COMMON SENSE

If  Wall Street’s Greed  and Politician’s Fear could have solved the financial crisis, then why did we have to go through the pain of  last year?

For free market capitalism to work, both Main Street and Wall Street have to have greed and fear.   Even today, they average long term investor is only “Fearful” of missing the bull next rally.  They do not have any “fear of  losing everything”.  The “baby boomers” have taken the “buy, hold, and hope theory” to the maximum level, being eternally over optimistic with regards to the economy.  After all, they learned investing  during the 80’s and 90’s when the market had spectacular gains.  Now the baby boomers find themselves in a difficult position, believing the market will go up and the value of their homes will go up at the same time!   Currently, many baby boomers are putting off their retirement, once again,  hoping the markets will reward them for the failed theory of “buy, hold, and hope investing strategy“.

Fear and Greed are supposed to rule the markets, yet Wall Street has conditioned you to only have “fear” of missing the next bull rally. So you buy, hold,  and hope for the next bull market rally! You wanted cheap goods, cheap oil, while continuously buying more and consuming more!  I remember in 2008, when people were complaining about gasoline being at $5 a gallon.  I asked them, which is more valuable, a gallon of gas or your 401k plan?  The value of you portfolio in you 401k plan is directly linked to economy of oil, and oil to your stock market gains!

Meanwhile, the market media matrix was touting Goldie locks economy, green shoots, what is their next slogan to get you to spend every dime of your paycheck?

Wall Street has “Greed”, and no fear.  Wall Street tells the politicians as the markets were falling, ” we are all in this together”!    Last year, there were secret cigar smoking strategy rooms, weekend mergers, hostile takeovers, and plenty of back alley back stabbings stealing assets from weaker competitors.  The dog eat dog world of Wall Street, everyone was fighting to stay alive.

Now, just a year later, no one is talking about the “toxic assets” that are still held by those  bailout cry babies.   Meanwhile Bernake, Geitner, and Kardashin, are bringing in tons of cash to shore up the financial services industry with the indentured taxpayer!  The next market crash, will ensure the debts to your children and grandchildren.

OUR country’s  future is foretold  in the headlines of history,  “The 100 Trillion Dollar Note” as  Zimbabwe tries to stifle the fires of hyper inflation.   Politician’s Fear taking preventive actions, only to act decisively during a crisis, always choosing the  politically expedient  incompetent answer. A Trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon we are talking about “real money”!  Spending 25% of the nation’s GNP has never solved any  nation’s debt problem in the history!   The idiots in congress have never managed a busines, let alone a simple  a “hot dog stand”, yet they want to master mind economic recovery with an estimated100 Trillion in unfunded liabilities.

The Politician’s Greed, for incumbency forces him to take action during a crisis.  He rejects free market capitalism  correcting mechanism,       forgoing the short term temporary pain of a Depression.  He purposes silly fixes and proudly announces that he has solve the problem.

Engineering our way to  a Weimar Republic, which could be worse than a “Great Depression“.   In either case, hyper inflation or depression,  you will still have to have food!  If you don’t have 6 month to a years supply of food, that may be your best investment choice over the next 6 months.  Time is running out, you cannot simply trust in the “buy, hold, and hope” theory any more!

Doc

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The Buy and Hold Myth, part 5, looking at next week, the market will have  price reminisces of last years stock market.  Now, if you thought the market reached it’s low last year, you still suffered losses through the low in March 2009.  How would you like to learn how to avoid these unnecessary market drops, you will have to learn technical analysis to time the market during these short term cycles.  My blog post in Jan, 2006, I explain how the market media matrix manipulates into thinking there is always and eternal bull market.  I reviewed Jane Bryant Quinn article about the theory of “buy and hold” for long term investors.  I think you will find it interesting to know that if you missed the best 90 days of market gains, you would have a paltry$2.70 for every dollar invested.  If you followed the “buy and hold” theory, you would have $75 for every dollar invested.  Now that sounds like a good case for buy and hold, right?

However, if you would have missed the worst 90 days of the market, your gains would have been $1694!   I guess Wall Street’s “market media matrix” does want you to know about that!

• A.  buy, hold, hope for 42 years for 90 good days in the market, results $75.
• B.  time the market yourself and miss the best 90 performing days, results $2.70
• C.  use Doctrader’s  “red signal line” to avoid the worst performing 90 days of the market, results $1694.

Raise your hand if you can see which choice you want!

Introducing the “red signal line” to determine if the market are in a long term bull market or a long term bear market.

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“Free Consultation” with Jon D’Agostino Guest: Dominick Lombardi & Karen Conway DrMDK.com

 

 

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Profits, Politics, and Protection

By Doctrader.com

Starting on Monday, Americans will find out how much illegal immigration will cost businesses in profits, who will be held politically accountable, and how much it will cost for real border protection.
The Market Media Matrix dictates that all activities revolve around producing a profit. The “Market” is all forms of businesses and profits. The “Media” dictates how you should “think and feel” about businesses and events. The “Matrix” is created out of the mass consciousness of people who are not free, logical thinkers.” The “Market-Media” has created the “Matrix Reality”. When I talk to people about the high rates of taxes they just shrug their shoulders and say, “what can we do about it?” They are living their lives out in quiet desperation not realizing that they have the power to hold the politicians feet to the fire and change the “Matrix.” Due to political correctness, the false Market Media Matrix reality of “Generation X” has increased the children’s confidence and self assurances without any evidence of competency with the rest of the industrial nations.

Profits:
A profit at any cost is the American business motto, right? You can only judge a tree by the fruits it bears. There are many examples and antidotal evidence offered by the liberal news media about the benefits of illegal immigrants who are doing jobs that no one else would do. What all these stories fail to mention is that most illegal immigrants are making much more than minimum wages. The average person still believes that illegal immigrants are picking strawberries and cabbages for less than minimum wages. Illegal immigrants are being used for high paying skilled jobs, such as carpentry and masonry, landscaping, and un-skilled factory work. Which according to an immigrant advocate are averaging $15 per hour! These are the jobs everyone would want not just an illegal immigrant. In all business the largest cost factor is labor. So, given the choice of hiring an American or an illegal immigrant the businesses will hire those who will work for less money. Choosing the lower labor cost has depressed all American wage earners and increased corporation’s profits. Since it is not the businesses’ job to investigate an employee’s legal citizen status businesses can in spirit of the law and the letter of the law hire just about anyone with proper paperwork. This leads to greasing the political palms to keep the charade up of guest workers, undocumented workers and a whole host of politically correct names.

Politics:
Years ago, back in the 1980’s when I was in college I had to produce papers that I was an American citizen. Being a fan of the World War II movies I can hear in my mind the Gestapo saying, “Papers! Papers please. Show us your papers!”. When in the 1980’s the requirement of verifying citizenship was increased from a mere social security card or green card I was not a fan. I could not figure out why I had to show papers which could easily be stolen, copied, or forged and sold for a profit to illegal aliens. It would have been much simpler for the illegal immigrants to produce a “green card” allowing them to work here. The politics of producing profits was conditioning us, the law abiding American, to carry personal identification papers. The Pavlov Conditioning effects of the Market Medial Matrix created political power and profits to the politicians who supported the law.

Flash forward twenty (20) years and we have an invading army within our borders destroying our language and culture.

After 9/11 the first act of congress was to nationalize airline security by creating another political agency to “protect the American people” from hijacking. Meanwhile, the borders were left largely unguarded! The first step that should have been taken was to close the borders and not leave them wide open. This demonstrates the political incompetence of our politicians, both Democrat and Republican. Or, was it a calculated risk to gain the fast growing minority’s votes at the expense of the complacent tax burdened American voters?

The politicians never act until there is a crisis situation. They “come to the rescue” by enacting “knee-jerk public opinion polls” to make their constituents feel better Ben Franklin said, “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” We have been fooled again with the help of the Market Media Matrix. The immigration laws have not been enforced because of the large profit potential by employing illegal immigrants without the protection of the Labor Relation Laws. Liberal politicians would like for you to believe that every illegal immigrant is doing a job that no American would like to do. Never mind they are placing illegal immigrants in potentially abusive situations. Not only are the politicians failing to protect the immigrants they are failing to protect Americans by allowing open borders.

Let’s look at some simple numbers for a reality check.

If there are 15 million illegal immigrants within our country working hard and paying taxes “are we to believe that there are not deviants amount them”? “The Market Media Matrix dictates that all poor people are hard-working and honest“. Unfortunately, the Market Media Matrix reality bubble bursts with FBI statistics.

If we take the normal distribution of deviate behavior of the US population we know that at least 1% will have criminal tendencies ranging from child molesters to murders. If 99% of the illegal immigrants are law abiding and 1% are criminals. How much are these criminals costing us? The 1% represents 150,000 potential criminals who have to be caught, prosecuted, and incarcerated. The cost to the American tax payers include educating illegal immigrant’s children, welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, personal injuries, auto accidents, social security fraud, and a host of other expenses.

Protection:
Congress has failed to protect and uphold their oath of office. Congress should be recalled by the American people to hold their feet to the fire for allowing profits to come before this nation’s protection.

The first duties of the congressmen are to protect and preserve the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Last year there were 80 different nationalities of illegal immigrants were caught crossing the border from Mexico along with illegal immigrants. This undoubtedly is the greatest of security risk we have ever faced in our nation’s history. Yet, the Market Media Matrix has glossed over this major security flaw.

The first reasonable act of congress during a time of war should be to secure the borders. But in typical knee-jerk reaction they have created another useless government agency to help the airline industry.

Profits come first in America at the expense of protection. They have created the Homeland Security Agency and the TSA to protect Americans. These agencies provide very little protection against the massive open border policies which have been in place for the last 20 years. Congress has been complacently incompetent by incumbency. Congress’ complacency has been caused by voter’s incompetence repeatedly returning 95% of the politicians to office year-after-year. Through the help of the Market Media Matrix conditioning the average American by polarizing the population with stereotypical one-line sound bites. They include rich vs. poor, Republican vs. Democrat, White vs. Black, etc…grabs the attention of the average adult reading at a 5th grade level.

During last week’s protest march for illegal immigrants I witnessed the silent invasion of our country’s borders by a foreign nation. Seeing all the Mexican flags paraded throughout our streets should sound the Paul Revere Alarm. There is nothing more stirring to the American flag being raised on Iwo Jima by the marines who liberated the island from Japan during World War II. The spirit of those who fought World War II is gone today. The only worries of the Baby-boomer generation is how much profit they are going to make on their pension plans, homes, and their stock portfolios.
Congress should not make any new laws. They need to follow those already in place.

The first step is having the guts to close the borders, enforce the immigration laws, and build a secure border. The next step should be to determine who and where illegal immigrants are. Once that is determined these people should be added to the waiting list of those who are legally petitioning to enter the US.

Protection of our borders should come first over politics and profits for corporations.

God Bless

Doc

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