Holly, Breitling and more Sunday AM 1-23-2022
Holly Sunday Update:
Good morning roomies
I have had great news yesterday! Things have finally shifted and we have moved out of stagnation.
We finally see things moving.
All the hold up in the damn for months have finally broken free.
We have reached a place we have never been before.
Our blessing is close. Stay positive!
Stay in high vibrations. Never, ever give up!!
Courtesy of Dinar Guru
Vital Brad Question "Why is this [the Iraqi dinar] not really well known? Why isn't this mainstream?" This goes back to the Kuwaiti dinar when that revalued, no one knew about it except for top government officials, top military personnel, people in the know...it was like it never happened except these people became very rich...that happened under George Bush Sr. The same thing was supposed to happen smoothly under George Bush Jr...I'm sure it wasn't expected to go this long...the everyday person wasn't supposed to know about this Iraqi dinar...
Breitling Am I excited? Do I think things are coming down the road? Absolutely. 100%...Here's the thing, we talk about the past. We go back to the beginning of 2020 and they started talking about that they were going to reduce the value of their currency and just before 2021 came along, that's exactly what they did...they were trying to lower the value of their currency to pay off debt...they paid off their debt with Kuwait. They were ahead of schedule...you guys know they want to add value to their currency...
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Is the Fed about to make a mistake? Here's what gold is saying
Kitco News: Jan 22, 2022
Gold and silver hit two-month highs this week, while the crypto market suffered staggering losses. To explain all of this, analysts pointed to rising U.S. treasury yields triggered by an aggressive Federal Reserve. Markets are now pricing in four rate hikes and a balance sheet runoff this year.
How to Profit from The Coming Market Crash 2022
The Nomad Economist: Premiered 20 hours ago
Who would benefit from a major financial crisis? Certainly people and institutions with political power like , Congresses and parliaments, government bureaucrats and bureaucracies, and heads of state.
To the extent that is true ,and the dynamics are more complex than the statement indicates. What are their incentives for preventing financial crises?
If you're looking for names, I remember there were quite a few public instances of people who did benefit. Big names like John Paulson's bet against the subprime mortgages earned him a few billion.
Bill Gross's PIMCO fund did great. I would also venture that various investment banks like Goldman also made out well.
They supposedly packaged these subprime mortgages as low risk, selling them to investors, then turning around and shorting them. These same banks as well as some insurance companies also sold credit default contracts.
Since the US fed eventually bought all these toxic derivatives off their books. I'd say they all made out swimmingly.
Imagine if I sold billions of options over the years with a low probability of a payout. But when I actually had to pay out, and I didn't have enough money for it, the government just steps in and forks over the money for me! A very sweet deal if I do say so myself.
Anyway, basically anyone who sold stocks, MBS, commodities, and all their assorted derivatives at or around 2007 benefited.
Anyone on the sell-side, which makes money on volume, benefited. Anyone who bought treasuries also benefited.
What did they do with all that money? Whatever they want.
The 2008–09 financial crisis saw markets collapse, erasing trillions of dollars of wealth worldwide. Savvy investors acknowledged an extraordinary buying chance, with many companies' shares for sale at a huge discount.
With markets recuperating from the Great Recession, these investors have achieved enormous profits from their aggressive tactics. Most of us can remember the moment of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Let’s look at what has happened in the last 11 years: Real interest rates have gone to negative in most countries. You now lose money putting it in the bank. Markets have hit record highs; almost doubled since 2008 and 3.5 times from 2009 lows, now that the Dow hit 28,000.
Real wages have struggled to keep up with inflation in most developed countries.
So the biggest winners of 2008–2009 were calm, buy, and hold investors. The losers were those that panicked. Not in year 1. I imagine some of those buy and hold investors were feeling worried when the Dow was at 7,300 in 2009, and people who kept money in the bank felt smug.
However, if you look at any financial crisis, the buy and hold investor has never, ever, regretted doing that and buying more as markets fall. On average, markets corrections typically last only a few months or a year: In the case of 2008–2009, it took three years. Occasionally, 7–10 years.
That is an opportunity for the buy and hold investor to “stack up” on more units at lower prices. Almost like seeing your flights to your holiday resort on special offer, only you know that stacking up on this investment will pay off financially long-term.
Those people that try to directly profit from crashes, like speculating on certain stocks going bust by shorting, usually don’t benefit long-term.
A good friend of mine bought many bank stocks in 2008 after he realized the government wouldn't allow them to go bust. At one stage, he was on a huge profit, as they bounced from the lows. Long-term, however, he would have been better off just being in the index, as the prices of almost all banks have never recovered.
Take HSBC as just one example of many. It went up sharply, but long-term performance has been bad. Although the advice to buy when there's blood in the streets has been imputed to more than one rich investor, it is a sound approach to creating substantial wealth.
Other oft-quoted citations whose true origins are debated are that the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.