I don't pay much attention to advertisements like that. OTOH, I DO pay attention to the ratio of insider selling to insider buying. Most professional investors say "Don't bet against the insiders." Since they have real-time access to how their company is doing (and some of their suppliers and customers data as well) it would make sense that if there were an expected uptick, they'd be buying. Not all selling is downturn related since many insiders get stock options which they exercise to buy at a discount then turn around and sell for an immediate profit as part of their compensation package. Nonetheless, the buy/sell ratio is a leading indicator of corporate earnings and, used to be, the stock market in general.

Take a look at this report on insider sell/buy ratio and see what the last week of the year showed. (Hint: Sell/Buy ratio of 577 or over 500 times as many sellers as buyers.)

Wait WUT? I thought insider trading was illegal.

I don't see indications [maybe I missed them] that the article Drudge linked to is a scam piece.

I've never observed him pull that crap.

Folks here getting their 'stuff' together, are very wise.

Don't many insiders receive their bonus options in December? I know in my company this happens.
would this account for the high ratio of insider selling in December?
Doesn't this same thing happen every December?

As far as 1930's style financial "repressions"...

I see it a lot worse when things get kicked into high gear.

Thanks to the New Majority that we have happily enabled...

That has pretty much disenfranchised 'thinking' folks...

Expect the New Majority to AGGRESSIVELY cheer the 'powers' [they elect] to come after EVERYTHING you own, in different ways ---at different times.

For 'redistribution'...  

PM's, hahhaahahahha!


Yet, even in light of my likely predictions above...

I remain, uh hopeful...  


[It's ackshully an unpleasant feeling]

 

I now see links to the scam in the second of D's links.

Marketing funnel or not, it's a scam to me.  

A lot of insiders exercise their options in December if they have reason to think that their taxes are likely to go up in the following year. This year's ratio, 577 is not an all-time high. But, given such a supposedly light volume week, it's a huge "tell" about what the insiders think.

Analyst predicts 'major reversal'...





snip...


'...2014 will be the year of "major reversals,” with the Dow Jones
Industrial Average expected to start a two-year decline that could
eventually take it down more than 70% to below 5000.'









 

Very much doubt it...

The US shorted Germany on their first repatriation shipment of their gold.

It was also melted down before being returned.

Link

That's a little concerning.

It's working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MORE SIGNS IT'S WORKING!!!!

Just a tad.

I was SHOCKED with how dead Target was when I went Christmas shopping.  I had seen more traffic on a regular Saturday.

Good.

-just the fuse burnin' down, man...





Just burnin' down.

My guess is that people already have their credit tapped out. Maybe they should just go steal some money do like the government and keep spending anyway.

Quite the trend we have here.

People Not In Labor Force Soar To Record 91.8 Million; Participation Rate Plunges To 1978 Levels

The decades of decadence are now over.

Yup as living standards fall...

Uncontrollably...

As planned....

Think of the opportunities for lies promises, next election cycle, to ensure the Left is reelected to further aggressively plot the destruction of our country.

So they can turn it into a Workers 'paradise' nightmare...

CNN is acknowledging the truth...






















 

You mean having virtually every major market index AT or NEAR all-time highs [in spite of no clear "Recovery" in employment, retail, housing, education or a few dozen other macro indicators over the past 5 years] doesn't given you reason to expect a correction in the next 12 months?  

You must be betting on QE/5 combined with the ongoing QE/Infinity then!

Former OMB Director David Stockman says its over in 2014.  

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/1/10_David_Stockman_-_2014_Is_The_Year_Of_The_End_Game.html

John Williams of ShadowStats, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and Gerald Celente all say the same about 2014.

Yes, factoring in the election cycle and with QE, they can bump the mkts as high as they want.

This isn't the [rigged] market we used to know...

It isn't time yet for a crash, but don't worry, when they figure they can get the best advantage with one, it will happen.

In my opinion , It seems to me that the Psychological Effect caused by a 'Booming' Stock Market has reversed.


Typically, the Markets are a few years ahead of the game, so, as it goes up, the public gains confidence in their personal economy as their Net Worth increases.


Now it seems no matter how high the Markets go, the Public gets more depressed because their personal wealth can't seem to increase in a meaningful way; Deflation.


This would describe the disconnect between the Planners/Wall Street & Main Street, as it has come full circle, and the Planners have lost control of the situation.


Any QE done now will accomplish nothing and will only have negative effect on whatever they use it towards, i.e. Decembers Jobs report.





They can't hide the Big Lie any longer, the Public is feeling the Lie more than ever & that combination will lead to the coming 'Crisis'; The 'Hope' has ended.


Generalizing here, but why would anyone invest in a company only able to show 'Profits' by Borrowing Money?


If the People no longer associate themselves with the Stock Markets or Banks, i.e. Targets CC Security Breach, how would OUR Representatives justify the FED/Treasury's continued Money Printing Fantasy?


Pretty Disgusting when WE think about it




 
 

 How in the world can we be at 1978 workforce labor levels with our population growth since then? If this report is accurate, this is catastrophic news. Outside of the illusion of endless QE spending and massive welfare programs, I have no idea how we are not in a full blown depression.

I love how some of CNBC talking heads are blaming this bad report on the weather. I’m so tired of their lame excuses about the weather causing people not to hire or sales to be bad, its total BS. It’s cold in MI in the winter and warm in Miami, people deal with it, it’s not some news worthy event, it has very little impact on jobs or the economy at a national level. The only exception to this would be extremely rare events like Cat 4-5 hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes.

They have lied and manipulated the unemployment data for so long; I don’t think anyone really has a clue what the correct number is. It sure isn’t 6.7%. Many non-biased economists speculate the accurate national unemployment number is around 12%-14% and in some regions it’s well above 20%; but who really knows?

These SOBs have essentially bankrupted us as a nation with these insane monetary policies over the last few years. Now the Gov/FED with the preponderance of the media is trying to cover their ass with any excuse or diversion necessary trying to hold it together. Instead of solutions from our leaders and the media to these problems, it's nothing but cover up, blame and excuses, it's pathetic to witness the propaganda and desperation.

Outside of a nuclear exchange or nation state sponsored attack, these fools have done more financial damage to this country over the last few years than any foreign enemy or group of terrorists could have dreamed of. We have spent trillions upon trillions with absolutely nothing to show for it but more debt and increasing unemployment. We could have done so much with that money at a personal and nation level. All we did was set the stage for an economic catastrophe. Even if it doesn’t totally come apart and they manage to somehow keep the show going, we are setting up our children and grandchildren to be debt slaves or worse.

We used to be that shining star on the hill, now we are more worried about extending unemployment benefits, endless welfare, class warfare, gay rights, supporting illegal aliens and QE, my how far have we fallen.

I think the clock is ticking on this mess and we are heading for a event that will make 2008 look like a cake walk. Who knows, they control the media and market so much, maybe I'm the one that will look crazy and it's all going to be rainbows, unicorns and Dow 25K by the end of the year.

What a freaking mess.

Boom and bust cycles, as in all of nature, are not only normal, they're needed.   The universe is tragic.  Things have a beginning, middle, and an end.  The economic central planners thought they had conquered the business cycle.  Which of course they didn't.  Each intervention has only served to increase economic distortions.  Their effort culminated in a 2000 peak.  Which is where this current, and last wave really began.  Of course they stepped up their game, and destroyed the financial system, which for all practical purposes, collapsed in 2008.  That should have been the end.













 

Here's a neat  short video explaining some things.  Having lived through this, I made the same observations to my friends back in the '90s and post Y2K as does the speaker:

http://futuremoneytrends.com/blog/?p=17182

Make no mistake about it, we are in a full blown D E P R E S S I O N.  Period.

The media, the talking heads, and the administration's refusal to report the facts...does not change the facts.  Just because you can't see something, does not mean that it's not there.  And this is absolutely one of those cases.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck...

Prepare accordingly.

When you have 48,000,000 on SNAP, 91,000,000 working age people NOT in the workforce, and $85,000,000,000 in new money created every month just to keep trying to re-inflate the bubble, you are in a depression.

Even during the Great Depression, if you didn't loose your job you were OK.

I've been asserting we've been in a depression for a long time, before it got 'popular'.



I've even 'splained how this all ends.

Nothing indicates things playing out differently.

 

Sometimes you just have to laugh to keep from going crazy in this nutty world. I just came back from shopping at the local Wal-Mart. As usual, it was packed with people drunk and stoned out of their minds, FSA members and the occasional 500lb land manatee riding around on electric carts. While leaving, I noticed a truck with Obama 2012 bumpers stickers on it. Not that unusual, but this one also had a NRA sticker on the back window, I just had to shake my head and laugh.

Good lord, we in for one hell of a ride if this economy ever blows and the country falls apart.

They said the same thing last year.


It could happen in 2014, could be 2015, might be 2016, for sure by 2017.


Specific 'dates' and 'timelines' are a waste of effort. Within five years is about as specific as one can get.

Check this out.

It was started in the Survival Forum ~2008 and...

Look at all the folks suffering from Normalcy Bias that got their panties in a...

TWIST!



Also the ones who tried to relate what's happening to some nonsense they were taught in Econ 101.  

Plus the ones who said it couldn't happen to THEM.  


Are We In a Depression -Yet?


Interesting to look at folks' thoughts from ~6 yrs ago...

I'm starting a new business next year.  A winery/brewery.  I'm about to spend a very significant amount of money and it's a one time deal.  If this doesn't work I'm pretty much screwed.  Kinda like how all businesses start.  We're in a very rural area, though it is very wealthy thanks to the last few years.

What will the future hold for us?  Just for the record...We will be only the second "farm winery/brewery" in the country.  The other is here in Nebraska and is wildly successful.  

Don't base your answers on any management considerations or quality beer/wine considerations.  Only on the possibility of making this type of business successful in the potential climate.

These threads
Zerohedge
Buy gold on Glenn Beck
Have been going on for YEARS

I am a prepper and have some preps
And I have no idea what is going to occur
Just try to protect your own situation

 






























 

There is no difference between a recession and a depression. The word recession was made up after WW2.

Prior to WW2 every down turn in the economy was called a depression.

The great depression was called the great depression because it was the worst one seen to date. So bad, that the govt invented a new word to describe an economic down turn. They were afraid if they called the next economic down turn a depression, like they had been called, they would scare the living shit out of people because the last one was so bad.

So instead, they made up a new word and started calling economic down turns recessions..

If you want to say this economic down turn is on par with the great depression, and I think it is, then fine. But a depression is the same as a recession..Calling it a depression, clouds the issue.

I notice more and more that the world around me is changing, and I don't think it's just me becoming a grumpy old fart.  For lack of a better word, people just seem to be becoming "stupider".. both intellectually and just in terms of common sense.  It's coupled with a plummeting sense of personal responsibility and ambition; it's all crumbling to dust and nobody really seems to give a shit.  It's everywhere at every turn... head to the store, 8 of 10 drivers act like they just got their license yesterday. Can't park in the lot because neither of the two people adjacent to the only open spot couldn't seem to fit their vehicle between the lines.  Doesn't matter anyway because some jackass left their shopping cart in the spot.

Inside things are worse - we've all seen 'em.  Loaded up on Twinkies and Dr. Pepper, they navigate their considerable mass to the one open checkout lane of 12, where the single checker appears to be holding a high school reunion with the first two people in line (just yesterday, in fact, a grocery checker answered a cell call and chatted for a good minute before ringing my wife up ).  Doesn't matter much, though, because we're all on hold for a price check because the meth'ed up stockers only appear to have labeled every other item on the shelf.

I could go on and on, but I'm preaching to the choir here.  What disturbs me is how prevalent this is all becoming, though.  It's no longer isolated incidents or an occasional bad apple in a staff pool. It's everywhere, all the time now.  I'm totally convinced that the real threat to our continued prosperity isn't politics or the economy, it's this accelerating intellectual entropy that seems to be sucking away our intelligence like bath water swirling down a drain.

Very well said.

Not saying they're wrong but, how many times have we heard this since 2008?