The Market Oracle: It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn…of a Economic Depression
It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn…of a Economic Depression :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
The financial system will collapse before “zero-hour” actually occurs. I think we are seeing signs of it in the desperate measures being employed to nationalize companies which trade on market exchanges as private enterprises. There is simply no way to defend the SEC’s decision to selectively enforce the prohibition of naked short selling for 17 ‘fragile’ financial companies and to not enforce it for the over 5000 other companies which trade on US stock market exchanges. And plans to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac breathe of a sort of corporate nationalism. Over time this will deal a massive psychological blow to financial markets. They are currently rallying on the sense of relief that the efforts to prevent Fannie and Freddie from dragging US financial markets into the abyss have succeeded and the inevitable day of reckoning has been postponed once again.