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Bubbles? Schiller P/E Ratio Nears Roaring ’20s Bubble High as Home Prices Increased 43.6% Since Feb ’16
BUBBLES? SHILLER P/E RATIO NEARS ROARING ’20S BUBBLE HIGH AS HOME PRICES INCREASED 43.6% SINCE FEB ’16 Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward said in 1964 in the Jacobellis v. Ohio case, “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I […]
You Are Not An Investor
You Are Not An Investor Giotto Legend of St Francis, Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo c.1297-1299 You are not an investor. One can only be an investor in functioning markets. There have been no functioning markets since at least 2008, and probably much longer. That’s when central banks started purchasing financial assets, for real, […]
Where There’s Smoke…
Where There’s Smoke… …There’s central bank manipulation Central banks around the world have colluded, if not conspired, to elevate and prop up financial asset prices. Here we’ll present the data and evidence that they’ve not only done so, but gone too far. When wee discuss elevated financial asset prices we really are talking about everything. […]
Toronto House Price Bubble Goes Nuts
Toronto House Price Bubble Goes Nuts Based on fundamentals? You gotta be kidding. Residential property sales in Greater Toronto soared 17.7% year-over-year to 12,077 homes, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB). New listings jumped 15.2% to 17,052. Prices for all types of homes, based on the MLS Home Price Index Composite “Benchmark,” soared […]
The American Dream, Twice Removed
The American Dream, Twice Removed Vincent van Gogh Corridor In The Asylum 1889 Nicole Foss is in Christchurch, New Zealand right now for the Living Economies Expo, and sent me, I’m still in Athens, Greece, a piece written by yet another longtime Automatic Earth reader, Helen Loughrey (keep ’em coming!), who describes her efforts […]
“This Is Going To Blow Sky High” – Observations On Canada’s Housing Market
“This Is Going To Blow Sky High” – Observations On Canada’s Housing Market For months we’ve been warning about real estate bubbles re-emerging in various markets around the world from Canada to Australia (see “There Are 66,719 Empty Mansions In Vancouver” and “Vancouver Home Sales Crash 40%, As Toronto Home Prices Soar 22%“). And while […]
Anthem!
Anthem! Ash: You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. Lambert: You admire it. Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor … unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Parker: Look, I am … I’ve heard enough of this, and I’m […]
China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP
China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP Carl Mydans Sharecropper’s family in Mississippi County, Missouri 1936Lots of China again today. Most of it based on warnings, coming from the BIS, about the country’s financial shenanigans. I’m getting the feeling we have gotten so used to huge and often unprecedented numbers, viewed against the backdrop of […]
Negative Interest Rates and the War on Cash (1)
Negative Interest Rates and the War on Cash (1) Irving Underhill City Bank-Farmers Trust Building, William & Beaver streets, NYC 1931 It’s been a while, but Nicole Foss is back at the Automatic Earth -which makes me very happy-, and for good measure, she starts out with a very long article. So long in fact that […]
The Year the Oil Bubble Burst
The Year the Oil Bubble Burst As companies are forced to slash value of reserves, industry faces a grim new future. The days of artificially inflated oil prices might be over forever. Teardrop image via Shutterstock. Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for the oil industry? It’s reporting season in the financial world and like […]
All is Not Well
All is Not Well The 1987 stock market crash raised concerns for the dangers associated with mounting U.S. “twin deficits.” Fiscal and trade deficits were reflective of poor economic management. Credit excesses – certainly including excessive government borrowings – were stimulating demand that was reflected in expanding U.S. trade and Current Account Deficits. Concerns dissipated […]
Has The Biggest Of All Bubbles Popped: Central Bank Omnipotence?
Has The Biggest Of All Bubbles Popped: Central Bank Omnipotence? Since the initial turmoil began with the onset of what is now referred to as “The great financial crisis.” One strategy has proven more profitable than any other. That strategy? BTFD (buy the f___n’ dip.) Regardless of what proprietary advice (short of insider trading,) nothing, as […]
The G-20s Big Fat Zero——Now Comes The Bubble’s Demise!
The G-20s Big Fat Zero——Now Comes The Bubble’s Demise! The tens of millions of taxpayer money wasted at the G-20’s Shanghai soirée had a silver lining. The assembled masters of world finance came up with a big fat zero on the coordinated global stimulus front. So doing, they essentially admitted that their money printing central banks are out of dry powder (“…but monetary […]
The World is Red
The World is Red With a Gloomy Start to 2016, a Bust Seems just Around the Corner Markets have corrected substantially since the beginning of the year as most of the gains of the past two years have been erased. According to Bloomberg, 40 out of the largest 63 markets have dropped over 20%. The image […]
