economy crisis?

 

I think so!

- Mortgage rates rising, at 5.85% for a 30 year fixed

- Nonborrowed bank reserves now at -111,855,000,000 as of May 21st!!! http://www.federalreserve.gov/relea...ist/h3hist4.txt

- BANKS ARE BROKE!! THEY ARE ILLIQUID, ONLY THING SAVING THEM IS THE FED.

- Home sales still on the decline

- Record supply of single family homes

- Banks still not lending to consumers

- Oil near all time highs

- Banks trading at all time lows

- Real rate of inflation near double digits (? probably)

- Gasoline above $4.00 a gallon for regular unleaded

- Diesel fuel up to $5.00 a gallon

- Consumer confidence at 12 year low

- Take out commodities backed companies and earnings are down 20%+

- Unemployment projected on the increase

- Dollar still near all time lows (Yippee we have gained .03 on the Euro.... lets have a party all our problems are fixed)

Oh yeah, this is already priced into the market. lol

We are trading only ~5% off for the year!

What else do you have to read to see this is not a healthy environment?

 

The USA does not have a national residential housing market that is easy to quantify. Commercial construction is on increase. Oil/gas/deisel prices reflect greed. Maybe time for new developments of technology: an opportunity