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Doug Duncan: Even US Government Economists Predict Trouble Ahead
Doug Duncan: Even US Government Economists Predict Trouble Ahead Fannie Mae forecasts an economic slowdown by 2019 Doug Duncan is not your average beltway economist. The chief economist for Fannie Mae is surprisingly outspoken about the troublesome outlook for the US economy. He’s worried about the rising cost of debt service as outstanding credit continues […]
Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over
Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over It now wants lower asset prices (just not too fast) To all those investors expecting the Fed to step in to backstop the recent weakness seen in the stock market, Wolf Richter warns: The cavalry isn’t coming. After years of force-feeding too much liquidity into […]
Who Needs Wall Street When You Can Have A Monetary Unicorn?
Who Needs Wall Street When You Can Have A Monetary Unicorn? The single most important price in all of capitalism is the interest rate—-and at all points on the maturity curve. And the single most important truth about honest interest rates is that they must be discovered by markets, not imposed by the state. We got to […]
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 3
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 3 “During the 1980s and 1990s, most industrial-country central banks were able to cage, if not entirely tame, the inflation dragon.” —Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke began his oft-cited “helicopter speech” in 2002 with a few kind words about his peers, including the excerpt above. Speaking for central bankers, he […]
Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers
Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers It’s time we stop trusting the ‘experts’ Economists are supposed to monitor and analyze the economy, warn us if risks are getting out of hand, and advise us on how to make things runs more effectively — right? Well, even though that’s what most people expect from economists, it’s […]
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets The new Fed Chair may break from his predecessors The recent gut-wrenching drop in asset prices began on the first day of the job for new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. How is Mr. Powell likely to react to a suddenly sick-looking market? […]
A Stock Market Tumble Is the Correction We Need
A Stock Market Tumble Is the Correction We Need The Fed put us in this predicament. Only the market can get us out of it. Since hitting rock bottom in 2009, stock prices have consistently increased without much volatility — that is, until these first few days of February when the Dow Jones Industrial Average […]
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 […]
Drowning In The Money River
Photobank gallery/Shutterstock Drowning In The Money River Why the 99% of us are falling farther behind It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. ~ George Carlin If you suspect society is unfair, that there’s a different set of rules the rich live by, you’re right. I’ve had ample chance to witness first-hand evidence […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
Doug Noland: There Will Be No Way Out When This Market Bubble Bursts
Doug Noland: There Will Be No Way Out When This Market Bubble Bursts Financial assets will become toxic to hold This week Doug Noland joins the podcast to discuss what he refers to as the “granddaddy of all bubbles”. Noland, a 30-year market analyst and specialist in credit cycles, currently works at McAlvany Wealth Management and […]
You’re Just Not Prepared For What’s Coming
You’re Just Not Prepared For What’s Coming Not even close I hate to break it to you, but chances are you’re just not prepared for what’s coming. Not even close. Don’t take it personally. I’m simply playing the odds. After spending more than a decade warning people all over the world about the futility of […]
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as “Not Backed”
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as “Not Backed” Bitcoin is backed by the use value of the distributed ledger in the underlying technology of the Blockchain. Randal K. Quarles, a Trump administration appointee to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Vice Chair for bank supervision, has given a lengthy speech (“Thoughts on Prudent Innovation in […]
