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The Government Debt Paradox: Pick Your Poison
The Government Debt Paradox: Pick Your Poison Lasting Debt “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” said President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November of 2008. “They are opportunities to do big things.” Rahm Emanuel looks happy. He should be – he is the mayor of Chicago, which is best […]
“Greatest Fiscal Crisis In Our City’s History”: Hartford Warns It Will Be Broke In 60 Days
“Greatest Fiscal Crisis In Our City’s History”: Hartford Warns It Will Be Broke In 60 Days Well, that escalated quickly. Just two months after Standard & Poor’s downgraded its general obligation debt to junk status, warning that the historic Connecticut capital could soon follow other once-proud cities like Detroit into bankruptcy, Hartford city officials confirmed […]
Consumption Exhaustion
Consumption Exhaustion When people use the word catalyst to describe an event that may prick the stock market bubble, they usually discuss something singular, unexpected and potentially shocking. The term “black swan” is frequently invoked to describe such an event. In reality, while such an incident may turn the market around and be the “catalyst” […]
BofA: Even The Bubbles Are Becoming More “Bubbly” Thanks To Central Banks
BofA: Even The Bubbles Are Becoming More “Bubbly” Thanks To Central Banks Back in June, Citi’s credit strategist Hans Lorenzen pointed out that while QE had failed to spark inflation across the broader economy, it had achieved something else: “the principal transmission channel to the real economy has been… lifting asset prices.” That however has […]
Canadians Are Borrowing Against Real Estate At The Fastest Pace Ever
Canadians Are Borrowing Against Real Estate At The Fastest Pace Ever Canadian real estate prices have soared, and so did borrowing against that value. Our analysis of domestic bank filings from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) shows that loans secured against property has reached an all-time high. More surprising is the […]
Venezuela Headed For “Messiest Debt-Restructuring In History” Thanks To US Sanctions
Venezuela Headed For “Messiest Debt-Restructuring In History” Thanks To US Sanctions After being effectively shut out from global financial markets – a situation that was made more precarious by US sanctions prohibiting purchases of Venezuelan debt (unless you’re buying them off Goldman Sachs, should the bank’s asset-management arm desire to liquidate its $3 billion “hunger […]
Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards
Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards – Trump could be planning a radical “reboot” of the U.S. dollar – Currency reboot will see leading nations devalue their currencies against gold – New gold price would be nearly 8 times higher at $10,000/oz – Price based on mass exit of foreign governments […]
Why Doesn’t This Household Debt Worry Anyone?!
Why Doesn’t This Household Debt Worry Anyone?! With all the attention going to political tensions between the USA and North Korea and the interest rate policies and monetary policies established by the various central banks around the world, we would almost forget to keep track of how the ‘real’ economy is doing. And then we […]
Did the Economy Just Stumble Off a Cliff?
Did the Economy Just Stumble Off a Cliff? The signs are everywhere for those willing to look: something has changed beneath the surface of complacent faith in permanent growth. This is more intuitive than quantitative, but my gut feeling is that the economy just stumbled off a cliff. Neither the cliff edge nor the fatal misstep […]
US Gross National Debt to Spike by $800 Billion in October?
US Gross National Debt to Spike by $800 Billion in October? The other option: too ugly to even imagine. “There is zero chance, no chance we won’t raise the debt ceiling,” swore Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) at an event in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday. He who couldn’t get his Republican ducks all […]
Don’t Forget About The Red Swan
Don’t Forget About The Red Swan [Urgent Note: The nation’s future and a massive debt ceiling hangs in the balance as Trump pushes beyond the Comey hearings. That’s why I’m on a mission to send my new book TRUMPED! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin… and How to Bring It Back to every American who responds, absolutely […]
So When Will China’s Debt Bubble Finally Blow Up?
So When Will China’s Debt Bubble Finally Blow Up? The upside is fake stability. The downside is too ugly to contemplate. Corporate debt in China has soared to $18 trillion, or 169% of GDP, the largest pile of corporate debt in the world, according to the worried Bank for International Settlements. The OECD has warned […]
Why There Will Be No 11th Hour Debt Ceiling Deal
Why There Will Be No 11th Hour Debt Ceiling Deal A new milestone on the American populaces’ collective pursuit of insolvency was reached this week. According to a reportpublished on Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, total U.S. household debt jumped to a new record high of $12.84 trillion during the second […]
Productivity and Debt
Productivity and Debt William Blake Europe Supported by Africa and America 1796 Earlier this week I was struck by the similarities and differences between two graphs I saw float by. And the thought occurred that they are as scary as they are interesting. The graphs show eerily similar trends. And complement each other. The first […]
US Companies Are More Indebted, More Leveraged, Less Profitable, And More Richly Valued Than Ever
US Companies Are More Indebted, More Leveraged, Less Profitable, And More Richly Valued Than Ever Via MauldinEconomics.com, Once again I start with a warning: A recession is eventually coming and a financial crisis with it. There is a real potential for it to come soon, although serious tax reform could delay it. But sooner or […]
