Are You Still Buying Insecurities
Why I Don’t by Michael Patrick Murphy
When aliens look down on Earth and see all the folks buying securities from folks and companies they don’t know anything about, the aliens say, “Earthlings are not ready for us,” and they fly on. Furthermore, it is an evil omen when government gets more and more married to the securities industry. Imagine that even if you work for Intel, Microsoft or Apple, you’ll be hard pressed to know where your stock will be next week, next month or even next year. The reasons have to do with a fickle market place that is always volatile and that will probably always be volatile. It is too complicated. The only people guaranteed to make money are those with insider information, like whether the government will bail out a company or not. Of course we all know that’s illegal. Yet do we think the rich and powerful don’t have easier access to such information and then use it? Of course they do. And why should that be illegal, anyway?
Reasons I Don’t Invest in the Markets
- I think of the securities and commodities market as a giant government induced casino. Major corporations run the government because people have abdicated their throwns and literally given the country over to them.
- There are way too many variables and most securities are too far away to be watched.
- If it really is a good deal, everybody and their dogs and cats are already in on it, raising the prices to where it is no longer a good deal.
- My priority investment should be in my own health. Most people don’t think that way. Think lower medical and quality of life, not insecurities and things.
- Most investors follow their emotions 9.99 times out of ten, making markets less logical and more volatile.
- If you live in a place overseen by a government, you really can’t own anything. The government can devalue, change and take anything, including your own body.
- Most people invest out of fear and greed. Fear of inflation to be exact. Greed in the sense they want to make a quick easy killing.
- The only way to win is through dumb luck and insider trading (knowing what’s going to happen ahead of time). Luck is legal and insider trading is not.
- The money you do make is taxed (sometimes).
What Are Securities Worth?
by Michael Patrick Murphy
Everything in the world is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. If people don’t want it, it must be sugarcoated in order to sell. The safer the investment, the more insured that it is by the FDIC, the less interest. Safety and Insurance cost money. If you ask the government to make the stock market safe, you’ll end up with a bank and low interest. As the government prints money to pay for safety and security, it devalues the dollar in your pocket so that it buys less. This causes people to go to the securities casino of “risky investments” in order to try and earn enough interest to compensate for the fact that their dollar doesn’t go as far as it used to. The market place is based on perceived value. A stock price goes up when everyone thinks it’s a good deal. It goes down when they don’t. The only people that can make serious money, outside of those with dumb luck, are those that have inside information or that can manipulate the minds of investors, such as those in the media and darlings with high profiles, like Jim Kramer.
For example, Joe knows his company is in trouble, so he dumps his stock before everyone else knows it. John the inventor has a new gizmo that will change the world, so he buys stock in his company before everyone else knows about his invention. The average person is a sheep, lemming or ostrich. They are usually the last to know such things. They are the last to buy good deals and the last to sell bad ones.
So Who Should be in the Securities Markets?
by Michael Patrick Murphy
Only those with crystal balls or who can manipulate markets in such a way that they can always buy low and sell high. These are the Warren Buffets and other darlings of todays markets who can move markets by presenting ideas to the media. Take Alan Greenspan. He was the darling of the markets one year and then a nemesis the next. Most investment kings are simply those that either got lucky at the casino or those that rigged the roulette wheel. Most people come under the category of sheep that believed in government-corporate Ponzi schemes. Many of those folks got lucky in the early days of the scheme. The sad thing is that the US Government and corporate America are still trying to grow the Ponzi schemes in return for votes and quarterly income.
So How Do I Make Money?
The Old Fashioned Way by Michael Patrick Murphy
- You produce goods or provide services. People pay you for them.
- You avoid using money and opt for doing trades whenever possible. Unfortunately, the law will be against you when you trade. The governments incentivize you to use their fiat (worthless) currencies so that can track you for tax purposes.
Life is simple.
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