Bubbles and central banks – is there a connection?
cobdencentre.org / By Dr Frank Shostak / 12 November 2013 According to the popular way of thinking, bubbles are an important cause of economic recessions. The main question posed by experts is how one...
View ArticleAre Bubbles Caused by Psychological Problems?
mises.org / By Frank Shostak / Tuesday, November 19, 2013 According to the popular way of thinking, bubbles are an important cause of economic recessions. The main question posed by experts is how one...
View ArticleShiller Worried About “Boom In US Stocks… Bubbles Look Like This”
zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 12/01/2013 12:39 On the heels of his recent appearance pouring cold water on Jim Cramer’s housing recovery exuberance, recent Nobel Prize winner Bob Shiller unloads...
View ArticleThe Fed Turns 100: A Survey of the Critics
mises.org / By Gregory Bresiger / Thursday, December 05, 2013 End America’s central bank because it caused the crashes of 2008, 1987, and 1929 and will blunder again. That’s what many critics are...
View ArticleLarry Summers On Why “Stagnation Might Be The New Normal”… And Bubbles
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 12/16/2013 08:20 -0500 Larry Summers, who was nearly picked by Obama as the next Fed Chairman before for some inexplicable reason the Economist lobby deemed him...
View ArticleA Fed-Sponsored Currency Collapse There’s No Such Thing As “Good Money”
outsiderclub.com / By Jason Simpkins / 2013-12-20 We’re used to seeing the Fed abuse the dollar, but now it’s going after other currencies, as well… From Canada to Brazil to Indonesia and even to...
View ArticleWhat Happens When The Giants Unwind?
zerohedge.com / by Andy Xie / 12/31/2013 17:40 -0500 China and the United States, the primary sources of economic stimulus since 2008, will begin to unwind their stimulus in 2014. The Fed’s...
View ArticleDebunking Real Estate Myths – Part 3: Supply and Demand
acting-man.com / Ramsey Su / January 7, 2014 Employment and Demographics Of all the myths in real estate, price equilibrium based on supply and demand is the most misunderstood. Once again, policy...
View ArticleMeet “Smart Restaurant”: The Minimum-Wage-Crushing, Burger-Flipping Robot
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 01/12/2014 22:05 -0500 With a seemingly endless line of talking-heads willing to ignore essentially every study that has been undertaken with regard the effects of...
View ArticleIt’s a Lose-Lose-Lose Deal for America: How Real Estate Bubbles Push Rents...
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014 Central Planning pushing housing prices higher is not win-win–it is lose-lose-lose. The Status Quo views real estate...
View ArticleThe Fed’s Solution to Income Stagnation: Make Everyone a Speculator
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2014 The elimination of low-risk interest income in favor of risky speculative credit/asset bubbles has led to a monumental...
View ArticleWhat the Crisis Taught Us: More Bubbles! We Need Bigger Bubbles to Combat...
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Friday, January 31, 2014 1:40 AM The Monetarists are out in full force warning about pending deflation. First it was Christine Lagarde with...
View ArticleFelix Zulauf Warns Of “Another Deflationary Episode” As “The Mother Of All...
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2014 17:01 “There is a valuation problem with most global equity markets – the most with the US,” warns Felix Zulauf in the following brief clip, adding that...
View ArticleFed’s Fisher Admits Stocks Are At “Eye-Popping Levels”
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 03/06/2014 08:22 -0500 While Janet Yellen fell back on the ubiquitous central banker statement that she “would do all that [she] can” it was Dallas Fed’s Richard...
View ArticleLow interest rates are delivering asset price bubbles all over the world and...
arabianmoney.net / 07 March 2014 It is hard to argue with somebody who has recently benefited from an asset price bubble, especially if they have just realised the gain by selling. But when this asset...
View Article5 Things To Ponder: Heterogeneous Contemplations
streettalklive.com / Lance Roberts / Friday, 09 May 2014 As another week passes by the markets have made no real movement in months. News flow, outside of Yellen’s testimony, was also rather slow as...
View ArticleWhen The Real Cost is Hidden, Making Good Decisions Is Impossible
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 When good decisions are no longer possible, bad decisions are inevitable. If we had to summarize the response of the Federal...
View ArticleCiti On Bubbles, Broken Feedback Loops, & Bricks-On-Elastic
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 05/17/2014 18:49 Normally, prices are self-limiting, notes Citi’s Matt King: yields rise – inflows hit – prices rise – yields drop – outflows hit – price drops, and...
View ArticleRates Should Only be Used to Blow Bubbles
acting-man.com / Pater Tenebrarum / June 3, 2014 Headline for Reuters … A recent report on Reuters cites various Fed officials on the topic of bubbles, with the headline “Fed officials say rates should...
View ArticleSteen Jakobsen on “Zero Bound Bubbles” and the “Vital Flaw in Pimco’s...
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Thursday, July 10, 2014 1:54 AM Steen Jakobsen, chief economists and CIO of Saxo Bank has some interesting observations on the illusion of...
View ArticleThe Coming Crash Is Simply the Normalization of a Mispriced Market
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014 The correlation between the Fed’s monetary heroin production and the stock market will break down as the market normalizes....
View ArticleThink 2008 Was Bad? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
acting-man.com / Bill Bonner / July 28, 2014 Deflecting Attention, Greenspan-style Alan “Bubbles” Greenspan is back in the news. At 88 years old, his mind is still sharp as a tack. He still sees his...
View ArticleProfits and Asset Bubbles Everywhere?
thedailybell.com / Anthony Wile / September 13, 2014 We’ve been covering the growth of asset bubbles throughout 2014 and now, as we approach the troublesome month of October, it’s a good time to...
View ArticleUS Equity Futures Unable To Rally Despite Avalanche Of Bad Global News
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 09/15/2014 07:10 -0400 Any other Monday and futures would be scorching higher. After all it was a nearly perfect storm of bad news: from China’s disastrous economic...
View ArticleThe Irony Of Bubbles
zerohedge.com / by Peter Tchir / 10/08/2014 08:12 -0400 The one market seemingly everyone “knows” is a bubble is the treasury market. That is the market that just made new low yields on the 30 year...
View ArticleWhy Living in a Post-Bubble World Is No Fun
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014 What do we do when the bubble economy cannot be reflated? It is generally conceded that we are living in an era of Peak...
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