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uponit7771

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7. If we're talking about GDP its getting close, middle class spending isn't causing inflation to ...
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:54 PM
Dec 2017

... the degree it historically has when there's been cheap money and a lot of cash which it looks like the corporations hold.

More proof that corporations aren't putting their money back into employees like it would happen in the 50 - the 80's, they're putting money into automation and can scale up and down output on demand with ease ... screw the worker.


If you're talking about the index's (DOW, S&P, NYSE) it is very inflated relative to their financials (P&E) but still "cheap" for traders relative to getting near nothing out or US treasury yields.

Big money is either going to other countries or throwing money into stocks.

Buffet is right

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/03/billionaire-warren-buffett-says-stock-valuations-make-sense-with-interest-rates-where-they-are.html

Once T yields start to rise to the point they'll yield that constant 1% look for investors like Buffet to get the hell out of dodge because treasuries are way more safe than the stock market.


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