Bear Wisdom

In recent bear markets, stock values diminished approximately 30% from their highs. The DOW is down 16% YTD, so how much more will it fall until it gets back on track? So many hard working Americans save and invest in their 401k plans, and see great returns during good years for the market, [...]

 
False Hope:

UCLA experts say that in the recession of 2001, 358,000 manufacturing jobs were lost, and currently only 161,000 financial/construction jobs were lost, but they are comparing full job losses in 2001 when a full recession occurred to our current period where we already lost 161,000 jobs and still counting, and we’re not even [...]

Dow is up 417 points today, biggest one day jump since 2002. They Fed made an aggressive move by planning to lend $200 Billion in financial markets and accept Mortgage-Backed debt. The $200 Billion of Treasury securities to primary dealers will secured for 28 days, instead of overnight, which is the [...]

Since the dot-com bubble, the stock market has had some significant double digit gains, which positively affected our stock portfolios and 401K plans, but why would anyone want to give up those gains and ride out a bad market year, or years? Way too many people lost all their gains from 1995-2001 when the [...]

For the second straight month the labor force has lost 63,000 jobs in February, the most since March of 2003.  In January, 08 we lost 22,000 jobs. 
Many Wall Street analysts forecasted that an additional 25,000 jobs would be added in February. 
Foreclosure rate hits record high in 2007.  Approximately 6% of all mortgages nationwide [...]

At the end of 2007, many people, including myself had a strong feeling that the Stock market headed south in 08. So what could one do in order to protect his or her investments? Here is one strategy that anyone could have deployed during that time.

Dec, 07: Bought gold ETF [...]

· Billionaire Investor, Warren Buffett said today in an interview that the US is essentially in a recession. He has also taken back his offer to reinsure $800 billion of municipal bonds, which Ambac had already rejected.

· Dollar [...]