More and more people are coming to the same conclusion. The bull market is a fraud. And the system is corrupt. And they’re right. But not for the reasons they think.
Here is Number One on the “Capitalism as we know it doesn’t work” hit parade. From Forbes: “Top 0.1% of the Nation Earn Half of All Capital Gains”
December 5th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Goldman Sachs has raised its rating on large banks to “attractive.” In related news, Neal Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program has said that the Feds may have, er, not quite told the truth about the health of the banks receiving TARP funds. He didn’t use the word, lie though. How are these two items related? We’ll explain below.
October 6th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Now, the feds have intervened in the economy too. And, likewise, they are trapped. By pumping in trillions of dollars – not just in America, but also in Britain and China (which have both intervened even more forcefully)…
September 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
“Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal picks up on the theme of the long road of pain ahead for bank shareholders in the US,” colleague Dan Amoss tells us. “In ‘Banks on Sick List Top 400,’ the WSJ details several ugly highlights from the latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, published last Thursday.
September 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The Chinese are water-poor. They are sucking their aquifers dry. It is particularly bad in the north of China. The groundwater under the North China Plains is draining away quickly. By some estimates, China will exhaust this water supply in the next ten years.
August 21st, 2009 | Chris Mayer | 3 comments | Continued
As a young trader I was taught about the “Wall Street Journal Effect” where seasoned traders took profits when an article appeared in the paper. Things have changed with the Internet, which gives access to information like never before, but the premise is the same.
July 22nd, 2009 | Alan Knuckman | 2 comments | Continued
Though the fear of inflation is minimal right now, government’s deficit spending on this scale is bound to result in higher consumer price levels sometime. How long will it be before this good luck ends up kicking us in the derriere?
June 30th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
A fellow loses his job; he can’t pay his mortgage. The house goes onto the market and pushes down prices. Prices in California are off 30% year-to-year, with the median house at $267,000. In Las Vegas, the median house is only $135,000…
June 29th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Even the normally mild- mannered Wall Street Journal called it “one of the most ambitious efforts to re-engineer American social and economic behavior in decades, presenting risks and opportunities for a wide array of businesses from Silicon Valley to the coal fields of the Appalachians.”
June 5th, 2009 | Chris Mayer | 13 comments | Continued
First things first. The budget comes out tomorrow. Blah blah blah. What is really left to say? The Treasurer predicts collapsing revenues from the GFC and has cut spending in some places while increasing it in others. The annual deficit could be around $70 billion (we expect it to be lower so it’s ‘not as bad as we expected’)…
May 11th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 9 comments | Continued
Happy days are here again. It’s like someone turned back the clock to 2007. You’re a crank and a nutjob if you think there are serious problems in the financial system. Don’t you know this is the recovery you moron!
A report on U.S. payrolls showed that the American economy shed around 491,000 jobs last month. This was less than expected by forecasters and the least amount of jobs lost in the U.S.
May 7th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 34 comments | Continued
But it was a different world back then. To make a long story short, the great boom was just beginning…the Empire was still rising…its currency was still backed by gold…and its books – both federal government registers and national trade accounts – were in balance.
May 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Bloomberg, taking no interest in my insightful observations gleaned from a lifetime of paying for my screw-ups, is still talking about dividends, and reports that “Twenty-six companies in the S&P 500 saved more than $21 billion by cutting or suspending outlays this year, more than all the reductions from 2003 to 2007. On a per-share basis, S&P 500 companies may trim payouts 13 percent this year, the biggest drop since 1942.”
March 11th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 0 comments | Continued
General Motors just reported a loss for the fourth quarter of nearly $10 billion. You can see what good it does to bail out failing companies…the money just goes down the drain. The government gave GM more than $13 billion – there goes the bulk of it.
March 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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