Every day I see more propaganda about the American Dream of owning the home. I see the code words a $15 trillion dollar industry uses to hypnotize its religious adherents to BELIEVE. Lay down your money, your hard work, your lives and
October 9, 2015
Larry Summers has spoken once again about secular stagnation on a Business Insider article entitled Larry Summers: the Global Economy Is in Serious Danger. Summers makes an excellent case for why things cannot remain as they are. He is right
The week summarised… as BofA put it –“It’s Not A Risk-On Rally, This Is The Biggest Short Squeeze In Years” With China shut and The Fed going full dovish panic-mode over growth fears, world markets went crazy… S&P up 7 of
They are printing money hand over fist right now, and legally they have to pay out 90% of their earnings to you, the shareholder. There may not be a better time to invest in these three REITs than right now.
U.S. gasoline prices averaged $3.31 a gallon over December 2013 to February 2014 but only $2.31 a gallon over December 2014 to February 2015. How did consumers respond to this windfall in their spending power? A new study by the JP
Despite a moderate recovery in the U.S. economy, investors are skeptical due to global growth worries that have been haunting the markets lately. The Chinese central bank’s sudden move to cut interest rate and devalue its currency in August to
Global markets had a good day today. The Nikkei rose 1.64%, the Shanghai Composite 1.28% and the Euro STOXX 50 was up a respectable 0.79%. In contrast, our benchmark S&P 500 bounced around in a relatively narrow range between its
I was going to give you this big macro rundown of what happened since the payroll number, but I changed my mind. Anybody can give you the play-by-play. Let’s talk about it in the context of true contrarian investing. Being
There may be a rate hike around the next bend in the calendar after all. Or maybe not. Like the possibility of rain next Tuesday or peace in the Middle East over the next 50 years, you can’t rule anything
Trade prices continue to deflate year-over-year, and energy prices had little to do with this month’s decline. Import Oil prices were down 13.3% month-over-month, but export agricultural prices decreased 2.6%. with import prices down 0.1 % month-over-month,down 10.7 % year-over-year; and export prices down 0.7
