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‘When life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.’ Grateful Dead Life is a series of moments. Some last longer than others…but they all move on. Nothing stays the same forever. But first, while on the topic of moments, my fellow editor and good friend Greg Canavan is hosting a moment you should not miss this Thursday. Greg is a 20-year investment veteran. His new service, Greg Canavan’s Investment Advisory, is tailored for investors who are seeking better than zero on their cash. To learn more about Greg’s unique insight into the opportunities that exist in a life at zero rates, please register here for your free place. Back to today’s Rum Rebellion moment. When we’re in the moment, we have to accept and appreciate it for what it is…another piece in the tapestry of our life. Right here and now we’re in a moment that I believe is destined for the history books. Please take the time to appreciate and marvel at it…as this moment will not last. For many, it looks like easy street…which means danger is lurking close by. Signs of euphoria abound on Wall Street. Oversubscribed IPOs. SPACs (special purchase acquisition companies) racking in tens of billions of dollars (from the greedy and the gullible) to invest in as yet unknown and unidentified ‘special purchases’. Record amounts of margin lending…you may recall this was the great wealth destroyer of the 2008/09 crash. Dogecoins. Sports trading cards. Copious amounts of CCC rated debt being issued and (just as worryingly) being invested in. ..............................Advertisement..............................‘If you’re worried you’ve missed out on the BIG stock gains in 2020 — I have good news for you…’ Gold — up 40%. Bitcoin — up 670%. Tesla — up 1,236%. It’s easy to feel like you’ve missed the big move. But if you’re sitting in cash and waiting for a big correction — you could be making a huge mistake. There IS an alternative strategy you can use right now — one that could help you take advantage of the next stocks to soar without taking massive risks with your money. On Thursday at 11am, Australian market expert Greg Canavan is going on camera to reveal what it is (and name the number one stock he recommends you buy in order to capitalise). Reserve your FREE viewing place here. | ..........................................................................
Millennial ‘stonk’ investing. And this unprecedented surge in buying activity for penny stocks (small companies) typifies the euphoric moment we are in… Making money is easy. No matter how many fleas the dog or dogecoin has, the mood is one of ‘you’ll clean up’. Enjoy it folks. This once-in-a-century moment is definitely something to behold. Personally, I’m in awe of it. The collective madness of men (and to a lesser degree, women) is truly spectacular. Living long enough to give my (yet to be born) grandchildren a firsthand account of this moment in history is something I hope I’m blessed to do. It’ll be a story laced with humour and sadness. ‘Did you know people actually thought Tesla was worth more than every other car maker in the world?’ or ‘Somehow, people convinced themselves a very clever algorithm called bitcoin would be an alternative store of wealth to gold.’ I know? Crazy right? But we shouldn’t laugh. In time, there will be many farcical tales that’ll define this moment of unhinged thinking. Unfortunately, each one will have come with a personal and financial cost to those who failed to recognise this moment for what it is…an epic level of collective mania. The really sad part of our tale will be it could all have been avoided. While history may not repeat itself, it does do a very good job of rhyming (emphasis added): ‘In reality, the nation’s most prosperous decade [the 1920’s] had been built on a house of cards. Low wages, high rates of seasonal unemployment, chronic stagnation in the agricultural sector, and a hopelessly unequal distribution of wealth were the darker story that lurked behind 1920s-era prosperity. ‘There was a price to pay for so lopsided a concentration of the nation’s riches. Good times relied on good sales, after all. The same farmers and workers who fueled economic growth early in the decade by purchasing shiny new cars and electric washing machines had reached their limit. By the late twenties, when advertisers told them that their cars and washing machines were outdated and needed to be replaced, the working class simply couldn’t afford to buy new ones. Unpurchased consumer items languished on the shelves. Factories cut their production. Workers were laid off by the millions. The good times were over.’ History by Era Low wages. For the past 40 years, US wages (in inflation adjusted terms) have remained range bound. Until the pandemic hit… Unfortunately, this spike up in wages is a statistical anomaly. Get rid of lower paid workers and the average jumps up. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (emphasis added): ‘Despite a sharp spike in unemployment since March 2020, aggregate wage growth has accelerated. This acceleration has been almost entirely attributable to job losses among low-wage workers. Wage growth for those who remain employed has been flat. This pattern is not unique to COVID-19 but is more profound now than in previous recessions.’ High rates of unemployment. According to ShadowStats (using a definition of un-and underemployment that passes the pub test), US unemployment (blue line) is running at 25.7%...a far cry from the official (heavily massaged) numbers. Hopelessly unequal distribution of wealth. Well, we’re back to those late 1920s levels… The first instalment for the price to pay for so lopsided a concentration of the nation’s riches was made in October 1929. Over the next 32 months, the market extracted its full price…an 87% fall on the Dow Jones Index. Can we expect the same toll to be paid this time? Maybe. Maybe not. Some assets — like junk bonds, cryptos, overhyped growth stocks, SPACs, loss-making IPOs, penny stocks et al — could lose up to 100% of their price (I deliberately did not us the word ‘value’, because there’s precious little to no value in some of this rubbish). Other assets — good quality companies with solid earnings priced on fair value PEs — should fare much better. But they’ll still be bounced around. Why? Because a market in panic mode has a tendency to act first and think later. Watching this moment in asset-price inflation unfold has, for me, been a mixture of frustration and admiration. I thought I’d seen it all before in 1987, 2000 and 2008…but this is all of those combined and some more. The prospect of witnessing an event that comes along once in a century fills me with anticipation and a fair degree anxiety. Surviving a serious market downturn with your capital reasonably intact is cause for relief. However, knowing when to deploy that cash — to take advantage of the opportunities on offer — is another challenge. Has the selling pressure finished or close to finishing or a long way off finishing? After the initial falls in October 1929, it took a further 32 months before the Dow Jones finally hit bottom. Once this market takes an abrupt turn off Easy Street and onto far more challenging terrain, that’s when having an investment veteran as your navigator will prove invaluable. In the interim, I intend to sit back and savour this one…when people thought the pathway to wealth was called easy street. Regards, Vern Gowdie, Editor, The Rum Rebellion PS: Between April last year and January 2021, bitcoin ‘blew the bloody doors off’. It smashed upwards from US$7,624 to over US$40,000. But while everyone was transfixed by that, though…Ryan Dinse and his team had a trade placed that did five times better. And it has kept piling on gains since. 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