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So bare market time, which means you might want to think about how you invest, right?

What's your investment strategy?

Here is the thing.

Out of control inflation is hammering the living crap out of the stock market at this point.

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Text Ben, you 98, 98, 98, secure your savings today. Well, Bidenomics has been a giant failure. And the easiest way to tell that Bidenomics has been a giant failure is that we are now in a full-on bare market. According to the Wall Street Journal, the stock market sell-off deepened on Monday with the S&P 500 entering a bare market as investors took another look at Friday's red hot inflation

data and liked it even less, which is not a surprise because the inflation data month-onth on month was, again, 8.6% annualized inflation rate. That is a horrifying rate of inflation.

Faced with rising chances of aggressive monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve, investors broadly unloaded risk.

The S&P 500 slumped 3.9% as 495 of its 500 components ended the day lower. So that is not a matter of a few big companies that are dragging the rest of the market down. This is a matter of every single company, with the exception of like five companies, had its stock decline. And that is because people are looking at this economy and they're like, I don't have the extra cash. People are looking at the economy and

they are figuring they need to either liquidate their assets in order to pay the bills, or they're

trying to get out of the stock market because they believe that it's going to decline even further.

And given the fact that Joe Biden wants heavier regulations, heavier taxation, global

taxation schemes,

the likelihood is that we are now entering a period of significant economic stagnation over the course of the next several years, and maybe for the next decade. This is the really systemic problem here. It's not just inflation. Inflation, the Fed will get control of it. It'll be painful. It'll be a problem. the Fed is not going to be able to do this lukewarm thing where they gradually raise the inflation rate just ever so slightly and edge us away from inflationary territory and away from a recession. Instead, what's going to happen is that the Fed is going to have to clamp down because, again, the Federal Reserve, as much as people like to pretend it's a scalpel, it's not. It's a blunt instrument. The Federal Reserve does not have a magic wand

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