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Economic and and financial news and analysis from respected observers. Because I publish it, doesn’t mean I agree with it.

The Shift Hits the Fan

Remember how red-hot the used car market was a year ago? Yeah, me too. The entire space has been laid waste. Take a look at Shift Technologies (SHFT) which proclaims itself to be “transforming the used car industry“. OK, boys. Whatever.

There’s No Stopping a Recessionary Reckoning

If there was only one causal factor nudging the economy into recession, it might be a mild, brief recession. But with all five conditions in confluence, this recession will be unlike any other.

Recessions reliably arise from the confluence of these conditions. Note that any one condition can trigger a recession, but no one condition guarantees a recession. Severe, long-lasting recessions occur when multiple conditions arise at the same time.

Robinhosed

One of the hottest and most anticipated IPOs of the past few years was $0 commission broker Robinhood (HOOD), which surely must have the most cruelly cynical name in corporate history. Let’s just say their outing as a publicly-tradeable finan…

Let’s Buy Tokyo!

Remember back in 1989 when everyone assumed Japan was going to absolutely take over the world? Good times, good times. Well, they’ve spend the past THIRD OF A CENTURY mired in a pathetic government-run fraud, hurling quadrillions (yes, quadri…