One quick note about this: there is obviously plenty of inflation in the prices you pay every day. But most consumer price indices are rigged to understate inflation, as our colleague David Evans pointed out yesterday in Canberra at the Gold Standard Institute conference in Canberra. Trimmed medians…hedonic adjustments…
November 2nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "financial sector"
Is the Real Economy Growing, Expanding, and Making Money?
JPMorgan, the Wall Street firm that was bailed out by the feds a year ago, reported income of $3.6 billion in the 3rd quarter. With that kind of profit in the financial sector, it won’t be long before the whole economy is running red hot, right?
October 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Can Governments and Central Banks Prevent More Credit Writedowns?
Are we changing our tune, then, about what to expect from markets? Not one bit. But the question now is timing. The collapse of 2008 was so severe because of the sudden reduction in leverage in the financial sector. As assets fell in value, the most highly leveraged firms (or lenders who raised money by selling debt) went out of business.
October 12th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 34 comments | Continued
We Expect No Recovery from the Economy
..how does it all work? We’re doing some serious thinking this week. What is it that actually causes a depression? A stock market collapse? Or too much debt?
September 29th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The More Money in a Financial System the Less Each Unit is Worth
For the last 10 years, the money supply in the United States has expanded at roughly twice the rate of GDP growth. And the Fed doubled its balance sheet in just the last 18 months.
September 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Smart People to Blame for Central Planning
‘The Singularity’ is an idea from Ray Kurzweil. The gist of it is that computers will soon be smarter than humans; by the middle of this century they’ll be smart enough to figure out how to get smarter and smarter, faster and faster.
September 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 21 comments | Continued
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Making Billions in Profits
But here at The Daily Reckoning, we can’t help ourselves. If we see a silver lining, we look for the cloud. We see garbage…we look for the rat… We begin with the JPMorgan profit announcement, because it is the most intriguing. Let us set the stage…
July 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 9 comments | Continued
Economy Not Going Back to Normal Any Time Soon
Economists are still talking about an “exit strategy.” But in view of what is actually going on in the economy, they’ll probably want to stay on this highway a lot longer. This is the long road to ruin, of course.
July 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Debt Built Up to Levels Even Obama Says Are “Unsustainable”
And then, all that debt that they built up over the last quarter century is a problem. It has to be paid down to the point where it isn’t a problem. And that means the obvious thing – people have to cut back on their spending.
May 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Alan Greenspan Says “the Seeds of a Bottoming” Becoming Visible
Speaking to a National Association of Realtors summit, Greenspan said there were reasons to believe that bulging inventories of unsold homes were dwindling and that should bring some stability to prices.
May 15th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued