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Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly
Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly Like the case of Rome before it, the Empire is bankrupting America. The true fiscal cost is upwards of $1.o trillion per year (counting $200 billion for veterans and debt service for wars), but there is no way to pay for it. That’s because the 78-million strong Baby Boom is […]
Jerome Is The New Janet: Tie, Trousers And Same Old Keynesian Jabberwocky
Jerome Is The New Janet: Tie, Trousers And Same Old Keynesian Jabberwocky The election of 2016 was supposed to be the most disruptive break with the status quo in modern history, if ever. On the single most important decision of his tenure, however, the Donald has lined-up check-by-jowl with Barry and Dubya, too. That is 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 […]
The Everything Bubble—Waiting For The Pin
The Everything Bubble—Waiting For The Pin Yesterday we noted that financial markets have become completely uncoupled from reality and that the recent feeble bounces between the 20-day and 50-day chart points were essentially the rigor mortis of a dead bull. As it happened, we were able to share those sentiments with what remains of CNBC’s audience of carbon-based […]
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 […]
The Albatross Of Debt: The Stock Market’s $67 Trillion Nightmare, Part 1
The Albatross Of Debt: The Stock Market’s $67 Trillion Nightmare, Part 1 This is getting pretty ridiculous. For old times sake, we recently checked on the Federal debt level during the month we arrived in the Imperial City as a 24-year old eager beaver. That was June 1970 and the Federal debt held by the public was $275 […]
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 5: The Flat Line Does Not Spell Recovery
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 5: The Flat Line Does Not Spell Recovery The punk January industrial production (IP) report brought another reminder that the Fed has stimulated nothing at all on the output/employment prong of its dual mandate. Indeed, as they celebrate a purported “mission accomplished” full employment recovery and confidently prepare to plow forward with an epochal pivot […]
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 4: The Folly Of 2.00% Inflation Targeting
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 4: The Folly Of 2.00% Inflation Targeting The dirty secret of Keynesian central banking is that under current circumstances its interventions have almost no impact on its famous dual mandate—-stable prices and full employment on main street. That’s because goods and services inflation is a melded consequence of global central […]
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 1: Last Week Wasn’t An Error
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 1: Last Week Wasn’t An Error Last week’s twin 1,000 point plunges on the Dow were not errors. Instead, these close-coupled massacres, which wiped out $4 trillion of global market cap in two days, marked the beginning of a bear market that will be generational, not a temporary cyclical downleg. What hit […]
Two Elephants In The Room That The GOP Has Completely Forgotten
Two Elephants In The Room That The GOP Has Completely Forgotten The US economy is threatened by two giant problems which cause all others to pale into insignificance. We are referring to a rogue central bank that has become an absolute enemy of capitalist prosperity and a fiscal doomsday machine that is hostage to the […]
The Real Bleep-Hole Moment—–$40 Trillion And Counting
The Real Bleep-Hole Moment—–$40 Trillion And Counting You can call it the bleep-hole moment (per the Fox “family channel”) or the shit-hole moment (per the rest of the MSM), but what you can’t call yesterday’s contretemps in the White House is evidence that sentient adults are in charge of the Imperial City. And, no, we are not getting down on the […]
Unhinged, Part 1: The GOP’s Fiscal Madness
Unhinged, Part 1: The GOP’s Fiscal Madness The watchword for 2018 is: UNHINGED! That refers to Wall Street, Washington, the Dems and the GOP, and all the far and near corners of the planet which are implicated in their collective follies. The latter begins with the fact that Imperial Washington has become so dysfunctional that the most powerful […]
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 1
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 1 During the 40 months after Alan Greenspan’s infamous “irrational exuberance” speech in December 1996, the NASDAQ 100 index rose from 830 to 4585 or by 450%. But the perma-bulls said not to worry: This time is different—-it’s a new age of technology miracles that will change the laws […]
Chart Of The Day: This Is What Happens When There Is Even A Hint That The ECB Will Stop Buying Bonds
Chart Of The Day: This Is What Happens When There Is Even A Hint That The ECB Will Stop Buying Bonds Portugal’s bond yields continue to rise as the rating agency DBRS prepares to deliver its rating verdict. It’s the last rating agency that still has Portugal’s debt at an investment-grade level. If the downgrade […]
It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh
It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh My new book will be published next Tuesday. Preorders for the e-Book version will be available in this space beginning later this week. As I previously indicated, the book is an exploration of how 30 years of Bubble Finance policies at the Fed, feckless interventions abroad and […]
