Category Archives: Economy

Welcome to the Death Zone

Posted on March 25, 2022 by MN Gordon

Last week, the 77 year old Gross took pause from his “wait for the prostate cancer” and emerged from what he calls “the death zone” to offer words of warning on Fed Chair Jay Powell’s newly commenced interest rate hiking cycle. Continue reading →

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How to Reconcile Numbers that Don’t Pencil Out

Posted on February 18, 2022 by MN Gordon

The means and methods for reconciling numbers that don’t pencil out are extremely disagreeable. Some of the rising input costs can be passed on to consumers. Some can also be absorbed through lower profit margins. But there are natural limits to what price increases can be absorbed and passed along. When the numbers don’t pencil out, they don’t pencil out. Continue reading →

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Blowups and an Epic Mega-Catastrophe are Coming

Posted on February 11, 2022 by MN Gordon

The Federal Reserve has an extreme and heavy handed influence over credit markets. But it’s not master of it. The fact is, Fed credit market intervention plays second fiddle to the overall rise and fall of the interest rate cycle. Continue reading →

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How to Survive the Mega Collapse of 2022

Posted on December 31, 2021 by MN Gordon

Welcome to 2022! The New Year’s edition of the Economic Prism is a place of wild guesses and rough suppositions. Today we focus our eyes through our proprietary prism. We set our sights over a 12 month viewshed. What do we see? First off, 2022 will be a year where everything under the sun happens precisely as it should. Some good. Some bad. Each day shall unfold before you with symbiotic disharmony. You can bet your bottom bitcoins on it. Continue reading →

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