Hussman: US Likely Entered into a Recession in Mid-2012
The U.S. economy likely slid into a recession during the middle of 2012, said economist and fund manager John Hussman.The U.S. economy officially grew 1.3 percent in the second quarter and 2 percent in the first quarter, but such assumptions are made with backward-looking indicators, or those that capture events that have already happened.
Leading indicators, which point to where the economy is [...]
by Michael
Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams. But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery. Student loan debt has become a trillion dollar bubble which has shattered the financial lives of tens of millions of young college [...]
By Howard Gold
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — After a rocky spring, we’ve had two consecutive months of gains in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.
And some pros are looking for a strong fall and are hoping the Federal Reserve rides to the rescue with more “quantitative easing” at its September meeting.
But just when you thought it was safe to get back into the market, here comes Gary [...]
The market’s hopes and dreams for the next LSAP remain high. As gold inches higher, tail-risks priced out (expectations for extreme FX moves are considerably lower than sentiment would suggest), and US equity vol expectations (and put skews) are crushed; the equity market clearly remains ‘at a premium’ in its notional indices given what is sheer lunacy in earnings expectations going forward. The question every investor should be asking is not when [...]
via Yahoo News:
When it comes to politics, Canadians are generally an apathetic bunch. Often, a controversy will brew and within a week or two we forget about it and move on.
It appears Bill C-38 is one issue we’re not willing to let go.
Saturday is the one month anniversary of the introduction of the so-called omnibus budget bill, a 425-page bill that amends 60 different acts, repeals a half dozen others [...]
15 Fundamental Problems with Fiat Currencies
Ron Hera
financialsense.com
April 8, 2012
Value Subjectivism and Monetary Instability
Subjectivism is the philosophy that reality is what we perceive to be real and that no underlying, true reality exists independent of human perception. In other words, the nature of reality for an individual person is dependent on that individual’s own consciousness. It follows that each person experiences their own reality that is not shared with others. What [...]
Internet Bubble: How hard was it not buy AOL when it was going up 50% a year? Don’t people know all bubbles end badly?
- That was stupid
Housing Bubble: How hard was it not buy a house with 0% down, on a 1 year ARM, with a mortgage you couldn’t afford unless your it appreciated 20% in a year?
- That was stupid
Education Bubble: Not just law school but the entire for [...]
Here’s an opinion piece by Chuck Green who writes “Greener Pastures” for the
Denver Post Aurora Sentinel…one of the more liberal papers in the country.
Additionally, Mr. Green is a lifelong Democrat…so this is rather a
stunning piece…
Obama is victim of Bush’s failed promises!
Barack Obama is setting a record-setting number of records during his first
term in office:
Largest budget ever. Largest deficit ever. Largest number of broken promises
ever.
Most self-serving speeches ever. Largest number of agenda-setting [...]
From Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors
Holidays In The Sun…
Somehow the anger of the sex pistols, the sound of boots marching in the background, seem right to me today.
Greek Industrial Production dropped 11.3% in December. The unemployment rate jumped to 20.9%, up from 18.2%.
The charade of negotiations and a bailout can go. Some deal is likely to be announced. I’m not even sure it will be relevant by the March [...]
Ok watched some crap on tv and they are basically saying that printing money to sustain the yields the system requires to sustain it’s continued existance is the only way…to buy more time…so that the implosion doens’t happen now…and then use the time that was bought to figure out how to escape the printing of money to buy time to figure out how to escape the the inevitable implosion.
the yare [...]
Ok watched some crap on tv and they are basically saying that printing money to sustain the yields the system requires to sustain it’s continued existance is the only way…to buy more time…so that the implosion doens’t happen now…and then use the time that was bought to figure out how to escape the printing of money to buy time to figure out how to escape the the inevitable implosion.
the yare [...]
By Jon Markman, MarketWatch
SEATTLE — For once, the week started with no major press conferences, news releases, bird songs or alien spaceship emanations out of Europe. That gives us a chance to recap what’s happening over yonder.
Supposedly Germany and France have inched closer to making a deal on how to bandage up their banks with taxpayer capital, a process known as recapitalization, and to leverage the emergency funding vehicle known [...]
by JR
So the first thing to recognize in support of the Empire, which the neocons do here, is to name the potential enemies of the Empire — “terrorists” such as al-Qaeda and Hezbollah (not to forget Hamas, Syria and Iran). The Hannity/Limbaugh line finds every enemy of Israel in every freedom fighter movement. It’s troubling to me that pro-war neocon Stratfor (i.e. George Friedman) has become [...]
by ZH
To those who look for confirmation of the wealth effect in every nook and cranny, better keep looking away from housing. The 30 Year Fixed Rate mortgage, that indicator of just how much “piggy bank” value US housing has, just jumped by a whopping 24 basis points in the last week to 5.05%, the highest since April 2010. And as the observant ones will [...]
First, I am sorry for the absence of an analysis yesterday afternoon. We left Colorado yesterday and are driving back to Montana……..stopping in Sheridan along the way.
Yesterday, we saw existing home sales knock the slats out from under the market early in the day, but the market rallied back after that and approached the 1115.00 resistance area (ES). The afternoon was devastating, however, as someone or someone(s) sold with a [...]
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