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Crisis Struck 10 Years Ago: What’s Changed?
Crisis Struck 10 Years Ago: What’s Changed? The financial crisis and the massive federal response reshaped the world we live in. Or did it? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting infographic series of 25 charts entitled 10 Years After the Crisis. Here’s eight of the 25. Median Income Barely Up Forget averages. The median […]
What The Gold-Silver Ratio Says About The Future Silver Price
What The Gold-Silver Ratio Says About The Future Silver Price While silver investment demand is totally off the radar, certain indicators, including the Gold-Silver ratio, suggest that interest in the poor man’s gold will likely increase significantly over the next few years. The rising interest in silver will also occur as the broader markets continue […]
Who Needs Wall Street When You Can Have A Monetary Unicorn?
Who Needs Wall Street When You Can Have A Monetary Unicorn? The single most important price in all of capitalism is the interest rate—-and at all points on the maturity curve. And the single most important truth about honest interest rates is that they must be discovered by markets, not imposed by the state. We got to […]
America’s State Wreck Gathers Steam: The Donald’s War Cabinet And The Fiscal Doom Loop, Part 2
America’s State Wreck Gathers Steam: The Donald’s War Cabinet And The Fiscal Doom Loop, Part 2 Last week the Donald’s incipient trade war got Wall Street’s nerves jangling, but that wasn’t the half of what’s coming. To wit, Trump has now essentially formed a War Cabinet and signed a Horribus spending bill that is a warrant for fiscal meltdown. Indeed, the two […]
Weekly Commentary: Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again
Weekly Commentary: Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again WSJ: “Ten Years After the Bear Stearns Bailout, Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again.” Myriad changes to the financial structure have seemingly safeguarded the financial system from another 2008-style crisis. The big Wall Street financial institutions are these days better capitalized than a decade ago. There are […]
Ron Paul Fears “Huge” Correction In Stocks, Warns “It’s Going To Be A Calamity”
Ron Paul Fears “Huge” Correction In Stocks, Warns “It’s Going To Be A Calamity” “I think we have a greater distortion and a financial danger sitting out there bigger than ever before,” warned former presidential candidate Ron Paul in an ominous interview with CNBC this week. While markets briefly got nervous over Trump’s tariffs last […]
The Two Janet’s And The Perfect Storm Ahead
The Two Janet’s And The Perfect Storm Ahead The Bloomberg news crawler this morning is heralding the heart of our thesis: Namely, that “flush with cash from the tax cut”, US companies are heading for a “stock buyback binge of historic proportions”. This isn’t a “told you so” point. It’s dramatic proof that corporate America has […]
Alarm Bells Sounded on Wall Street’s Derivatives
Alarm Bells Sounded on Wall Street’s Derivatives Andy Green, Managing Director, Economic Policy Center for American Progress On February 14, the week after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced two separate days of more than 1,000-point losses, the House Financial Services’ Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative […]
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 […]
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, How to Set the Economy on Fire
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, How to Set the Economy on Fire There’s no way to measure just how cheery this period really is — not if you’re the CEO of a major company. Just as the World Economic Summit was opening in Davos, Switzerland, and President Donald Trump was flying in to put his mark on […]
