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"But Microsoft's closing share price yesterday was still a remarkable 45 times estimated fiscal year 1997 earnings of $2.63 a share, giving the company a market capitalization of $142.8 billion."
But it is telling that the shares of builders D.R. Horton, Toll Brothers, and Lennar have begun to rally. The ITB builders share index has risen 45pc from its nadir in December.
"34.00 dollars buys you 1700 kw hours of power"
"The world has produced approximately 650 billion barrels of oil, but another trillion barrels of proved reserves have yet to be extracted."2.2 Oil left in January 2009 - estimation
- amount of already consumed oil: 770 billion barrels,Considering a flat consumption of 30 billion barrels per year, this would mean we have 30 years left of oil.
- amount of proved reserves still to be extracted: 880 billion barrels
"At current consumption levels, and assuming that oil will be consumed only from reservoirs, known recoverable reserves would be gone around 2039, potentially leading to a global energy crisis."
- amount of already consumed oil: 1070 billion barrels,Considering a flat consumption of 30 billion barrels per year, this would mean we would have at that point 20 years left of oil.
- amount of proved reserves still to be extracted: 580 billion barrels
"The U.S. government is incredibly solvent. People get concerned about an extra trillion or two of debt. That’s a very big number, but you have to remember that the government owns 35 percent of every corporation because they have taxing power. The government owns 40 percent of every wealthy individual’s earning power. That’s a big off-balance sheet asset."I guess these "off balance sheet assets" are the main reason why so many investors still buy US Treasuries.
You can’t just do one thing in economics. Any time somebody said I’m going to do this, you have to say and then what. And there is no free lunch. So if you pour money at this problem, you do have after effects. You create certain problems. I mean you are giving a medicine dosage to the patient on a scale that we haven’t seen in this country. And there will be after effects. And they can't be predicted exactly am but certainly, the potential is there for inflationary consequences that would be significant.
the big question is we are in depression but is this depression is going to be inflationary or deflationary? In both cases the markets will not perform particularly well because in a deflationary depression all asset prices will continue to go down. In an inflationary depression interest rates will go up and so on the both assumption equity prices are not particularly inexpensive.
we’re going to have gigantic amounts of government debt coming onto the market all over the world in the next year and inflation is going to be coming back in a big, big way
For the long term, research should be directed into portfolios that would resist both inflationary problems and potential dollar weakness. These are the two serious problems that we may have to face as a consequence of flooding the global financial system with government bailouts and government debt…
“If they are successful…the deflationary pressures will be replaced by the specter of inflation and the authorities will have to drain the excess money from the economy almost as quickly as they pumped it in. Of the two operations the second one is going to be, politically, even more difficult than the first,”Mish, January 2009, here seems uncertain about a coming inflation, at least for now:
We have been in deflation for about a year, and maybe it lasts another, or five. Then again, perhaps we drift in and out of a slow growth recessionary period much like Japan for a decade. We have to take this one step at a time.
the Fed will stay low for an extended period of time while the inevitable inflationary pressures of government bailouts lay further out on the yield curve.
I’d say you got to buy TIPS. You want inflation protection, and the value of TIPS is near historic. If this [government bailout] is successful, the economy will reflate…David Einhorn, 20th January 2009, here, here:
The $5.1 billion hedge fund is buying gold for the first time amid the threat of inflation from increased government spending.
"Our current chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, is an "inflationist" [...]
The size of the Fed’s balance sheet is exploding, and the currency is being debased.”