Global Bear Market Reality Is Here: Simon Baker

Put your money in your mattress.

Prior to 1975 stimulus increased purchases of American made goods and thus American jobs ! Now it stimulates some American jobs but mostly purchases now are imports thus increasing deficits ! The NWO and globalism caused this problem ! There is no free lunch ! The deficits at all levels will be paid for by higher income taxes and property taxes !! Flat taxes will reduce import purchases by the low and middle income but will also hurt domestic businesses, jobs, services, charities, and etc ! Import taxes will reduce imports and deficits and stimulate investment in American owned manufacturing jobs and tax base !

The reduction in interest rates was offset by the loss to American savers who didn't earn as much and as a result consume as much !

is the risk worth the reward??
that is the question.

In my opinion the stock market will be flat or evend decline significantly for the foreseeble future (I mean 3-5 years). The economy is virually in a state of depression, and any significant gains are purely psychlogically and anecdotally dirven (like the gains beween 2009 and two months ago). If you are a good mass psychologist you could make out with some cash, but this will be pure speculation and have nothing to do with the grim economic reality of the next decade.

There will be crests and troughs from the wave-like reverberations of the Globalized market from one end of the world to the other creating surge -like effects induced by "good" or "bad" news, and an experiened speculator can take advantage of this, but otherwise the author is right - it's a bear market and probably not for the long term investor.

If you buy stocks with solid dividends, then you are getting at least a rate of return and can wait out the ups and downs. That kind of buying and holding is probably better than cash or investing in any government bond. Or you can be a trader and buy a little every time the market goes down 300 and sell when it goes up 300....

The multi nationals and the instituions like the IMF and World Bank needs to pay off all internaitonal debt ! Greenspan and other global individuals need to be held accountable like Fords, Rockefellers, Carter, Bushes, Clintons, etal !

If the world financial system does not implode, then people will look back on Sep 2011 as a good buying opportunity. But if it does, we will look back at this time as the last chance to have saved your skin getting out of the market. The upside potential is not nearly as good as the downside potential is bad.

It's like going out swimming for sea shells in shark infested waters, is the potential gain worth the potential loss?

FedEx Corporation reported first quarter fiscal 2012 adjusted earnings of $1.46 per share, increasing 22% from $1.20 earned in the year-ago quarter.
Total revenue climbed 11% year over year to $10.52 billion.
Operating income increased 17% year over year to $737 million, resulting in operating margin of 7% compared with 6.6% in the year-ago quarter.
THAT"S A HORRIFIC QUARTER??????

Could we finally question wether growth is dead? How does this play into the hyper or high frequency trades? Can we get to a place where individual companies are valued for the value they bring society and the value of their balance sheets? It seems we can but need to bring back oversight of big banks/market makers/HF traders and endless ways to skim money from public. Until then it seems individuals should just say NO to the corruption and market swings created as pump and dump for the few. jmo

Really?

What I hate: gold, leverage, day trading, speculation, living beyond my means
What I like: long term investing, modesty, earning my money, saving & caring about the future

I found this interview top notch! Great information, technicals, a strong Q and A! Thumbs up! The verdict? Global markets are selling off and a global depression cannot be ruled out! Are you calling these trends positive? ...smiles...! NEXT!

I think the USA will become a 'safe haven' again. Gold is overpriced. Peace dividend will losen up more resources to balance budgets and pay down debt, rebuild infrastructure. ... But I am an optimist. ... Peace.

Hello,

This is the CIO at Baker Avenue. There appears to be some confusion about our Baker Avenue Market Sentiment Indicator (BAMSI) that we would like to address.

The BAMSI measures the trends of the stock market on an index of over 4,000 stocks. When greater than 50% of stocks in the index are showing positive trends, it indicates a positive market sentiment (a rising tide lifts all ships), while less than 50% indicates a negative market sentiment (it’s more difficult to make money when more stocks are falling than rising).

With over 40 years of this data we have found that when the BAMSI is negative, market risk is greater with higher volatility. The market is 7 times more likely to have drawdowns of greater than 5% when the BAMSI is negative.

It’s all about protecting against large losses, folks. When you are down 10%, you need 11% to breakeven. But when you are down 40% like a lot of investors in 2008, you need to generate 67% to breakeven.

Quick, run out and sell your gold and silver and trade for cash, I HEARD THE STORES ARE RUNNING SHORT OF TOILET PAPER!!

This is the 'Solyndra' economy.... It could be hours before a serious correction or 'Financial Collapse II' and we'll be hearing from geithner, The Bernank, and Ponzi Street, that everything is fine.

The "Game" isn't worth playing- never was, and never will be. Why? It's a pyramid scheme- even if you win, there's some poor fool who ate it. It's a zero sum game, and the hidden costs are sweat shops or the exploitation of the environment. The "creation of wealth" is just another spin sugar coating the underlying exploitation. Am I bringing you down? Good!

Capital preservation. Defense. End of growth as a model. Sustainability. Everyone is piling into treasuries before they go to negative interest. It is the safest place to park cash. If you hold to maturity....you get your money back. Banks.....questionable again. Bonds...corporate bonds in staples okay if you hold ...not to trade. The idea is to park your cash (if over 250,000 FDIC) somewhere that is out of the banking system....where the maturity dollar amount cannot (will not) go below the purchase amount. All other investment vehicles are for only the very very best poker players at this time.