The Growing Catastrophe Known as Abenomics
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Beijing’s Efforts To Slow Credit Bubble Will End in Catastrophic Fail
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The “Low-flation” Myth: Inflation That Is Seen And Not Seen
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Wall Street’s “Escape Velocity” Hoax
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Paul “Contrafactual” Krugman: The Laureate of Keynesian Babble
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Why The Wall Street Casino Lives On
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David Stockman lashes out at the LBO of Extended Stay, a scam that made Blackstone billions, and saddled taxpayers with the detritus. It’s perhaps the most brilliant explanation ever as to why the Fed bailouts of Wall Street were an asinine idea that benefited the “0.0001%” but hurt everyone else, including taxpayers and the main-street economy.
David Stockman: Extended Stay And The Wall Street Meth Labs
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Wachovia and other banks funded the $7.4 billion debt portion of the Extended Stay LBO, knowing the company was worth only $4.8 billion at the most. The loan was then rolled into structured finance securities – “designed to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse,” David Stockman writes – and stuffed into the Wall Street meth labs until the very end.
David Stockman: Monetary Central Planners And Financial Manias
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“One of the hallmarks of financial manias is that propositions which are perfectly absurd nevertheless get widely embraced by those caught up in the excitement,” writes David Stockman – in this case, Blackstone’s LBO of Extended Stay Hotels, and its subsequent sale at a ridiculous three times replacement cost, funded by Citibank … a pre-packaged scam.
David Stockman – Bernanke’s (Untough) Love Child: The $27 Billion Affair At The Hilton
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The idea that LBOs carry massive debt that is never paid down, leaving behind “financial zombies on the ragged edge of insolvency,” defies historical principles of LBOs, writes David Stockman. Blackstone’s LBO of Hilton Hotels is one of these “free market defying zombies” – “one global business slump away from bankruptcy.” And it just filed for an IPO.