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The Boom Turns Into A Bust – Here are 14 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Steadily Weakening
The Boom Turns Into A Bust – Here are 14 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Steadily Weakening There should no longer be any doubt that the U.S. economy is slowing down, but most Americans still don’t realize what is happening because the major news networks are completely focused on the endless impeachment drama that is currently […]
Fed Cuts Interest Rate 3rd Time in 2019 With Hints of a Pause
Fed Cuts Interest Rate 3rd Time in 2019 With Hints of a Pause The FOMC committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate to 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 percent. Following the third rate cut in 2019, the Federal Reserve issued this short FOMC Statement. Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met […]
Fed Cuts Rates Again, But Drops “Act As Appropriate” Pledge Signaling It Is Done Cutting
Fed Cuts Rates Again, But Drops “Act As Appropriate” Pledge Signaling It Is Done Cutting While the assumption is that Fed officials (having passed on the opportunity to lean against dovish market expectations) would not shock the market and vote to keep rates unchanged (96% odds and Fed has never surprised at that level), that’s […]
Texas Hit Hard By Shale Slowdown
Texas Hit Hard By Shale Slowdown Texas’ economy is perhaps the most vulnerable to oil price swings given its leading role in the country’s oil industry. Recently, as prices have remained low, talk has begun about the outlook for the state’s economy. According to a recent Reuters report, for example, smaller independent oil and gas producers […]
U.S. Shale Braces For Brutal Earnings Season
U.S. Shale Braces For Brutal Earnings Season A lot of big names will report third quarter earnings this week, and the results are expected to be worse than the same period in 2018. The timing comes as the shale sector is facing somewhat of a reckoning. After years of price volatility – with more downs […]
BOJ To Start Lending ETF Shares To Prevent Market Freeze
BOJ To Start Lending ETF Shares To Prevent Market Freeze While most central banks are contemplating how to gently break it to the public that since they are out of ammo with interest rates at all time low, and $15 trillion in global sovereign debt is now yielding negative – a financial abortion which suggests […]
Warning! Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt Do Matter
Warning! Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt Do Matter With our national debt blowing past 23 trillion dollars nothing is as sobering as looking at future budgets. We should be worried. Central banks across the world claim the lack of inflation is the key force driving their QE policy and permitting it to continue, however, the […]
The Economic Crisis of 2008 Did Not End, It Has Been in Remission
The Economic Crisis of 2008 Did Not End, It Has Been in Remission There have been many articles appearing in recent months suggesting that the economy might go into a recession within the next year. Many have focused on whether the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates to stop this from happening. There also has been a […]
Weekly Commentary: Whatever It Takes to Never Give Up
Weekly Commentary: Whatever It Takes to Never Give Up Any central bank head that passes through an eight-year term without once raising rates has some explaining to do. To leave monetary policy extremely loose for such an extended period comes with major consequences (can we at least agree on that?). So, what went wrong? How […]
California’s Blackouts Are Part Of A Far Bigger Problem
California’s Blackouts Are Part Of A Far Bigger Problem This past weekend, Pacific Gas & Electric had to resume electricity blackouts to 930,000 customers affecting upwards of three million people around San Francisco. Meanwhile, two major wildfires, one of which may have been caused by malfunctioning utility equipment, are burning and evacuations are underway. PG&E has informed […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends What’s astonishing is how long it lasts (9 minutes).
The troubled Saudi Aramco IPO: It’s what you can’t see that counts
The troubled Saudi Aramco IPO: It’s what you can’t see that counts It’s what you can’t see—the oil beneath the Arabian sands—that potential investors in Saudi Aramco’s on-again, off-again initial public offering (IPO) ought to focus on. The truth about the remaining oil resources beneath the Saudi desert continues to be a state secret. I’ll […]
Bubbles Everywhere: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Hide
Bubbles Everywhere: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Hide Economist Robert Shiller says there is no alternative to riding out bubbles. Please consider Stock Market Crash Near? Nobel Laureate Sees ‘Bubbles Everywhere’ When Nobel Laureate and “Irrational Exuberance” author Robert Shiller says he sees bubbles in the financial markets — you’d better listen up. He literally […]
The Allure and Limits of Monetized Fiscal Deficits
The Allure and Limits of Monetized Fiscal Deficits With the global economy experiencing a synchronized slowdown, any number of tail risks could bring on an outright recession. When that happens, policymakers will almost certainly pursue some form of central-bank-financed stimulus, regardless of whether the situation calls for it. NEW YORK – A cloud of gloom […]
Ask the Expert – Nomi Prins – October 2019
Ask the Expert – Nomi Prins – October 2019 Bestselling author Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and public speaker. A former managing director at Goldman Sachs and senior managing director at Bear Stearns, her latest book is Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World. Her previous book All the Presidents’ Bankers explored over a century of close […]
