Ten years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers signaled that the U.S. was hurtling toward a financial crisis. In the years that followed, consumers faced difficulty managing debt as the economy contracted, unemployment accelerated and incomes stagnated. The Federal Reserve …
by Michael Snyder Are we going to see violence in the streets of our major cities following the mid-term elections in November? President Trump seems to believe that this is a very real possibility, and he shared his thoughts on …
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Keep an eye on the system’s buffers. They look fine until they suddenly collapse. The doom-and-gloomers among us who have been predicting the unraveling of an inherently unstable financial system appear to …
by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe on iTunes here In a recent hour-long interview with Financial Sense Newshour, Greg Weldon at Weldon Online discussed his just-released 150-page special report, “Shelter from the Storm,” looking at the economic and …
via Steven Pearlstein, Analysis Let’s recall those heady days of 2006 when home prices were rising 10, 15, even 20 per cent a year, allowing millions of homeowners to refinance mortgages and collectively take out more than US$300 billion in cash …
BY JOHN MAULDIN The Institute of International Finance (IIF) has released a worrisome report about the state of global debt, which includes this note about US corporate debt: US non-financial corporate debt hit a post-crisis high of 72% of GDP: At …
via Chris Kimble After topping in January 2018, the stock market has become a bumpy ride. We endured a correction on most major stock indexes and are now chopping sideways. Monitoring the markets for clues about what’s next, I stumbled …
From Michael Goodwin at NY Post: During the financial crisis, the federal government bailed out banks it declared “too big to fail.” Fearing their bankruptcy might trigger economic Armageddon, the feds propped them up with taxpayer cash. Something similar is happening …