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All is Not Well
All is Not Well The 1987 stock market crash raised concerns for the dangers associated with mounting U.S. “twin deficits.” Fiscal and trade deficits were reflective of poor economic management. Credit excesses – certainly including excessive government borrowings – were stimulating demand that was reflected in expanding U.S. trade and Current Account Deficits. Concerns dissipated […]
This Chart Shows the First Big Crash Is Likely Just Ahead
This Chart Shows the First Big Crash Is Likely Just Ahead The story on Wall Street and CNBC continues to be that we’re in a correction and this is a buying opportunity. Even Warren Buffett joins the chorus of stock market cheerleaders for the skeptical public. Well, I agree with the skeptical public, not the […]
Ryan McMaken: The European Central Bank Finally Throws in the Kitchen Sink
RYAN MCMAKEN: THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK FINALLY THROWS IN THE KITCHEN SINK Back in January, ECB President Mario Draghi doubled down on his earlier commitment to do “whatever it takes” to prop up the European economy with easy money.” “There are no limits to how far we’re willing to deploy our instruments,” Draghi swore in January. He […]
Central Banks Are About To Leave Fiat Addicted Stock Markets In Agony
Central Banks Are About To Leave Fiat Addicted Stock Markets In Agony Many investors today are not very familiar with market history and tend to live only in the day-to-day mainstream narrative while watching little red and green graphs move up and down. This is not so much an issue in a relatively stable economic […]
Playing Around With Prices Is a Bad Idea
Playing Around With Prices Is a Bad Idea Call me old fashioned, but I still think prices matter. I vividly recall the first time I studied those simple supply-and-demand graphs as a college freshman, and today, far too many years later, their basic logic remains undeniable. When prices are right, money flows to the most […]
The Lull Before The Storm—–It’s Getting Narrow At The Top, Part 2
The Lull Before The Storm—–It’s Getting Narrow At The Top, Part 2 The danger lurking in the risk asset markets was succinctly captured by MarketWatch’s post on overnight action in Asia. The latter proved once again that the casino gamblers are incapable of recognizing the on-rushing train of global recession because they have become addicted to “stimulus” as […]
What If The “Crash” Is as Rigged as Everything Else?
What If The “Crash” Is as Rigged as Everything Else? Take your pick–here’s three good reasons to engineer a “crash” that benefits the few at the expense of the many. There is an almost touching faith that markets are rigged when they loft higher, but unrigged when they crash. Who’s to say this crash isn’t […]
Keynesians Wrong About Stimulus, Coming AND Going
Keynesians Wrong About Stimulus, Coming AND Going In a previous post here at Mises CA I chronicled the hole Krugman keeps digging for himself regarding the botched warnings over the so-called “sequester” in 2013. Specifically, Krugman’s latest excuse is to say that when he argued back in 2013 that the sequester was a “fiscal doomsday machine” and […]
Debt As Wealth; The Caution of Unfit Past Experience
Debt As Wealth; The Caution of Unfit Past Experience With the G-20 recoiling itself back into the same kinds of mistakes made in the 1960’s, leading directly to the Great Inflation, we will have to take into account the other end of that, namely other forms of “stimulus.” With the global economy sinking, and worries about […]
We Live In An Era Of Dangerous Imbalances
We Live In An Era Of Dangerous Imbalances And history shows they correct painfully The intervention by the world’s central banks has resulted in today’s bizarro financial markets, where “bad news is good” because it may lead to more (sorry, moar) thin-air stimulus to goose asset prices even higher. The result is a world addicted to debt […]
We Live In An Era Of Dangerous Imbalances
We Live In An Era Of Dangerous Imbalances And history shows they correct painfully The intervention by the world’s central banks has resulted in today’s bizarro financial markets, where “bad news is good” because it may lead to more (sorry, moar) thin-air stimulus to goose assets prices even higher. The result is a world addicted to debt […]
Operation Helicopter: Could Free Money Help the Euro Zone?
Operation Helicopter: Could Free Money Help the Euro Zone? It sounds at first like a crazy thought experiment: One morning, every resident of the euro zone comes home to find a check in their mailbox worth over €500 euros ($597) and possibly as much as €3,000. A gift, just like that, sent by the European Central […]
How Asset Manager BlackRock Gave Me the Willies About 2015 | Wolf Street
How Asset Manager BlackRock Gave Me the Willies About 2015 | Wolf Street. BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world and one of the big beneficiaries of the Fed’s policies, and of similar policies by other central banks, is in a bullish mood. In its 2015 Investment Outlook, BlackRock is gung-ho about the US […]
Keynesian Hit Men On The Road—–Krugman And Rogoff Peddling Toxic Advice | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Keynesian Hit Men On The Road—–Krugman And Rogoff Peddling Toxic Advice | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. Here are a couple of reasons why Keynesian economists are truly a menace in today’s bubble ridden and debt-impaled world. It seems that both Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff and Princeton’s Paul Krugman are on the global advice circuit, peddling what amounts to sheer […]
OPEC Presents: Q4 and Deflation – The Automatic Earth
OPEC Presents: Q4 and Deflation – The Automatic Earth. Thinking plummeting oil prices are good for the economy is a mistake. They instead, as I said only yesterday in The Price Of Oil Exposes The True State Of The Economy, point out how bad the global economy is doing. QE has been able to inflate stock […]
