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not from reading cnbc or cnn is a solid start... not looking at officially reported unemployment nor cpi numbers
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Instead of looking at the stories talking about how good or bad things are, need to focus on the pieces and personal observations.
Every week companies announcing layoffs, unofficially companies using HR policies to layoff people without calling it a layoff. From my circle practically everyone's company laid off people in 2023. Companies keep revising budgets for revenue shortfalls. Yet some making crazy profits due to cost cutting measures. Profits being retained to boost stock. Retailers have been massively discounting since the fall well before Xmas, don't think the Q4 holiday sales numbers are going to be very good. Observed even during Xmas and now, store traffic is kinda light. Auto & home sales are not doing very good, except from those with lots of extra cash. Auto dealers have tons of inventory sitting on the lot not moving. Prices are still rising and shrinkflation is still happening with quality declining. Check local for sale ads, people still dumping luxury or unnecessary items cause they need money, a ton of retail theft still and selling stolen goods, pawn shops are busting at an excess of inventory, lots of desperate people looking to do anything for a buck. The only good news is gas prices, but that's artificially being pushed down to try and ease the overall pain.
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It didn't have to be this bad... all it necessitated was slowing down some of the greed during Covid as well as the unnecessary printing of money and raising interest rates early. We would have never seen the growth we did but we also would have never had a wild peak like we did which is always followed by a fast downturn which we are now in. No one in this country has the balls to truly resolve the economic issues no matter the party. When the real numbers come out after the election, I think people will be singing a different tune everywhere.
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Again, this can ONLY go 2 ways... a serious economic crash that resets everything... this will cause mass unemployment (not sure which politician has the balls for this) OR conversely we continue to trek on a fake economy that will border around stagflation (this really doesn't benefit anyone) except corporations that can cut costs. In this scenario, employment / wages will be limited for years unless they cut rates soon which could also cause inflation to immediately bounce back, hence stagflation again.
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That's a tricky question; AGI for the family now is much higher than any other period because of SO, but worked for a investment firm during the .com boom and things back then were much more affordable, my total income peaked when the RE bust and made a ton of $ on the way back up plus was DINK so...
I would take income adjusted backwards from today and prefer to live from 2000-10 times right now.
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I go to a pawn shop at least once a month because they do my FFL transfers. If you ever want to know a good gauge of the economy visit a busy pawn shop. Mine has been doing some advertised sales on inventory cause they are overflowing and yet not much is moving.
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Seems that no matter what, my IRAs don't grow much at all. I'll be working till I'm dead.
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Almost 2 yrs ago I converted my traditional IRA to a brokerage IRA, I was shocked and happy when the traditional MF funds in it returned to even about 3 months ago, but about 40% of it is in stocks and ETFs which is more volatile but better off.
You can always do the same and try to do better than the MF companies.
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What are you invested in, stock and fund wise? Do they have high expense ratios. That may be some of it.
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- CPI all items has increased at a 2.5% CAGR from Jan-2005 until now - YOY CPI inflation was around 3% in 2005 - Case-Shiller HPI has grown at a CAGR of 3.5% nationally, and 2.8% for MA since 2005 - S&P500 total return from 2005 until now is 7%, better than inflation - Unemployment had a 5-handle, worse than today - 10-year treasury yield had a 4-handle, same as today - 30 year fixed rate mortgage had a high 5-handle, slightly better than today I am seeing a mixed bag. Your income is high now, equity markets are doing reasonably well, and the job market is better now. Interest rates now are in a similar ballpark as what they were then. If you are real estate-oriented, which it seems you are, residential values from an investor's point of view have kept pace with inflation in MA, and fallen behind the equity markets. On the face of the numbers, I will take today. Full disclosure - I am not real estate-oriented. There are of course subjective aspects to how we see things. Last edited by chassis; 01-23-2024 at 10:56 AM.. |
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Any of you dabble with the ETF QQQ/QQQM?
I have a fair sum invested in it, but curious if I should continue investing given the 0.15% expense ratio.
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I guess I would of picked that period for some things that don't show up in the stats; food was a lot more reasonable and eating out was reasonable with much better quality. Travel was much much cheaper travel, remember possible east to west for $300, north east to FL under $200. Back then oh how reasonable scotch and premium liquor was, would of bought cases of Yamazaki 18 if I knew it would go from $80 to $500 a bottle.
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Its good, need to invest in some maintenance like new shocks & other suspension bits, think calipers are starting to stick and wheel bearings. Just investing in other hobbies and won't order the 5-6k in parts till I know I have the time to do the work. Still a blast to drive and maybe the most pure fun car I will ever own. M4 is great and need to get back into a manual one again, it's just not a NA V10.
The market has softened on them like everything, peak think mine was worth about $30k'ish. Still nice examples can be found but more and more need TLC to get to my standards. Would buy a M6 S85 6spd vert in a heartbeat for the right deal just to have 2 V10s.
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