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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "obama bounce"
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
Fight Fire with Fire!
Fight fire with fire! All over the world people suffer from the mistakes they made in the go-go years. They spent too much. They borrowed too much. They paid too much. Now, all those bad debts, bad investments, and bad balance sheets are burning up – scorching fingers all over the planet. So what do the feds do to try to fix this problem? Fight fire with fire! Throw some more tinder onto the blaze…get people to borrow, spend and speculate even more!…
January 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Inflation Protection at 1%
And if you’re worried about inflation, you can buy the inflation-adjusted bonds – the TIPS – at an exceptionally low premium. When we looked a week or so ago…
December 5th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued