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“Canada Is In Serious Trouble” Again, And This Time It’s For Real
“Canada Is In Serious Trouble” Again, And This Time It’s For Real Some time ago, Deutsche Bank’s chief international economist, Torsten Slok, presented several charts which showed that “Canada is in serious trouble” mostly as a result of its overreliance on its frothy, bubbly housing sector, but also due to the fact that unlike the […]
Economists Who Push Inflation Stunned That Rising Home Prices Put Buyers Deeper Into Debt
Economists Who Push Inflation Stunned That Rising Home Prices Put Buyers Deeper Into Debt Once again, when the government intervenes – this time in housing – the left hand is starting a fire that the right hand is trying to put out.Rising prices for homes are once again pricing out prime borrowers and nobody can […]
Toronto’s Epic Housing Bubble Turns to Bust
Toronto’s Epic Housing Bubble Turns to Bust Prices of detached houses plunge C$207,000 from a year ago as sales collapse. After having ballooned for 18 years with barely a dip during the Financial Crisis, Toronto’s housing market, Canada’s largest, and among the most inflated in the world, is heading south with a vengeance, both in […]
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now…
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now… Did today’s market plunge mark the start of the next crash? Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008. Remember back then? Everything was going great. Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful. The great cultural marketing machine was busy proclaiming that a […]
The Biggest Ponzi in Human History
The Biggest Ponzi in Human History Jean-Léon Gérôme Slave market 1866Here’s the story in a nutshell: Ultra low interest rates mark a shift away from people’s wealth residing in their savings and pension plans, and into to so-called wealth residing in their homes, which are bought with ever growing levels of debt. When interest rates […]
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds The majority of middle class wealth is locked up in unproductive assets or assets that only become available upon retirement or death. One of my points in Why Governments Will Not Ban Bitcoin was to highlight how few families had the financial […]
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds The majority of middle class wealth is locked up in unproductive assets or assets that only become available upon retirement or death. One of my points in Why Governments Will Not Ban Bitcoin was to highlight how few families had the financial […]
Unprecedented Housing Bailout Revealed, As China Property Sales Drop For First Time In 30 Months
Unprecedented Housing Bailout Revealed, As China Property Sales Drop For First Time In 30 Months Back in March, we explained why the “fate of the world economy is in the hands of China’s housing bubble.” The answer was simple: for the Chinese population, and growing middle class, to keep spending vibrant and borrowing elevated, it […]
Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn
Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn How watching the right indicators will avoid disaster The planet-sized egos of rock & roll performers are legendary. Few things symbolize this better than the outrageous requests they often make when on tour. These requests are referred to as “riders”, and appear in the contract a tour […]
Central Banks ARE The Crisis
Central Banks ARE The Crisis Walter Langley Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break 1894If there’s one myth -and there are many- that we should invalidate in the cross-over world of politics and economics, it‘s that central banks have saved us from a financial crisis. It’s a carefully construed myth, but it’s […]
China’s “Ghost Collateral” Arrives In Canada, “Heralding A Crisis”
China’s “Ghost Collateral” Arrives In Canada, “Heralding A Crisis” Two weeks ago, a key China-linked concern that made headlines back in 2013 and 2014 reemerged after an extensive analysis by Reuters reporter Engen Tham found that China’s “ghost collateral” problem, or collateral that was either rehypothecated between two or more loans, or simply did not […]
Sorry Vancouver, But Toronto Is The King Of Risky Mortgage Debt
Sorry Vancouver, But Toronto Is The King Of Risky Mortgage Debt Canadian real estate values continue to soar, and a record number of buyers are piling into risky loans. According to the Bank of Canada (BoC), and the Ministry of Finance (MoF), high ratio mortgage borrowers are extending themselves to the limit. While we covered […]
The American Dream, Twice Removed
The American Dream, Twice Removed Vincent van Gogh Corridor In The Asylum 1889 Nicole Foss is in Christchurch, New Zealand right now for the Living Economies Expo, and sent me, I’m still in Athens, Greece, a piece written by yet another longtime Automatic Earth reader, Helen Loughrey (keep ’em coming!), who describes her efforts […]
Australia Central Bank Warns “High Debt Levels Are Affecting Household Spending”
Australia Central Bank Warns “High Debt Levels Are Affecting Household Spending” For those wondering why despite global markets trading at all time highs, consumer spending has yet to show a substantial pick up, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has some ideas. Speaking at the Asutralia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum, in which he provided various comaprisons […]
A Murderous Complacency
A Murderous Complacency Dark omens are circling everywhere in today’s markets murder: a flock of crows ~ Miriam-Webster dictionary Many view the appearance of crows as an omen of death because ravens and crows are scavengers and are generally associated with dead bodies, battlefields, and cemeteries, and they’re thought to circle in large numbers above sites where […]
