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Gary Shilling’s investment themes for 2012
John Mauldin’s Outside the Box report this morning highlights Gary Shilling’s take on 2012. Shilling believes the global economy will be dominated by an era of deleveraging and sees the following causes slowing down growth over the years ahead: 1. U.S. consumers will shift from a 25-year borrowing-and-spending binge to a saving spree. This will spread abroad as American consumers curtail the imports of the goods and services many foreign nations depend on for economic growth. 2. Financial deleveraging will reverse the trend that financed much global growth in recent years. 3. Increased government regulation and involvement in major economies will stifle innovation and reduce efficiency. 4. Low commodity prices will limit spending by commodity-producing lands. 5. Developed countries are moving toward fiscal restraint. 6. Rising protectionism will slow – even eliminate – global growth. 7. The housing market will be weak due to excess inventories and loss of investment appeal. 8. Deflation will curtail spending as buyers anticipate lower prices. 9. State and local governments will contract. As far as his investment themes for 2012 are concerned, Shillings lists the “attractive” and “unattractive” items below. Attractive:
Unattractive:
Source: John Mauldin’s Outside the Box (via Investors Insight), January 9, 2012. 5 comments to Gary Shilling’s investment themes for 2012Leave a Reply | |||||||||||
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No mention of Gold or Silver?
@Jon: Interesting, isn’t it?! It probably implies a lackluster performance in his view.
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Seems like this view is consistent with a deflationary environment, which i do agree. But i also keep hearing about the non stop printing of dollars. Now as long as they are behind the flood gates, in the reserves of foreign countries/corps/ultra rich, we should be ok. So we shouldnt be worried about them in the near future. But dont you think eventually they will come home?
So how do we plan for that. I want to be a long term investor (10-20 years). Want to utilize time to enjoy non financial things in the world 🙂
. Plus i have been thru the financial advisors and trust isnt going to come back anytime soon.
thanks