Why All The Gloom And Doom? | Seeking Alpha
The US seems to be in the grip of gloom and doom. A dispassionate look at the figures shows little foundation for this. Many seem to expect some kind of […]
Greenspan: More And More People Producing Less And Less | Seeking Alpha
Alan Greenspan is worried that the rise in entitlement spending is eating up savings and therefore reduce business investment. While the rise in entitlements is real, this is mostly a […]
Something Is Indeed Terribly Wrong | Seeking Alpha
Many wonder how all the central bank unconventional policies have achieved so little and argue that there must be something terribly wrong as a result. Indeed, the fear is that […]
There is no Recovery!
The explosion in the economic blog sphere is a mixed blessing, some blogs seem to be able to create something almost like an alternative reality. Simple data and textbook economics, […]
Where Else Will You Go With Your Money?
We analyze some mechanisms producing a slow shift of fund from the real economy to the financial economy. This shift is very beneficial for shareholders in the short and perhaps […]
The Japanification of Europe
The eurozone is resembling Japan’s lost decades ever closer on a host of metrics, including demographics, growth, inflation, yields and debts. In some respects, the eurozone crisis actually resembles the […]
Companies sitting on $7 trillion of cash
According to Thomson Reuters data, companies around the world held almost $7 trillion of cash and equivalents on their balance sheets at the end of 2013 – more than twice […]
Do We Need Permanent Public Deficits If Larry Summers Is Right? – Seeking Alpha
If Larry Summer’s thesis of the secular stagnation is correct and we certainly believe he’s onto something, then perhaps the economy, in order to escape the deflationary forces that, if […]
Real Damage Is Being Done To The US Economy
That’s a story you don’t hear often in the press, and it’s a particularly damaging one. It shows the long-term damage the recession and policy mistakes are doing to the […]
US public sector employment at 47 year low
Now, the federal government employs exactly 2 percent of the people with jobs in this country. In 1966, the figure was more than twice that, 4.3 percent. via US public […]