The Young Struggle for Housing, many are living with parents or are part of the renting revolution....
median home prices hitting new highs as the cost of funding spikes, it is hard to se how this is sustainable.
A Federal Reserve interest-rate increase next month is as certain as death and taxes for bond traders, as speculation mounts that Donald Trump’s reflationary policies will mean a quicker pace of monetary tightening.
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger equates the position of the financial markets to that of a protagonist in a classic horror story and reflects on recent moves in the commodities markets...
The ‘economic peace' we've enjoyed for decades is OVER...
Today’s rising interest rates and trillion-dollar losses in global bond markets are prelude to what is to come, i.e. rising inflation with higher interest rates ending in the bursting of the global government bond bubble and the long awaited breakout of gold.
The Credit Bubble Peak was Marked by “Totally Crazy Lending.” Debt is good. More debt is better. Funding consumer spending with debt is even better
Despite speculation over the past year that Canada may join Japan and Europe in the NIRP club and launch negative interest rates....
The next big concern is a sharp rise in bond yields — they call it the “Achilles' heel of global markets” — followed by a hard landing in China.
This sudden outbreak of niceness is the outcome of India's current crackdown on "black money" - income in the form of cash that has not been declared to the tax authorities.
This story from Bloomberg reminds me of the Don Ho song "Tiny Bubbles." But it may be more like BIG bubbles ... in commercial real estate. (Bloomberg) -- U.S. CMBS losses jumped “well beyond” the historical weighted average (WA) loss severity in 3Q16, Moody’s said in a press release. WA loss severity increased to 52%…
And you were wondering why startups and firm creation in the USA are so low? Thank Barack The Regulator!
Stocks are fueled by hope which takes time for the “dollar” to disprove through first its own systems and then full economy; as it has time and again.
With money market reform (2a7) more than a month in the rear view, LIBOR rates continue to rise regardless. Three-month LIBOR jumped to 91.622 bps Friday, up from 88.4 bps to begin the month of November.
One of the most significant pieces of legislation ever argued and turned into law was the Banking Act of 1935. Maybe even more than the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, the legislative basis for Executive Order 6102 and the end of gold inside the United States, the 1935 law codified what were in 1933 more properly observed as experiments.
... And a Giant Crash Is Coming
Euro zone governments are increasingly relying on hedge funds to help them meet their borrowing needs, which risks leaving them vulnerable to a debt market sell-off driven by a class of investors dubbed "fast money" for their speculative approach.
By David Stockman. Posted On Monday, November 21st, 2016
An international race to lower corporate taxes is back in the global spotlight after Britain recommitted to slashing rates and as the election of Donald Trump puts U.S. corporate-tax overhauls on the front burner.
A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive tax on carbon intensive foods - specifically protein rich foods like meat and dairy - could help combat climate change. Pricing food according to its climate impacts could save half a million lives and one billion…