On Monday we posted on the struggling preferred stock market. Since its lows earlier in the week, the S&P Preferred Stock index has rallied sharply off the lows. The decline and snapback rally in preferreds reminds us of the collapse in municipal bonds and their subsequent rally back in February. Below we highlight a chart of PFF (preferred stock ETF) and MUB (muni-bond ETF) since last September. Both are supposed to be relatively stable asset classes, but they have been anything but this year. But hopefully PFF can rally back like MUB did in the month or two following its February bottom.
The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Friday, July 18, 2008
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