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Flying Blind, Part 3: Why Now Is Not The Time And Place For Nosebleed PE Multiples
Today's 26X peak S&P 500 multiple makes even less sense than it did in the year 2000.
Flying Blind, Part 2: The Destruction Of Honest Price Discovery And Its Consequences
the real economic inequity of central bank-driven Bubble Finance is that it destroys all the pricing signals that are essential to financial discipline on both ends of the Acela Corridor.
Flying Blind: How Bubble Finance Destroys Economic Efficiency And Rationality
You could say thank heavens they have finally stopped buying the "dip". Then again, there apparently aren't any left!
They're Back - Long Live The Bond Vigilantes!
Most of today's stock speculators don't remember the bond vigilantes and wouldn't even recognize one in the flesh.
Why This Time Is Very Different
The government bond free money carry trade is just the beginning of the distortion and deformation flowing from monetary central planning. What happens next is the hunt for yield.
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 2
For the first time ever both the Fed and the US Treasury will be dumping massive amounts of public debt on the bond market---upwards of $1.8 trillion between them in FY 2019 alone---and at a time which is exceedingly late in the business cycle.
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It
The central banks are out of dry powder and belatedly recognize that they have stranded themselves on or near the zero bound where they are saddled with massively bloated balance sheets.
What The GOP Pols Have Wrought - A Fiscal, Economic And Political Monster
The GOP tax bill is not "at least something". It's not "better than nothing". And, no, we are not letting the perfect become the enemy of the good.
The Coming Fiscal Derailment - Why FY 2019 Will Sink The Casino
Since last November 8th the Russell 2000 has risen by 30% and the net Federal debt has expanded by an astounding $1.0 trillion dollars.
Little Marco's Last Stand - The GOP's Fiscal Debauch Intensifies
Little Marco (Rubio) is right for once: The GOP tax bill does virtually nothing for the bottom 50% of American households, but his amendment to "fix" the problem reveals why the whole effort is so misguided and heading for fiscal calamity.
Bubble Finance And The Era Of No-See-Um Recessions
Today's single most dangerous Wall Street meme is that there is no risk of a stock market crash because there is no recession in sight. But that proposition is dead wrong because it's a relic of your grandfather's economy.
Look, Mom, No Hands!
Wall Street's manic melt-up is pushing stock prices ever deeper into the realm of insanity, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Russell 2000 (RUT).
The 30-Years Bubble - Why America Ain't That Rich
The entire financial and economic narrative in today's Bubble Finance world is virtually context- and history-free, it's all about the short-term deltas and therefore exceedingly misleading and dangerous.
Peak Fantasy Time
The US economy has been shedding high paying goods producing jobs ever since they peaked at 25 million way back in 1980. Indeed, we are still not even close to the 24.6 million figure which was posted at the turn of the century.
Spend, Cut And Borrow - How The GOP Is Heading For Fiscal Calamity
The GOP is on the cusp of opening up a new torrent of red ink for tax cuts, defense spending and much else.
Debt, Taxes, Growth And The GOP Con Job
During more than four decades in Washington and on Wall Street it is quite possible that we never picked up any useful skills. But along the way we did unavoidably acquire what amounts to a survival tool in those fair precincts.
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