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Neither markets nor economies will be able to retreat – not if the authorities can prevent it.
The rich are so much richer today than they were 30 years ago… because they scammed the Fed.
Real capitalists would drain the swamp and let open markets and win-win deals run free.
If you lock in tons of debt, you’ll still have it when the economy tanks and you can’t pay it…
The next go-round of inflation will solve the debt problem. The future is not all grim…
Growing your way out of debt works only if the emergency passes and GDP grows faster than debt.
We’ve said the bull market would end “sooner or later” so often, we should remove the “sooner”…
In the next crisis, no matter who is president, mischief will come bounding over the walls…
You can no more reason your way to a correct rate than you can reason your way into love.
Money is spent to destroy a nation… then build it back. Commoners don’t know what’s going on.
There is always a bias towards inflation – the benefits come quickly to the people in charge…
The unicorns have been destroying U.S. capital by the 100s of billions of dollars per year.
The fatal deceit of democracy: Voters have no way to know the Deep State is playing them.
We’ll shed no tears as the world’s dollar-based financial system and American democracy degenerate.
In the New Era, a new species of human appeared: Silicon Man. The old model wondered what the hell was going on.
Spending money you don’t have on wars you don’t need to fight is not a formula for national greatness. It is a ticket to bankruptcy, claptrap and flimflam…
Getting a handle on economics requires more than books and theories. It needs a punch in the face from time to time.
Mr. Trump’s main reelection selling point is the economy. So he needs to maintain the illusion that our economy is good…
It would be easy to dismiss America’s president as a moron. But he’s much more than that…
If lower interest rates are such a good idea, how come Japan and Europe are in worse shape than we are?
When the calendar rolled over on January 1st, 2000, the dreaded Y2K disaster didn’t happen. Instead, America rolled over.
A recession may have a long fuse. But when a theatre burns down, it’s best to leave the show early…
China and the U.S. became so ugly their own mothers wouldn’t recognize them. Like a powerful drug, phony money disfigured their economies.
People forsake their most deeply-etched urges in the name of progress, vanity, and quackery. Even when that loses them money.
Gold faithfully records what things are worth. Now, it says the stock market isn’t worth what the feds want you to think…
Mr. Market doesn’t suffer fools gladly. He tantalizes them with dreams of avarice beyond their wildest imaginations and lures them to make bigger fools of themselves.
The whole ball of trade wars, Federal Reserve rate cuts, currency manipulation… is so tangled up in deception and claptrap it is almost impossible to unravel.
Without real savings, a capitalist economy has nothing to work with, nothing to build upon, no surplus that can be used to create more output. Debt is not capital.
So far, the big, fat, ugly Dow has sat on the wall and stubbornly refused to tumble. But last week, Donald J. Trump gave Humpty a shove.
While it has no hope of real success, the Fed gamely soldiers on… stumbling and bumbling into the valley of death. This time, it skipped ahead in its cycle of mistakes.
Beyond Meat’s stock is up big since the fake-meat company’s May IPO. But with no profits and no popular brand, has this company pulled a fast one on investors?
President Trump attacked Rep. Elijah Cummings for doing too little to help Baltimore residents… But neither politician is fulfilling his campaign promises to voters.
Free money is an attractive nuisance. Whether you give it to the poor or to the rich, it has the same effect.
The deal they just agreed on was such an abject surrender… such a cowardly rejection of their conservative principles…
In a panic, they threw down their weapons… ended their policy of interest rate normalization… and fled the field…