Tag Archives: bubble
Duct Tape Economics
The Labor Department laid a sulfurous egg last Friday. By their calculations, just 74,000 jobs were created in December. The pros thought it would be 200,000. What do they know? This marks the slightest increase since January 2011. Somehow, even … Continue reading
Fantasy Stocks for a Fantasy Market
Fantasy Stocks for a Fantasy Market By Doug French, Contributing Editor, Casey Research They don’t ring bells at the top, but when a company called Fantex Holdings plans to sell shares in professional athletes and possibly actors and musicians, a … Continue reading
Digital Tulipomania?
“Quis furor, o cives!” – Lucan. What a Hoot! Can you recall a time in living memory when public life was so comically ignoble? Everyday we’re greeted with a rib-tickling revelation about the nation’s number one man. We don’t know … Continue reading
Redistributing Wealth to the Rich
The world’s more unbelievable and fantastical than anything we could imagine. Look around. Astounding things are taking place each and every day. For instance, earlier this week China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, paid $28.2 million for Pablo Picasso’s painting of … Continue reading
