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The last two times that the TSY-Gilt differential reached these levels signaled the top in US equities
Tough times for the high end market.
Several U.S. states studied by S&P Global Ratings are ill-equipped to deal with an economic recession, hampered by the slow rebound in U.S. economic growth after the damage wrought by the Great Recession. Fiscal imbalances, slower state tax revenue growth and increased spending on social services have
Unlike re-printable fiat currency, gold is money because there is a finite amount of it. The Fed can’t produce more gold whenever it wants. For this reason, gold has functioned as a barter and wealth preservation system for thousands of years. But how much gold is left in the earth? What will happen to the price when exploration stops or is limited?
That normally indicates that the economy has taken the turn toward an eventual contraction.
Labor productivity is lower today than at any time prior to the financial crisis. labor productivity YoY is declining along with real GDP growth.
The price of gold relative to the monetary base has never been lower than it is RIGHT NOW. This will end with a massive call on gold by EVERYTHING credit […]
There are so many incidents with the refugee crisis in Europe that the blog could be filled with that subject alone. Even the press in Germany is starting to
... “fatal” for the eurozone, said Nobel-Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, adding that the “eurozone must ditch it now to survive.”
It seems that the crisis, and the untenably large risk premia for highly indebted governments that followed, has already been forgotten.
Here's the most important chart in the world that no one is talking aboutAug 10, 2016 - 11:21:15 PDT
Inflation expectations are decoupling from actual inflation. But no one is talking about it.
Paying someone to borrow money sounds like a questionable idea on paper, & seems not to be working out in practice, either.
Central banks are printing money as though the global economy is in freefallAug 10, 2016 - 11:02:25 PDT
They are spending $200 billion a month on emergency economic stimulus, much more than during the depths of the financial crisis in 2009.
In fact, on an individual basis, on a per-capita basis, the employment situation has barely improved since the Great Recession
It’s all about governments, businesses & consumers accumulating ever-larger mountains of debt (thanks to all those desperate central bankers & their equally desperate political enablers).
Aug 10, 2016 - 10:07:51 PDT
When central bankers pause for thought these days, there's just one idea they're unlikely to entertain: backing down
'We should nationalise German banks' Warning Deutsche Bank teetering on edge of CRISISAug 10, 2016 - 10:06:01 PDT
"Putting it short: for a long & serious crisis there simply wouldn't be enough money."
* US dollar weakens broadly as investors wait on Yellen* Treasury yield drops weigh on dollar* Retail sales data on Friday in focus (Adds m
The fact that we are still discussing illiquidity in “dollar” markets everywhere shows just how little has changed despite so much time and effort. It is August 9 again, the ninth anniversary of the day that changed everything.