Investing Strategies. What is your move?

dishdude said:
We need to start the planning to build nuclear power plants in this country and start the transition to electric cars. We need to end the flow of money to regimes like Russia and the countries in the Middle East. People also can do their part, driving around a bro truck while complaining about high gas prices is quite ironic.
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You know, 1st I agree 1000000 % on the nuclear power plants
2nd ... sometimes as Americans we love to complain and whine, in this case about gas prices, its a valid complaint but we can't get into specifics in this forum. But enough on that how about this, are the complainers still driving 10, 15, 20 MPH over the speed limit?

I say this because we drove down to Florida from SC a couple days ago and we are now heading back. I could care less about the gas prices but what about everyone else no the road?
For all these complaints I have a hard time finding ANYONE on the interstate slowing down and doing the speed limits. We all know we burn more gas doing 75 to 85 instead of 65 or 70 but you won't find a single person doing the slower speeds, (including me)

Ill admit I filled my SUV at a cost of $90 the other day and was like wow but its still under $5 a gallon near me because we don't allow government to tax the heck out of it like other states. Actual gas price is right in line with the last 5 decades regarding inflation and actually a lower percentage of the family budget now.

Again I agree with you, we just love to complain as a people in general.

Im not so sure anyone knows for sure which was the market will end up in 6 months from now, never mind 6 weeks.
Uncharted terrortory, history irrelevant as we are making history coming out of a pandemic with American households in great financial shape.
 
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Now we have a puzzler. Stocks are down. Investment advisers say this is a bad time to be in bonds. Real estate is cracking, especially the housing market (and that's probably good). Precious metals are iffy. Cryptos are all taking a tumble. Retirement accounts are taking hits. So what's left and how is that doing?

I'm wondering about tech companies with "exponential technologies", as Ric Edelman calls those. Maybe those are an investment possibility.
 
I remember a saying from the old Bob Brinker radio show way back. It went something like this.

When the bear market arrives no one is immune, not even the piano player in the house of ill repute.
 
ekrampitzjr said:
Now we have a puzzler. Stocks are down. Investment advisers say this is a bad time to be in bonds. Real estate is cracking, especially the housing market (and that's probably good). Precious metals are iffy. Cryptos are all taking a tumble. Retirement accounts are taking hits. So what's left and how is that doing?

I'm wondering about tech companies with "exponential technologies", as Ric Edelman calls those. Maybe those are an investment possibility.
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I am not sure this is a puzzler. We will be lucky to be out of these hyperinflationary times by year end, IMO. There is no quick fix; we did not get here overnight and will not change overnight. Interest rates are about the only tool the Fed has; the business world is far more complex than that. Remember, this is a worldwide situation, not just the US.

Bonds had their worst quarter in Q1. The Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates, which is lowering bond prices and raising yields. This means existing bonds (lower rates) are less valuable to investors vs higher rate (return) future bonds.
While not for everyone, they have a place in some portfolios. Higher yields mean bonds can now play a more significant role in retirement income strategies. Again, this may or may not make sense in your particuliar situation.
 
PimTac said:
I remember a saying from the old Bob Brinker radio show way back. It went something like this.

When the bear market arrives no one is immune, not even the piano player in the house of ill repute.
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Listening to Bob Brinker was an education. He was a large part of my Saturday and Sunday afternoon routine years ago when the local station carried him.
 
Astro14 said:
Listening to Bob Brinker was an education. He was a large part of my Saturday and Sunday afternoon routine years ago when the local station carried him.
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Same here. I took his advice on a couple of “gift horse” opportunities he announced. I was also a subscriber to his Markettimer newsletter for several years. Somewhere in the mid-2000’s the local station dropped him. I think I listened to his shows for around 15 years until that happened.

He had a great voice for radio.
 
housing is one of the two great sources of many Americans' wealth. The other, of course, is their investment portfolios.

When housing prices and the value of Americans' portfolios go up in value, folks feel wealthy and spend more. That stimulates the economy (at least the way it's measured nowadays). On the flip side, when both fall in value, folks spend less and the economy slows.

It's called the "wealth effect."
 
^^^ Yep, too much "fake wealth" on paper which can change really fast (up or down) as we all can see first hand. Changes in fake wealth impacts real life living situations ... kind of crazy when you think about it.
 
ZeeOSix said:
^^^ Yep, too much "fake wealth" on paper which can change really fast (up or down) as we all can see first hand. Changes in fake wealth impacts real life living situations ... kind of crazy when you think about it.
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Lots of folks don’t realize paper wealth can evaporate very quickly.

Any folks following the fear / greed indicator ?
 
Dave Hess said:
Lots of folks don’t realize paper wealth can evaporate very quickly.

Any folks following the fear / greed indicator ?
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If a value drops 50% it has to go up 100% to get back to that value...

I dunno what the fear/greed indicator is, but I would just as soon avoid either.
 
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