As we’ve been warning, the pain is set to come through unemployment. Which we’re now starting to see. Next step will be recession. Expect that pretty soon when the economy contracts officially. And then there will be corporate failures.
By Sam Volkering,
The impact that has on economic output is devastating. And while the markets have just jumped, the real economic pain of all this has not even come close to hitting as it should.
By Sam Volkering,
Do you sell up positions you’re still in? Do you sit and wait it out? Do you dump as much into the market as you can? Do you buy gold? Silver? Bitcoin? Stocks? Property?
By Sam Volkering,
I remember what it was like in March 2009. That was the bottom of the market from the ‘GFC’. People hated stocks. Everything was going to get far worse according to the sheep brains out there. It was real end-of-days stuff. Now, today, I’m telling you in my view, we sit on the cusp of the same kind of opportunity.
By Sam Volkering,
Maybe the coronavirus is part of the acceleration of new disease. After all, we only just got through Zika in 2015–16. There was the Ebola outbreak in 2014. Before that was MERS in 2012. Then H1N1 (swine flu) in 2009. And then there was SARS in 2002 and 2004.
By Sam Volkering,
Thanks to the coronavirus, the government is once again looking to take drastic measures. They’re petrified about the impact this pandemic will have on the Aussie economy. And they’re preparing to release a new stimulus package.
By Sam Volkering,
The world isn’t ending, but perhaps it’s going to change a little faster thanks to the global COVID-19 pandemic. If it does, there will be companies that will benefit from it. As an investor all you need to do is be ahead of the change and look at what happens when this all fades away…
By Sam Volkering,
The ASX is chock-full of great companies. There are companies not only dominating the domestic landscape, but the global landscape too. And they’re always working towards growth. I’d go so far to say there’s not a single company on the ASX that’s just going through the motions.
By Sam Volkering,
Can you see the irony here? A competing stock exchange with its stock listed on its competitor’s stock exchange. That’s the situation with the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX).
By Sam Volkering,
The bad news is that if you still don’t own bitcoin, you’ve missed some of the biggest returns on an asset class in the history of everything. Sorry. That’s just the lay of the land. That’s not to say the ride is over for bitcoin.
By Sam Volkering,
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