Bulls, Bears & Bucks #58: De recessie-expres dendert door

quote:

Op zondag 31 mei 2009 19:08 schreef SeLang het volgende:

[..]

Het wordt weer tijd voor de volgende bailout- en nationalisatie ronde

quote:

Op zondag 31 mei 2009 20:43 schreef henkway het volgende:

[..]

laat maar omvallen die bank

quote:

Op maandag 1 juni 2009 13:04 schreef pberends het volgende:
Rabobank: crisis is lang en diep

quote:

Surviving U.S. Hyperinflation will be Greatest Challenge of our Lifetimes

Most Americans don't realize just how fragile life in the United States is. The chains of interdependency have expanded to such a great length, you probably have no idea where the food in your supermarket comes from. Most likely, it doesn't come from local farmers, but rather from hundreds or thousands of miles away.

The rioting and looting after Hurricane Katrina was just a warm up to what is likely to take place during hyperinflation. When the U.S. Dollar becomes worthless, cities and municipalities won't be able to pay their police forces. Without any law and order or food on the shelves at stores, the facade of civilization that exists today will quickly evaporate.

The most important step to take right now is to move away from major cities and into a less densely populated area. The smaller the population where you live, the less problems you will have during hyperinflation. There will be mass exoduses from cities, so you better leave now before the highways resemble parking lots.

You are going to need both access to lethal force and the help of friends to keep your property secure. Living on a farm with a gun in the middle of nowhere isn't safe when packs of hungry people can attack at any time. It is important to strike a balance by living in both a lightly populated area, and in a community with other families who are willing to work together as a group.

When choosing friends to be in this group, make sure they share your morals and outlook on society. The last thing you want is to be fighting with each other, when you should be fighting as a team for your lives, liberty and property. You will need a group of friends that have the skills you lack, in areas such as medicine, electronics, and carpentry.

With food prices likely to soar most during hyperinflation, Agriculture will be the best business to be in for decades to come. Consider going to a farming school, or at least practicing how to plant a garden. You don't want to grow food for the first time when hyperinflation arrives, and find out that bugs eat it or the soil is no good.

Simple skills like sewing will be good to have during hyperinflation. Once China cuts off their textile exports to the U.S., it will make more sense for Americans to repair the clothes they own, rather than buy new clothes. All Americans, even those with millions of dollars in the bank, will need to learn how to get their hands dirty and do things for themselves.

Learn to be frugal. If you ever laughed at your parents or grandparents for cutting out coupons, using every last bit of toothpaste, or turning off the lights when leaving a room, you should realize they probably lived through the Great Depression and learn from their wisdom.

Now is the time to take whatever cash you have and invest into gold and silver. Gold just saw its biggest monthly price gain since November, and silver had its biggest monthly gain in 22 years. Gold is getting ready to permanently break $1,000 per ounce. The mainstream media won't begin recommending the investment into gold until it reaches $2,000 per ounce, at which time a mania will begin that will be bigger than the dot-com and Real Estate booms combined.

It is important for us to spread our knowledge about the hyperinflation that is ahead and prepare as many of our friends and family members now before it's too late. The more friends and family you get on the right track now by telling them about NIA, the more people you will have to return the favor in the future when you need their help and loving support most.

http://inflation.us

quote:

Op maandag 1 juni 2009 21:57 schreef pberends het volgende:

[..]

quote:

Op maandag 1 juni 2009 22:23 schreef waht het volgende:

[..]

hehe, in feite kun je 'inflation' gewoon vervangen door 'peak oil' en je hebt de strekking van berichten die al een tijdje de rondte doen op the internets sinds de prijsstijging van olie vanaf 2004 tot en met nu.

quote:

US red ink to top $1.8 trillion, 4 times record; gov't borrows 46 cents for every dollar spent

* Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer
* On Monday May 11, 2009, 3:29 pm EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates.

Budget office figures released Monday would add $89 billion to the 2009 red ink -- increasing it to more than four times last year's all-time high as the government hands out billions more than expected for people who have lost jobs and takes in less tax revenue from people and companies making less money.

The unprecedented deficit figures flow from the deep recession, the Wall Street bailout and the cost of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill -- as well as a seemingly embedded structural imbalance between what the government spends and what it takes in.

As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion, the White House says. The deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps.

Just a few days ago, Obama touted an administration plan to cut $17 billion in wasteful or duplicative programs from the budget next year. The erosion in the deficit announced Monday is five times the size of those savings.

For the current year, the government would borrow 46 cents for every dollar it takes to run the government under the administration's plan. In 2010, it would borrow 35 cents for every dollar spent.

"The deficits ... are driven in large part by the economic crisis inherited by this administration," budget director Peter Orszag wrote in a blog entry on Monday.

The developments come as the White House completes the official release of its $3.6 trillion budget for 2010, adding detail to some of its tax proposals and ideas for producing health care savings. The White House budget is a recommendation to Congress that represents Obama's fiscal and policy vision for the next decade.

Annual deficits would never dip below $500 billion and would total $7.1 trillion over 2010-2019. Even those dismal figures rely on economic projections that are significantly more optimistic -- just a 1.2 percent decline in gross domestic product this year and a 3.2 percent growth rate for 2010 -- than those of private sector economists and the Congressional Budget Office.

As a percentage of the economy, the measure economists say is most important, the deficit would be 12.9 percent of GDP this year, the biggest since World War II. It would drop to 8.5 percent of GDP in 2010.

In the past three decades, deficits in the range of 4 percent of GDP have caused Congress and previous administrations to launch efforts to narrow the gap. The White House predicts deficits equaling 2.9 percent of the economy within four years.

Polling data suggest Americans are increasingly worried about mounting deficits and debt.

An AP-GfK poll last month gave Obama relatively poor grades on the deficit, with just 49 percent of respondents approving of the president's handling of the issue and 41 percent disapproving. By contrast, Obama's overall approval rating was 64 percent, with just 30 percent disapproving.

"Even using their February economic assumptions -- which now appear to be out of date and overly optimistic -- the administration never puts us on a stable path," said Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group that advocates budget discipline. "The president ... understands the critical importance of fiscal discipline. Now we need to see some action."

For the most part, Obama's updated budget tracks the 134-page outline he submitted to lawmakers in February. His budget remains a bold but contentious document that proposes higher taxes for the wealthy, a hotly contested effort to combat global warming and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all.

Meanwhile, the congressional budget plan approved last month would not extend Obama's signature $400 tax credit for most workers -- $800 for couples -- after it expires at the end of next year.

Obama's "cap-and-trade" proposal to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions is also reeling from opposition from Democrats from coal-producing regions and states with concentrations of heavy industry. Under cap-and-trade, the government would auction permits to emit heat-trapping gases, with the costs being passed on to consumers via higher gasoline and electric bills.

Also new in Obama's budget details are several tax "loophole" closures and increased IRS tax compliance efforts to raise $58 billion over the next decade to help finance his health care measure. The money would make up for revenue losses stemming from lower-than-hoped estimates for his proposal to limit wealthier people's ability to maximize their itemized deductions.

quote:

Woningprijzen in Nederland zullen scherp dalen: -42%?



laatst gewijzigd: 20-04-2009 10:22

De eerste barsten in de zeepbel: de verkopen dalen. Wanneer de huizenmarkt het scenario van 1978-1983 volgt wacht ons mogelijk een prijsdaling van 42%.

Lagere woningprijzen
Vrijwel alle deskundigen zijn het er inmiddels over eens dat woningprijzen naar beneden gaan, maar de meningen zijn behoorlijk verdeeld over hoe lang de reeds ingezette daling zal gaan duren en hoe fors de daling zal zijn.' Dat zegt Maartje Martens van Huizenmarkt-zeepbel.nl.

Financiële crisis
Er zijn duidelijke indicaties voor een langdurige en ernstige stagnatie van de koopwoningmarkt en voor een flinke daling van de woningprijzen. Hoe groot is de zeepbel? Wanneer het scenario van de woningmarktcrisis van 1978-1983 wordt geprojecteerd op de huidige zeepbel in de koopwoningmarkt kunnen we ons opmaken voor een prijsdaling van 42% over de komende vijf jaar.

quote:

Op maandag 1 juni 2009 22:55 schreef pberends het volgende:
Geithner uitgelachen door studenten

quote:

Op dinsdag 2 juni 2009 09:25 schreef SeLang het volgende:

[..]

Toch vreemd dat die Chinezen Geithner uitlachen, want zij zijn juist degenen die worden gepwned (ze lopen een enorm risico in ruil voor bijna geen rendement). Ik denk dat Geithner juist die Chinezen uitlacht achter de schermen.

quote:

Op dinsdag 2 juni 2009 08:44 schreef pberends het volgende:
Beetje oud, maar goed:
[..]

quote:

Op dinsdag 2 juni 2009 15:26 schreef dyna18 het volgende:

[..]

Tja, wat moet je hier nou van zeggen. Deze grafiek is berekend op basis van de gemiddelde economische groei en inkomens groei.
Wat daarmee dus niet meegenomen wordt is schaarste. Ook bij woningen geldt het principe van vraag- en aanbod en Nederland wordt ondertussen zo vol dat de de vraag naar huizen groter is dan wat er gebouwd wordt. Ik vrees dus dat veel mensen zich verkijken op hoe ver de huizenprijzen zullen zakken en dat zodra de economie weer aantrekt de prijzen dubbel zo hard weer zullen stijgen.

Redenen voor flink stijging van de huizenprijzen binnenkort:
- Iedereen die nu wil verhuizen wacht af en zal straks alsnog tegelijkertijd gaan kopen
- Er wordt flink minder gebouwd
- Steeds meer inwoners in Nederland die ergens moeten wonen
- Lokale pieken in de grote steden aangezien het platteland leegloopt

- Daar staat wel een durerente tegenover, maar met alle subsidieregelingen zullen mensen toch die hypotheek wel nemen (wat kunnen ze anders, ze moeten toch wonen).

quote:

Op dinsdag 2 juni 2009 15:36 schreef sitting_elfling het volgende:

[..]

Jij verwacht na al het gelazer met woning prijzen als de economie weer aantrekt, mensen eerder geneigd zijn om maar even een groter bedrag voor het huis te betalen? Oftewel geld weggooien? Wetende dat een investering in een huis niet bepaald een kapitaal vaste investering is.

quote:

Op dinsdag 2 juni 2009 21:02 schreef simmu het volgende:
whehe, remember een jaartje of anderhalf geleden met die nieuwe boekhoudregels? hier de nieuwe boekhoudregels dan....