David Haggith: Thirteen Major Fails: a quick rundown of our rundown economy
During the Roaring Twenties would anyone have believed you if you told them about the depression and the dust-bowl years that were soon to come?
During the Roaring Twenties would anyone have believed you if you told them about the depression and the dust-bowl years that were soon to come?
When the Fed did test a similar flight plan back in 2018, it ran erratically all year and ended when the Fed dove its plane
John Mauldin: The coming recession/bear market is going to create ‘marvelous’ buying opportunities … Lance Roberts: Debt bubbles signal sharp recession … Jim Rickards: How
Somewhere back in the depths of the 20th century, a bunch of governors, mayors, and public sector union leaders got together and cooked up one
So it’s early 2021 and we’ve bought back most of the extant Treasuries, a big chunk of investment-grade corporates and agency bonds, even a significant
If you’re managing money and need positive results in the year ahead, you’re in a tough spot. Stocks are at levels that in the past
Excerpted from Pento Portfolio Strategies God bless Paul Volcker. He was truly a one of a kind central banker, and we probably won’t see another
People have been talking about a “debt bubble” for some years now. They’ve been right, of course, based on the combination of surging borrowing and
A central bank that’s desperately trying to ignite a borrowing/spending frenzy to offset an incipient recession has one wish above all: That the currency it’s
When you see that Italy’s debt is rising, the logical question is, who the hell is dumping good money after bad into such an obviously
The key insight of the Austrian School of Economics (maybe the key insight of ALL economics) is that the amount you borrow matters, but so
Back in 2104 oil was falling and hundreds of billions of dollars of energy junk bonds and leveraged loans looked to be at risk. Wolf
One of the hallmarks of late-stage bubbles is a shift of power from lenders to borrowers. As asset prices soar and interest rates plunge it
Financial bubbles are the office Christmas parties of the investment world. They start slowly, with a certain amount of anxiety. But they end wildly, with
When historians sort out this era of once-a-decade financial bubbles, they’ll marvel at how dissimilar the drivers of each boom were. The junk bonds of
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