Wednesday, October 15, 2014

9 Ominous Signals: Is the stock market about to crash?

9 Ominous Signals: Is the stock market about to crash?:
The following article has been generously contributed by Michael Snyder, founder of The Economic Collapse Blog and author of The Beginning of the End.
Editor’s Note: Since the stock market’s reversal following the crash of 2008 to new highs today many observers have warned that the fundamental economic, financial and monetary problems that caused the crash to begin with have yet to be resolved. In fact, by all accounts things have only gotten worse
But you wouldn’t know it if you’ve only been paying to the official numbers being disseminated by the government or the constant blathering on about economic recovery from financial media pundits. 
Frankly, the whole of the industrialized world knows something is wrong and those with any sense are now just waiting for the system to finally buckle. 
We’re starting to see major gaps in economic progress – real estate is dropping like a brick, more people are exiting the labor force than ever before, and tens of millions of people per month are requesting social assistance from the government just so that they can put food on the table.
To put it mildly, the situation is deteriorating. 
Even the stock market, America’s pillar of financial success, is finally starting to crack. 
In the following article Michael Snyder highlights some critical signals that are appearing now. 
We saw them prior to the last crash, and while past performance is not a guarantee of future results, things are certainly looking ominous going into this holiday shopping season.
How long can the U.S. economy hold on to the facade?

 9 Ominous Signals Coming From The Financial Markets That We Have Not Seen In Years
By Michael Snyder (Economic Collapse Blog)
Is the stock market about to crash?  Hopefully not, and there definitely have been quite a few “false alarms” over the past few years. 
But without a doubt we have been living through one of the greatest financial bubbles in U.S. history, and the markets are absolutely primed for a full-blown crash.  That doesn’t mean that one will happen now, but we are starting to see some ominous things happen in the financial world that we have not seen happen in a very long time. 
So many of the same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the bursting of the dotcom bubble and just prior to the 2008 financial crisis are repeating themselves again. 
Hopefully we still have at least a little bit more time before stocks completely crash, because when this market does implode it is going to be a doozy.
The following are 9 ominous signals coming from the financial markets that we have not seen in years…

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