Ripped From The Headlines October 25, 2023
Your "Set & Forget" 401k Is Screwed, Chinese Scientists Work On Deadly Viruses, #SVB Is Back - Read, Share, & Subscribe - SherlocExposes.com
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“Investors, we’re not in Kansas anymore.
For four decades, patient savers able to grit their teeth through bubbles, crashes and geopolitical upheaval won the money game. But the formula of building a nest egg by rebalancing a standard mix of stocks and bonds isn’t going to work nearly as well as it has.
Now, longer-term Treasury yields have hit their highest levels in 16 years, causing their value to plummet, and stocks are expensive. So investors need to lower their expectations and play defense.
The summer of 2020 was the point when the classic “set it and forget it” stock-and-bond portfolio was as good as it got. Investors who didn’t panic earlier that year when Covid-19 crushed stocks cheered the quickest return to a bull market in history. Likewise, long-term Treasury yields plunged to a record low, bolstering bond funds. A classic 60/40 stock-bond split owning that proportion of the S&P 500 index and 10-year Treasury notes earned a respectable 15.3% in 2020.
But there are few free lunches in finance. Squeezing those impressive returns out of a worldwide economic calamity added to the U.S. government’s already considerable bill after the global financial crisis. Federal debt held by the public mushroomed from less than $5 trillion in mid-2007 to more than $21 trillion in 2020. Meanwhile, overnight interest rates were pushed down to a once-unthinkable zero percent, where they would stay until early 2022.
Suddenly the best investments were in companies that were earning little to no money but had a great story about how they would one day.
THINGS TO PONDER:
You’re in a game of music chairs, but the dirty little secret is that there isn’t really a seat for you…
And the plan has been to make sure you don’t know that until you fall flat on your Blessed Assurance.
And now?
Well now the rubber is meeting the road… and a whole bunch of people are figuring out that they’ve been hustled with “set it and forget it!” 401k plans…
And not just hustled for a few bucks either…
“Financial Advisors” have been playing crack casino with those investments, and now people are figuring out there ain’t much there.
Oh, and deferring those taxes?
Breaking news: THE TAX RATE WILL NEVER DECREASE. YOU’VE GIVEN THE GOVERNMENT AN INTEREST-FREE LOAN AND INVESTORS MONEY TO PLAY WITH THAT YOU’LL PAY MORE TO DRAW DOWN ON.
Ouch.
Best to keep up with what other folks are doing with your money.
Know Your Foe.
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“Chinese scientists have discovered never-before-seen viruses lurking on a tropical island — and warned they could infect humans.
Researchers tasked with preparing the world for future pandemic took almost 700 samples from rodents living in Hainan, just off China's southern coast.
Eight novel viruses — including one belonging to the same family as Covid — were uncovered in the project, funded by the Chinese Government.
Experts said the discovered pathogens had a 'high probability' of infecting humans should they ever cross the species barrier.
As a result, they called for further experiments on the viruses to determine exactly what their effects on humans could be.
The findings were shared in the journal Virologica Sinica, the publishing arm of the Chinese Society for Microbiology (CSM).
CSM is linked to the state-affiliated China Association of Science and Technology, which 'accepts administrative supervision' from the Chinese Government's 'Ministry of Civil Affairs'.
THINGS TO PONDER:
Do you think that “government officials” are trying to tell us something?
It’s not enough that US officials work up scare tactics and psychological warfare on Americans daily… now, we know where “the next issue” will come from…
Whether or not you’re a regular reader of Ripped From The Headlines, this is the reason you should be: Sherloc works extensively on connecting the dots on madness just like this to show you what’s coming.
Governments are itching for another lockdown… and this time, they plan to break your will.
Don’t let them.
Know Your Foe.
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“In a quiet, beige hospitality suite tucked away in Las Vegas’s Venetian hotel, executives at Silicon Valley Bank — the tech-friendly lender which collapsed after a bank run — gathered to hammer home a message: The bank is back.
After failing in a matter of days and largely being subsumed by regional lender First Citizens BancShares Inc. weeks later, the business — now a unit of First Citizens and still using its old name — is fighting to win back clients and reassert itself as a go-to financial partner for startups and venture capital funds.
‘We’re not afraid to re-earn that trust,’ Christopher Hollins, the bank’s head of product sales, said in an interview.
The company was among thousands attending the annual Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas this week, one of the largest events for financial-technology and payments executives. They converged together with regulators, investors and lawyers to discuss an industry that’s facing pressure as a pandemic boom recedes. Number one on the event’s agenda: ‘Trust & Uncertainty.’
Silicon Valley Bank seized the moment to telegraph its message: Blasted across the conference venue were giant screens advertising its offerings, including one with a lightly tongue-in-cheek tone:
‘Silicon Valley Bank can help you through MVPs to IPOs,’ it read. ‘Yes, SVB.’”
THINGS TO PONDER:
This is not a typo, fake news, or a story from The Babylon Bee… it’s real.
Yes, the people who brought you the issue that almost collapsed the world economy are back… and are not afraid to re-earn your trust.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering… here’s that advertising screen:
NEVER FORGET WHAT #SVB, THE BANKS, AND THE FED HAVE DONE TO YOU AND YOUR WEALTH.
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