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To Increase America’s Productivity, Ban This…
Aside from short-lived booms in the 1990s and 2000s, US productivity growth has averaged just 1.2% from 1975 up to today after peaking above 3% in 1972. As we detailed previously, adjusting for the...
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Is Population Decline Catastrophic?
Authored by Peter St.Onge via The Mises Institute, In the 1970’s we heard the earth was going to get so crowded we’d be falling off. Now the panickers have flipped to population decline. They were...
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Nouriel Roubini’s “Good, Bad, & Ugly” Scenarios For The Global Economy
Authored by Nouriel Roubini via Project Syndicate, The International Monetary Fund, which in recent years had characterized global growth as the “new mediocre,” recently upgraded its World Economic...
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Natixis Warns, US Economy Will “Slow Down Substantially” In 2018
As US GDP growth rises at 3% or more for the second quarter in a row, French investment bank Natixis urges investors to prepare for the U.S. economy to "slow down substantially" as early as 2018....
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The End Is Near… Depopulation Is Out Of Control… So Buy Stocks (Seriously)
Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, The world economy is premised on a ludicrous idea – that Asia, then India, and then Africa will continue to drive economic growth. So as not to turn this...
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Why So Many (In The West) Are So Pissed Off
Via BusinessCycle.com, Campaigning to “Make America Great Again,” Donald Trump swept to the presidency last November 8, buoyed by a wave of anger and sense of betrayal in the American heartland. He...
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Weekend Reading: It’s The Debt, Stupid
zerohedge.com / by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com / Nov 10, 2017 4:45 PM As I noted last Friday, the recently approved budget was an anathema to any fiscally conservative policy. As the...
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How Economics Failed The Economy
Authored by Umair Haque via Eudaimonia blog, When, in the 1930s, the great economist Simon Kuznets created GDP, he deliberately left two industries out of this then novel, revolutionary idea of a...
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We’re Living In The Age Of Capital Consumption
Authored by Ronald-Peter Stöferle via The Mises Institute, When capital is mentioned in the present-day political debate, the term is usually subject to a rather one-dimensional interpretation: Whether...
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JPMorgan’s Outlook For 2018: “Eat, Drink And Be Merry, For In 2019…”
While the prevailing outlook by the big banks for 2018 and onward has been predominantly optimsitic and in a few euphoric cases, “rationally exuberant“, with most banks forecasting year-end S&P...
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Key Events In The Coming Week: Jobs, Brexit, PMI, IP And More
The first full week of December is shaping up as rather busy, with such Tier 1 data in the US as the payrolls report, durable goods orders and trade balance. We also get UK PMI data and GDP, retail...
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Stagflation Looms As PMI Shows Surging Costs And Sinking Growth
Following Manufacturing's drop, the US Services sector PMI disappointed in November, falling to its lowest since June (as business confidence tumbled to its weakest since February). Average selling...
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Morgan Stanley: These Are The 5 Cs That Will Shape 2018
Morgan Stanley’s Chetan Ahya, global co-head of economics, who undeterred by Morgan Stanley’s dire credit outlook, is especially optimistic about the coming year, and in today’s Sunday Start writes...
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Un-Merry Christmas: The Perverse Incentives To Over-Consume And Over-Spend
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Isn't it obvious that if we set out to design the most perverse, toxic and doomed system possible, we'd end up with the Keynesian Cargo Cult's insane...
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12 Years In A Row And Counting: The U.S. Has Not Had A Year Of 3 Percent...
If the U.S. economy is in good shape, then why has economic growth been so anemic for more than a decade? It has been 12 long years since the economy grew by at least 3 percent, and for most of that...
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12 Years In A Row And Counting: The U.S. Has Not Had A Year Of 3 Percent...
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse If the U.S. economy is in good shape, then why has economic growth been so anemic for more than a decade? It has been 12...
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Stagflationary Crisis: Understanding The Cause Of America’s Ongoing Collapse
This report was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.com It is at times frustrating, but also interesting, to witness the progression of the mainstream’s awareness of economic crisis...
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Peter Schiff: Don’t Be Fooled By The US’s ‘Phony Prosperity’
Financial guru Peter Schiff says everyone is being fooled by the mainstream media when it comes to the economic health of the United States. But Schiff says it is all a delusion and phony prosperity...
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We Are About To See A Great, Big Debt-Fueled GDP Number For The 2nd Quarter,...
via the economic collapse blog Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food. What kind of number for GDP growth in the 2nd quarter will we get on Friday? The...
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SHTFplan: The Fed Will Continue To Hike Interest Rates Despite Criticism
Prepare yourself. Buy physical silver and storable food. The Federal Reserve has indicated that they will continue to hike up interest rates in spite of criticism from president Donald Trump and others...
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