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The Era of Easy Money Ruined Us
The Era of Easy Money Ruined Us The rot caused by easy money will only become fully visible when the hollowed out institutions start collapsing under the weight of incompetence, debt and hubris. We have yet to reach a full reckoning of the consequences of the era of easy money, but it’s abundantly clear that […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Zombie Companies Are Coming
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Zombie Companies Are Coming “Easy money is a curse for capitalism.” You can also find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, and others.
Fourth Turning Economics
Fourth Turning Economics “In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses […]
Mad World
MAD WORLD And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take When people run in circles it’s a very very Mad world, mad world The haunting Gary Jules […]
The Fed’s Easy-Money Policies Aren’t Helping Income Growth
The Fed’s Easy-Money Policies Aren’t Helping Income Growth Back in August, Bloomberg interviewed Karen Petrou about her research on quantitative easing and the Fed’s policies since the 2008 financial crisis. What she has discovered has not been encouraging for people who aren’t already high-income, and in recent research presented to the New York Fed, she […]
How Easy Money Is Rotting America from the Inside-Out
How Easy Money Is Rotting America from the Inside-Out How much of our gleaming new infrastructure will fall into disrepair? The Federal Reserve has been the main cause of business cycles in America since 1913. For several decades, it has tried to hide the consequences of its policies by enabling easy credit during each recession. […]
Three Bubbles/Strikes and You’re Out
Three Bubbles/Strikes and You’re Out Those betting on a fourth bubble of even greater extremes will find their time at bat has come to an end. The conventional investment wisdom holds that central banks will never let markets decline. This is an interesting belief, given that two previous asset bubbles based on central bank “easy […]
Why Quantitative Easing In The Eurozone Will Be Extended
Why Quantitative Easing In The Eurozone Will Be Extended The staff of the European Central Bank has now released the new macro-economic projections for the Eurozone and whilst the introduction sounds optimistic about an ever-increasing GDP and a relatively stable GDP growth rate, reading between the lines suggests we could see an extended Quantitative Easing […]
Bank of Canada Raises Interest Rates… Again
Bank of Canada Raises Interest Rates… Again For the second time in less than two months, the Bank of Canada has raised interest rates. On Wednesday, the central bank raised its overnight lending rate by a quarter per cent to 1 per cent. The move surprised many who weren’t expecting a rate increase until later […]
“We’re Now Seeing Bubbles Everywhere” – Deutsche Bank Boss Urges End To “Era Of Cheap Money”
“We’re Now Seeing Bubbles Everywhere” – Deutsche Bank Boss Urges End To “Era Of Cheap Money” The head of Germany’s largest commercial bank warned of the fallout from cheap money, cautioning against using the strong euro as a justification for printing more. Bloomberg reports that the Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Officer John Cryan called for an end to […]
Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks
Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks Easy money masks global economy’s precarious health Shutterstock Too much of economic growth and the accompanying bull market in stocks is the result of financial engineering. Increasingly, companies seek to improve earnings or increase their share price by means that are not necessarily directly linked to their […]
On US Interest Rates
On US Interest Rates The first US interest rate increase since June 2006 is a pivotal moment for the global economy, launching what Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz, calls the “great policy divergence,” with repercussions in every region and financial market. The impact will be particularly powerful in emerging countries, where currencies are vulnerable to […]
How the easy money boom ends
How the easy money boom ends Through the door there came familiar laughter I saw your face and heard you call my name Oh, my friend we’re older but no wiser For in our hearts the dreams are still the same Those were the days – “Those Were the Days” by Gene Raskin POITOU, France […]
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 […]
