The economy is not nearly as strong as most people think. There is no growth to speak of. And without growth, it doesn’t make sense to pay so much for stocks.
February 3rd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "economy"
Why the Stock Market Disagrees with the Economy
In the past few days we’ve seen Brazil’s economy contracting…Australia’s economy expanding…the RBA slashing interest rates…and China’s currency under pressure.
December 8th, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 3 comments | Continued
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Libertarians
It was a weekend of jaywalking with a smile, lighting up cigarettes indoors and plotting ways to ‘sow seeds of doubt’. The inaugural Australian Mises Seminar took place last weekend in a secret location in Sydney. Somewhere between the Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland buildings.
December 3rd, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 5 comments | Continued
Alphabet Soup Economy
Here’s what happens in our Alphabet Soup Economy:
Plan A doesn’t work…neither does Plan Z.
Last week ended with a whimper and a bang. Stock markets whimpered. Investors didn’t know what to think. And nothing happened last week to help them figure it out.
November 29th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Insider Economy
As the economy is taken over by zombies, more and more people are needed to do the zombies work shifting more and more of the economy’s output to the insiders.
The insiders rig the system for their own benefit. The rigs each one of them a form of price-fixing or central planning weaken the system. In today’s battle, the insiders fight to protect it.
November 24th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Stimu-less
Sunday will be the day Germany pays its final reparations for the conflict which began in 1914. Bond holders under the Treaty of Versailles will receive their final payment and it will all be over. A small milestone for the revered austerian herself, Chancellor Angela Merkel, in paying off Germany’s debts.
October 2nd, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | Continued
Attachment “G” is Too Dangerous to Be Seen
There may be a simple economic explanation for the best September on Wall Street in 71 years. No double dip recession…improving labour market numbers…rebounding house prices. Except none of that is true. So what is left? Well, as near as we can tell, everyone seems to be front running central banks. Is the Fed buying stocks? Not yet.
October 1st, 2010 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
What’s Really in the Social Security Trust Fund?
“You’re kidding, right?” a Daily Reckoning reader wrote after our briefing from last week: “The End of Social Security As We Know It.” “Are you the only ones who believe in the accounting farces that are the Social Security and Medicare ‘Trust Funds’? Every dollar in both of those funds has been spent by the US Treasury…”
September 30th, 2010 | Ian Mathias | 4 comments | Continued
The Legacy of the Current Recession
Epithet for a doomed economy…What will they say? How will they describe the ’00s and ’10s? Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was accused of being drunk when he gave a “croaky” radio interview two weeks ago. He denied it. But we’d be tempted to turn to the bottle too…
September 30th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Day Care or Default?
So far, almost everything that we thought ought to happen is happening. More or less. The crisis. The feds’ reaction. The market’s lack of reaction to the feds’ over reaction. Then, the feds’ reaction to the markets failure to react. One dumb thing begets another.
September 29th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
When Gold Goes Up
“Gold is saying something,” writes Bloomberg columnist Mark Gilbert. What’s it saying? Nobody knows. Well, at least nobody who works at The Daily Reckoning. We listen. We hear. But we still don’t know what the hell gold is talking about. The yellow metal is speaking in riddles.
September 27th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 25 comments | Continued
Funds Flowing, But For How Long?
We’ve made this point before, but we’ll make it again. Today’s modern financial system depends critically on continued debt growth to stop asset prices from collapsing. In modern economies dominated by governments and their agents, central banks, money is debt and debt is money.
September 24th, 2010 | Greg Canavan | 43 comments | Continued
Why Central Bankers should keep you up at night
Another day, another elegantly crafted article assuring you that the central planners have it all under control. This time it’s Ian Verrender at Business Day explaining how central banks can now save our economy from another 2008 style crash. (The one they caused.) He concludes it won’t work…
September 24th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
Recession Officially Over… Someone Tell the Unemployed
Officially, the recession is behind us. That’s the good news. Officially, it ended in June of ’09. The bad news is – so what? Recession or no recession, people are having a hard time finding jobs and making ends meet. The US economy continues rumbling and trundling along.
September 24th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Why Spending on Infrastructure Won’t Lead to Prosperity
It’s an argument we see and hear all the time in Australia – “Spend on roads, spend on ports to reduce bottlenecks, spend on schools,” and so on. Well, if you want to see the longer term impact of infrastructure spending and how it isn’t the golden egg laying goose, just take a look at America today.
September 23rd, 2010 | Kris Sayce | 26 comments | Continued
