Economic Slowdown gaining speed. There is bloomberg this AM pitching another fed article that Ben Nakie will save the world again with QE III. But even today Buffett was crying that the US economy is slowing pretty fast. Try... slowing to a dead stop.
This is the business world's reaction to Obamacare and Romney's inability to attack obama. Businesses are going to contract and squeeze Obama's baseball head in a vice. Ben Nakie has no tools. We are already at zero interest. And its not just here. Europe is in a deep recession getting worse, Japan is back in recession, India is stopping cold, Australia is stopping cold, China is slowing and Brazil is reducing interest rates again, so far nothing has been effective.
Its early too. So Ben Nakie might be able to flood the globe with Tepper styled euphoria and fill JPM and GS's pockets with cheap speculative money but it won't last through August.
Two days ago Obama made it abundantly clear he was going to play politics, acron style with the Bush tax cuts and taxes in general. So there have been plenty of warnings to Obama but now it seems the Amateur has blundered again as the weight of the economy and class warfare are ready to let the US economy and its Keynesian fraud go into the sea.
I have been warning for the last there weeks to move to large cash positions even on my website. For flippers it doesn't matter. Its not time to speculate because Ben Nakie will undoubtedly try to trap the shorts but he will not stave off the recession. This one is barreling on.
Its amusing. The bond market is actually tightening and moving to all time low yields. So if low interest rates are not working how is it that more push on the bond market will work. It won't.
Also the markets are not low. Hedges are in there in anticipation of Ben Nakie. So they will make every attempt to get out and the only way they will get out is pretend Fed action.
Buffett is out in the news because he knows what his derivatives will do to Berkshire if they snap. They could bring all of Berkshire down with them. That would be enjoyable to me to watch Buffett, get ripped to shreds by the hedge funds. Buffett is not too big to fail and he is up to his neck in these derivatives and his pocket Senator Ben Nelson wrote and exclusion into the law so Buffett would not need to back up his derivatives with more capital. So at risk is all of Berkshire. I like it when Capitalism rewards stupidity.
real investors should be playing the bear and reducing positions in bear rallies and holding onto cash. Ben Nakie will try to catch the shorts off guard so there won't be much in the way of shorts to cushion a fall. It is a tricky market but play it conservatively with enlarging cash reserves.