Clinton tax plan is an investment killer....

[SnakeBoy]

Also, this is a discussion we had a long time ago, but the market right now looks a lot more like a casino than a vehicle for investment. It used to be a place to invest long-term, helping raise capital for companies to execute a long term plan.

Now it's all about betting on the next quarter earning calls, and a lot of CEOs and companies are largely only about that, at any cost.

I don't know taxes are a solution to that, but it certainly has completely corrupted what the market was a for a long time.

It's worse than that

http://www.thenewamerican.com/econom...et-study-finds

Personally I think we are in a worse bubble than we were in 2008 and that there is a reasonable chance that the next POTUS will face a more severe global deflationary crisis than the Great Recession. Of course if it does happen it will be blamed on the tax policy of the party in power.

[SnakeBoy]

“Rather than invest in failing infrastructure, central banks and governments are acting like hedge funds, betting on the stock market and [over-the-counter] OTC derivatives, using fiat credits that are borrowed or printed,” explained Stewart Thomson with the Graceland Updates newsletter for investors. “The bottom line: While global citizens are told to ‘grin and bear’ austerity, their leaders are having a ‘good ‘ole time’ spending trillions of dollars, at the stock market casino.”

[ElNono]

It's worse than that

http://www.thenewamerican.com/econom...et-study-finds

Personally I think we are in a worse bubble than we were in 2008 and that there is a reasonable chance that the next POTUS will face a more severe global deflationary crisis than the Great Recession. Of course if it does happen it will be blamed on the tax policy of the party in power.

“Rather than invest in failing infrastructure, central banks and governments are acting like hedge funds, betting on the stock market and [over-the-counter] OTC derivatives, using fiat credits that are borrowed or printed,” explained Stewart Thomson with the Graceland Updates newsletter for investors. “The bottom line: While global citizens are told to ‘grin and bear’ austerity, their leaders are having a ‘good ‘ole time’ spending trillions of dollars, at the stock market casino.”

Lots of bad actors, tbh... but you're not going to fix this until you start cracking down on nations that wildly manipulate currency, like China. The dollar keeps getting stronger and stronger, because the US fiscal policy is actually golden compared to all these other countries. Sometimes people get caught up on the US debt, but the currency is really valued vis a vis other currencies.

[SnakeBoy]

Now it's all about betting on the next quarter earning calls, and a lot of CEOs and companies are largely only about that, at any cost.

Previous link was from 2014, here's one from 4 days ago...
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/centra...rkets-cm661435

Nothing has changed. Point being it's not just CEO's betting on next quarter. Central banks around the globe are doing the same.

[ElNono]

Previous link was from 2014, here's one from 4 days ago...
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/centra...rkets-cm661435

Nothing has changed. Point being it's not just CEO's betting on next quarter. Central banks around the globe are doing the same.

Central banks are trying to prop up their economies. Normally when you start printing and printing, you get inflation, not deflation. But the real problem here is that you have a giant like China that sucks up jobs from everywhere for pennies on the dollar. And they do that by manipulating their currency, dumping and tight control on their population. Once that happens, everybody else is trying to race to the bottom to remain somewhat compe ive. At some point that's going to have to stop.