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Freight Costs and Volumes Surge, Inflation Fears Heat Up
Freight Costs and Volumes Surge, Inflation Fears Heat Up February was off the chart. “We are seeing an unprecedented rise in logistics costs,” General Mills CEO Jeff Harmening told the Wall Street Journal after the company reported earnings. Shares dropped 9% on Wednesday and another 2% on Thursday. They’re down nearly 40% from their peak […]
The $233 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud of Global Debt
The $233 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud of Global Debt Global debt has reached record heights without any signs of relief. While central bankers try to explain away the phenomenon of these out-of-control numbers, it’s not much of a mystery. Immediate consumption with the promise of repayment sometime in the future has consequences. Global debt is […]
In this Era of Inflated Asset Prices, Can the Fed Raise Rates without Causing Financial Mayhem?
In this Era of Inflated Asset Prices, Can the Fed Raise Rates without Causing Financial Mayhem? Wolf Richter on the Keiser Report. The Fed is trying to accomplish a soft landing — hence the extraordinarily slow rate hikes — but our history with soft landings is very spotty, and there has never been more debt than now: Investors […]
The Real Engine of the Business Cycle
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images The Real Engine of the Business Cycle A valuable lesson from the Great Recession is that credit-supply expansions play a key role in subsequent recessions. When lenders make credit more available or more affordable, households respond by taking on debt, which drives up aggregate demand – that is, until the music stops. […]
Ron Paul: ‘The Fed Is At A Crossroads…Crisis Is Coming’
Ron Paul: ‘The Fed Is At A Crossroads…Crisis Is Coming’ The Fed has created a mountain of problems for everyone in the United States and every single solution that they come up with leads to even more problems. Ron Paul recently discussed what the Fed has done, how it tries to keep things going, and […]
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, […]
The world in 2018 – Part Three
The world in 2018 – Part Three Mainstream economics seems to have learned little and changed nothing in the last decade, despite the fact that the financial crisis and its aftermath laid bare a number of important issues with its theories and models. Failure to address these issues is making the economics discipline increasingly incapable of […]
The Pendulum – Part One
The Pendulum – Part One Retreat to High Ground Missing in the mix of hundreds of bug-out stories is a forth right and candid self appraisal of lessons learned containing practical experience along with deep humility and honest self examination. High Desert expressed a willingness to share his and his wife’s adventure with TwoIceFloes […]
The Fed Will Ignite The Next “Financial Crisis”
The Fed Will Ignite The Next “Financial Crisis” There seems to be a very large consensus the markets have entered into a “permanently high plateau,” or an era in which price corrections in asset prices have been effectively eliminated through fiscal and monetary policy. Partnering with this fairytale like mindset is an overwhelming sense of […]
Chap. 11 Bankruptcies Spike 107% from Year Ago
Chap. 11 Bankruptcies Spike 107% from Year Ago What caused the biggest jump since the Financial Crisis? New Chapter 11 bankruptcies in the US more than doubled in December 2017 from a year ago to 699 filings. That jump of 362 filings from December 2016 was the largest year-over-year jump since the Financial Crisis. This […]
