Revisions show the slowdown expected this year hit last year, and now is the rebound. If there’s ever a time for the Fed to not cut already low rates, it’s now.
Murk everywhere. There isn’t even an agreement what “leveraged loans” are. No, banks are not off the hook. That was wrong too. They hold 57% of these instruments, the Bank of England found.
In 2013, I called Goldman Sachs a “snake-oil salesman” for underwriting a $1 billion J.C. Penney stock offering. Investors got wiped out. Now the longer-dated bonds, including a 100-year bond, have collapsed.
