This ‘Market’ Discounts Nothing Except Monetary Cocaine
davidstockmanscontracorner.com / by David Stockman • July 19, 2016 Another one of the Hedge Fund high rollers, Marc Lasry of Avenue Capital, recently confessed on bubblevision that 2200 on the S&P...
View ArticleSelf-Serving Obama-Sponsored Study Concludes “Student Debt Helps Economy”;...
mishtalk.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / July 19, 2016 When you want to get your message across, you sponsor a study that is 100% guaranteed to come to the conclusion you demanded from the outset. In...
View ArticleJuly 26-27 – The Fed Will Put Us on Notice for a September 20-21 Rate Hike
financialsense.com / PAUL KASRIEL / 07/22/2016 The Fed was cocked and primed to deliver a 25 basis point increase in the federal funds rate on June 15. But on June 3, the BLS announced that nonfarm...
View ArticlePainful To Watch: This Is The Weakest U.S. Economic ‘Recovery’ Since 1949
theeconomiccollapseblog.com / By Michael Snyder / July 31st, 2016 Most of us have never witnessed an economic “recovery” this bad. As you will see below, the average rate of economic growth since the...
View ArticleThe Price Of Oil Is Crashing Again, And That Is Very, Very Bad News For The...
theeconomiccollapseblog.com / By Michael Snyder on August 1st, 2016 This wasn’t supposed to happen. The price of oil was supposed to start going back up, and this would have brought much needed...
View ArticleHere’s What Happens When One of America’s Hottest Industries Goes Cold
caseyresearch.com / August 01, 2016 One of America’s most important industries is floundering. And that could mean the U.S. economy is headed for a recession… If you’ve been reading the Dispatch,...
View ArticleFragile U.S. Economy Now Facing a Slowdown in Building Boom
davidstockmanscontracorner.com / By Thomas Black, Bloomberg Business / August 2, 2016 At a quarry in Bridgeport, Texas, where rock is crushed, sorted and cleaned, it’s hard to tell that the nation’s...
View ArticleWeak Business Spending Is Choking Economic Growth
financialsense.com / MATTHEW KERKHOFF / 08/02/2016 On Friday we learned that the economy grew at a measly 1.2% rate during the 2nd quarter, about half of what most economists were expecting. Worse,...
View ArticleThe U.S. Has Lost 195,000 Good Paying Energy Industry Jobs
theeconomiccollapseblog.com / By Michael Snyder on August 4th, 2016 Not all jobs are created equal. There is a world of difference between a $100,000 a year energy industry job and a $10 an hour job...
View ArticleThe Dirty Business of U.S. ‘Think Tanks’
libertyblitzkrieg.com / Michael Krieger / Aug 9, 2016 Many of you have already read this past Sunday’s excellent and deeply disturbing article published by the New York Times regarding the shady and...
View ArticleBig Banks and Big Insurers Send Scary Signals
wallstreetonparade.com / By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 11, 2016 There’s something big and scary going on behind the scenes but, as usual, the public isn’t reading about it on the front pages...
View ArticleSwiss Central Bank Holds $5.3 Billion in Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and...
wallstreetonparade.com / By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 15, 2016 Wall Street Bull Statue in Lower Manhattan At the end of the first quarter of this year, Switzerland’s central bank held...
View ArticleThe Fed Has Been Winging It for Eight Years; It’s Time for Congress to Step Up
Capacity Utilization (Chart Courtesy of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) wallstreetonparade.com / By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 18, 2016 Since the Wall Street crash in 2008 crippled the...
View ArticleJapanese Corporate Earnings Heading For Worst Decline Since The Earthquake
davidstockmanscontracorner.com / By Min Jeong Lee, Yuko Takeo and Nobuyuki Akama, Bloomberg Business • August 22, 2016 After first-quarter earnings in Japan wrapped up this month with the steepest...
View ArticleCan The Various Pension And Benefit Ponzis Survive The Coming Wave Of Baby...
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Aug 24, 2016 3:15 PM The U.S. economy is a well-oiled machine fueled by voracious consumers with unprecedented access to cheap credit used to buy everything from...
View ArticleA THIRD OF AMERICANS “WILL HAVE ONLY ONE CHOICE” ON THEIR OBAMACARE PLAN NEXT...
thedailysheeple.com / MELISSA DYKES / AUGUST 25, 2016 Everyone was forced onto Obamacare. Now, it is collapsing… by design. Sadly, this was the plan all along – to completely socialize health care...
View ArticleDoug Noland’s Credit Bubble Bulletin: Yellen Unveiling, Jackson Hole 2016
wallstreetexaminer.com / by Doug Noland / August 27, 2016 “The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in...
View ArticleCentral Banks = Welfare for the Wealthy
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / by Charles Hugh Smith / AUGUST 29, 2016 Central banks can only do one thing, and that’s provide monetary welfare for the wealthy. The fact that central banks provide...
View ArticleThe Subprime Loan Crisis Is Back…Here’s What It Could Mean for the Economy
caseyresearch.com / Justin Spittler / August 30, 2016 Subprime loans are going bad again. A “subprime” loan is a loan made to someone with bad credit. If the term sounds familiar, it’s because lenders...
View ArticleThe Election Year Fix is In… But Can Janet Make It To November?
gainspainscapital.com / Graham Summers / September 1, 2016 The election year fix is in… and Janet Yellen is praying the markets hold together until November. President Obama met privately with Yellen...
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