They are warning the us economy could shrink a 14 in the Second Quarter. Thats coming as the Federal Reserve and global Central Banks across the world announce measures to offset the injured Economic Impact of coronavirus. Join me right now to talk about all of that hank smith. Hanks thanks much for weighing in today we appreciate you joining us, what are you doing in your portfolio in the face of all this . Well, first of all, we are not panicking. We constantly communicate with our clients regarding their asset allocation, we also, for a number of years have always recommend to have enough cash to meet spending needs one year even up to two years out. So, in an environment where you own both stocks and bonds, now is the time to start looking to your adding to your equity positions because that allocation has come down due to the obviously to this bear market. It is a pain trade for sure, but over the past six years, the opposite was equally true where we were trimming equities becaus
Countries around the world are struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic Global Stock Markets have had a turbulent week with some of the worst losses and i would 30 years so whats the economic fallout and calm a global recession this is inside story. Hello again im james burke says its the worlds Biggest Health emergency the corona Virus Outbreak is now a pandemic and there are fears it could lead to a catastrophic Global Economic crisis sweeping containment measures have disrupted markets around the world including the u. S. A travel ban on 26 European Countries came into effect on friday and the unprecedented move sent stocks crashing to their worst losses in over 30 years on wall street the Dow Jones Industrial average sank 10 percent on thursday its biggest plunge since the black monday crash of 1907 while european markets showed some signs of recovery on friday throughout the week Global Stock Markets saw their steepest decline since the 2008 financial crisis wiping out
First time since 2017. They are warning the us economy could shrink a 14 in the Second Quarter. Thats coming as the Federal Reserve and global Central Banks across the world announce measures to offset the injured Economic Impact of coronavirus. Join me right now to talk about all of that hank smith. Hanks thanks much for weighing in today we appreciate you joining us, what are you doing in your portfolio in the face of all this . Well, first of all, we are not panicking. We constantly communicate with our clients regarding their asset allocation, we also, for a number of years have always recommend to have enough cash to meet spending needs one year even up to two years out. So, in an environment where you own both stocks and bonds, now is the time to start looking to your adding to your equity positions because that allocation has come down due to the obviously to this bear market. It is a pain trade for sure, but over the past six years, the opposite was equally true where we were t
Start buying more of gold i think they would love to buy more gold now but theres very little to quit or be out there is going to be difficult to buy gold the question is now that the music stopped whos got the gold and of the last 510 years we know 2 big players have been accumulating hundreds and hundreds of tons of gold and that would be china and russia and when the gold held by some European Countries and the i. M. F. Theyve got equal gold to what the u. S. Has so now weve got gold parity and weve got the ability now to rework the world currency order a new Bretton Woods they are going to go back to gold as they always do i dont think the us has a particularly strong hand this time but well see again looking at 1929 s. And p. 501029 analog update it is tracking it looks a lot like 1929 and of course after 929 we had years and years of just tedious side wait ness and long to pry. I do want to point out that you and i have also been talking about the intergenerational warfare the bo
Because it reminds me back in 2008 speech made by ben bernanke who was then running the Federal Reserve he was a successor to Alan Greenspan and he was doing this great lecture about how they cure the crisis of 2008 because they have something that they didnt have back in 1929 they have the Printing Press and this began a continuation of what Alan Greenspan did in the 1987 crash was to print their way out of all problems and the idea was that oh we can stop printing at any time and this is all been proven to be false you cant taper a ponzi scheme furthermore they claim to be fighting deflation by all this printing and yet what they created was deflation and deflation in the sense that what were seeing now markets are collapsing and the dollar is rallying thats a hallmark of deflation why was it why is it what why did this happen because of money printing because the money printing gave a lot of cash to the worst actors. In the economy the zombie banks pushed out all productive economy