tschuckman@aol.com
Sorry to be the barer of sour News, albeit, pure truth from a top expert. Time to grill some steaks outside before it rains, soon.
A fine friend of mine agreed with me, about being more discreet and limited in certain things, ways, web sites, F/B, etc. No one needs to know my business -- because they don't have a life of their own, and they feel the need to run down my character or spoil my good name, etc. Not to worry though -- I am not being negative, just truthful. I am constantly refining myself, and trying to streamline and organize my life, to simplify it. I want and seek to "unclutter" the rest of my life without worry and try to share / experience only on the good things and blessings that fall into my lap when I pray for peace, comfort, good relationships, love and Joy. I am so grateful for what I have right now, the pure love and bounty, special HAPPINESS that I believe Father God has blessed me with.... after chasing rabbits into rabbit holes, 'searching for love in al the wrong places' [the name of a Country song...lol]. Like I said so many times before.... so many 'ladies' CLAIM to be "Christian" and 'know the bible' --- only to break their promises, commitments, contracts, and just dump their husbands of weak pretexts.... duh. God will repay, and I am only going to devote ONE little sentence to that part of my past. I am a sinner too, I freely admit, but I think a new era/ time has opened up for me, no matter what goes down in the near future ! Smile.
It seems that all of my close, trusted friends have the mindset that Father God will provide for them no matter what goes down in the world, and the USA, and they are correct, for the most part. It's just that I once thought I was so talented, hard working, educated and skilled, and then the rug was pulled out from under me and I slid so far down and thru the cracks that I was utterly SHOCKED at how far a man can 'fall from grace' and hit the skids, no matter what I did. But perhaps this was the Father's design to 'humble me' and bring me to HIM. At any rate -- that was when I finally found the one true God, His Son, and the H.S.
And so, another catastrophe is already in the "pipeline" even as MOST folks in the world still don't see the 'signs,' sorry. I know that I bet my drum often, perhaps too often, to share this news with the wise--- to help them, also to get their feed back.
In most of my humble blog posts, I share and declare all the bad, horrible, negative things that the smart, real, experts see --- but I also give that glimmer of divine hope and trust in the KJV Scriptures, and promises to His servants and Believers. So I try to give balance to everything, dear friends, and I hope you all "see" that.
Well, I need to "make hay while the sun shines." Good bye for now.
Warm Regards,
Tommy Schuckman
email: tschuckman@aol.com
Have a great, safe, Day !! Smile.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." ----John 14: 27.
Above: My two beautiful daughters, Sarah and Barb.
The Next President’s #1 Problem
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I’ve paid close attention to speeches by presidential candidates ever since Eisenhower.
And I can tell you unequivocally: Despite everything they may say, they’ve always had more in common than not.
Typically, no matter how they struggled to differentiate themselves, many still came off sounding like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
This year may be the paramount exception — Clinton declaring last week in San Diego that Trump would lead the nation into war; Trump retorting from San José that she’s guilty of criminal activity; each offering a radically different choice for voters.
But more so than ever before in our lifetime, when it comes to our money, our retirement and our entire financial future, the next president’s number one challenge is White House impotence.Fast forward seven months, put yourself in the president’s shoes, and you’ll see exactly what I mean …
The Day after Inauguration, January 21, 2017
You’re in the Oval Office. The Rose Garden is blanketed with snow. And regardless of what you may have planned for this memorable day, you’re confronted with a series of fix-or-fail financial and economic disasters that trump all else.
Disaster #1
U.S. Commercial Real Estate
You thought the real estate boom-and-bust story was done and over. So did all your economic advisers.
You should have known.
But it seems everyone’s eyes were on the last war (the housing market). So they underestimated — or completely overlooked — the epic new bubble (in commercial real estate).
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| This chart, presented by Mike Larson at the Las Vegas Money Show in May 2016, stood out as a blatant warning of the coming debacle in commercial real estate. |
Specifically, no one on your team saw or paid much attention to this chart, demonstrating that …
1. The year 2016 brought an epic commercial real estate bubble …
2. That bubble greatly exceeded the comparable bubble of the 2008-2009 real estate debacle. And …
3. The commercial real estate market began to peak in the middle of the presidential campaign.
If you’re president of the United States in 2017, this is a huge shock. It takes priority over your list of favorite spending initiatives, be it for jobs, health care, or walls. And for reasons I’ll explain in a moment, there’s virtually nothing you or the Fed can do to stop it.
(Mike Larson was among the first to warn about this in The Next Big Real Estate Turn Is Here and Is a New Real Estate Crisis Looming?)
Disaster #2
U.S. Automobile Industry
The domestic auto market delivers your second shock, and again, you or your advisers should have known: A full eight months before Inauguration Day, JD Power released telltale numbers that clearly forewarned of this debacle:
They showed that over 31% of auto borrowers owed more on their cars than their cars were worth, a record high.
They showed that a 29% of auto loans stretched out as long as six to seven years, triple the level of 2010 and also a record high.
They showed that even 84-month loans weren’t enough to satisfy the auto makers’ lust for sales to consumers unable or unwilling to pay for the car they want. So they decided to push leases like never before, accounting for a record 33.6% of auto purchases.
And as if all that was not enough to lure in buyers, auto salespeople were offered huge incentives of approximately 9.3% of the cars’ sticker prices, also a new record.
(See also Is Leasing Boom Setting the Stage for an Auto Sector Bust? and Shocking New Stats Show Why Auto Bubble is a Disaster in the Making.)
Exactly eight years earlier, your predecessor faced what appeared to be a similar battle on the Detroit front. But alas, as I’ll explain in just a moment, the weapons he had at his disposal for that fight are now gone.
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Sinking Global Economy
Now, as POTUS #45, if you and your experts weren’t prepared for this particular shock, you truly had your heads in the sand.
Why? Because 21 days before the 2016 Indiana primary, when Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, the IMF declared in its own bold headline …
“Global Economy Faltering from Too Slow Growth for Too Long.”
Moreover, in their World Economic Outlook, they listed a host of reasons …
- “The slowdown and rebalancing in China
- “A further decline in commodity prices, especially for oil, with sizable redistributive consequences across sectors and countries
- “A related slowdown in investment and trade
- “Declining capital flows to emerging market and developing economies,” plus
- “A host of noneconomic factors, including geopolitical tensions and political discord.”
- China, the world’s second largest economy, on the verge of a volcanic eruption due to extreme income inequality, spurring popular revolts, labor protests, massive government crackdowns and more revolts. (For more proof, don’t miss The Biggest Global Risk Right Now and The China Fallacy.)
- The European Union, with a combined GDP that rivals that of America’s, very vulnerable to surging anti-EU forces.
- Not to mention Brazil, already in its worst recession since the 1930s … Russia, long-ago devastated by oil-price collapses … and every major commodity-producing economy on the planet, suffering similar hits.
“For the backburner” comes the immediate answer. “With the largest economies in trouble, the ships of global trade are sinking across the Atlantic and Pacific. No one, not even someone with intense scorn for NAFTA or TPP, wants to rock those boats just now.”
Meanwhile, back home, America’s large corporations began cutting back sharply on their capital expenditures one year before Inauguration Day.
Then, a half year before Inauguration Day, on June 3, 2016, the U.S. Labor Department shocked the world with news that job growth was collapsing.
So right now, no one, not even among politicians enamored with the idea of a $15 minimum wage, wants to poke more holes in the job market.
Disaster #4
No More Weapons
All of these disasters — and others — funnel into one, single, not-so-strange economic phenomenon: Recession.
And alas, that’s also something you should have known. On average since World War II, recessions have struck every 73 months. And by January 2017, you’re already into month 91.
What is out of the ordinary is this: Unlike any other president in modern history, you’re virtually powerless to do much about it.
You see, every other president in the last century has always had a powerful ally for combating recessions — the Federal Reserve. And the Federal Reserve has forever had a very simple, very effective weapon — interest-rate cuts.
In fact, in past recessions, the Fed has always dropped its official rates sharply, and all your predecessors in the Oval Office had this great advantage …
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In 1970, under Nixon, the rate cut was 6.2 percentage points.
Ford presided over a whopping 8.3-point cut in the mid-1970s.
And the Fed under Carter beat them all with a 10.3-point cut in the early 1980s.
George H. Bush got a 6.9-point cut from the Fed.
Bill Clinton got a 5.5-point cut during the Tech Wreck of the early 2000s.
Plus, your immediate predecessors, George W. Bush and Barack Obama were in office when the Fed gave them a 5.1-point cut to combat the housing bust.
Ever since 1960, presidents of both parties got magnanimous nonpartisan gifts from the Fed in the form of rate cuts averaging 6.4 percentage points.But you? No. You’re out of the luck, at the tail end of the chain letter. You get nothing. Zilch.
You give the Fed Chair a call. You ask her what she can do for you.
She talks about below-zero interest rates. “Maybe a half point at most,” she says.
But even then, she warns, it’s highly experimental. It impacts only a very tiny portion of the nation’s largest financial institutions. It never reaches the people. And by the way, we already know it’s not working for the Europeans or the Japanese.
“How about some more money printing,” you ask a bit sheepishly.
“Been there, done that,” she retorts. “Ran into law of diminishing returns. Economy sinking regardless. Looking for the exit doors for months now. Still can’t find ‘em. But there’s no way in hell we’re going back there.”
You meet with folks from all political and financial persuasions. Your first week in office comes to an end. Then your first month. No one has any brilliant new ideas.
And you haven’t even begun to worry about government gridlock.
My advice to both the reader and future presidents: Don’t overestimate your power to adapt to — let alone bring about — change. Prepare yourself ahead of time for economic disasters already in the pipeline. And always beware of your limited ability to stop them.
Good luck and God bless!
Martin
Dr. Weiss founded Weiss Research in 1971 and has dedicated his entire career to helping millions of average investors find truly safe havens and investments. He is Chairman of the Weiss Group, which includes Weiss Research and Weiss Ratings, the nation’s leading independent rating agency accepting no fees from rated companies. His last three books have all been New York Times Bestsellers and his most recent title is The Ultimate Money Guide for Bubbles, Busts
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