How Low Can the Price of Oil Plunge? by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2014 • 15 Comments The bloodletting will go on until the money dries up.
Here’s What Central Bankers Will Do Next by Bill Bonner • Nov 12, 2014 • 14 Comments The middle classes – aka “the voters” – expressed themselves last week. They have been sorely used and they know it.
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.