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Be Careful What You Wish For
If foreign investors reduce their holdings of U.S. Treasuries, then who will pick up the slack? If foreign central banks are not buying Treasuries, how will the government finance its debt? Continue reading
The CAPE Crusader Unveils a Bubble
When you see a CAPE of 37.05, you’re looking at a market that is more than twice as expensive as its long-term average. This isn’t a slight overpricing. Rather, it’s an extreme overvaluation. This is, in fact, a bubble. Continue reading
Suffering the Fed’s Mistakes
The proof is in the pudding. The Fed’s track record over many decades shows it’s unable to get interest rate policy right. In fact, over just the last 30 years Fed policies have orchestrated three massive boom and bust cycles. Continue reading
How the Fed Chokes the Economy
There’s no outlet in the San Joaquin Valley for the salt to flush. The valley is the basin’s terminus. Thus, in this grand paradox, the relative freshness of the excess water that is keeping the farmland alive is, at the same time, the source of the salt that is killing it. Continue reading
