Even after the Dow and the S&P 500 closed at new all-time highs, closely followed contrarian Marc Faber keeps sounding the alarm.
“We have a bubble in everything, everywhere,” the publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday. Faber has long argued that the Federal Reserve’s massive asset purchasing programs and near-zero interest rates have inflated stock prices.
The catalyst for a market
decline, as he sees it, could be a “raise in interest rates, not
engineered by the Fed,” referring an increase in bond yields.
FT’s Wolf: Future Financial Crisis ‘Inevitable’
The global
financial system hasn’t improved enough since the 2008 financial crisis
to prevent another one, says Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of
the Financial Times.
“We really didn’t change our situation profoundly,” he told Yahoo.
“We still rely strongly for growth on demand generated by further
accumulation of debt. So the debt machine will have to be restarted.”
And that machine
is a flawed instrument, Wolf said. “It depends on the creation of money
and credit by financial institutions that are highly leveraged, highly
integrated with one another and very complex,” he said.
SUPER-RICH IN RUSH TO BUY GOLD BARS…
Is that trader next to you flashing a sell sign?
“Okay thanks,” I said as I hung up. Then I said to myself — did he just say for sale?
I quickly called back and confirmed that in fact he did say for sale.
So I screamed, “I BUY.”
…
Proof “Deflation” is taking place at the Fed
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In your opinion, does the Fed
prefer “Inflation or Deflation?” The picture above proves that Deflation
is taking place at the Fed.
On a more serious note
regarding the Inflation/Deflation theme, many feel the Fed’s policies
will lead to strong inflation. From a stock market persective, inflation
is taking place, as the Dow and S&P 500 are at/near all-time highs.
Another asset class can’t say the same thing…see chart below
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The Thompson Reuters Commodity
Index a few months ago broke below a 13-year support line (left chart),
then rallied to kiss old support as resistance and has fallen hard
since.
On a shorter term basis (right chart) the index could be breaking support of this bearish descending triangle pattern.
I suspect that the Fed would
rather fight excess inflation over deflation. In reality, none of has
much control over inflation/deflation, other than we can make
adjustments to our portfolios.
A further breakdown of support
in the right chart would suggest that lower prices in commodities will
be the trend. Understanding this trend could be important as Gold &
Silver could be breaking 13-year support and Crude Oil is testing a
5-year support line.
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