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04-20-2010, 08:43 AM
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The State of Our Economy
I am pretty well convinced that we are not at all out of the woods on the state of the economy. We had a million foreclosures in 2008, but what many don't know is that we had 2 million in 2009 and are projected to hit 3 million in 2010. Plus, on top of that, we are just getting into trouble with commercial real estate. Somehow, the government has managed to cover all that up and it looks like 2008 was a blip on the radar screen and that we are in recovery.
Another thing many don't know is that the laws were changed so banks don't have to report forclosures in the same way they used to.
Watch this video for a bit of information
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Xr98wQxeg
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04-20-2010, 08:55 AM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
By raising taxes, as this admin has announced it plans to do, private equity that would have been available to the economy will instead be locked up to shield it from confiscatory taxes rates. This will have a "snowball" effect throughout the economy.
Meanwhile, the Fed's current habit of printing money with nothing to back it will lead to inflation. We're set for a repeat of the "stagflation" of the 1970s. A stagnant economy with relatively high levels of inflation.
About the only good news is: a busted economy may help to keep oil and gas prices down. Of course, OPEC found a way around that problem back in the 1970s as well.
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04-20-2010, 09:04 AM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
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Originally Posted by pelathais
By raising taxes, as this admin has announced it plans to do, private equity that would have been available to the economy will instead be locked up to shield it from confiscatory taxes rates. This will have a "snowball" effect throughout the economy.
Meanwhile, the Fed's current habit of printing money with nothing to back it will lead to inflation. We're set for a repeat of the "stagflation" of the 1970s. A stagnant economy with relatively high levels of inflation.
About the only good news is: a busted economy may help to keep oil and gas prices down. Of course, OPEC found a way around that problem back in the 1970s as well.
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I think the government is covering things up so people don't panic. On the flip-side, people can't prepare either.
For some more bad news on the economy, we just have to look at the baby boomer population aging and starting to retire. This means social security and medicare (or whatever we will have) is going to go through the roof. We are simply on an unsustainable path and I don't understand what the government is doing to try and make things better. Of course, maybe the problem is that we are in so deep, we are at the point of no return. Never in the course of history has so much money been put into the system to try and stave off deflation. Of course, we need to stave off deflation but I'm very concerned about inflation (stagflation) instead.
They say we are creating new jobs. Doing what? The census (temporary) and new jobs to run the new government health care? What are we creating? What are we manufacturing?
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04-20-2010, 09:44 AM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
My best friend's husband is a financial adviser. He is in agreement ILG about the commercial real estate collapse. He says that we are WELL AWAY from recovery - might not be for decades....if the Lord tarries 
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04-20-2010, 09:53 AM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
If you don't have time to watch the whole video, watch from 3:35-4:30.
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04-20-2010, 09:55 AM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
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My best friend's husband is a financial adviser. He is in agreement ILG about the commercial real estate collapse. He says that we are WELL AWAY from recovery - might not be for decades....if the Lord tarries |
Yeah. And there is so little about this in the media. The dow is back up but it seems like a fluff thing. I don't understand it.
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04-20-2010, 05:57 PM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
Me either...but I do agree it's a fluff thing....
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04-21-2010, 08:16 AM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
Anybody out there have any guesses as to why the dow is up so high? Do you think it's real?
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04-21-2010, 04:23 PM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
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Anybody out there have any guesses as to why the dow is up so high? Do you think it's real?
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It's real alright... they said that the stock market would recover first before the rest of the economy...
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04-22-2010, 10:19 AM
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Re: The State of Our Economy
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It's real alright... they said that the stock market would recover first before the rest of the economy...
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Do you have more to base your thoughts on than what you said? I suppose people might be heavily investing, trying to get back what they lost....but I wonder what people are investing with? Ben Bernanke said he didn't even know where all the money from the bailouts went. Maybe the government put some of it into the stock market.
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