Tag Archives: collapse
Earthquake Economics
“The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world,” said President Obama, in his State of the Union address, on Tuesday night. What performance metrics he based his assertion on is unclear. But … Continue reading
All Bets Are Off
Stock markets across the planet gazed out across the economic landscape yesterday and vomited all over themselves. After that, they convulsed and dry heaved again and again. For the global economic disfiguration has grown so grotesque, so awesomely awful, that … Continue reading
The Fed’s Edifice Crumbles Away
There have been many appeals to ignorance over the last several years with respect to the effectiveness of monetary policy. One popular tactic of policy goons is to point to an improved economic statistic – like unemployment – and self-adulate … Continue reading
Deflation with a Capital D
There’s a good ole fashioned market panic taking place in the Far East. Buyers of Chinese stocks have become scarcer than hen’s teeth. Even the highly visible hand of the Chinese government can’t arrest the freefall. On Monday, for example, … Continue reading
