Instead of allowing things to settle down, the feds are doing all they can to keep them stirred up. Amid the foam and splash, nobody knows what is really going on.
December 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "depression"
Volcker, the Last Central Banker in America to Have Any Real Integrity
He saw what needed to be done and he did it. He hiked up rates and brought consumer price inflation under control.
December 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
The On-Again, Off-Again Depression
If you step back a bit further, you could see it in a different light. Ten years ago, The Daily Reckoning warned of a long, Japan-like slump. Then, the stock market fell and the economy went into a recession.
December 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
No Way Today’s Economy is Going Back to What it Was Pre-2007
The bubble of the pre-2007 period was pumped up by consumer spending financed by housing debt. Ain’t no way that can happen any time again soon.
December 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Gold Market Was Looking for an Excuse for a Breather
Most likely, the gold market was looking for an excuse for a breather. It’s been up in 20 of the last 22 trading sessions. As we kept saying, it was ready for a rest.
December 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Optimists Expect Mild Inflation in a Decent Recovery
Pessimists fear the feds may have waited too long; they think they see higher rates of inflation coming. Here on the back page we see no recovery…nor any inflation.
December 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
We’re Not Threatened by Inflation but by Depression
It’s fighting the depression that makes people worry. Smart investors and shrewd central bankers are afraid the depression-fighters will go too far…
December 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Feds Think They Have Won This Fight Against the Depression
The Wall Street Journal says they’ve turned their guns around. The Fed is a “Bubble Fighter” now, it reports.
December 4th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
US Consumers Have Slacked Off
So, who’s going to do the consuming? Where’s the growth going to come from to keep Chinese factories polluting the atmosphere and Indian call centers confusing the customers?
December 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Only Thing Rising Faster than Demand for Government Debt is Supply of It
All major governments of the West – and Japan – are now borrowing as if their lives depended on it.
November 30th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Recession is Over, Welcome Back to the Depression
As we pointed out yesterday, the US economy has already suffered a lost decade. No employment growth in the last ten years. No gains in the stock market.
November 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
You Buy Gold When the Government is Making a Mess of the Monetary Situation
Are the feds making a mess of the monetary situation? Oh dear, dear reader…please ask us something harder. Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see…
November 24th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Bond Scam Perpetrated by Money-grubbing Government
So how does a government fund its spending programs if global creditors begin to turn to other assets? Well, it can have its own central bank “monetise the debt.” But having the central bank buy government bonds with new money is a sure-fire path to currency depreciation and higher interest rates.
November 23rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
US Economists Think China Should Raise the Value of Yuan
China is today’s big story. Throughout the world’s media there is much buzz and blather about the “romance”…the “historic relationship”…between the two titans.
November 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
A Bull Market in Gold and Gold Alone
If you bought gold when we first recommended it, ten years ago, you are in a very comfortable position. Gold sells for more than 4 times as much today. But what should you do now?
November 18th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
