The “Insanity Trade:” Where Does It Go From Here? by Wolf Richter • Mar 24, 2015 • 15 Comments “Bond Bubble becomes more extreme” and stocks are “overvalued,” say 11,000 financial professionals – but where’s the dang sell-button?
Deflation Calamity Howlers Are Dead Wrong – in Europe and Everywhere Else by David Stockman • Jan 7, 2015 • 5 Comments The notion that a hairline puncture of the zero-inflation line is a precursor of a deflationary calamity amounts to economic voodoo.
The Velocity of Dirty Money: What the Grubby 100-Peso Notes Say About Inflation in Argentina by Bianca Fernet • Nov 23, 2014 • 1 Comment It’ll take more than tape to fix the lives it chews up.
More QE? These Charts Show the Pauperization of Workers in the UK and America since 2008 by Wolf Richter • Oct 18, 2014 • 25 Comments The designated losers of monetary policy. There are a lot of them.
How the Government Deceives us on Inflation, as Rents and Housing Costs Soar by Wolf Richter • Sep 12, 2014 • 9 Comments Rents and housing costs make up 30% of the Consumer Price Index. They’re its largest component. They’re soaring in real life. But not in the CPI.
Ravenous Costs and Dubious Benefits of a College Degree by Contributor • Sep 10, 2014 • 12 Comments She’ll be 55 before her net life-time earnings equal those of an enterprising person who left school at 16.
What Happened to the Price of a Gallon of Gas? by Johnnygeneric • Sep 9, 2014 • 9 Comments An impoverished nation now finds a commodity to be too expensive though it really hasn’t changed in price in over four decades – in terms of silver.
Argentine Peso Collapses on Top of Rogue Regime by Wolf Richter • Aug 25, 2014 • 7 Comments Adeptly managed by the central bank and the government, the Argentine peso has been plunging in perfect form, an activity it is very, very good at.
This Chart Is a True Picture of What’s Dragging on the American Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2014 • 11 Comments Over the long run (which is now), the math of that distortion just doesn’t work out.
Gallup Slams Lid On Hopes For US Economy by Wolf Richter • Jul 11, 2014 • 6 Comments Consumers are “straining against rising prices on daily essentials” and are cutting back on things they want to buy.
