by Michael Snyder Stocks just closed at a brand new all-time record high, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is coming to theaters, and a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin just won the 768 million dollar Powerball jackpot. If those are the top headlines today, then everything …
by confoundedinterest Given the advent of on-line shopping, commercial real estate prices are not quite back to where they were at the height of the asset bubble prior to the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Suburban office space is barely above the …
Do you think there will be many of these tech unicorn companies that will go bankrupt? The tech bubble is ancient history for the majority of investors today. They weren’t invested during that time as many were either too young …
Josh Sigurdson reports on the collapse of housing markets throughout the United States as well as elsewhere as starts collapse and the bubble bursts. Even luxury areas like Greenwich in Connecticut are seeing prices plunge as much as 25%! Housing …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Los Angeles population drops, San Francisco & Silicon Valley population rises least since 2010, North Bay’s population drops. The housing market in California with its sky-high home prices depends on blistering population growth. So here we …
From Birch Gold Group There have been numerous signs that the U.S. is likely to go through another major recession at some point. And regardless of when or if a recession happens, it won’t change the fact that the U.S. economy is already …
via jugglingdynamite: Low-interest rates, lax-lending and speculative fever, drove a boom in property demand, size and opulence over the past decade in most of the world’s major cities. Now home prices are unaffordable for most and debt is maxed out everywhere, …
by Troy As the stock market approaches all-time highs, a few economic indicators are deteriorating. Meanwhile, the stock market’s uptrend remains strong. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter There are now 486 EV manufacturers in China, triple from two years ago. Most will disappear. New vehicle sales in China plunged 14% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to the China Association of Automobile …
Authored by Jesse Colombo via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, During an economic bubble like the late-1990s dot-com bubble or the U.S. housing bubble, frivolous, hubristic investments and business decisions become appealing to many people who are what I call “bubble drunk.” In a bubble, …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The doses of Delusionol(tm) required to believe “this time it’s different” are becoming dangerous. Here we go again, another tech bubble is expanding like a supernova and the financial media is declaring (as it does during every …
by confoundedinterest17 Fed Chair Jerome Powell is singing “Take it easy.’ The Federal Reserve risks stoking the same sort of asset bubbles that Chairman Jerome Powell has linked to the last two recessions with its new-found eagerness to fan inflation. The Fed’s …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the inevitable fall of many Australian housing markets as predicted by WAM for years. It had to happen eventually and now we are seeing the effects of a completely …
by Jesse Colombo On Monday, unicorn WeWork reported that it lost $1.9 billion on $1.8 billion revenue in 2018. WeWork is a company that provides shared workspaces and related services for startups. WeWork can be thought of as a company that sells …
BY JOHN RUBINO Mike Maloney: Basel III, gold, and the next financial crisis … Rick Rule: These are the gold miners you should own … Max Keiser on the surge in negative-interest rate bonds … Marc Faber: Huge asset bubble …
via marketwatch: Cash-out refinancing fallout threatens home prices The 2004-07 bubble era in U.S. housing markets was a time of utter madness. Much has been written about it, but almost nothing has been said about the craziest aspect of it – …
Legendary contrarian investor Dr. Marc Faber warns, “When I started to work in 1970 on Wall Street, the stock market capitalization of the U.S. as a percentage of GDP . . . was between 25% and 30%. Now, the stock …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the latest news out of California as the housing bubble continues to weaken and yet still get propped up by government through Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest housing initiative. UCLA …
Talk Digital Network, Released on 3/14/19 Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book “Juggling Dynamite: An insider’s wisdom on money management, markets and wealth …
By John Mauldin Last week, the ECB announced it would keep record-low interest rates for longer. The news comes shortly after the Fed gave in to the market and held off on further rate hikes. While investors celebrate the policy reversal, …
via Grant’s Interest Rate Observer On Monday, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reported February results that could be classified as ghastly, with residential home sales plummeting 32.8% year-over-year to 1,484 units. That’s the lowest February sales total since 1985 and …
With seemingly everything except precious metals in a bubble, it can be quite hard to keep your eye on the ball. Join Mike Maloney as he uncovers what could potentially be a huge factor in the next crash – insane …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the massive debt bubble facing down Canadians across the board as credit quality continues to diminish and loans get crazier and crazier. The banks are feeling the results of …
BUBBLE 3.0: NO WAY OUT Click here to view as PDF. “We’re paddling against the current in trying to sustain public faith in the Fed.” –Federal Reserve Chairman JEROME (JAY) POWELL “The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s key …
Investing in passive index funds has enjoyed a stellar run over the past 10 years, exposing the shortcomings of the pricier active approach in a market where everything is in full-on rally mode. In fact, during that time, only 24% …
via Keith Jurow Remember all those sub-prime mortgages that blew up in 2007 and popped the housing bubble? The widely-held consensus is that millions of them were foreclosed as housing markets cratered. Since then, the remaining ones have been quietly disappearing …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Unless the Fed is going to start buying millions of homes outright, prices are going to fall to what buyers can afford. There are two generalities that can be applied to all asset bubbles: 1. Bubbles inflate …
via hedgeye: A viewer asked Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough on our inaugural Mega Market Trends webcast his thoughts on how the current shorting opportunity in the market compares to previous setups in 2001 and 2008. McCullough explains that while there are some similarities …
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital The Fed is officially trapped. For years, I’ve stated that the Fed would never be able to normalize policy. Why? As Japan has shown us, once a Central Bank embarks on the path of extreme …
