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• Debt Dynamics Will Hold Back Economy

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  We believe that U.S. government and private debt levels will diverge over the next four or five years as the authorities attempt to use government debt to replace the private debt that is almost certain to decline substantially. U.S. total debt is presently just under $55 trillion, comprised of public (government) ...
  2 days ago

• MUST READ: DID THE NATION OVERDOSE ON DEBT?

  
  The Market Guardian | Monitoring The Financial World — Authority: 446
  Courtesy of The Pragmatic Capitalist We’ve spent a great deal of time here at TPC focusing on the real economy and the impact of the public and private debt on Main Street .   While many investors prefer to get caught up in the short-term gyrations of the market it is important not to lose sight of the ...
  2 days ago

• Another Reason to Buy (More) Gold

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  The age of de-leveraging is upon us. Bad news for the US economy; good news for gold. For the past 60 years, corporate debt has grown faster than the economy – 4.1% annually for debt, compared with only 2.7% for the economy as a whole. In short, more and more debt went toward producing each dollar of GDP growth. ...
  3 days ago

• Big Shock: Banks Don’t Lend More When the Government Asks Them To!

  
  HS Dent — Authority: 426
  We are shocked — SHOCKED! — to find that Bank of America and other large institutions did not respond to Treasury Secretary Geithner’s entreaties to lend more freely:  “ Geithner Saying ‘Be Like Buffet’ Can’t Make JP Morgan Lend More .” Bloomberg writes, While financial institutions including ...
  6 days ago

• The Sinking Ship that is Japan

  
  HS Dent — Authority: 426
  Once in a while, you have a “me too” moment when you see an article that you wish you had written.  Barry Ritholtz posted on of those today: “ Worry About Japan, Not America .” Ritholtz, though he doesn’t cover the demographic angle, is one of the few analysts out there who understands debt deflation and ...
  1 week ago

• Kiss of Debt

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 437
  By Bill Bonner, Regular readers of this space will recognize this as the third in a series. Irregular readers will not recognize it at all. They will look at us as though we had come from Mars. Earthlings are all convinced that a financial crisis of cosmic proportions befell the planet last fall. Had the authorities ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Examples of Life in the Post-Boom World

  
  HS Dent — Authority: 426
  This might be our favorite headline of the past year: “ Free ketchup off the menu as companies stay focused on costs .” The article relates the story of a Houston, Texas hamburger joint that charges 15 cents per extra packet of ketchup.  Some other examples of Spartan cost cutting: Across Houston, this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bankers Betting That the Money Given by Feds Will Be Worth Less Next Year

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 539
  Were heading for the hills...really! Last week, stocks went up. Stocks went down. Not much was proved one way or another. The week ended in a draw, as near as we can tell. But we think we are making progress in understanding what is going on. The private sector is de-leveraging. Now, its the public sector doing the ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Much Juice is Left in this Bear Market Rally?

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  Since it peaked in 2007, the UK stock market lost 60% of its value. As of yesterday, it had recovered half of what it had lost. All over the world, the story is about the same. Markets have recovered half or more of what they gave up. The US is a laggard. While the S&P is up 60%, the Dow isn’t yet at the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ireland Going Through Same De-leveraging Process as the US – Daily Reckoning – Australian Edition (blog)

  
  Real Estate Buzz — Authority: 156
  Ireland Going Through Same De-leveraging Process as the US Daily Reckoning – Australian Edition (blog) ” House prices here in Ireland are still too high,” judged our man on the scene. Chris is our main man at the family office – where our own family money is … Excerpt from: Ireland Going Through Same ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ireland Going Through Same De-leveraging Process as the US

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 539
  Ireland is going through the same de-leveraging process as the US, while Chris Hunter looks for a house to rent. "House prices here in Ireland are still too high," judged our man on the scene. Chris is our main man at the family office - where our own family money is managed. "Everything is still much too expensive ...
  3 weeks ago

• Industrialists Understand the New Normal

  
  HS Dent — Authority: 426
  Continuing our theme of the “ New Normal ,” we thought we’d share this tidbit from the Financial Times: “ Industrialists fear return to growth is long way ahead .”  Writing for the FT, Richard Milne says, Some industries may never see demand return to pre-crisis levels as manufacturers learn to live with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unintended Consequences

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  Follow this one… how the recent rise in retail sales might bust the housing “recovery”: “Retail sales growth is understandably proving meager and hard to regenerate,” writes our macro sage Rob Parenteau, “in a nation where private debt deleveraging is under way and net job generation has yet to return. ...
  3 weeks ago

• More deflation: Employed, but earning half as much

  
  HS Dent — Authority: 426
  We don’t buy into conspiracy theories that the government intentionally distorts economic data as part of some kind of diabolical scheme to fleece the voting public.  These allegations pop up routinely, usually (though not always) in off-beat investment newsletters, and are particularly focused on the reported ...
  4 weeks ago

• BRIC Nations: The Fundamentals

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 539
  A few years ago, someone coined the term: BRICs. This was an acronym for the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Before the huge deleveraging of risk assets leading up the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, the currencies of these 4 countries were very strong versus the dollar, and growing in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Depression In Commercial Real Estate Results In Bargains For Some

  
  Mortgaged Future — Authority:
  Depression Pricing As Empty Hotels Slash Rates The recent era of easy lending was not confined to residential real estate.  Commercial real estate lending is the next big worry for a banking industry already beset by an avalanche of non performing loans.  The banking industry has $1.8 trillion dollars of ...
  4 weeks ago

• A second Great Depression is still possible

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 492
  From occasional D&S author Thomas Palley, in the Financial Times Economists Forum. October 11, 2009 4:37pm by FT By Thomas Palley Over the past year the global economy has experienced a massive contraction, the deepest since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But this spring, economists started talking of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Expect More Rough Times Ahead for US Economy?

  
  DISCOVER the Road to Financial FREEDOM! — Authority: 122
  Everyone  have been closely watching for Verifiable Signs that the US economy is Out  from Recession. What is the status of the US Economy now?US Economy Is Just An Empty Vase?US Economy: Emerging from Recession?U.S. Dollar Dives Against Yen: Another Sign of the Crashing Economy?What is V-shaped recovery?A type of ...
  6 weeks ago

• Greenspan Revisionist Babble

  
  Mortgaged Future — Authority:
  Debt Is The Greenspan Legacy Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chairman, today expressed his concern about the level of the US national debt. Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he’s worried that lawmakers will hamper U.S. central bank efforts to rein in its ...
  8 weeks ago

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