Wednesday, August 11, 2010

REMEMBER: In 1930, They Didn't Know It Was "The Great Depression" Yet

In the past year, we've written a lot about the similarity between the rally of early 1930 and the one we had through April of this year.
The early 1930 rally came after the market had fallen nearly 50% in the fall of 1929.  The spring 1930 rally took the market up nearly 50% again, to a level that was only about 20% below the previous peak.
That rally, of course, was also the biggest sucker's rally in history.  After the market peaked in April 1930, it crashed again, eventually ending up down 89% from the 1929 high and more than 80% from the 1930 high.  The market did not reach the 1930 high again for another quarter of a century.


The rally that recently ended in April 2010 came after a crash that was actually slightly more severe than the 1929 crash (53% versus 48%).  It took the market up nearly 80% from the low!  The recent rally also lasted longer than the 1930 rally did--a year, as opposed to 6 months.
The 2009-2010 rally that ended in April, of course, may actually be the start of a great new bull market, one that will shake off the current "correction" and roar back to the market's old highs.  On the other hand, it may yet also be another version of what happened in 1930--the start of another bear market that will take the market down for years (or even, gulp, to a new low).
Importantly, we won't know for sure what today's market is until we look at it with the genius of 20/20 hindsight.  As Peter Schiff pointed out recently--and David Rosenberg observes today--even as late as 1931, they didn't know they were in a "Great Depression" yet.  On the contrary, the promise from the White House was that "prosperity is just around the corner."
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5 comments:

  1. Yes, little Timmy, your generation will have nothing. Your government and the Corporations have guaranteed that. Instead they allowed jobs to go overseas, continue to support outsourcing, continue to allow foreign H1B and L1 Visa workers into the country, and then cut domestic programs to help those who are suffering.

    You see Timmy, both political parties are two heads on the same monster and it is all a big show. In the end they couldn't care less about you.

    So when things collapse Timmy, remember that none of the 2 parties are your friend, and the corporations could care less if you are dead.

    You should feel the same about them as they do about you Timmy.

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  2. ¨Tell me, Timmy...have you ever seen a grown man naked?¨ lol

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  3. 08.25.10 Prepare now.

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  4. 08.26.12

    Prepare then

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  5. It's always better to prepare now for a rainy day. No one knows when the house of cards shall fall, but when it does, those who have prepared will be better off than those who have not. Food/water storage, security measures, cash on hand, etc. Do what you can with what you got be it a lot or a little.

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