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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "government spending"
Major Premise That Government Economists Can Improve Workings of a Free Economy
That leads people to believe that the feds have pulled off a save…they’ve now got the economy well along on the road to recovery…the recovery is getting stronger as time goes by…
November 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
The Government Bureaucrats of East Germany Exist in the United States of America Today
In 1949, the Soviets and the Allies divided Germany into two parts. One part followed a traditional capitalistic path to reconstruction. The other part took the socialist road.
November 10th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Harding the Last American President to Deal Honestly With a Major Financial Crisis
Just look up Warren Harding on Wikipedia. The first entry you will find is not the 29th president of the United States of America, but a rock climber with the same name.
October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 12 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
Spending Our Way to a Depression
What happens if spending doesn’t pick up? Because businesses have brought forward all their investment to today. Don’t forget, there are still forecasts for unemployment in Australia to rise above 7.5% – some have even forecast closer to 10%. Companies are laying off staff, and corporate and government borrowing must still be repaid…
June 23rd, 2009 | Kris Sayce | 17 comments | Continued
American House Prices Continue to Fall While the Same Can’t Be Said About Australian House Prices
You wonder why anyone is building houses in America at all. Unlike Australia, there is a huge surplus of housing inventory in the States. America over-built its housing stock to epic bubble levels during the boom.
May 20th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 14 comments | Continued
U.S. Recession: Is the End Nigh?
One of the positive indicators, Frank Holmes says, is that the current recession is now 13 months old, whereas the worst recessions since the Great Depression only lasted 16 months (and there were two of them: 1973-75 and 1981-82). Then he quickly defuses the situation by saying, “Just because every recession since the 1930s ended in 16 months or less doesn’t mean this one has to as well”…
February 5th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
Return to Magic Mountain
“It’s worse, quite frankly…than everyone thought it was…and it’s getting worse every day,” says America’s new Vice President, Joe Biden. Mr. Biden is talking about something he knows nothing about – the worldwide financial crisis. And this week, a large group of people who know nothing about it are going to travel to Davos, Switzerland, to talk about the financial crisis…
January 27th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Federal Reserve Boosted Total Fed Credit
Last week the Federal Reserve boosted Total Fed Credit, namely the amount of fresh credit that appears on the books of the banks, by another staggering $245.4 billion!…
October 28th, 2008 | Mogambo Guru | 0 comments | Continued
Government Spending Spree
If you want to know the Real, Real Reason (RRR) why we are being subjected to a $700 billion bailout of the economy, which is just the beginning, it is because the despicable Alan Greenspan, during his foul 18-years as chairman of the loathsome Federal Reserve, created all the money and credit that financed the stock market boom, the bond market boom, the housing boom and (worst of all) the growth-in-government boom…
October 7th, 2008 | Mogambo Guru | 0 comments | Continued
