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This article was contributed by Lior Gantz of The Wealth Research Group.
Every two or three weeks, I see another article published on how Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, is underperforming the S&P 500 and how his cash pile of over $128B is a giant waste – since it could be making his shareholders a fortune, had it been invested in this late-stage bubble surge.
While that’s temporarily true, it is also important to remember that Buffett isn’t a stock investor; he is a business owner who seeks to own portions of businesses, purchasing their equity when the rate of compounding could be uniquely high, holding them forever, not for short periods of time.
For that to occur, for a company that grows at 8%-10% over time and yields a 2%-3% dividend, to compound at a rate of 16%-19% (TWICE as fast as the S&P 500), you have to PAY a fair price or BELOW that. This is what Warren Buffett has succeeded at locating in his 60-yr career – a company that, on average, compounds at 12% will only return 16%-19%, if they buy it CHEAP.
Right now, that’s simply not possible to do. While it is true that if one buys more of the S&P 500 index today, he is almost guaranteed to make money over time and will certainly be able to generate an above-inflation return over a period of 10-15 years, he could also WAIT and make much more.
Sitting on cash isn’t popular or profitable, but if you have REASON TO BELIEVE that stocks are due for a 20%-50% downside crash, Dot.Com-bubble-burst-style or 2008-style, there’s a LEGITIMATE reason to be cashed-up.
Buffett isn’t the only billionaire or the only serially-successful, illuminated investor that is CAUTIONING the average person to stay clear of stocks at the moment. Howard Marks, who wrote the best investment book I’ve ever read, is also publicly warning about the expensive markets.
Here are a number of the charts and data points that they’re watching:
For one, if this analog continues to mirror the 1999-2000 period, in 3-4 months the markets will PEAK, followed by a MORE THAN 50% crash.
The S&P 500 index is currently trading at the highest gap above its 200-DMA since January 2018, right before it underwent a 10% correction. The S&P 500 is now also running on fumes, since for 2 months and 10 days, it hadn’t SUFFERED a -1% daily loss. This very much resembles the 2018 era, right before the -19.2% bloodbath, when that -1% daily loss streak lasted nearly four months.
Not only is the S&P 500 historically OVERBOUGHT, expensive and risky as hell; the NASDAQ is looking like a perfect bubble about to pop!
Take a look: the Relative Strength Index is as ALARMING as it was right before the Dot.Com burst and before the 2016 and 2018 corrections:
The index isn’t comprised of penny tech stocks like back then, but the logic of putting new money into the index right now is, in my book, ALMOST non-existent. The risk/reward setup is totally biased against you.
If this is the case, and if all hedge funds, pension funds, and self-managed accounts can see the writing on the wall, why are investors still LONG as they’ve ever been?
Before I get to answering that, notice how COMPLACENT buyers are, on top of being greedy – the VIX is sitting at all-time lows:
The answer is that they’re POSITIVELY CONVINCED that the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, as well as the People’s Bank of China, will do ANYTHING – absolutely ANYTHING – to avoid a recession. In fact, the first Wall Street billionaire has officially stated that the FED might even cut rates to ZERO.
This is not a gold bug that has been predicting doom and gloom for 40 years in a row, like a broken clock, and advising to build shelters in the hills; it’s a mainstream investor who is educated with the history and likelihood of such policies.
As I see it, interest rates under the dollar reserve currency system are NEVER going up again!
If we live in a world where bonds don’t generate any interest, then stocks become much more valuable, automatically; this is their main allure. This is the reason that sellers aren’t taking profits – where would they go for returns?
The FED is already STIMULATING in irregular amounts and frequency in the past few months. In essence, it is acting as though it is fighting off a recession, but I remind you that U.S. unemployment rates are at half-century lows, the consumer is enjoying low debt burden and taxes have been cut. Logically, the central bank shouldn’t be embarking on stimulus plans in 2020, but it is.
All I can say is that stocks might be a DEATHTRAP; that is, traditional indices like the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Dow Jones are seriously ON THE PRECIPICE of something ominous.
In all such previous moments, in 2000 and in 2008, the commodities sector was the biggest winner of the HEDGING strategies that smart money implemented.
Bitcoin is already having its BEST START to a calendar year and palladium, the 4th precious metal, is going PARABOLIC as well.
Bottom line, this is the most overbought market in history, which is in this shape – not due to strong fundamentals, but SOLELY thanks to the assumption that central banks will be PERFORMING MIRACLES to keep this from deflating.
It’s your call on how to address these facts and how to make money in a world that has clearly lost all risk aversion. In my case, I will continue to hedge by owning the HIGHEST-QUALITY resource stocks, which have already DOUBLED for us since June 2019.
Expect a very important alert from us this week.
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Speaking of deathtraps
The WHO advises that hand sanitizer will not kill Coronavirus.
Also this from the CDC
Unlike sterilization, disinfection is not sporicidal. A few disinfectants will kill spores with prolonged exposure times (3–12 hours); these are called chemical sterilants. At similar concentrations but with shorter exposure periods (e.g., 20 minutes for 2% glutaraldehyde), these same disinfectants will kill all microorganisms except large numbers of bacterial spores; they are called high-level disinfectants. Antiseptics are germicides applied to living tissue and skin; disinfectants are antimicrobials applied only to inanimate objects. In general, antiseptics are used only on the skin and not for surface disinfection, and disinfectants are not used for skin antisepsis because they can injure skin and other tissues. Virucide, fungicide, bactericide, sporicide, and tuberculocide can kill the type of microorganism identified by the prefix. For example, a bactericide is an agent that kills bacteria.
—My ADVISE stick with bleach.
Same sort of thing I heard about happening if Trump got elected.
FWIW, I do consider stocks overvalued but have no idea which way they are going to go from here or when.
If I did think it was a collapse in the making I would be short selling right and left. But I and all the doomsayers don’t, so I and they are not. Anyone not willing to put their money behind their stock prophecies, and make their positions public, is not worth listening to.
There is the slim possibility that we are in the privatization phase stated by Martin Armstrong. Here public governments are broke and investors buy solvent private corporations. One of the results is runaway inflation like in Venezuela where the stock market goes up a hundred fold per year because money is being so quickly created and devalued. In this case the stock market won’t decline until actual money (valid currency or commodities) is used to represent the indexes.
Inflation in America is running at about eight per cent (Shadowstats). The CPI is misleading because its components, with rapidly increasing prices, are often replaced by components with slowly increasing prices. Also, with the passing of FASB-56, government numbers can be made up. This is essentially taxation without representation.
All this is just my opinion please do your homework.
Yes, that rule 56 certainly points to the disdain the government has for the people. They can hide expenditures wherever they like under the guise of “national security”.
The US is a banana republic.
Economic fundamentals have been screwy for a long time. The U.S.Govt. and the Fed. Reserve have vested interests in continuing the charade. The interest due on U.S. debt is so great that the system cannot survive with normal market fluctuations, especially increases in INTEREST RATES. How long can the powers that be continue to juggle all the pieces? Who knows?
History of the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, British silver crash, and others should indicate the seriousness of this article.