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The Daily Doom: Economic News of the Great Collapse
Top stories in today’s economic news: UK Economy Shrinks in 2nd Quarter, Sharpening Recession Fear … Compass Prepares for 25% Downturn in Housing Market, Plans Serious Cost Cutting … “Worst I’ve Ever Seen”: Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut in Production Estimates Due to Megadrought … Tensions grow over shrinking Colorado River …
Protected: Economic Predictions for H2 2022, Part 1: This is not Your Father’s Inflation
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A Storm of Indicators Show the US Consumer Is Tapped Out
Zero Hedge lays out the widespread dishonesty (or lame stupidity) in mainstream financial media when glibly reporting things like sales increases as if they are actually positive during times when inflation is the sole reason for the rise in sales (because sales are measured in dollars and prices are soaring). While I’ll note that ZH […]
MN Gordon: Paying the Price for Krugman’s Terrible Mistake
Clear economic thinking and lucid communication via the written word tumbled out of fashion nearly 100 years ago. The fall from grace was triggered by the 1936 publication of John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Not only is the book rigorously indecipherable. It also has the ill-effect of making those who […]
Economists and Financial Analysts are Not the Brightest Fish in the Sewer System
The ability of humans to believe whatever lie they want to believe never comes in lower than I expect, but it sometimes manages to come in even higher. Nowhere has that been more transparently true than in economics where everyday I read people in the financial media who must surely have IQs somewhere above a […]
It Was Hell Week, and the Fed Can’t Handle the Heat
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, set last week off with a fitting sour note when it was reported across the financial news, he had updated his weather report for the economy: I said there were storm clouds. But I’m going to change it. It’s a hurricane. Right now it’s kind of sunny, things are […]
THE INFLATION MONSTER: It’s Much Worse than we Thought … but Wait until this Little Monster Grows Up!
We could all be on the cusp of the most deadly inflation the world has ever experienced, due to a unique setup of global forces that have the power to accelerate that into happening in a surprisingly short amount of time. I’m going to tell you how that could happen more quickly than anyone appears […]
The Retail Apocalypse was Bloodier than it Looked
Retail was a bloody mess! But revenue looked pretty good … considering! So, what was all the red about, and why all the screaming on the stock exchange? Some of the biggest retail stocks got butchered after reporting higher revenue. Hold it! That doesn’t make sense. Why were corporate owners running out of their stores […]
The Fed is Still Spiking the Inflation Punch Bowl, but the Party is in Recess Anyway
Sizzling inflation is not going away as drunken market revelers are hoping. This party bore, in fact, will be long outstaying her welcome. While the Fed once said it wanted some hot inflation on the scene, she arrived a lot hotter and has stayed a lot longer than Father Fed expected — now kind of […]
Protected: This Economy is Ugly in its Bones – Part 2
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Why the Fed will fail to fight inflation until the recession beats it down
You cannot grow a turnip in a pile of dollar bills unless you let them rot first. Depending on the road the Fed takes, that could become the dollar’s highest value and the best the Fed can do to reduce food shortages. Whether the dollar decays depends, in good part, on whether the Fed chooses […]
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