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Most people not doing well in todays economy


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2014 Sep 10, 2:59am   18,450 views  58 comments

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Fed's new Survey of Consumer Finance. The item that many may find surprising is that median wealth was lower in 2013 than it was in 2010 is spite of the boom in the stock market over this period. As Irwin explains, this is due to the fact that most middle income families own little or no stock, even indirectly through mutual funds in retirement accounts. For people near the middle of the income distribution their wealth is their house. In 2010 house prices were still headed downward. The first-time homebuyers tax credit had temporarily pushed up prices. (The temporary price...

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55   indigenous   2014 Sep 12, 10:43am  

Like the Gini index?

56   Zak   2014 Sep 12, 11:03am  

"Just another free-market fuckstick who is bloody ignorant of basic economics"

Do basic economics not count things as sold when one person sells them and another buys them? If you want to say that in Detroit there are no buyers, then I guess we can agree. Because there are a whole bunch of houses for sale that no one is buying. Then again, I guess you don't really want to hold up Detroit as an example of "free-market fucksticks" ruining a town because those aren't the guys who were in charge, were they?

57   Bellingham Bill   2014 Sep 13, 6:53am  

One thing about "nobody buying", only the specuvestors can afford to DCA in a down market.

When prices are going down, it makes sense to stand aside.

Falling knife, etc.

58   mell   2014 Sep 13, 7:01am  

Bellingham Bill says

One thing about "nobody buying", only the specuvestors can afford to DCA in a down market.

When prices are going down, it makes sense to stand aside.

Absolutely, that's called price and tail risk discovery. And it's a good thing but it cannot happen if the Fed takes away the tail risk and helps big investors to buy and drive up the price.

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