History also demonstrates that in general individuals favour freedom over serfdom. So, what happened to that chaotic scene they predicted? We are not taking sides but looking at trends and history, and history is replete with examples illustrating that when “fear” is used as a weapon, the ones to fear are the ones putting this weapon to use. For that is what these garbage collectors do, they collect waste and try to spin it off as something valuable.īefore the Brexit vote, the naysayers made a great deal of noise of how a “ yes” vote would lead to total chaos.
Well, think of any garbage and add it to this list. For example, they are making all sorts of dire predictions about Brexit (some of which border on the preposterous), they keep focussing on the calamitous consequences the US will face if there is no trade deal with China, experts are emerging about the dangers of lower rates and an inverted yield curve, etc. This is how they incept new ideas into the masses you create doubt and then let that doubt grow. The wise guys at the Mass Media outlets are already pushing a new narrative. Mass Media Fails To Account For Forever Quantitative Easing For those allergic to work, the option is simple sit back and relax, for we always view crash type events as opportune moments when the trend is positive. Take this as an early warning that should the media jackasses start pushing another B.S story, instead of panicking, one should break out of a bottle of champagne, and as the masses panic calmly sip on that champagne and build a list of strong stocks one always wanted to purchase. Despite the record-setting buyback authorization levels, 2018 has been an unusual year in that fewer companies are accounting for the total buybacks, he says. Some of those are listed in the nearby table. Announcements reached $1.08 trillion, with nearly half concentrated in 19 companies, which account for $460 billion of the total. “There’s been a significant pickup in recent weeks,” with markets in a downdraft, he adds. stock repurchase announcements crossing the $1 trillion mark in mid-December for the first time, according to Michael Schoonover, the portfolio manager of the Catalyst Buyback Strategy fund (ticker: BUYIX). Lesson 2 in Stock Investing For Dummiesįorever Quantitative Easing Fuelling Buyback binge:īuybacks appear to be nearing a crescendo, with total U.S. Share buybacks are rising and have continued to grow since we first posted that article. Gone are the days where there was a semblance of caring for the investor insiders are only concerned with how much they can make and they don’t care if they destroy the company in the process. Corporations will continue down this path until new laws are enacted and they will become more emboldened with time. The outlook has only worsened since then the new tax breaks corporations got will be used to purchase more shares, and the reason is simple, it pays more in the short term to boost profits by reducing share count than in investing in the company. However, we first addressed this phenomenon back in in 2015 and here is the link that details what was said at that time The term forever QE has just started to come into play recently, and mainstream media is most likely going to embrace this term and weaponise it in not so distant future. Forever Quantitative Easing is here to stay and this means until it ends, every backbreaking correction has to be treated as a mouth-watering opportunity.
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