An old pearl of wisdom from the Great Depression held that investors should have known it was time to sell when shoeshine boys started handing out stock tips. The day traders of the late-1990s were a recent version of the same phenomenon. When the …
If you haven’t heard of him, think of Steve Keen as the Nouriel Roubini of Australia: a vocal economist who pissed people off for predicting the recession before it happened, and is still pissing people off predicting further economic crisis.
In f…
Dow, S&P Log Worst Thanksgiving Week Since 1932
Published: Friday, 25 Nov 2011 | 1:10 PM ET
By: JeeYeon Park
CNBC.com Writer
Stocks closed in negative territory in thin, shortened trading Friday as investors were reluctant to go long ahead of the wee…
If you have read The Wall Street Examiner you have read Lee Adler comparing the trading pattern we are under to 1973: where seasonal “go…
The megaphone pattern in the U.S. stock market typically presages a major decline or full-blown crash.
Market observers have long noted that increasing volatility presages market crashes. If you glance at a chart of September-October 1929, just b…
Memo to the Super Rich, your high-paid lobbyists and your no-compromise political puppets whose sole mission is destroying the presidency: Yes, you are succeeding. You’re also killing the economy.
Tha…
This is just bad news for the conomy, the weakness being simply profound. Stock indices careening into a huge hole. Bonds prices through the roof! Lower rates mean absolutely nothing for mortgage owners that are underwater on their loan. Epic misery! F…
Rob Arnott says we’re in the worst depression since the Great Depression and the Fed may be making things worse. Arnott, who oversees $80 billion at Research Affiliates, tells King World News:
When real interest rates are 2%-4% and inflation rates …
This much can be stated categorically about the USA these days: the more distressed our conomy gets, the more delusional thinking you will encounter. People want to assign the cause of their misery to this or that (socialism, abortion, Jews, the New…
Standard & Poor’s is giving a higher rating to securities backed by subprime home loans, the same type of investments that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, than it assigns the U.S. government.
S&P is poised to provide …
