Ericsson wrote:slick wrote:Ericsson wrote:USA economy shrinks by 4.8% in Q1
Crazy stuff.US GDP shrinks but stocks rise in today's trading as Fed money printing keeps markets elevated.Q2 GDP will be the disaster to record levels possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression.Fed keeps Fed funds rate at 0-0.25% and will keep the same pace of QE infinity money printing scheme.
The collapse of stocks is coming,the rally is not sustainable.
Jerome Powell:Unemployment rate likely to surge into double digits
Spot on @Ericsson.The recent rally on Wall Street is a typical bear market rally after a big stock market crash during a recession.This rally creates false optimism and sucks up retail investors then the real crash plays out later.This phenomena has happened during all US recessions including the 1929 Stock market crash and resultant Great Depression in the 1930s,the dotcom collapse in 2001 and the real estate meltdown during 2008.
Its a rally fueled by Fed money printing and no fundamentals.How can stocks possibly rise when US has the largest number of covid-19 cases and deaths,citizens are still on lockdown and millions losing their jobs every week (this week 3.84 million jobs lost totaling 30 million job losses for the last 6 weeks) yet equities keep surging?
Once one knows how Wall Street really works then realizes what a joke it all is.Bad economic news is good for the stock market as bad economic data means the Fed will print more money to offset the economic decline so stocks get bought up with newly printed US dollars.
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