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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The government already owes over $22 trillion, and it’s adding over $1 trillion a year. Who is buying it, and why? (12 min). You can also listen to … Read more
By Nick Cunningham Oil prices jumped to five-month highs this week, pushed higher by a bullish cocktail of supply outages, geopolitical unrest and a sputtering shale sector. The most recent … Read more
By Gary Shilling PhD, FS Recently, others are joining us in forecasting a recession, or at least entertaining a growing probability of one. Of those, few also believe it will … Read more
by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) As the price of Bitcoin continues to hover substantially below $4,000 per coin, after reaching earlier all-time highs of around $20,000 per coin, venture capitalists … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But deposit-taking banks have pulled back. Lovingly known as “shadow banks,” nonbanks have come to dominate the mortgage market. And they originate the riskiest mortgages. The … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Nvidia again cut its revenue guidance for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2019, which runs through January, this time by 18.5% from its previously … Read more
With 18.7m followers and a roster of fans that includes the Kardashians and Naomi Campbell, the Instagram page of beauty company Anastasia Beverly Hills offers crafty demonstrations of how to use its … Read more
Don't be delusional, the entire world is rolling over pic.twitter.com/llWGbGgcIW — Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) January 5, 2019 All is discounted? Look at global earnings estimates pic.twitter.com/7iFZ9Tiu9p — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) … Read more
via Bloomberg: What began guardedly, as traditional lenders retreated post-Lehman, has exploded into a financial-industrial complex rapidly approaching $1 trillion, with money streaming in from pension funds, insurers and hedge … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter For nine years, US stocks, foreign stocks, government bonds, corporate investment-grade bonds, junk bonds, leveraged loans, emerging market bonds, art, classic cars, residential real estate, commercial … Read more
via CNBC: For example, 27 percent of people in Florence, South Carolina, who bought their car with a so-called subprime score — defined as a VantageScore between 300 and … Read more
by Simon Black We have been talking about the pension crisis for years now. It’s without a doubt one of the biggest, financial disasters. These pools of capital, responsible for paying … Read more
Bloomberg: Grim Stock Signals Piling Up as Wall Street Mulls Recession Odds Nine turbulent weeks and a correction in U.S. stocks have left analysts with a thorny question. What’s the … Read more
Do you think that Canada’s real estate is too expensive? Or should we just take off to our igloo’s, eh?
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I remember vividly the scene in The Big Short when a housing broker was driving the “Steve Eisman” group around California’s “Inland Empire.” Home prices were … Read more
Even the cheapest homes are waiting for buyers Units for less than $1 million — within reach of far more people than a Billionaires’ Row penthouse — are hurting for … Read more