This article from zero-hedge is exactly on point with why your pension stocks will be re-evaluated. Here is a quote from it:
"The current stocks/bonds game is for all the marbles, by which I mean the status quo now depends on valuations and interest rates remaining near their current levels for the system to function. If interest rates soar and/or stocks plummet, the game is over: pension funds collapse, tax revenues drop, debt based on high asset valuations defaults, employment craters and the much-lauded 'wealth effect' reverses into a 'negative wealth effect' (i.e. everyone looking at their IRA or 401K statement feels poorer every month)."
The following picture is from Seoul Korea Airport:
Great short video on why the stock market it on edge and your pension money is at risk:
Another display from an airport this one below and the one above both from Seoul, South Korea:
Here is Greg Hunter interviewing two folks talking about how much governments, companies and people are leveraged with their debt levels:
The following picture was taken during a relaxing walk on Beach Road Pattaya Thailand:
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A friend of mine is a loan manager at a very large bank. They do a massive amount of the real estate loans in the Chicagoland area. He said that if rates even rise to 6.5% for a home loan that about 90% of their current home loans wouldn't have a chance of qualifying. With the minor increases we have seen people are already starting to turn to adjustable loans to qualify.
If people aren't buying homes then their value plummet, no more using your house an an ATM (still happening at a crazy high rate), and foreclosures will once again become a massive issue.
Forget the entire new home and remodeling industry. They get crushed if this happens as people can't get loans to buy or remodel.
Without construction all sort of other industries are effected that service the construction industry.
This is just one small segment of the economy that once it starts to decline has a major ripple effect across the economy as a whole.
Interest rates will rise and people need to be ready for what comes next.
If Interest rates rise by 1/4 point many people in Canada will not be able to make their monthly Mortgage payments ... let alone afford to buy food.
1/4% isn't felt and as most mortgages are fixed interest rates. On a $10,000 credit card balance 1/4% is only $25 a year. This just isn't enough to matter as people can cut out something. Where even that small amount matters is that people will cut things out, say 1 less movie a year or eating at home an extra time. Multiple this over the entire economy and it means jobs are lost.
People in Canada have $800,000 mortgages ... that's $2,000 a year . . Almost $200 / month
A majority of mortgages are fixed rate so most will not feel any increase if rates increase.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/transunion-mortgages-debt-1.4256026
While there are pockets of Canada that have insane real estate prices the average person doesn't have a 800k mortgage. Anyone with an ARM that can't afford an extra 1/4% mortgage increase never should of bought a home on an ARM while rates were at historic lows. Seriously anyone that takes an ARM right now just isn't very intelligent. Buy a home you can afford or just don't purchase a home.
At that if someone has an ARM right now and isn't refinancing into a fixed rate mortgage is just asking for drastically higher payments in the future.
Interest rates will rise, period. There is zero chance of them not rising IMO.
Are you familiar with the current household debt situation in Canada ? It is bad.....
average Canadian Debt is $22,837 per person, not including mortgages
http://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/debt/canadian-household-debt-hits-1-8t-as-report-warns-of-domestic-risk
Yes it was in the same article that I had linked to. Of that debt a huge majority is Auto Loans which are also fixed. This isn't to say that a rate increase isn't going to effect the economy, because it does. It's just not what you are picturing. 1/4% is a rounding error in most people's lives. Just wait for 6.5% first mortgages again (which is still historically low) and we will see real pain in the real estate bubbles of the US and CA.
The numbers in the US are just as bad and you can see the numbers here:
https://www.creditkarma.com/studies/i/average-debt-american-household-on-rise/
Either way both countries have a massive overspending issue. Our governments and the people both spend far more then they should. People think they deserve everything NOW and take issue with the concept of waiting until they can actually afford it.
Credit Cards are not your friend and never should be used expect for an emergency. If you can't afford to purchase something today then don't buy it, it's truly that simple. Use Cash for everything and record every single penny you spend each day. Then review that spending on a weekly and monthly basis.
This isn't something that I talk about in an abstract form. We were part of the rat race trying to keep up an image. We had new cars, nice new clothes, ate out all the time, took vacations multiple times a year, and so forth. Then one day I realized that we had a TON of debt...$22k is a joke compared to what we had racked up. It took some time and discipline, but we paid it all off and now live debt free except our 1st mortgage (we had 2 before).
I didn't take the easy way out and file bankruptcy, we earned each dollar needed to pay off our debt. So I know how people get into massive debt and understand the sacrifices needed to get out of it. And to this day we live like we are poor instead of acting like we are rich. Read the Millionaire Next Door if you haven't. We aren't done with our journey towards financial freedom, but are much closer then most do to not wasting money.
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“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
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Trading is all about valuation and interest rate .
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this picture of the white temple (Wat Rong Khun) of Chiang Rai in Thailand. There are very impressive and ancient temples in all the areas where we went. However, I loved this one because is contemporary very different to others. The Buddhist temples walls are full of tales in painted art. But this one has really cool sculptures of Predator, yes the movie and in the inside paints of movies like Star Wars, Terminator and others... it was quite striking. I'm wondering if in the past the temple's artist were depicting similar stories.
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yes i think to invest in metals as well as a backup a have money in Norwegian banks but the % is so low so all in all is useless. and a lots 20% on my stock a while ago so it not good.
property and gold and silver seems like it's the best.
am just not sure how to store it safe atm.
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Tax has been overpaying us alot of money, it is true that it is for the better of us but it sucks we all know where all this money goes ,corruption they just eat away our money .....
Pictures are really great ,you should have enjoyed a lit bit more,
You didnt day what you did to the money you got by selling bitcoin from your friend.
It went as an installment towards the condo I bought in Thailand.
Costed 1 bitcoin isnt that much
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