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Macau’s Economy Blows Up
Macau’s Economy Blows Up China’s crackdown on corruption, or at least the ostentatious display of the spoils of corruption, and its selective hunt for corrupt officials, which to some observers resembles a political purge, may or may not tamp down on actual corruption, which is what greases the wheels in the Chinese economy. But it’s […]
Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair
Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, the policy failure whose tenure at the Federal Reserve helped create the conditions for the largest financial crisis in nearly a century, was inexplicably given a major newspaper platform on Monday to opine about regulation, which he ideologically abhors. So it […]
Only The Date Is Unknown
Only The Date Is Unknown The US and world economies are frauds that are coming unraveled. The Greek bailout is the most recent example of “kick the can down the road” solutions. The US housing bubble was an attempt to cover up/recover from the dot-com bust. Now the US is in a financial bubble engineered to recover […]
Recession Risk Mounting For Canada
Recession Risk Mounting For Canada The latest economic data from Canada shows that it is inching towards recession, after its economy posted its fifth straight month of contraction. Statistics Canada revealed on July 31 that the Canadian economy shrank by 0.2 percent on an annualized basis in May, perhaps pushing the country over the edge into recessionary […]
This Coal Mine Valued At $630 Million In 2011 Just Sold For One Dollar
This Coal Mine Valued At $630 Million In 2011 Just Sold For One Dollar The following photos are from Australia’s Isaac Plains coking-coal mine. Why is Isaac Plains relevant? Well, in 2011 at the height of the Australian mining boom, Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo thought it has spotted a bargain, and a SMH reports, it approached […]
Liar Loans Pop up in Canada’s Magnificent Housing Bubble
Liar Loans Pop up in Canada’s Magnificent Housing Bubble For a long time, the conservative mortgage lending standards in Canada, including a slew of new ones since 2008, have been touted as one of the reasons why Canada’s magnificent housing bubble, when it implodes, will not take down the financial system, unlike the US housing […]
We Need a Crash to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff
We Need a Crash to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff Once the phantom collateral vanishes, there’s no foundation to support additional debt and leverage. When a speculator bought a new particle-board-and-paint McMansion in the middle of nowhere in 2007 with nothing down and a $500,000 mortgage, the lender and the buyer both considered the […]
Shadow mortgage lending on the rise as house prices soar
Shadow mortgage lending on the rise as house prices soar Shadow lending represents about 4 to 5 per cent of Canada’s mortgage market Canada’s housing boom is increasingly driving homebuyers to seek mortgages from private lenders, who demand rates that can be more than five times higher than those charged by the nation’s banks. Canadian […]
Australia’s Housing Bubble—–The Mania Down Under
Australia’s Housing Bubble—–The Mania Down Under Australians are being “irrationally exuberant” and borrowing too much to invest in housing, exposing the economy to financial shocks, global bond fund giant PIMCO says. In a detailed statistical study that compares Australian borrowers to those in other countries, PIMCO researchers found that Australians’ decision to borrow is driven […]
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming”
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming” Ali and Frazier, Laurel and Hardy, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Liesman and Santelli, and now Schiff and Maloney. Peter and Mike join clash of the titan-like to discuss their investment strategies and expose the charts the government doesn’t want you to seeas […]
Something Smells Fishy
SOMETHING SMELLS FISHY It’s always interesting to see a long term chart that reflects your real life experiences. I bought my first home in 1990. It was a small townhouse and I paid $100k, put 10% down, and obtained a 9.875% mortgage. I was thrilled to get under 10%. Those were different times, when you […]
High End Real Estate in Canada in Frenzied Bubble Blow-Off
High End Real Estate in Canada in Frenzied Bubble Blow-Off Throwing Caution to the Wind We have discussed the dangerous housing and consumer credit bubble in Canada in these pages on several previous occasions in some detail (see “Carney’s Legacy” and “A Tale of Two Bubbles” as examples). Since we first wrote about Canadian real […]
Canada has the Most Overvalued Housing Market in World
Canada has the Most Overvalued Housing Market in World Canada has the Most Overvalued Housing Market in World [Chart] The Chart of the Week is a weekly feature in Visual Capitalist on Fridays. In every inflating bubble, there’s usually two camps. The first group points out various metrics suggesting something is inherently unsustainable, while the second […]
How Insane Is Canada’s Housing Bubble? 42% of “Second-Time” Buyers Need (a lot of) Money from Mom & Dad to Buy a Home
How Insane Is Canada’s Housing Bubble? 42% of “Second-Time” Buyers Need (a lot of) Money from Mom & Dad to Buy a Home A housing bubble is a huge party. Everyone gets drunk and has a good time. The economy booms because housing, particularly construction, is a very local business. It creates local jobs. People […]
Magnificent Housing Bubble Unravels in Much of Canada
Magnificent Housing Bubble Unravels in Much of Canada Canada’s housing bubble, which has been so much more magnificent than anything the US was ever able to conjure up, notched another gain in March, according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index, which rose 0.3% for the month. Prices were up in eight of the metropolitan […]
