Fence Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 1 hour ago, UnconventionalWisdom said: Now I get why so many household names are going under. Although I get that high house prices and poor wage growth have an impact on consumer spending, I didn't get why firms don't borrow their way out of trouble as money is cheap. Soon CBs will have to factor these aspects in... Surely they would, right ? Message to CBs - at the very best, you're playing a zero sum game you twats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durhamborn Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 13 minutes ago, pmgdawau said: it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for the directors Yes it is,they take every bit of capital built up in the business for themselves then walk away.The first thing i learned was the most important thing in cycles is the cost of money.The banks/market wouldnt be able to fund all this fraud if there wasnt so much liquidity flying around at 0.5%.Of course as CBs tighten and debt is destroyed the economy implodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnconventionalWisdom Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 1 hour ago, durhamborn said: Of course as CBs tighten and debt is destroyed the economy implodes. They will use that as a reason not to tighten and the debt-heads will continue to win. I hope Fed's hand is forced into QT to maintain the dollar as the world's reserve currency and other CBs will have to follow suit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quicken Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Peer-to-peer lending really emerged post-2007, so it hasn't been tested in an economic crisis. Thoughts on that sector going forward? Q Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majorpain Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 9 minutes ago, Quicken said: Peer-to-peer lending really emerged post-2007, so it hasn't been tested in an economic crisis. Thoughts on that sector going forward? Q Not good. 3% from low risk US 30 yr treasury bonds or 4% from high risk peer to peer lending with no FSCS protection? https://www.ft.com/content/c749ba88-16f6-11e8-9376-4a6390addb44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 6 hours ago, Ash4781 said: A bit of a curve ball at Hammerson Plc. I don’t own shares in them. What’s the plan - get Hammerson , stop the Intu deal, pick them off later. The initial price does seem disruptive. “French mall operator Klépierre has approached Hammerson with a £4.9bn bid proposal in an attempt to break up the UK property firm’s agreed acquisition of Intu. Hammerson shares jumped 24% to 542.4p on news of the proposal, which values the business at 615p a share. Klépierre is trying to thwart Hammerson’s £3.4bn tie-up with Intu that would create Britain’s biggest property company worth £21bn. The deal, announced in December, would bring together Hammerson’s Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham and Brent Cross in London with Intu’s Trafford centre in Manchester. “ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/19/french-firm-makes-49bn-offer-to-hammerson-over-intu-acquisition It's an industry in it's death roll.The flip side of all these retail failures is that it will strengthen the hand of the remaining stores to negotiate substantial rent reductions. When you look at it holistically,it's quite likely that the profit for retailers is pretty much in the top 20% of footfall at these rental levels.Back of fag packet calcs admittedly but sans rent reductions the figures will stop stacking up in the next year or two for all but the anchor stores. The impact on credit creation will be substantial if they marked the loans to market. Wouldn't want to be a small retail CRE LL over the next few years trying to hawk empty sadnwich shops in Leicester for £15k in rent. 4 hours ago, durhamborn said: Incredible how VC companies can get away with it.Buy a company,get most of your money back by turning equity to debt.Then take all profit as dividends/wages for the directors until it implodes due to lack of investment/interest payments going over free cash flow.Of course most/all of the blame lies with the CBs.Once the cost of money is too low it makes this sort of fraud possible.Its one of the reasons we sucked forward so much consumption and a part of the credit deflation ahead. As per previous discussion re the Fed raising rates,it can't have escaped their notice that the natural follow on from Zirp was zombie companies destroying price discovery on every level. Worth noting that Jerome Powell has no formal education in Economics so may not be as prone to the delusions of his predecessors about the cure for GD1 being printed cash. The US of A are hiking with CPI at 1.8% and we're staying flat depsite CPI at 2.7%.....................Carnage.  2 hours ago, pmgdawau said: it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for the directors To misquote Forrest Gump 'Stoopid is as stoopid does.' The CBers are our representatives and they rarely get held to account.You can't blame the private equity guys for helping themselves in some respects. 2 hours ago, Fence said: Message to CBs - at the very best, you're playing a zero sum game you twats. If it was a zero sum game I'd be mightily relieved.Future generations will be paying for this profligacy for decade  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bricks n' mortar Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 As someone who came to this thread because I saw the reflation, but didn't 'get it' about deflationary collapse; I found this story quite good. It seems to be explaining the CB role in what has gone before, and what is to come. Probably not news to the more enlightened among you, (apart from that the views of this thread are making the news, albeit not a mainstream publication).http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-federal-reserve-cannot-engineer-soft-landing-24980 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonardratso Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 35 minutes ago, Majorpain said: Not good. 3% from low risk US 30 yr treasury bonds or 4% from high risk peer to peer lending with no FSCS protection? https://www.ft.com/content/c749ba88-16f6-11e8-9376-4a6390addb44 which of course the bonds are covered by. (not) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quicken Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 36 minutes ago, Majorpain said: Not good. 3% from low risk US 30 yr treasury bonds or 4% from high risk peer to peer lending with no FSCS protection? https://www.ft.com/content/c749ba88-16f6-11e8-9376-4a6390addb44 It's actually more like 6-7% from P2P (5 year Lending Works to individuals, or Funding Circle to businesses). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 47 minutes ago, Quicken said: It's actually more like 6-7% from P2P (5 year Lending Works to individuals, or Funding Circle to businesses). I'd rather take a punt on the National Grid divi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 52 minutes ago, leonardratso said: which of course the bonds are covered by. (not) UST's always get paid out.Same as NS&I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majorpain Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 56 minutes ago, Quicken said: It's actually more like 6-7% from P2P (5 year Lending Works to individuals, or Funding Circle to businesses). Funding Circles financial accounts are.... interesting. They may be returning 7% to investors, but they are also making a rather big loss. Doesn't look sustainable in the long run to me, never mind if recession hits and their credit worthy businesses become rapidly un-creditworthy. Caveat emptor as always! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonardratso Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 rate setter has a perma link on their start page after you sign in called 'losses for year' - now they know how to paaarrrtaaay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoINeedOne Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) Was just looking at Yamana gold Still just taking notes and learning but one thing i noticed was that pretty much everyone on there management team, directors and owners have been buying a lot of shares over the past few months Whats others views on this Edited March 20, 2018 by DoINeedOne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronyx Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 How did you manage to find that info DoINeedOne? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoINeedOne Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) 22 minutes ago, chronyx said: How did you manage to find that info DoINeedOne? I been looking at a few different options to check data but i seem to find visual stuff better like when the data is made into graphs and stuff On this site if you scroll down you can see insider trading part if shares have been bought or sold over the last year with all the director and management info might need to sign up for free account  https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/materials/nyse-auy/yamana-gold abit messy but here  Again im still learning and taking notes just found it interesting  Edited March 20, 2018 by DoINeedOne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) Chairman of Barrick (John Thornton) also purchased 300,000 Barrick shares recently. Two other directors also hiked their stake, Barrick said, including Rob Prichard — who purchased 10,000 shares — and Graham Clow, who acquired 7,500. Pritchard and Clow now own 30,000 and 22,583 shares, respectively. Link - http://www.mining.com/barrick-chairman-thornton-boosts-ownership-major-share-buy/ Edited March 20, 2018 by Errol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoINeedOne Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 15 minutes ago, Errol said: Chairman of Barrick (John Thornton) also purchased 300,000 Barrick shares recently. Two other directors also hiked their stake, Barrick said, including Rob Prichard — who purchased 10,000 shares — and Graham Clow, who acquired 7,500. Pritchard and Clow now own 30,000 and 22,583 shares, respectively. Link - http://www.mining.com/barrick-chairman-thornton-boosts-ownership-major-share-buy/ Others plus Geo Logic company too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durhamborn Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 54 minutes ago, DoINeedOne said: Was just looking at Yamana gold Still just taking notes and learning but one thing i noticed was that pretty much everyone on there management team, directors and owners have been buying a lot of shares over the past few months Whats others views on this Yamana has great assets and terrible managers.Its a share best suited to traders.Iv had it several times over the last 2 years and been down 30% at times,but selling at an average 25% profit.Iv got a few left in my SIPP that are sat -8% at the moment. My favourite mid tier is Harmony Gold,but they are already up 35% since i put them on this thread.They are still very cheap,if gold runs up.If it doesnt they could drift lower again.They also have the South African risk.Iv also bought a few Anglogold Ashanti today and last week.In a gold bull id see them much higher. Gold miners are a very difficult area to invest in.When new to the area its best to stick to small stakes across a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitchfork Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 10 hours ago, durhamborn said: Incredible how VC companies can get away with it.Buy a company,get most of your money back by turning equity to debt.Then take all profit as dividends/wages for the directors until it implodes due to lack of investment/interest payments going over free cash flow.Of course most/all of the blame lies with the CBs.Once the cost of money is too low it makes this sort of fraud possible.Its one of the reasons we sucked forward so much consumption and a part of the credit deflation ahead. I couldn't agree more. Legal, yes, moral, no. The rich get richer but this is not without victims. It's a transfer of wealth and when you consider that fundamentally to generate that wealth someone had to work hard, maybe physical hard work, maybe creative. Or someone had to dig stuff out of the ground, or pump oil, work on the line making cars (possibly high end cars for those very rich people to drive). And no doubt those VCs will go around saying they "created wealth". I would not mind so much of it was the banks that took the pain. Unfortuntely, it all ultimately and fundamentally works its way down to the lower levels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronyx Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 2 hours ago, DoINeedOne said: I been looking at a few different options to check data but i seem to find visual stuff better like when the data is made into graphs and stuff On this site if you scroll down you can see insider trading part if shares have been bought or sold over the last year with all the director and management info might need to sign up for free account  https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/materials/nyse-auy/yamana-gold abit messy but here  Again im still learning and taking notes just found it interesting  I only have phone atm but thanks. Will look properly when i get home to a real pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fence Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, Sancho Panza said: If it was a zero sum game I'd be mightily relieved.Future generations will be paying for this profligacy for decade "At the very best". In the context of PE - point being you can't get something for nothing. Everything has a cost like QE causes the hollowing out of companies by PE. They cherry pick successes, if any, without proper weighting to the costs. Costs like you mention. Many, many others. Hence the "twit" label. Suitably down market to pop their fake intellectual arrogance. Edited March 20, 2018 by Fence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tapori Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 19 hours ago, macca13 said: Claire’s has gone https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/19/claires-bankrupt-accessories-stores-latest-filing 7:29 I blame Razz Prince telling her to drop the accessories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca13 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 7 hours ago, Pitchfork said: The rich get richer but this is not without victims. It's a transfer of wealth I would not mind so much of it was the banks that took the pain. Unfortuntely, it all ultimately and fundamentally works its way down to the lower levels The pensions of these collapsed companies, or there lack of will come back to the tax payers.. either in topups or covering the shortfall.. if they don’t qualify for top ups then the fact they will have less disposable income is enough of a loss in tax revenue and personal hardship.. The MP’s are ignoring this on purpose as always, I’m sure they are fully supportive of this behaviour.. one of them probably had a 2nd job as a director at Claire’s.. ? prison is where these people belong playing drop the soap.. unless they enjoy that sort of thing in which case a women’s prison full of ladies of a certain age experiencing the menopause.. that will learn them.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afly Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 DB, do you have any target numbers to look out for that would suggest a bust has been skipped and would see you selling your UST holdings? Massive printy printy by the cb's seems like the only indicator but I would think that would still need a strong catalyst that would of likely shook markets. Interested to see market reaction today to rate rise and forecast. I'm sure that's all priced in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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