Month: February 2014

ECB Seriously Considering Negative Interest Rates; New Central Bank Mottos
February 13, 2014 0

ECB Seriously Considering Negative Interest Rates; New Central Bank Mottos

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ECB Seriously Considering Negative Interest Rates; New Central Bank Mottos Posted by Michael Shedlock at 3:48 AM Disclaimer: The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. The ideas expressed on this site are solely the opinions of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the opinions of sponsors or firms affiliated with the author(s).

Deflation Theory Reality Check: Why Inflation is Severely Understated; Feel Good Effect
February 13, 2014 0

Deflation Theory Reality Check: Why Inflation is Severely Understated; Feel Good Effect

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Amazon: AMZN : The PE of Amazon is 592, Valuation is $160 Billion Linked In: LNKD : PE of Linked In is 837, Valuation is $23 Billion Facebook : FB: Facebook PE is 106, Valuation is $165  Billion Priceline : PCLN : PE of Priceline is 36, Valuation is $64 Billion Hertz : HTZ: PE of Hertz is 37, Valuation is $12 Billion Starbucks : SBUX : PE of Starbucks is 483, Valuation is $57 Billion  Boston Beer (Samuel Adams) : SAM : PE of Boston Beer is 43, Valuation is $3 Billion I could go on and on but I won’t. At current earnings, investors in Amazon will have to wait 592 years for a positive return on earnings. More realistically, they would have to wait forever because Amazon does not pay a dividend.

Rethinking "Paper Tiger"
February 12, 2014 0

Rethinking "Paper Tiger"

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Financial Times writer Wolfgang Münchau says Germany’s Constitutional Court has Strengthened the Eurosceptics . When the first headlines came out on Friday morning, it looked as if the German constitutional court had caved in. It decided to pass the case against Mario Draghi’s “whatever-it-takes†bond-buying programme to the European Court of Justice.