The US economy has come back to output levels of ’07. But this feeble rebound not only holds the title of “weakest post-war recovery ever,” it also shows that something else is going on. Most economists have no idea what. So, they just think this “recovery” is unusually slow.
January 31st, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "u.s. housing"
Zombies Always Vote
Last month’s sales fell from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.66 million, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. Analysts who had expected sales to rise expressed concern that the real estate market could tumble once the benefit of the federal incentives is gone entirely, starting next month.
June 24th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
After the Fall
The current direction of U.S. home prices (down) has been brought about by many of the same economic management principles applied here in Australia. In fact, the whole Keynesian effort to support aggregate demand and “bring forward” demand through tax credits and handouts has been used the world over.
June 24th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 39 comments | Continued
Will Gold Make Higher Highs From Here?
What’s more, the emergence of the gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) has put a huge portion of the gold market in a very small number of hands. If the ETFs sell…who will they sell to? Or more succinctly, a lot of the gold demand is coming from a few institutions. If other institutions (central banks and sovereign wealth funds) don’t pick up the slack, there will be more sellers than buyers and prices will fall.
October 7th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
We Don’t Expect to See Australian Banks Suddenly Keen to Expand their Loan Books
Maybe this will sound like a bunch of whining by the end of the week. After all, three of the big four Aussie banks will report results this week. There will be billion dollar cash profit figures tossed around. But as we said last week, the earnings performance of financial firms in the last six months is a sham.
September 28th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Superannuation Raiding Party Being Formed II
Super funds represent a pool of capital the government doesn’t have to borrow on the international bond market. Of course, technically the super money is your money. But if Henry is up to what we think he’s up to, your money could soon be financing government-backed infrastructure projects or participating in corporate bond auctions. You can imagine the super industry would do these things anyway, if they seemed like good investments…
June 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
