Oct 10, 2008 | 2:47 PM
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News
It is apparent to see that our Investments are dropping every day. I tend to believe that this is due to a trend of - Bad - Fly By Night Wanna Be Investors - who are starting to panic. There are some differences to consider from the drop we are being compared to from the latter part of the 1980's. We now have individuals who are playing stock brokers without any form of education on E-Trade. That opens the World Market up for a faster overnight financial disaster than anything else. We have Americans investing in the Chinese market - the Chinese investing in their market - we have the Middle East investing in our market and every where else - and so on without the help of Stock Brokers. This was an option not available to us back in the late 1980's - so is the percentage of drop all that bad when we take away the actual investments that are not being controlled by stock brokers?
I don't think our economy should be based on over night investors - but more along the lines of long term investments. I honestly believe that no one should be putting their retirement funds into an investment market either. Ok - it would be good - if the return gives us 15 to 20% - however that is not realistic. The best return I ever had was 3 - 4% - ok now you know I don't have that Midas Touch. If you have invested - what's the best return you've received?
It seems when the 401k investment funds started - it was doom to fail or go broke - especially since our economy is known to cycle up and down every 8 - 10 years. We have individuals playing with the chances they will make it rich in a short amount of time. Therefore - causing what we know to be - investment bubbles.
Recently we have had a "Housing Investment Bubble" that burst - then the "Oil Future Investment Bubble came around and just recently broke." Both showed how quick people became greedy - living the good life for a while at the expense of others - then quickly going broke on each - and because of this - the timing is right for the DOW to drop even more. So it surprises me that everyone is living off of the media's gloom and doom right now. With the price of oil going down - the DOW - will have to drop - it's a given. And others who had an investment in the housing or oil bubble that went broke - are now at the time of having to cash in any other investments they may have had in order to live off of. So that will always cause the DOW to drop even more. The baby boomers are retiring now and are beginning to live off of their retirement funds - many of them are cashing in to live off the money it's made. So is the economy that bad or is it the timing is right for the DOW to drop like it is - given all of these things to think about? I believe as the next stage of baby boomers begin to prepare for retirement - the investment market will recover. And probably would have on their own with out the bail out of our Government. But then again - if you have read my topic on Consipiracy - Rumor - Or Truth - then you will know how I feel about the position of where our economy is in today.
Now the things I see and think about is looking at these bubbles that lasted for awhile and trying to take a shot at figuring out - why the housing market - why the oil market - and then it occurred to me - these are investments made towards our - necessities - items we have to have in order to live. We need a house to live in (just us Americans want every thing bigger and better) and we need oil for many things - of course the biggest being transportation.
Now with that in mind - there will be more "investment bubbles," - I see the following coming next that will have a major impact on our lives.
1) Food.
2) Electricity.
3) Pharmaceuticals.
4) Propane.
5) Clothes.
6) Alternative Transportation.
7) Alternative Fuels.
8) And possibly back to the good old savings bonds.
So what type of investment bubbles do you think will be on it's way next?
