The Cheap Credit Trap
by The Zman The Federal Reserve is making noises about cutting interest rates for the first time in several years. The reason is the trade dispute with China and now Mexico is potentially … Read more
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Amazon Gobbling Up Failed Malls Across America for Dirt Cheap (Video)
by FS May 10, 2019 – The success of Amazon and e-commerce helped to bring them down. Now, Amazon is taking advantage of the empty malls around the U.S. by … Read more
Stocks are cheap compared to almost no period in history
Stocks are cheap compared to almost no period in history Via @TaviCosta pic.twitter.com/w6vApNBHUY — OCCUPY WISDOM (@OccupyWisdom) April 18, 2019 TLRY now -84% from its high. Still trades at 110x … Read more
Everything Is Wonderful, Markets Are Cheap, Sentiment Is Modest, A US Trade Deal Will Fix Everything… NOT
EVERYTHING IS WONDERFULMARKETS ARE CHEAPSENTIMENT IS MODESTA US TRADE DEAL WILL FIX EVERYTHING [NOT] t.co/AFDP32xwQX — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 15, 2019 Remember China March trade, esp imports contracting further? Want … Read more
John Rubino – Next Recession Could Blow Up Financial Markets, What’s Cheap? Gold and Silver
Financial Writer John Rubino says, “It is possible that a garden variety one year recession would blow-up the financial markets. That’s the stuff that they are hearing (in the White … Read more
Low Interest Rates Might Be What’s Hurting Growth: Cheap credit does a poor job of weeding out zombie companies that compete for scarce resources.
Economists tend to think of central-bank interest rates purely in terms of their effect on macroeconomic benchmarks such as inflation, output and unemployment. The Federal Reserve’s dual mandate, for instance, directs … Read more
ECB Doing What the ECB Does: Slashing Growth Rates, Preparing More Cheap Debt
via euronews: FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank pushed out the timing of its first post-crisis rate hike until 2020 at the earliest and offered banks new rounds of … Read more
Fund Manager: Gold Is Historically Cheap When Compared To The Stock Market
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “The monetary authorities running the paper-money schemes of the present are anxious to forestall significant rises in the paper price of gold, because such rises would … Read more
Ocasio Cortez Says “WE’RE IN CHARGE” then INSULTS People for being “Cheap”
Ocasio-Cortez Accused Of MAJOR Ethics Violation, Paying Boyfriend. Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend was granted an official house email and people began to question if she hired her boyfriend. She denied this. … Read more
Are Tech Stocks Cheap?
by John Coumarianos Are technology stocks cheap? It seems like a strange question to ask as the market drops on news that Apple has indicated weaker future sales. I also doubted whether Facebook’s price … Read more
A team of Chinese researchers have turned cheap copper into a new material “almost identical” to gold
The discovery will significantly reduce the use of rare, expensive metals in factories, said the authors. Professor Sun Jian and colleagues at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, at the … Read more
This beautiful country is in crisis again, offering CHEAP living + a FAST passport
by Simon Black Last year, when Argentina offered a 100-year bond, I argued it was plain insanity. Argentina sold $2.75 billion of the debt… but the issue was nearly four timesoversubscribed. How could … Read more
REITs: Slightly Better Than Broad U.S. Market, But Still Not Cheap
by John Coumarianos When I wrote an article on REITs for the Wall Street Journal in early 2017, I used a research report from Research Affiliates in Newport Beach, CA to argue that the asset class … Read more
Canadian oil is below $15. Depression levels of cheap.
By Nick Cunningham Canadian oil prices briefly plunged as low as $15 per barrel last week, after a U.S. federal judge blocked the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Canada’s oil industry has … Read more
The Long-Haul “Low-Cost Carrier” Business Model in a world awash in cheap money.
By MC01, a frequent commenter on WOLF STREET: In 1967, Icelandic airline Loftleiðir started offering cheap tickets on Transatlantic flights. Loftleiðir used a lot of what today would be called “funny … Read more
The Student Loan Debt Implosion Vs. Attending College On The Cheap
by TraderStef of CrushTheStreet (connect with TraderStef via Twitter or at TraderStef’s website) There is a great divide on how much student loan debt is out there in the U.S. The mainstream media (MSM) is quoting an annual … Read more