Treacherous Economic Times

The combination of a recession (sorry if I don't believe the government on this) and inflation taking off has created some great confusion among the masses. Just when they thought that buying stocks in a mutual fund and letting it go until retirement was the true route to prosperity, the bottom has fallen out.

Believe me I watch the entertainment channels all the time, you know the MSNBC et al. They would have you believe that we are only down so much percent great time to buy etc.

Well they have no clue that the great bull run in equities has been over. It has been over for 8 years already. What we had for the past 5 years is a long top forming for equities for a long time. We were barely above water back in Oct of '07 but have since slipped back below the high set in 2001, yes 2001. Anyone with a second grade math education can see that 8 years and we are still below what we were is not good for our wealth.

Many jumped on the Real Estate game only to find that just as in stocks, Real Estate does not always go up. You remember the mantra don't you?

Well all is not lost though, because there is always an investment class that is going up or going down. Picking which way and how to capitalize on it is really not that difficult.

The investments going down are Real Estate, most stocks, Bonds. So shorting these for the long term will pay off handsomely. Yet how does one go about shorting? That is for another article.

So what is going up? If you are a consumer you know already...Gas, Food, etc. so instead of sitting around the water cooler (does anyone even have one of those anymore?) complaining about how much everything is, go out and buy into this.

Over the last few years a numbers of financial products have been invented to let the common man in on the game like never before.

To find out more visit http://www.options-blog.blogspot.com and keep up with what is happening.

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