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.”

Ominous Signs in Consumer Sentiment

by Lee Adler • Jul 18, 2014 • 1 Comment

Despite surging stocks since 2012, consumer sentiment has not broken out in similar fashion: a warning sign of a big move down in the markets and economy.

Chinese Construction Company Threatens To Default, Debt Dominoes Are Lined Up

by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2014 • 2 Comments

It’s so bad a trusty Communist Party newspaper exhorts the people to buy homes in a ghost city because there’s “no downside for home prices.”

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.

Microsoft Layoffs: Insane M&A Frenzy Leads To Next Jobs Crisis

by Wolf Richter • Jul 16, 2014 • 3 Comments

35,000 M&A deals will likely be made this year, promising “efficiencies” and “synergies,” hence job cuts. So Microsoft, which bought Nokia’s handset unit, is planning the largest in its history…. The M&A frenzy of 2007/8 was followed by the Great Jobs Crisis!

New Wave of Washington Consensus in Latin America

by Don Quijones • Jul 15, 2014 • 2 Comments

Something big is going down in Latin America: A slow-moving tectonic shift threatens to split the continent down the middle on ideological lines.

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.

Is Canada Next? (A Very Ugly Chart)

by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2014 • 10 Comments

‘Hours Worked’ plunged in the second quarter at a rate last seen during the middle of the Great Recession, a terrible harbinger of GDP.

‘Politics and Mafia Are Same Thing’ – Jailed Spanish Politician

by Don Quijones • Jul 13, 2014 • 2 Comments

Money has no moral compunction, moves with ease from drug traffickers into mega construction projects, and politicians need it for campaigns and other purposes.

Rideshare Companies Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar Are Not What You Think They Are, and I’ll Tell You Why

by Contributor • Jul 12, 2014 • 11 Comments

So let’s get one thing straight. Uber is not an exciting entrepreneurial endeavor. Quite the opposite. It’s backed by three of the largest corporations in the world, all merged together to again outspend the underdog and disrupt the middle class.

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