The Recession Will be Announced on July 30

The economy shrank by -4.8% in the first quarter of 2020, according to the advance numbers released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on April 29, 2020.

On Fox News, the major headline was a stock market surge on a potential coronavirus vaccine from Gilead. CNN had nothing about the economy on the homepage, when the report was first released. The New York Times led with the story.
 
Over the next few months, despite stark warnings from economists about the harsh economic times ahead, insurance, annuity, stock and real estate broker-salesmen will continue to assure their clients that their product will rise above and hold value. There will be talk that home prices never go down in this or that area, that the stimulus bill will keep stock and bond prices high or that annuities and insurance products are safe (even when they are highly vulnerable). That’s the way it always goes in recessions. It is never an overnight crash.
 
It took two and a half years from the top to the bottom in the Dot Com Recession. 15 years later, the NASDAQ Composite Index finally crawled back to its March 2000 highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from highs above 14,700 to a low of 6547 between October of 2007 and March 9, 2009.
 
Over 10 million homes changed hands in the wake of the Great Recession. As you can see in the chart below, stock and home prices are higher than ever. Debt is astronomical.

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​In fact, the only two times that stock prices have been higher on a 10-year average CAPE ratio was in 1929 and in 2000. Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller has been warning of this for a couple of years now.

The Recession will be Announced on July 30, 2020.
Today, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned, “Economic activity will likely drop at an unprecedented rate in the second quarter.”

​​Over the next several months, there will be a series of unfortunate events where asset prices (stocks, bonds and home values) will topple and then settle. People will become complacent again, thinking the worst is over, and then something else terrible will happen to sink prices further. (Asset prices are not included in core inflation figures.) At the point when the losses become unbearable, you’ll be tempted to sell low. Many people did this at the Great Recession low in 2009, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed out at 6547.
 
This is why Buy & Hope and market timing both don’t work. Our easy as a pie chart nest egg strategy with annual rebalancing: 1) earned gains in the last two recessions; 2) outperformed the bull markets in between, and; 3) is a buy low, sell high plan on auto-pilot. A time-proven plan protects your wealth, earns money while you sleep and allows you to sleep at night. In today’s world, you also need to know what is safe in a world where bonds are highly leveraged, losing money, are in danger of being illiquid, and where money market funds had to be bailed out in March 2020 and have redemption gates and liquidity fees.
 
The second quarter GDP is predicted to contract another 12% quarter over quarter and as much as 40% year over year.
You will not hear this news, nor that the economy is in a recession, until July 30, 2020. So, in short, be careful getting your economic information from the mainstream media and your wealth strategy from a broker-salesman. Any broker-salesman, who is reliant upon their job to pay their own mortgage, is going to be tempted to keep you invested. At the bottom, you’ll be told, “Who knew that it would be this bad?” and “If you sell now, you’ll be selling low.”
 
You must be the boss of your money. It’s time to step off the Wall Street rollercoaster and into a time-proven plan.
 
What Are Some of the Forthcoming Headlines?
High unemployment means consumer credit, which was higher than ever before the coronavirus recession, will become a substantial problem to households and creditors. Banks will have significantly reduced earnings. Homeowners and renters will be at risk of losing their homes. Consumer spending, which has driven the economy and was 69% of GDP, will be limp. Any business dependent upon consumer sales will be impacted. Apple reports earnings tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. PT. That report is predicted to be terrible.
 
Real Estate
Real estate losses were severe in the Great Recession. The median sales price of existing homes in the U.S. fell from $221,900 in 2006 to $166,100 in 2011. The losses were nationwide, although there was variance regionally. The implosion in Detroit, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico and Las Vegas was unprecedented in my lifetime.
 
Today real estate prices are higher than ever, at $271,900. Prices are unaffordable in 67% of U.S. cities. 3.5 million homeowners are still severely underwater on their mortgages.
 

Have You Been Told That Real Estate Never Goes Down in Your Area?
What factors can reduce prices in your area? Prices are quite often simply a case of supply and demand. If there are too many sellers and not enough buyers, then prices have to come down. When there is high unemployment, the buying pool shrinks. When there is unaffordability, the buying pool shrinks. When mortgages are difficult to obtain due to bad credit or increased tightening of credit standards, demand dries up. When people lose their homes to foreclosure, the supply pool expands. We are likely to see all of those things happen over the next few months, even in areas where people believe they are exempt from the laws of supply and demand.
 
I will discuss this further in my online retreat this weekend, including solutions for homeowners who feel that they are overextended, and would-be home buyers who are worried that home prices are too high. We also discuss nest egg strategies, what’s hot, and how to save thousands of dollars annually in your budget with smarter big-ticket choices. Cutting out café lattes and avocado toast is not going to fix the challenges that lie ahead.
 
Asset Bubbles
So, what about stocks and bonds? Stocks are far too expensive, even with a 17% downturn since the highs of February 19, 2019. The bond market had to be bailed out on March 2, 2020. The bailout does not give a blank check to every single company and entity that needs to be rescued. As Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell noted in his press conference today, “We can’t lend to insolvent companies.”
 
We have seen a vigorous debate in Congress about whether or not states should be allowed to declare bankruptcy. That should give you some concern about your municipal bonds. Credit risk and term risk are at issue, as is liquidity. No one is going to want to take a 20-year bond (or longer) off your hands. There is no reward for that risk, particularly as the risk of insolvency increases.
 
Over 50% of corporate bonds have been just above junk-bond status for over a year. Ford was downgraded to junk in September 2019. You can expect further downgrades to start. Many corporations have slashed their dividends. Those people who were relying upon dividends for income are in trouble – not just of having no income, but also of capital loss of their investment and potential illiquidity. As I’ve been saying for years, the higher the dividend the higher the risk. Private placement REITs are particularly toxic. Read D&T’s story of caution in their own words.
 
In short, wisdom is the solution. The time to get that wisdom is now, while everything is still trading nice and high. That is why I am hosting an online emergency retreat this weekend, May 2-4, 2020. We will focus on nest egg strategies to protect your wealth, real estate strategies to protect your wealth, and bond strategies to protect your wealth. We will also talk about the Thrive Budget® and how you can position yourself best to survive one of the worst economic recessions that any of us have seen in our lifetime. If you wait for the headlines, it will be too late to protect yourself.
 
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I host a free video conference twice a month. If you'd like the log-on information, email [email protected] with VIDEOCON in the subject line. The next videoconference will be April 30, 2020 at 5 pm PT, after Apple announces earnings. Watch the conferences back on my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/NataliePace2. 

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