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David Haggith lives in the Pacific Northwest and is the author of DOWNTIME: Why We Fail to Recover from Rinse and Repeat Recession Cycles and publisher of The Great Recession Blog for eight years, from ...more

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Stock Market’s Stars Are Crossed For A Major Upset
Goldman Sachs now says that the stock market’s twin peaks this summer were actually a strong indicator that the market was crashing into a full-blown bear market, not just a correction.
Epocalypse Ahead On Highway To Hell For Global Economy And US Stock Market
What is really happening is that, as the Fed is letting the air out of all the tires, all the stock markets in the world — since the dollar is a global currency — are becoming less stable.
Trump Tax-Cut Bonuses Are A Bust For Middle Class Workers, Wages Lie In A Wasteland Of Failed Promises
Corporations have never given anything to workers that they weren’t forced to give, whether because of collective bargaining, the need to compete in a tough labor market or government mandates … or as a public-relations necessity.
Stock Market’s Massive Moves Not Seen Since Great Recession
Talk about the market busting a move. In less than half a month, the Trump Rally lost a third of the gain it had developed over a period of sixteen months — the worst two-week drop since February 2009.
Groundhog Day Drives Stock Market 666 Points Below Ground: What That Says About The Frosty Season Ahead
Not sure what it means that the prognosticating marmot reholed himself on the same day that the Dow plunged 666 feet underground, but I'm pretty sure it does not mean springtime for the economy has just arrived.
The Ghosts Of Crashes Past, Recent, And Future
I bet my blog on a stock market crash for January 2018. Will I fly or die?
Trump Tax Plan, Greatest Gift Establishment Ever Got
The Trump Tax plan, as it now exists, makes Trump's promises to help the middle class without giving new and bigger tax breaks that are exclusive to the rich the greatest lie Trump ever told.
Central Banks Buying Stocks Have Rigged US Stock Market Beyond Recovery
Central banks are buying up the largest US corporations to create a bull market in order to maintain the illusion their “recovery” plan is working.
Carmageddon Crashes Into “The Recovery” Right On Schedule
Losses on subprime auto-loan backed securities are projected to exceed peak losses of the Financial Crisis, the worst in the history of car-loan securitization.
List Of Seven Troubles Assailing The US Economy As We Head Into Summer
These serious recently developing economic conditions are already placing drought-like pressures on the economy, which could mean a withering el-niño summer during a time when Fed relief is drying up.
Will Mid-March Madness Maul The Stock Market In 2017?
The Ides of March looks like the perfect storm just as the Trump Rally shows signs of tiredness. The debt-ceiling bomb, the Fed's next interest hike, and Dutch elections that could lead to Nexit all hit on March 15 as oil prices are plunging again.
2017 Economic Forecast: Global Headwinds Look Like Mother Of All Storms
Here are the seven major headwinds that are likely to assail the US and global economies in 2017.
2017 Stock Market Predictions: Trump Slump In January For Stocks
Huge market euphoria in the absence of economic improvement, promised tax changes giving rally winners reason to wait to take profits until 2017, Obama scorching the earth everywhere, and numerous other forces mean the stock rally is going down.
Irrational Exuberance In US Stock Market Grasps At 20K For Dow
Since Trump’s election, the US stock market has climbed unstoppably along a remarkably steep path to round off at a teetering height. Is this the irrational exuberance that typically marks the last push before a perilous plunge?
Is The Fed Fix In For The Election?
The Dow appears to be whistling past the graveyard in this graph of its fibrillating heartbeat. This is the most unnatural, rigged-looking, zombie market I've seen. Even big Apple's feared fall couldn't push the market's head underwater.
Federal Reserve Admits It Never Knew What It Was Doing
The Fed acknowledges at top levels that its economists are completely baffled, its recovery is failing, that the Fed cannot raise interest and may even have to heat up its stimulants, or we may end with a permanently scarred and stagnant economy.
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