High demand for Treasury inflation- protected securities (TIPS) shows Fed has lost control over economy and markets – stagflation hits main streets
Alan Hershey
Apr. 9, 2007

Higher energy prices, low wage growth, ineffective President, less than prudent foreign policy, third world alike underemployment, and commodity inflation are contributing towards the expanding stagflation. The Fed like in 1970s is losing respect from all the corners. The ballooning debt levels also are contributing to the problem.

The parallels with 1970s are very clear. Those were real bad days for stock markets especially the traders and investors. Dow Jones Industrial Average went nowhere between 1969 and 1982. According to some analytic models it’s déjà vu all over again.

High demand for Treasury inflation- protected securities (TIPS) conforms the stagflation theory. If that is the real underpinning in the economy, the Dow can stay between 11,000 and 13,000 for the next twenty years.

Crude oil in steep slide as lack of demand and oversupply embraces the market in absence of geopolitical gyration
Peter Oberois
Crude oil bulls say – in the last twenty years no new reserves were unleashed. Well that is true to some extent; the existing reserves right now are yielding levels never imagined before.
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High demand for Treasury inflation- protected securities (TIPS) shows Fed has lost control over economy and markets – stagflation hits main streets
Alan Hershey
High demand for Treasury inflation- protected securities (TIPS) conforms the stagflation theory. If that is the real underpinning in the economy, the Dow can stay between 11,000 and 13,000 for the next twenty years.
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Peter Oberois
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Oil will continue to collapse towards $50 a barrel and stock market will join the downtrend
Sam Adelton
But a point has reached when over supply of oil will make it come down sharply. The stock market will start the downward journey as economy starts going south under deflation.
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Real Estate recovery can last two years but brokers will get wiped out
Karen Zuba
The title insurers, the attorneys, the real estate brokers, the appraisers, the mortgage brokers, the inspection companies…. the list goes on who make big bucks on home resale.
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The bond market correction an ideal opportunity for trade as deflation expands its grip on economy – a steady slide in stock market lies ahead in April
Peyter Oberois
The corrective trend in the bond market is setting the stage for a fantastic rally in the debt markets. The higher than expected payroll rise has seasonal effects and is cyclical move within a new secular up trend in the employment rate.
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Industry chamber, CII today warned that any further tightening of money supply by the Reserve Bank of India would trigger a slowdown of the economy
Media Release
There are already emerging signals in the form of slowdown in the automotive sector and retail banking....
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