How to Commit Financial Suicide by Bill Bonner • Nov 11, 2014 • 6 Comments “Hey… you want a wealth effect? I’ll give you a wealth effect!”
Retail Investors’ Mad Rush into Short Volatility, and How They’ll Get Crushed by Contributor • Nov 9, 2014 • 3 Comments “The biggest wealth transfer from retail investors to professional investors in history.”
No “Yellen Put?” You Gotta be Kidding… by Wolf Richter • Nov 4, 2014 • 15 Comments “Not the Fed’s job to rescue reckless investors from the errors of their ways.” Now they tell us!
That Shrinking Slice of a Barely Growing Pie: Why the Glorious Economy of Ours Feels so Crummy by Wolf Richter • Oct 31, 2014 • 9 Comments For individual Americans, economic “growth” has meant the opposite.
New Home Prices Plunge the Worst EVER (in One Ugly Chart) by Wolf Richter • Oct 28, 2014 • 7 Comments Housing Bubble 2 pops in its full glory, mess ensues.
Pump and Dump: How to Rig the Entire IPO Market Without Raising ANY Money by Wolf Richter • Oct 27, 2014 • 5 Comments Just when you thought we’ve reached the peak of craziness, it gets even crazier.
The High Price of Free Money: Now US Bankers Fear Financial, Social, or Political ‘Instability’ by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2014 • 14 Comments It all boils down to consumers in an economy that is so dependent on them.
Roll Out the Fire Hoses (Here Comes QE4) by Bill Bonner • Oct 17, 2014 • 9 Comments Never before in the long, comic history of mankind and its money have central bankers taken such a keen interest in asset prices. Now they create money, out of nowhere, for the express purpose of pushing them up.
‘This Market is Driven by Psychology and Momentum,’ which ‘Works Really Painfully on the Way Down’ by David Stockman • Oct 17, 2014 • 3 Comments Silicon Valley Hype-Machine gets dented.
Toxic Mix Blows up: Oil Price Collapse & Junk Bond Insanity by Wolf Richter • Oct 15, 2014 • 8 Comments Theories abound why this is suddenly happening, after years of deceptive calm.
