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U.S. Wealth-Concentration: The Most-Accurate Current Estimates
U.S. Wealth-Concentration: The Most-Accurate Current Estimates CURRENT REALITIES: Wealthiest Tenth (10%) of Americans Own 75% of America; They Draw 40% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Hundredth (1%) of Americans Own 43% of America; They Draw 20% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Thousandth (0.1%) of Americans Own 22% of America; They Draw 8% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Ten-Thousandth (0.01%) Own 11.2% of […]
In A World Of Artificial Liquidity – Cash Is King
In A World Of Artificial Liquidity – Cash Is King And you’d better have some stashed out of the system Global central banks are afraid. Before Greece tried to stand up to the Troika, they were merely worried. Now it’s clear that no matter what they tell themselves and the world about the necessity or […]
Who Enables the Man?
Who Enables the Man? “The Man” is Playing with Fire Photo credit: Keystone What is “the man” doing? 1 Printing money… literally. Paused… for now. Still reinvesting principal/proceeds from maturing securities to maintain $4.5 trn. balance sheet size. 2 With that freshly printed money [of which there were never any quantitative limits] “The […]
Economic Stagnation And The Global Bubble
Economic Stagnation And The Global Bubble You’d think with all the “stimulus” from Washington over the fifteen years since the dotcom bust, American capitalism would be booming. It’s not. On the measures which count when it comes to sustainable growth and real wealth creation, the trends are slipping backwards — not leaping higher. After a […]
Our Spoiled-Brat Economy
Our Spoiled-Brat Economy By insuring spoiled brats/vested interests never face the consequences of their actions and choices, we guarantee failure of the entire system. Spoiled brats do not take kindly to being called out as spoiled brats. Since economies are aggregates of individuals, we can anticipate howls of outraged denial at our economy being identified as spoiled […]
Systemic Turmoil, Structural Reform
Systemic Turmoil, Structural Reform “The problem with the post-2007 world is that we are not in a cyclical recovery; we are in a structural depression defined as a sustained period of below-trend growth with no end in sight. The U.S. has caught the Japanese disease. Structural depressions are not amenable to monetary solutions, they […]
Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting
Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting In the Western World Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting …when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that […]
Collapsing CDS Market Will Lead To Global Bond Market Margin Call
Collapsing CDS Market Will Lead To Global Bond Market Margin Call As Zero Hedge previously noted, liquidity is there when you don’t need it, and it promptly disappears once it is in demand. Consider it “cocktease capitalism.” If liquidity lasts longer than 4 hours, call the CFTC because you may be experiencing a spoof. Right now, the ultimate spoof […]
The Global Credit Market Is Now A Lit Powderkeg
The Global Credit Market Is Now A Lit Powderkeg And markets are totally unprepared The financial markets have had a bit of a tough time going anywhere this year. The S&P 500 has been caught in a 6% trading band all year, capped on the upside by a 3% gain and on the downside by […]
The Media Is Wrong About The Fed
The Media Is Wrong About The Fed Earlier this year, most of the financial stories were about how the Fed will start to raise interest rates in June. Much of this speculation was due to the lower unemployment rate, and the expectation that the U.S. economy would be in full recovery. This past Wednesday, the Fed […]
Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline?
Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline? While much of the world focused last week on whether or not the Federal Reserve was going to raise interest rates, or whether the Greek debt crisis would bring Europe to a crisis, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague awarded a $50 billion judgment to […]
The FOMC Decision – Studying the Flight of Birds and Gold
The FOMC Decision – Studying the Flight of Birds and Gold Federal Open Yawn Committee puts Kremlinologists all over the World to Sleep … The Fed’s monetary policy statement delivered on Wednesday was the non-surprise/yawn-inducer of the year. Readers can take a look at the trusty WSJ statement tracker, which reveals that apart from a few […]
Credit Market Warning: Long-awaited signs of danger are materalizing
Credit Market Warning: Long-awaited signs of danger are materalizing There are large signs of stress now present in the credit markets. You might not know it from today’s multi-generationally low interest rates, but other key measures such as liquidity and volatility are flashing worrying signs. Look, we all know that this centrally planned experiment forcing financial assets […]
“Calm Reigns” Everywhere As Greece Inches Closer To Default, China Crashes
“Calm Reigns” Everywhere As Greece Inches Closer To Default, China Crashes In what is perhaps the most glaring instance of central bank intervention yet,Reuters today captured the market mood as follows: “Calm ruled Europe’s stock and currency markets on Friday as Greece inched closer to a default later this month….the euro was down just 0.3 percent […]
Hidden In Fannie and Freddie
Hidden In Fannie and Freddie With another financial crisis fast approaching the cause of the ‘08 crash hasn’t been settled. Austrians generally line up on the side of the all-powerful Fed having lowering interest rates below what the market would produce, sending capital into malinvestments: In this case, too many subdivisions of houses and other […]
