Friday, August 27, 2010

Bunkerman Talks Bull

Bull Market, that is.

The portents are starting to appear. Credit cards losses are falling. Mortgage delinquency rates are dropping.

Now is the first time for years that millions of people can refinance their home mortgages and either lower money payments or cut years off their loan maturity by getting a 15 year fixed rate loan for the same or similar payment as their existing 30 year loan. Don't let the endless gloomy talk hide this fact. Sure, unemployment is high and fears are rightly high. But 90% of the labor force is employed and much of the US did NOT go on a home boom-bust roller coaster ride. They can and should be refinance to profit from lifetime low rates.

They are doing that, based on the wave of refinancing applications and the huge backlog there now.

Corporations are doing this, too, by issuing huge amounts of long term, fixed rate debt. This low cost permanent funding will give them a financial base to eventually expand operations. A solid, well funded foundation is being built; a solid foundation can support a big building.

The US economy is going to grow strongly next year. Not this year. The stimulus was squandered by the P-O-R ring and that hive of knaves in DC. Battleship Ben at the Fed, however, is still shelling heavily and he's now eliminating that last bastion of resistance to strong growth: existing high cost debt.

The military analogy is The Battle of Normandy. Weeks of slogging through the hedge rows culminated in a carpet bombing of the last German defenses in Operation Cobra. Those were crushed and First Army broke through. Patton then led Third Army's 'right hook' swept through north central France and the Allies pushed the Germans out of France in one great rush.

Battleship Ben is doing the heavy shelling that is crushing the last line of resistance. In a few months, the battle will be over. The US economy will then have a strong financial base and strong growth can occur. People and firms can takes risks IF their home castles are secure. Low cost, long term financing makes peoples' homes and corporations' finances secure.

Get Ready to Rumble ... Put your Buying Shoes On.

But don't jump the gun. Let the selling peter out. Soon it will be time to buy. Cut back on long term bonds and TIPs to build cash. Some time soon we will have good prices and then Krypto will be buying stocks heavily.

Word of the Day

"Pusillanimous" - adjective [$10]
Pusillanimous means cowardly, faint-hearted.
Sentence: Pusillanimous people cannot be good investors; once must seize opportunities. The maxims are: Sell high, buy low ... and ... Buy low, sell high. Do this asset class by asset class and good, long term returns at low risk will be your reward.

27 comments:

mfl59 said...

Im no Timmy Knight...but yours is a specious ($15.50) argument at best...did you poach it from CNBC?

Bunkerman said...

no, this is my argument.

What's wrong with it ?

Historically many recessions finish with refi waves that create the big base for future growth.

The refi wave produces for improvements in cash flow and in psychology (reducing fear).

Bunkerman said...

I rarely watch CNBC anymore - it's pukacious - vomiturient.

Bunkerman said...

Plus I have fine metaphor - analogy re Normandy.

Since that seems to define the extent of modern 21st century argumentation, It's almost a QED.

;)

maverick said...

Where will the jobs be created?
How do we grow without jobs?

Spin-em said...

I think what bunk is saying that panoptic investors must evince longanimity if they have a desideratum to educe monetary gains in this dolorus declivitous market...or something like that..lol

Bunkerman said...

poor Q2 GDP number - thanks, P-O-R knaves.

Bunkerman said...

the jobs will come next year via braod based growth.

Bunkerman said...

the right foot will move on demand from the refi's & corp investment based on the foundation, then the left foot (jobs) will move ahead.

and so on: right, left, right, left ... one after another.

Bunkerman said...

Spin rolls a 7 in the $10 word game.

must be trying out for guest blogger

;)

mfl59 said...

Sir the people who need to refinance cannot...they are underwater...that is where the structural problem lies....Rates have been "historically" low for a couple years now...who is left to refinance?

Next you are going to tell me there is a lot of cash on the sidelines...

Bunkerman said...

many, many people can refinance - those who did not use their home as a piggy bank; those in places where home prices did not go up much: those people are NOT underwater.

Bunkerman said...

the people refinancing now are not those who "need" to refinance, it's those who don't "need" to do it, but can.

mfl59 said...

Come on sir...look at the stats...new homeowners from 2006 on-over 20% are underwater...we have another huge foreclosure wave coming...

mfl59 said...

My point was unless you live under a rock you probably have already refinanced at these low rates....

Bunkerman said...

if you go back to homeowners in 2003 or so & earlier, you'll find many who can now refi profitably, provided they did no cash outs in home equity after that.

Bunkerman said...

btw, I am refinacing my old 5.4% loan now (from 2003).

I can do 15 years at about same payment, and knock 8 years off the back end.

Spin-em said...

I hope Teresa refi'd

mfl59 said...

lmaoooooo spin....I dont see why not...

Bunkerman said...

hmm I see many beefer readers are jumping the gun.

Spin-em said...

Spin rolls a 7 in the $10 word game.

must be trying out for guest blogger

;)


I could get more cans in the seats....think about it....loool

Frosty said...

well well well..Mr Permabear sticks his snout out of the cave for a breath of reality...I'm a little verklempt...talk amongst yourselves.

Frosty said...

where is my pal Sal? helmet contest

a)caught dark emini and enjoying a big bowl of clamupchowder for lunch
b)picking up jim's shirts from the dry cleaner
c)spent the night bedding a woman and in midst of round two,a lil morning trim action

SORRY Mrs B...c) just an attempt at sick humor, we know the answer is either a or b.

Spin-em said...

time to hit the links... 54 holes in 26 hours.(get a life spinny)...lool...Bunk..have a GR--------8 weekend

Bud said...

WTF?????? Was today's column some sort of joke Bman? Are you F'ng serious




What bunch of thumping tosh



Sent from my ipad

Bud said...

Hey ponce..........I need your private email address


Nailed the ES H0 for 20 points today

Bunkerman said...

I guess my beefer readings figured I'm serious.

I'll soon put $ where my mouth is - a nice dip to low 1000's S&P will do it for me.