Given the start of August is the classic period for most investors to take a few weeks off, the following tidbits could be categorized in the ‘summer news’ section. Also given the regularity with which we have now seen these passing across our feeds in the past few days, we thought it best to the readers of the thegoldwater.com to flag it.
Several business sites (Bloomberg, Financial Times, MSN Money, …) are warning that the US economy is overheating and they expect a recession (or even a crash) in the housing market to start soon.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The housing market is becoming a bigger risk for the economy <a href="https://t.co/pGCJYQCWE4">https://t.co/pGCJYQCWE4</a> <a href="https://t.co/4HdwL7ML8M">pic.twitter.com/4HdwL7ML8M</a></p>— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1024812261666373632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Stifel Chief Economist Ms Lindsey Piegza said earlier this week that the “housing market is throwing up a huge red flag in our opinion, suggesting that maybe this four percent gain that we saw in the second quarter is not sustainable.”
Related coverage: <a href="https://thegoldwater.com/news/32893-Moody-s-Chief-Economist-US-Job-Market-Is-Booming">Moody’s Chief Economist says US jobs market is booming</a>.
“Home sales have actually been on the decline for five of the past six months and also, one of the biggest concerns is that as we're seeing whole price appreciation continue to rise, incomes are very stagnant.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A favorite Warren Buffett stock market metric is at all-time high <a href="https://t.co/pDZeVjec4s">https://t.co/pDZeVjec4s</a> <a href="https://t.co/jOV6ItZ4p5">pic.twitter.com/jOV6ItZ4p5</a></p>— CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1024509544431591424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2018</a></blockquote>
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According to Ms Piezga, her main concern lies with the growing gap between the overall affordability of housing and the salaries of US workers. She stated: “We're seeing a growing divide between the cost of a home and the ability for the average American to afford that home purchase.”
“We are not there yet… but eerily similar to what we saw leading up to the housing crash.”
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Furthermore, Berkshire Hathaway boss and overall legendary investor Mr Warren Buffet says that his stock market metric, the 'Buffett Indicator', currently standing at 148%, is pointing towards a highly possible crash (the metric peaked at about 145% right before the dot-com bubble burst of 2000 and reached nearly 110% before the financial crisis of 2007).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The U.S. housing market looks headed for its worst slowdown in years <a href="https://t.co/h5R98vUZA0">https://t.co/h5R98vUZA0</a> <a href="https://t.co/36kFcZDQgr">pic.twitter.com/36kFcZDQgr</a></p>— Bloomberg (@business) <a href="https://twitter.com/business/status/1022498180955598848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The White House administration meanwhile pointed to the US economy overview released last Friday which showed an energetic 4.1 percent annual growth rate in the second quarter, meaning the US is growing at the fastest pace in nearly four years. President Trump was quick to declare that those gains will only accelerate.
However few economists agree with most of them voicing concern that the trade battle with China, of which the effects will kick in as from September or October could endanger economic growth.
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Warren Buffet is WRONG..AND THEY CANT STAND THAT WE AMERICANS ARE BACK WORKING AND WILL CONTINUE..ITS GOING TO GET EVEN BETTER.TELL BUFFET THE BILLON AIR..WHY DONT YOU..DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE HOMELESS..HOW MENY MASSIONS DO YOU ONE BUFFET..?DO GOOD FOR AMERICA OLD MAN .HELP THE POOR..GOOD START APTMEMTS..BUILD 100.OR MORE WONT HURT YOU LEAST..ENYWAYS U CANT YAKE IT WITH YOU…
Buffet is spewing rhetoric. The economy is far from over-heating, as the recovery is only beginning. Still, most Americans have not begun recovery from worst recession in nation's history. We do not need % rates to rise, as we do not need another Federal Reserve induced recession (Paul Volker style).
And Buffet, you know as well as I that the 2007 housing crisis was wholly caused by federal govt.'s intervention in the mortgage industry by forcing brokers nationwide to provide mortgages to people who were under qualified (little or no down pmt./ very marginal job quality), As revealed in the "Sub-prime Lending Report to Congress" one small blip in the over-all economy would cause the "sub-prime lending crisis"….and guess what, it did.
Buffet, you have proven yourself time and again to be a greedy, self-serving leftist. Take your so-called advise to the grave.
Democrat donor class: "I am going to cause a crash."