Leverage up, double down, and buyyyyy

Obama is nuetered, the Democrats will not make enough gains in November to do anymore damage to the economy - so government stagnation is the play for the next two years. Market's should continue as they have....not the best business environment, but no more damage can be done....coupled with continued low interest rates, and the constant (though slowwwwwly diminishing) pumping form the Fed, the markets should continue strong...

Unless some sort of global chaos fucks everything up...but the markets seem to be absorbing the mass murders of hundreds of thousands quite well, having no fear that America stands for morality anymore, and thus recognizing that, right or wrong, we won't stick our heads (or soldiers or wealth) into saving the savages around the world other than to fling a few rockets or drones are bad guys just to appease the press.

Buy and hold. Leveraged Index funds if you are brave.

With continued low interest rates, and the US being the lesser of all evils as far as world equities go, it's the most viable place to be long equities. Take that with a grain of salt though. If you are a new investor, allocate only portions of your monies on monthly basis. The markets are trading macro events, and a 10% slide should be in the cards sometime this year. Consolidation is good for the market, so look to cost average for the longer term

The market is overdue for a correction, but with the Fed holding short term rates near 0% for another year it pushes people to buy stocks.

The desire to buy equities in a 0 interest rate environment is the search for yield.

I'd be surprised if we had a ten percent slide. We just had a five percent slide and bounced right out of it.

Krellin, the economy being bad when Obama entered office was his fault, but the economy getting better while he's still in office isn't?

OK.

For the record, I think that it's both standard of you all to post such comments, and poor of you all to not see where I'm going with this.

ghug - I never said the economy being bad when he entered office was his fault -- but the utterly *dismall* and *slow* recovery over the past 6 years is TOTALLY the fault of Democrat / Obama policy. You look at how fast the economy turned around under Reagan and Clinton, and compare it to Obama -- he is an *utter* failure.

@ghug - See "Tax Inversion" thread - perfect example. Aggressive corporate tax policy, coupled with an increasingly burdensome regulatory structure, is driving business from the US. Perfect example of and Obama adminstration failure.

and where is our KeyStone pipeline that the overwheming majority of Americans desire, which would lower the ever-increasing burden of energy costs?

@Tru Ninja -

"For the record, I think that it's both standard of you all to post such comments, and poor of you all to not see where I'm going with this"

Nope, not poor at all to not see where you're going, since you didn't communicate where that was.

I have no idea what you're talking about; moreover I have no idea who you are. Are you my second grade teacher? No? As such the forum equivalent of the "disapproving stare" isn't a great way to communicate.

Whoosh, tendmote.

OH SHIT! Thanks Yonni and +1 - I am an ass.

wow, someone had their cereal crapped in...

get a room you two