. They have charts showing the generally rising P/E ratios for secular bull markets and generally falling P/E ratios for secular bear markets. Also, Mike Alexander has now...