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Krugman’s Dopey Diatribe Deifying The Public Debt
Krugman’s Dopey Diatribe Deifying The Public Debt Actually, dopey does not even begin to describe Paul Krugman’s latest spot of tommyrot. But least it appear that the good professor is being caricaturized, here are his own words. In a world drowning in government debt what we desperately need, by golly, is more of the same: That is, there’s a reasonable argument to be […]
Can Kickers United—–Why It’s Getting Downright Hazardous Out There
Can Kickers United—–Why It’s Getting Downright Hazardous Out There It’s getting downright hazardous out there, and not just because the robo-machines were slamming the “sell” key today. The real danger comes from the loose assemblage of official institutions which claim to be running the world. They might better be referred to as “can kickers united.” It is now blindly obvious that they have lapsed into […]
The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies
The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies In the nearby column Jim Quinn debunks Wall Street’s latest claim that the American consumer is bounding back. He points out that on an inflation-adjusted basis retail sales are barely higher than they were a year ago, and, for that matter, are still only 4% greater in real terms […]
The Great China Ponzi—-An Economic And Financial Trainwreck Which Will Rattle The World
The Great China Ponzi—-An Economic And Financial Trainwreck Which Will Rattle The World There is an economic and financial trainwreck rumbling through the world economy. Namely, the Great China Ponzi. In all of economic history there has never been anything like it. It is only a matter of time before it ends in a spectacular collapse, leaving the global […]
Birinyi’s S&P 3200 Call——Bull From A 30-Year Bull
Birinyi’s S&P 3200 Call——Bull From A 30-Year Bull When stock market guru Laszlo Birinyi told bubblevision today that S&P 3200 would be reached by 2017, his argument was essentially to keep on keeping on: “What we’re really trying to tell people is stay with it, don’t let the bad news shake you out…There’s no reason […]
Pop Goes The Alpha ( Natural Resources)
Pop Goes The Alpha ( Natural Resources) If you want a cogent metaphor for the central bank enabled crack-up boom now underway on a global basis, look no further than today’s scheduled chapter 11 filling of met coal supplier Alpha Natural Resources (ANRZ). After becoming a public company in 2005, its market cap soared from practically nothing to $11 billion […]
Fed Is Not Just Behind The Curve, It’s Driving The Bus Over The Cliff
Fed Is Not Just Behind The Curve, It’s Driving The Bus Over The Cliff So the Fed didn’t raise rates again. And the timing of the rate increase will be data dependent. Ho hum. There’s just one little problem. The inflation measures the Fed watches really don’t measure inflation. The Fed won’t see what its cronies in the government […]
Eurozone Debt Just Keeps Rising—–What Austerity?
Eurozone Debt Just Keeps Rising—–What Austerity? The eurozone is supposedly in a state of recovery. However, in spite of that recovery, public debt and debt-to GGP levels are still rising. Austerity is difficult to find in any realistic sense. Please consider Eurozone Borrowing Rises to Record as Recovery Remains Weak. The European Central Bank’s programme of […]
Central Banks Have Shot Their Wad——-Why The Casino Is In For A Rude Awakening, Part I
Central Banks Have Shot Their Wad——-Why The Casino Is In For A Rude Awakening, Part I There has been a lot of chatter in recent days about the plunge in commodity prices—–capped off by this week’s slide of the Bloomberg commodity index to levels not seen since 2002. That epochal development is captured in the chart below, but […]
The Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted
The Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted The preposterous Gong Show in Brussels over the weekend was the financial “Ben Tre” moment for the Euro and ECB. That is, it was the moment when the Germans—–imitating the American military on that ghastly morning in February 1968——set fire to the Eurozone in order to save it. Some day history will […]
URGENT WARNING: 6 Signs the Great Crash Is Upon Us!
URGENT WARNING: 6 Signs the Great Crash Is Upon Us! The Greek default proves that all this endless quantitative easing idiocy couldn’t live up to the promises. It has proved unable to create sustainable long-term recoveries in highly indebted developed countries with poor demographic trends. The Greek parliament caved into totally repulsive demands, as I said […]
The Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted
The Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted The preposterous Gong Show in Brussels over the weekend was the financial “Ben Tre” moment for the Euro and ECB. That is, it was the moment when the Germans—–imitating the American military on that ghastly morning in February 1968——set fire to the Eurozone in order to save it. Some day history will […]
German Establishment View On Tsipras/Troika Showdown
German Establishment View On Tsipras/Troika Showdown Der Spiegel has a long analysis today on the fate of Greece and the Tsipras/EU pas de deux. The tone toward Tsipras seemed secretly admiring while outwardly scornful and hostile. He comes off ultimately as the bad guy who is completely and solely to blame for the worsening crisis, with Merkel and […]
Why China’s Market Isn’t Fixed And The Global Bubble Will Keep Imploding
Why China’s Market Isn’t Fixed And The Global Bubble Will Keep Imploding China’s stock market is purportedly all fixed and the last two day’s 10% bounce is just the beginning. Indeed, Goldman Sachs has already reiterated that the whole thing is on the level, and that the red chips will again be taking flight: China’s biggest stock-market rout since 1992 […]
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 […]
