The Recession And Bear Market Of 2016, In Two Charts
Michael Pollaro just sent a couple of charts that show the US economy heading for a brick wall. The first illustrates what happens when business...
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Market Figures Out Fed No Longer Has Its Back
US stocks soared while the Fed was meeting to raise interest rates this week — though it’s not clear why that would be so since...
Torrent Of Bad News Greets Fed As It Prepares To Raise Rates
Ideally, a central bank would like the party to be rocking when it takes away the punch bowl. This party, however, is not cooperating. For...
Junk Bond Crisis Starts To Metastasize
The bust in commodities that’s roiling junk bonds is also taking its toll on funds that bundle corporate loans used to finance buyouts. The riskiest...
This Is How Fast It Happens
As amazing as it now sounds, companies deemed to be highly risky were able to borrow money from US investors for less than 6% as...
The Least Surprising Stat Of The Week: Corporate Insiders Are Dumping Their Stock
Here’s one for the “actions speak louder than words” file: Massive insider selling spurs stock market concerns (CNBC) – Corporate insiders have been selling their...
The End is Near, Part 6: Individual Investors Rediscover Individual Stocks
Since their introduction in 1993, exchange traded funds (ETFs) have become a huge hit with retail (that is, small individual) investors, for a very good...
Falling Oil + Rising Dollar = Crisis For A Whole Lot Of People
Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC’s inability to limit its members’ production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the...
How Low Can A Pension Fund Go?
This is one of those stories that gets more amazing the further you dig into it. Seems that while Chicago descends into a very public,...
The “Real Stuff” Economy Is Falling Apart
Each month one or two high-profile government reports show the US is growing, adding jobs and generally recovering from the Great Recession. But it’s not...