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Crisis Struck 10 Years Ago: What’s Changed?
Crisis Struck 10 Years Ago: What’s Changed? The financial crisis and the massive federal response reshaped the world we live in. Or did it? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting infographic series of 25 charts entitled 10 Years After the Crisis. Here’s eight of the 25. Median Income Barely Up Forget averages. The median […]
Getting Ready for Nuclear War
Getting Ready for Nuclear War Photo by Steve Snodgrass | CC BY 2.0 John Bolton is to assume the appointment as President Trump’s National Security Adviser on April 9. On February 28 he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “it is perfectly legitimate for the United States to respond to the current ‘necessity’ posed by North Korea’s […]
Weekly Commentary: Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again
Weekly Commentary: Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again WSJ: “Ten Years After the Bear Stearns Bailout, Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again.” Myriad changes to the financial structure have seemingly safeguarded the financial system from another 2008-style crisis. The big Wall Street financial institutions are these days better capitalized than a decade ago. There are […]
The Manhattan Institute’s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
The Manhattan Institute’s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed A new report by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research dismisses predictions of the impacts of a warming world with a simple solution: When climate change turns up the heat, people just need to turn on their air conditioners. From his analysis, “Overheated: How […]
Find The Sentence That Dooms Pension Funds (Don’t Worry, It’s Highlighted)
Find The Sentence That Dooms Pension Funds (Don’t Worry, It’s Highlighted) The “pension crisis” is one of those things — like electric cars and nuclear fusion — that’s definitely coming but never seems to actually arrive. However, for pension funds the reason a crisis hasn’t yet happened is also the reason that it will happen, […]
Necessary Fantasy: White House Estimates 3% Growth For a Decade
Necessary Fantasy: White House Estimates 3% Growth For a Decade Here’s one for the “not going to happen” category. Trump believes his policies will lead to 3% sustained growth. The White House’s budget proposal, to be released Monday, estimates 3% Growth for 10 Years, on average. The budget proposal projects the economy will grow about […]
The WannaCry Cyberattack: What the Evidence Says and Why the Trump Administration Blames North Korea
The WannaCry Cyberattack: What the Evidence Says and Why the Trump Administration Blames North Korea Photo by Blogtrepreneur | CC BY 2.0 On December 19, in a Wall Street Journal editorial that drew much attention, Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert asserted that North Korea was “directly responsible” for the WannaCry cyberattack that struck more […]
Peak Fantasy Time
Peak Fantasy Time If you want to know why both Wall Street and Washington are so delusional about America’s baleful economic predicament, just consider this morsel from today’s Wall Street Journal on the purportedly awesome November jobs report. Wages rose just 2.5% from a year earlier in November—near the same lackluster pace maintained since late 2015, despite a […]
Monsanto In Court Again As Powerful New Herbicide Accidently Kills 3.6 Million Acres Of Crops
Monsanto In Court Again As Powerful New Herbicide Accidently Kills 3.6 Million Acres Of Crops Monsanto thought they had developed an amazing scheme to corner the Midwest farming market when they developed new genetically engineered seeds that were resistant to their new herbicide called dicamba. The resistance of Monsanto’s new magical seed crops to dicamba […]
DARPA Asks HFT Traders How Hackers Will Crash The Market
DARPA Asks HFT Traders How Hackers Will Crash The Market Having been responsible for the biggest flash crashes in recent years, it is no surprise that when it comes to the market’s growing structural vulnerabilities, high frequency traders have emerged as the primary authority on how to crash the market in the blink of an […]
Turkey Sentences Wall Street Journal Reporter To Jail For Terrorist Propaganda
Turkey Sentences Wall Street Journal Reporter To Jail For Terrorist Propaganda A Turkish court has just fanned the flames of an incipient diplomatic crisis between the US and NATO’s most problematic member, when it found a Wall Street Journal reporter guilty of engaging in “terrorist propaganda” in support of a banned Kurdish organization. Ayla Albayrak […]
The US Economy Is Failing
The US Economy Is Failing Do the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page editors read their own newspaper? The frontpage headline story for the Labor Day weekend was “Low Wage Growth Challenges Fed.” Despite an alleged 4.4% unemployment rate, which is full employment, there is no real growth in wages. The front page story pointed out […]
“Most Draconian Measures Ever”: China Expands Bitcoin Crackdown Beyond Exchange Trading
“Most Draconian Measures Ever”: China Expands Bitcoin Crackdown Beyond Exchange Trading Last week bitcoin plunged over 40% from all time highs hit as recently as three weeks ago on news that China had ordered local exchanges to halt trading in the cryptocurrency. Since then, defying naysayers yet again, bitcoin staged a remarkable comeback, rising from […]
“Bad Options” Regarding 2% Inflation Targets (And Other Silly Notions)
“Bad Options” Regarding 2% Inflation Targets (And Other Silly Notions) The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg both posted ridiculous articles regarding today regarding inflation. The former was on “bad options” the latter on “inflation expectations”. Let’s take a look at both articles because both represent widely believed nonsense. In Bad Options for Addressing Too-Low Inflation, Wall […]
Kyle Bass: “China’s Credit System Is Reaching A Boiling Point”
Kyle Bass: “China’s Credit System Is Reaching A Boiling Point” Fresh on the heels of the biggest-ever two-week drop in onshore dollar-yuan, noted China bear Kyle Bass gave an interview where he addressed one of the most exasperating aspects of the short-selling business, and an issue that he is no doubt grappling with at this […]
