Oil Bust Mauls Texas Manufacturers, Atlanta Fed Sees Hit to US Economy by Wolf Richter • Feb 23, 2015 • 5 Comments New orders, shipments at “lowest reading since June 2009.”
How Long Can Central Banks Push Bonds to Absurdity? by Wolf Richter • Feb 4, 2015 • 14 Comments Throw enough money at anything, and you’ll kill it.
Immensely Concentrated Positions in “Fantastically” Overpriced Markets with “Unlimited Tolerance for Risk” by Wolf Richter • Feb 3, 2015 • 8 Comments What could go wrong? Hedge-Fund guru Paul Singer explains why they’re all doing it: a “wish not to be run over.”
Junk-Bond Bubble Implodes Beyond Energy, Deals Scuttled, Yields Soar, Suddenly “Insufficient Demand” by Wolf Richter • Jan 27, 2015 • 12 Comments A sense of unwelcome reality hits non-energy junk-rated companies.
How Capitalism Dies by Bill Bonner • Jan 26, 2015 • 15 Comments How is it possible for the average American to get poorer at a time that should have been the most productive and prosperous ever?
Look Who’s Dragging Down the Global Economy Though No One Is Allowed to Say it by Wolf Richter • Jan 20, 2015 • 12 Comments “Social cohesion is at risk.”
This Isn’t Investing… It’s Russian Roulette by Bill Bonner • Jan 8, 2015 • 1 Comment Betting against mathematical odds has won every time so far.
Last Time Inflated Home Prices Strangled Sales Like This, the Housing Market Crashed by Wolf Richter • Dec 29, 2014 • 15 Comments The bitter irony of the Fed’s handiwork.
The Greater Abomination: Washington’s Lies About TARP’s “Success” Are Worse Than The Original Bailouts by David Stockman • Dec 23, 2014 • 1 Comment The Fed’s “No Banker Left Behind” Program.
Oil Price Crash Triggered by the Fed? Amazing Chart by Wolf Richter • Dec 21, 2014 • 5 Comments The Fed giveth, the Fed taketh away. What’s going to crash next?
