The timing is only different, he says, because “banks these days are much bigger than they were in 1929.” In the 20’s institutions were reliant on client money to lead their bailout attempts. Today Central Banks have the ability to call on future, often overstated, tax revenues and are unencumbered by anything such as a gold standard when attempting to ward off the human desire to hide under the covers, financially speaking.
Henry S. Dent has a pretty good track record of foretelling what will happen. Nobody can predict when it will happen just what is going to happen and so far, the next crash is taking longer because of Fed stimulus.
He recommends get out of stocks, commodities and get into cash and U.S Treasuries. He is not a gold bug though. He thinks it is a commodity and will get pull down with all other commodities.
Canada needs Canadian’s to spend to grow the economy and battle the global economic downturn, however the wages of working Canadian’s are not increasing in line with the cost of living.
Statistics Canada has outline that the major provinces are struggling with slow job growth which makes it harder for workers to demand higher wages and couple that with a rise in commodity prices around the world and you can see that energy (fuel) and food costs takes a bigger chunk out of Canadian’s pay cheques.
Great video of economist John Mauldin talk about where America is going with all this debt being created in the name of economic recovery. John Mauldin has been a guest on Yahoo Finance, Reuters and other financial news network before discussing his views on the U.S and other economies.
After watching this video or his presentation you will see just how grave the economic situation is in the United States.
Many economic analyst out there are warning that the Canadian housing market is overvalued and flooded with supply. While the U.S housing market crashed in 2007 and still have not recovered, Canada during that time has boomed.
However, Canada is not completely immune to global slowdowns. If anything we are in a delayed cycle, Canadians now have record high debt levels and are buying houses driving prices higher on cheap mortgages. This behavior in somewhat like what happen to American’s except we are a few years behind.
The main stream media always use the word “recovery” very lightly and liberally even though the truth of the matter with the U.S and world economy is that things are getting worse. This is the way the media lie to people to get them to keep spending. The worlds debt keeps increasing at the fastest rate in history and people all around the world are suffering, because of stupid bets made by both banks and governments.
Generally CNBC is a financial network that I think most of the anchors or so called journalist on CNBC are bought and paid for by Wall Street. Usually, they are always bullish and trying to get people to get into the market even when presented with evidence of slowdowns or crash ahead.