Since 2008 the financial media has been proclaiming that the US was in a “recovery.” This argument was used to justify the insane monetary policy of the Federal Reserve, which maintained ZIRP for seven years and spent over $3 trillion in QE. Well, it turns out there was no recovery to speak of when it […]
Why Democrats Are Delighted With The Republican Spending Bill…
Why were Democrats unable to hide their enthusiasm for the latest Omnibus spending bill proposed by House Republicans? Simple: because, as the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein writes, “Dems basically got everything. It’s like they control House, Senate, & WH rather than the other way around”…
“The Retail Bubble Has Now Burst”: A Record 8,640 Stores Are Closing in 2017…
The devastation in the US retail sector is accelerating in 2017, and in addition to the surging number of brick and mortar retail bankruptcies, it is perhaps nowhere more obvious than in the soaring number of store closures. While the shuttering of retail stores has been a frequent topic on this website, most recently in […]
The Obama ‘Recovery’: Number Of Millennials Living At Home With Mom Reaches 75-Year High…
Millennials finally get to claim a trophy for an achievement they actually earned (no participation medals here)…that’s right, Millennials have officially set a 75-year record for highest percentage of young adults living at home with mom…
The Biggest Washington Whopper Yet…
You can’t find lazier people than in the mainstream financial press, but their exuberant cheerleading about the purported 5.2% gain in the real median household income in 2015 surely was a new high in mendacity…
Harvard Crushes The “Obama Recovery” Farce With 9 Simple Charts…
In a recent study entitled “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” Harvard University points out that, despite claims of an “Obama Recovery,” in fact, the U.S. economy has continued to deteriorate…
U.S. Economy Was Growing at the Slowest Pace Since WW II; Now It’s Worse…
It has now been more than a decade since the U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 3 percent or better – the longest subpar growth stretch since the end of World War II…
As Oil Tumbles, Just How (Massively) Overpriced Are Energy Companies? Here Is One Answer…
Oil has plateaued and has resumed its descent, recently sliding in a new bear market, and as of this moment flirting with $40/bbl as the realization…
Greenspan Warns A Crisis Is Imminent, Urges A Return To The Gold Standard…
“If we went back on the gold standard and we adhered to the actual structure of the gold standard as it exited prior to 1913, we’d be fine”…