Everything Bubble

Investment Bank Discovers the “Redistributive Effects” of QE

by Wolf Richter • Jul 28, 2014 • 2 Comments

How the Fed and other central banks channel wealth and income to rich households and companies at the expense of wage earners and the young.

Scary Thought: Busiest IPO Week since Aug 2000 (Days before the Real Crash)

by Wolf Richter • Jul 28, 2014 • 4 Comments

The Only Risk on the Horizon is the Risk of Missing Out

How Bad Can The Junk-Bond Sell-Off Get? So Bad It’ll Take Down Stocks

by Wolf Richter • Jul 27, 2014 • 1 Comment

When Goldman Sachs downgraded all global stocks, it gave a peculiar reason.

UBS Warns Everything Is Overpriced, Prepares For Sell-Off

by Wolf Richter • Jul 20, 2014 • 1 Comment

The world’s largest wealth manager is “very worried” about “the lack of liquidity” that could wreak havoc during the sell-off. It reduces risk “over the full spectrum of assets.”

Has America’s Economy Entered the “Coffin Corner”?

by Larry Kummer • Jul 16, 2014 • 9 Comments

The US economy has repeatedly failed to resume normal growth after the crash. But potentially worse is the decline in long-term growth estimates.

Yellen Warns Investors

by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2014 • Comments Off on Yellen Warns Investors

Yellen pokes at bubbles in momentum stocks, leveraged loans, threatens to end ZIRP sooner, more rapidly “than currently envisioned.” Fasten your seatbelts.

Mortgage Bankers: ‘Unsustainable Housing Bubble Is Inflating’

by Wolf Richter • Jul 10, 2014 • 1 Comment

FICO: “That doesn’t feel like a healthy, sustainable growth situation.” Lenders fret “about the risk in mortgages” as consumers return to “reckless borrowing.”

Senior Bankers Warn: ‘It’s Crazy, It’s a Boom, It’s a Gold Rush’

by Wolf Richter • Jul 9, 2014 • 4 Comments

Senior bankers are “privately warning” that the record bank lending binge “should not be seen as evidence of an economic recovery.” Instead, they’re fretting about the greatest credit bubble in history.

This Chart Truly Depicts What’s Wrong With the ‘Recovery’ in America

by Wolf Richter • Jul 8, 2014 • 7 Comments

Many Americans spend every dime they make, and usually way beyond what they make. It’s not because they have confidence in the economy. They don’t! The gap in consumer confidence between these folks and those with higher incomes is at an all-time record!

‘It’s Like We Have Developed An Inability To Even See Risks’

by Wolf Richter • Jul 3, 2014 • Comments Off on ‘It’s Like We Have Developed An Inability To Even See Risks’

My convo with a wealth manager at a megabank who’s been at it for 30 years, has seen three crashes while on the job, but unlike others in finance, hasn’t re-forgotten the lessons for the third time.

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