By Rodney Johnson I had a finance professor in college who referred to self-evident ideas as BGOs, or blinding glimpses of the obvious. The term stuck with me, and my kids have heard it their entire lives. And it came …
via theguardian: That’s the claim made by the authors of The Inner Level, which furthers arguments first laid out in their 2009 work, The Spirit Level. They reveal the bleak truth about uneven societies In 2009, when the world was still …
BY JARED DILLIAN I’ve said this many times. When rates go up sharply, stuff blows up because lots of people are negatively exposed to higher rates. Households, corporations, and governments are all negatively exposed to higher rates—in different degrees. Back in 1994, …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the risks the Canadian housing market are seeing as the bubble continues to gain pressure all while interest rates rise. Prices have been rising dramatically in many local housing …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The trend is becoming clear. Blame surging home prices that have outrun wage increases for years, mortgage rates that have risen to the highest level since 2011, the massive affordability issues that come with those factors, …
by OT UK Gov thinks music videos with violent scenes are to blame for rising crime rates, so in the continuing of even more censorship, tells YouTube, who obliges, in pulling 30 Music videos mostly from the Chicago Drill Genre. …
via Kathy Orton Mortgage rates continued their upward march this week, extending the most prolonged increase in rates in 46 years. According to the latest data released Thursday by Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate average climbed to 4.66 percent with an …
Home Values Rise at Fastest Pace in 12 Years Median home values across the nation rose 8.7 percent over the past year to $215,600, according to the April Zillow Real Estate Market Report – Home values across the U.S. are …
BY PATRICK WATSON This month, my wife and I drove from Austin to Memphis. Going across Arkansas, the number of trucks seemed quite high. We finally started counting and found commercial trucks outnumbered passenger vehicles by about 2-1. I don’t know …
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 5/20/18 Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, former successful software entrepreneur, hedge fund manager and host of the popular Macro Voices https://www.macrovoices.com/ podcast for financial professionals & sophisticated investors, Erik …
by Doug Kass A combination of so-called “demand pull” and “cost-push inflation” is sending up feedstock costs and interest expenses to levels that I believe will soon lead to a marked contraction in U.S. corporate profit margins. In fact, we …
MIAC # 050 Global Cooling, Rising Food Prices & the Blockchain – Matthew Aaron of CRYPTO 101 Podcast and David DuByne of ADAPT 2030 YouTube series discuss: • Global Cooling & Grand Solar Minimum • Rising Food Prices • …
via GainsPainCapital It’s a good thing that the BLS ignores things like the recent rise in real estate and gas prices when it generates its official inflation numbers… Why? Because if the BLS didn’t do this we might actually see …
by Fabius Maximus Summary: An economist shows the rising rate of celibacy among young millennial men. His analysis reveals much more, inadvertently, as he gushes about the need for women to domesticate men. This is like the smell of smoke in …
Tucker Carlson claims that China is our biggest threat in the world, militarily and economically. https://streamable.com/je1e6 h/t oatzeel
From Birch Gold Group You can expect rising inflation and rates to be a topic of conversation for the remainder of this year, and through 2019 according to experts. A recent CNBC Fed Survey shows about half of the experts responding believed there …
by TankHappy The federal reserve is increasing rates to the recommendation of an economic thoery called Taylor’s Rule. While this rule isn’t always perfectly followed it does show whether to increase or decrease rates. It is a theory that observes …
by seexo I’ve been an active user since 4 years ago and to be fair this last month I have seen an increase in posts criticizing Amazon or with Anti-Amazon sentiment. I’m by no means a shill, I’m just seeing …
Despite what the mainstream media told you, we are in CRISIS MODE. There hasn’t been in a time in history when this much debt has been utilized. But here we are. Most people will point and say “Look! nothing happened. …
by Dr. Eowyn Kamala Harris, 53, is a first-term Senator from California. She is a Democrat and a rising star. She is also black and her name is already among those floated as a candidate for the 2020 presidential election. …
Nobody wants to talk about it because they know how dangerous this is. Debt. It follows you wherever you go. If your city, state, province, or country is in debt, it’s still on your back. You can’t escape it. And …
https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/980879597804847108 Goldilocks Who? 50% More Corporate Credit Downgrades vs Upgrades Q4 17 In a near-ZIRP world, US corporations can’t help but overfeed at the debt trough. As Default Rates Rise, Banks Hike Debt Interest Rates 1% in 6 Months “Wall …
by Dana Lyons Long-term interest rates are facing a potentially key test on their path to higher levels. Everyone knows that U.S. interest rates have been in a secular downtrend since the early 1980’s. As a result of action taken during …
Talk Digital Network, Released on 3/22/18 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 jessefelder Many have noted recently that the spread between 3-month LIBOR and the overnight interbank lending rate has now risen to the highest level since the financial crisis, typically a sign of rising financial stress. At the same time, many …
by visualcapitalist Part of the appeal of cryptocurrency is that it exists “outside” of the system. Using complex cryptography and decentralized ledgers, a blockchain can operate independently from the world’s most powerful countries, corporations, and banking institutions. While this detachment from …
The Myth of Sound Fundamentals The recent correction in the US stock market is now being characterized as a fleeting aberration – a volatility shock – in what is still deemed to be a very accommodating investment climate. In fact, …
via tsi-blog.com The rising interest-rate trend in the US isn’t new and isn’t related to the Fed’s so-called “policy normalisation” program. However, it has only just started to matter. That the rising interest-rate trend isn’t new and isn’t related to the Fed’s rate-hiking …
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So who’s holding the hot potato of systemic risk now? Everyone. One of the greatest con jobs of the past 9 years is the status quo’s equivalence of risk and volatility: risk = …
