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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "imf"
The Very Large Bubble of Government Debt
All those bubbles are popping. You do not wipe out twenty five years of credit and leverage excess in a mere eighteen months. We are barely halfway through the liquidation/loss realisation phase. The essential question is which assets are going to perform the best as governments inflate and create a new bubble in government debt?
May 12th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
IMF Deems Gold An Idle Asset
The World Bank – which is a total failure, which is explained by it being a ludicrous clot of communists and socialists – never saw economic tragedy coming, either, and estimates that “over 90 million people may be pushed into poverty in the global economic turmoil.”
April 28th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 0 comments | Continued
Australia’s Capital Crisis and its Chinese Future
Meanwhile, what about the present? The IMF issues its World Economic Outlook twice a year. When times are good, the forecasts are too optimistic. When times are bad, the forecasts tend to be too pessimistic. And when times are really bad??
April 17th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Property Market at “Inflection Point”
Investors refrain from taking long-term positions because there are so many known unknowns and even more unknown unknowns (although we conceded it is hard to put a number on the number of unknown unknowns, given their unknown nature, if you know what we’re saying).
April 8th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
Gordon Brown Pronounces New World Order
“Nothing very important, but the media makes a big thing of it. They kept talking about that G20 meeting – as if they were going to change the whole world – New World Order and all that…but what could they change? These hotshots at the banks took some bad bets. Now they’ve got to pay for them. What’s all the fuss about?”
April 6th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
G20 Was About Big Government Getting Bigger
“Governments know only one way of holding back recession. What do you suppose it is? Yes, the only solution they can think of is to continue the inflation. The ‘boom’ is regenerated with more bank credit and government subsidies. Companies appear to come to life again.”
April 3rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
IMF Gold to be Used
What’s more, Mr.Brown’s and the other top 19 world leader have agreed “not 100 billion but $250 billion of trade finance…provided over the next 2 years through export credit agencies, including $50bn through the new World Bank initiatives…”
April 3rd, 2009 | Adrian Ash | 3 comments | Continued
Geithner Ex Machina
After all, this was “the gravest global economic crisis in a half-century,” as then-World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz called it before today’s global crisis showed up. So you needed the best minds, from the biggest and brightest international bodies, to jet in…survey the trouble…prescribe a solution (while signing a check)…and then jet out again, back to whichever hushed corridors they had just emptied.
March 13th, 2009 | Adrian Ash | 0 comments | Continued
IMF Gold Up For Sale to Pay the Bills
It has been a bad week for the International Monetary Fund. The executive board of the Fund agreed earlier this week to a plan which would see the Fund sell about 403 metric tons of its gold (13 million ounces or so) to raise…
April 11th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued