Dale Oxley doesn't need to hear about rising odds of a U.S. recession to dread the future. For the West Virginia homebuilder, the downturn has already arrived.
While in the US market breaks practically always happen when the market is sharply lower, and are intended to halt any downward momentum, in Europe this simple relationship has yet to be perfected, and for the past hour, following what it announced w
More and more analysts and commentators have caught to the fact that the Powers That Be are actively preparing for the next financial crisis with even more extreme measures.
Most of the defaults, debt restructurings, and bankruptcies so far this year and last year were triggered when over-indebted cash-flow negative companies could not make interest payments on their debts.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. lowered its annual sales forecast in a move it blamed on the strong dollar, adding another headache to a retailer struggling with slow U.S. traffic and decelerating e-commerce growth.
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly declined last week to a three-month low, signaling stability in the labor market.
In 17 of the 19 times in the last 100 years that Industrial Production has contracted for 3 consecutive months, the US economy has entered recession. Today 0.7% drop YoY is the 3rd month of declines.
The last 3 days have been a face-ripper as US equities have soared most since August amid (oil) rumors, (banking system) hope, and (bad news is good news) dismal data.
Many nations that experimented with the Fed's economic recovery plan are now going beyond the outer limits into the twilight zone of negative interest rates.
Many nations that experimented with the Fed's economic recovery plan are now going beyond the outer limits into the twilight zone of negative interest rates.
Up the Big Banks...The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - who oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability (Neel Kashkari) - says that the nation's biggest b
"Bizarro World"... While we have generally disagreed with Morgan Stanley's Adam Parker flipflopping on stocks some two years ago, or just as the market was topping out, we can't find fault with his latest note released today in which he openly admits
It was close to twenty years ago that I sat in my first personal finance class, learning how to invest money I didn't have for a "retirement" that seemed inconceivably far away.
Prior Peak...Today's batch of housing data, namely the January update of housing starts and permits, which as a reminder has a quite substantial "confidence interval" of between 10.5% and 28.3%, was largely uneventful.
Roughly 2 ½ years ago ; readers were introduced to a paradigm of crime, corruption, and control which they now know as "the One Bank". First they were presented with a definition and description of this crime syndicate.
Back in the 1970's as recession gripped the world for a decade, stocks stagnated and commodities crashed, investor Jim Rogers made a fortune. His understanding of markets, capital flows and timing is legendary.
Although inflation exists in some sectors of the economy, the present subject of discussion is deflation. Any depression is inherently deflationary since spending is curtailed, which drives prices down.
In this comprehensive interview that Neil Howe author of the must-read book The Fourth Turning The Fourth Turning did with his firm, Saeculum Research, he wastes no time in telling us that he thinks expectations of several more Fed rate raise
Negative rates are becoming the "new abnormal" in a shaky world economy. With fresh panic hitting markets, are we finally hitting the limits of what monetary policy can achieve?
Editor's Comment: It is all just a matter of time, but so clear that so many foreboding financial events are converging into one giant disaster. Things are so far gone at this point, that the system can't even hold back the gold price, though it
Remember the vicious cycle that threatened the entire European banking sector in 2012? It went something like this: over indebted sovereigns depended on domestic banks to buy their debt, but when yields on that debt spiked, the banks took a hit, inh
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