February 2013
- 06: The End Is … Now
- 04: Monday Morning Macro Market Commentary
- 02: The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part IV (Intro to Real Bills)
- 02: BEA Reports 4th Quarter 2012 GDP Contracting At -0.14% Annual Rate
- 02: Countdown To The Collapse
- 02: Nobody Knows
- 02: “Best Stock Market Indicator” Ever? A Dissenting View
- 02: Impact Of Germany’s Gold Repatriation
- 02: Barron’s Replaces Henry Blodget In Pumping AMZN; Have a Taste Of the Bubbly?
- 01: Markit PMIs Show Changing Global Economic Trends; With Comments On Gold’s Possible Rebound
January 2013
- 31: Student Loans Replacing Mortgages As The Credit Cycle Peaks
- 30: First Report of Q4 GDP Is Negative
- 30: Boeing’s Downbeat 2013 Earnings and Revenue Forecast Is Met With A Rising Share Price: More Evidence That Mr. Market Is In His Manic Phase
- 29: Misinformation From Soros On QE
- 29: Is the Bond Market Threatening the Deficit Spending Consensus, and Will It Reverse the Inflationary Asset Boom?
- 27: Ken Rogoff Attacks ‘Crude Keynesian Stimulus”
- 26: Very Different Assets, the Russell 2000 and Muni Bonds, Both Look Overvalued
- 25: Brief Economic and Market Update
- 22: Wall Street Relocates To Pamplona
- 18: DocComment: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Mess With It Some More?
- 18: Jeremy Grantham Finds U.S. Stocks and Bonds Equally Unattractive, Likes International; One More Move Down Left for Rates?
- 17: Gold Getting That Old Shiny Look Again
- 15: Yen Bottom May Be In: Implications
- 13: The Most Important Thing Stock Market Investors Have to Fear Is the Lack of Fear Itself
- 10: A Conversation With John Llewellyn
- 10: Secession
- 10: Economist James M. Buchanan Dies
- 09: Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Frying Pan
- 09: The Trillion Dollar Coin
- 09: More Of The Same: Jack Lew
- 08: NFIB Continues in Recessionary Mode, as the U.S.-Japan Analogy Plays Out
- 07: Some Stock Market Thoughts for 2013: U.S. Stocks Fairly Valued, Cheaper Markets Elsewhere
- 06: A Final Review of 2012 Holiday Shopping Season From CMI
- 06: Congress Passes Fiscal Cliff Deal
- 06: Fiscal Deniers
- 01: Fake Deal Rushed Through Congress
December 2012
- 31: Fiscal Cliff Result: The Can Is Kicked
- 31: A New Year May Merit New Investments: A Quick Look at Spain
- 29: The Year That Was 2012
- 29: Is It Great Men or Great Times That Change Us?
- 28: The Strange Nature of the U.S. Economic Recovery Seen in State-by-State Employment Trends
- 27: Top Ten Reasons Why Fiat Currency Is Superior To Gold (Or Silver) Money
- 27: Reflections Over 2012
- 26: Yotai Gap Continues to Enlarge as Corporations Risk Their Balance Sheets To Shore Up Stock Prices
- 25: The Establishment’s Holiday Message To Investors: You Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Dysfunction If You Don’t Put Almost All Your Money In The Stock Market
- 24: It’s Potlatch Season—The Celebration Of All Things Material
- 23: The Fiscal Cliff Looms Because Mainstream Economists Got the Strength of the Post-Crash Economy Wrong
- 22: Bernanke Loosens Up
- 21: Goons Versus Gold
- 18: The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part III (Features)
- 17: Insane People Run Japan
- 15: Arm Teachers To Save Our Children, Now
- 14: Chinese Stocks Break Out
- 13: European Industrial Production Has Accelerated to the Downside as It Did in the Spring of 2008
- 13: Small Business Surveys Suggest New Downtrend Despite Incomplete Recovery From the Great Recession
- 11: Nassim Taleb on Fragility and Antifragility
- 11: Tax Hit Will Impact Cost Of Politicians
- 10: The Terminator
- 10: Germany’s Incomplete Economic Recovery Supports the Bond Bull Market
- 07: Today’s Employment Report Changes Little
- 07: More Hints That QE Will Not Be Unwound Any Time Soon; Implications May Continue To Be Bullish For Treasury Bond Prices
- 06: Squatting On The Shoulders Of Midgets
- 06: Macro Claus Wishing You A Merry Christmas
- 05: KeithGram: The “Crash JP Morgan” Campaign
- 05: Let’s Fall Off The Cliff
- 04: The Curse Of The Reserve Currency
- 04: Optimism, Albeit Restrained, Comes to Zero Hedge: A Sell Signal?
- 03: Obama’s Roadmap For Economic Destruction
November 2012
- 30: Record Low U.S. Birth Rate Parallels Japan
- 29: BEA Raises 3rd Quarter 2012 GDP Growth Estimate To 2.67%
- 29: What Next for the Markets?
- 28: Recent Data Do Not Point to an Imminent Economic Upturn
- 27: Are Chinese Stocks Signaling Yet Lower Lows In U.S. Interest Rates?
- 26: Keynesians Chortle in Their Joy
- 25: Has Our Culture Become Degraded?
- 22: Sulking In America
- 22: What You Should Be Thankful For On Thanksgiving 2012
- 18: The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part I*
- 18: Investors Remain Optimistic in the Face of Declining Stock Market Prices
- 17: The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part II (History)
- 17: “I Pencil” The Movie
- 16: Our Malinvestment In President Obama Will Bring Painful Consequences
- 13: Wheelbarrows
- 13: Open Letter to Hugo Salinas Price
- 12: World Entrepreneurship 2006 – 2012
- 12: We Just Had a Class War (And One Side Won)
- 11: Some Risk Assets Getting Frothy While the Amazing Treasury Bond Bull Market Rolls On Under Most Radar Screens
- 11: Why Romney Lost
- 10: The Keynesians’ New Clothes
- 10: 2012 Voter Demographics
- 09: A Feral Pit Of Total War
- 09: Three Reasons Romney Lost, Says Reason’s Nick Gillespie
- 09: Stossel, Boaz Post-Election Analysis
- 06: Obama Wins Election—Vent Here
- 05: Obama Wins Election!
- 04: The Latest Keynesian Stimulus: Hurricane Sandy
October 2012
- 31: A Remarkable Coincidence That The Slight GDP Uptick Resulted From Government Spending
- 30: East Coast Readers: How Are You Doing?
- 30: KeithGram: Gold — Pieces Of 50
- 30: GDP Q3 2012 Report: Mixed Signals
- 28: Demographic Changes and Surprise Weakening in Corporate Profits Might Support Even Higher Prices for Treasury Bonds
- 24: Chaos
- 24: Book Review: Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government
- 24: China Bashing
- 24: Very Good News About The Fed
- 22: Fraud: Why The Great Recession
- 22: Big Brother In France
- 20: KeithGram: Search and Replace
- 19: Romney: The Great Deformer
- 19: The Truth About The Middle Class
- 19: More On Estonia: S&P Ratings
- 18: Thoughts on Reinhart and Rogoff’s “Second Great Contraction”
- 18: Does Anyone Believe Them?
- 18: Why Estonia Is Beating The Eurozone
- 17: How The West Was Lost
- 16: A Tweet Too Far? A Look At Unemployment Numbers
- 16: Bandit Resigns From Citigroup
- 16: The Solyndra Syndrome
- 15: Movie Review: Atlas Shrugged, II
- 15: America: “The Most Blasted & The Most Stinking Country In The World”
- 14: Media Filled With Fearmongers, but Have no Fear, the Fed is Here
- 14: An “Austrian” In China
- 11: Open Letter To Ted Butler Of Butler Research
- 11: Perry Gets It, Kind Of
- 10: “The Bubble”
- 10: Par For The Pathological Course
- 05: Evidence of a Manufacturing Downturn Is Hiding in Plain Sight in Today’s Employment Report
- 04: Game of Thrones: The Debate of Liars
- 04: The Greatest Trick
- 03: KeithGram: Regulating High Frequency Trading Has “Unintended” Consequences
- 02: A Little More on Hard Times in Southern Europe
- 02: The Game of Thrones, American-style
- 01: DocComment: Same Old Same Old
September 2012
- 30: 2008-Type Possibilities More Prominent As France Moves Closer Toward Hard Times
- 22: Volcker Appears to Dislike QE 3
- 18: Economic Freedom: The U.S. Is Slipping
- 18: Why Surpluses Evaporate (1998-2001)
- 17: Ham and Yams and QE
- 15: 26 Million Gold Rolexes And More …
- 14: ECRI: The 2012 Recession
- 13: The Fed May Fire Multiple Bazooka Rounds: Housing Bubble 2.0 Ahead?
- 13: The Fed Panicked
- 13: The Fed: We’ll Print As Much As It Takes
- 10: As The Euro Tumbles, Spaniards Look To Gold
- 07: Elizabeth Warren’s Profound Naiveté
- 06: Draghi Acts: Is It Inflationary?
- 05: Unemployment: EZ Chart
- 03: The Fed, QE 3, and the Worsening European Economic Crisis
August 2012
- 30: The Lost Bush/Obama Era Gave Us the Gold Commission
- 29: Jim Grant on the Gold Standard and the Fed’s Hall of Mirrors
- 29: Revision Ups Q2 2012 GDP Growth … Slightly: No Real Change
- 28: Bad Advice More Popular Than Ever
- 28: KeithGram: Euroland, Silver, and Gold
- 26: “Risk On” and “Risk Off” Are Different Now
- 22: Deja Vu All Over Again As I Reiterate My Warning From June 2011: Only You Can Prevent Your Own Investments From Burning Up
- 22: FOMC Minutes: QE3 Is “Fairly Soon”
- 21: I Knew It Would End Badly
- 21: CRE: Big CMBS Losses Coming
- 21: S.W.A.G.
- 21: D’Oh! Homer Simpson Leaves the Post Office With 682 Million Unsold Stamps!
- 20: Hang ‘em High
- 19: Corzine To Start Hedge Fund (Why?)
- 16: Real Estate Opportunities for the Next Decade, Part 2: Classrooms
- 16: Why It is No Longer a Good Idea to Be in The Investment Industry
- 15: In A Paper Money System, All Assets Are Backed by the Treasury Bond
- 15: Book Review: The Golden Revolution
- 15: A First: CMBS Losses Hit AAA Tranche
- 14: California Housing on Shaky Ground
- 14: Greece’s Debt Bomb
- 14: Retail Sales: Salvation Is Not At Hand
- 14: Eurozone GDP Falls In Q2
- 14: Will This Ad Defeat Obama?
- 14: Stockman: Paul Ryan’s Fairy-Tale Budget Plan
- 13: Italian Border Police Seize Record Amounts of Gold, Cash
- 13: China’s Solution: Keynes or Mises?
- 13: Eurozone Banks Exiting U.S.
- 13: An Inflation Inflection and the Best Trillion We Shouldn’t Spend
- 13: Great Expectations
- 13: Will Ryan Make Any Difference?
- 10: Dems Flee Bank of America
- 10: Shocking Article From Milken: “Better Living Through Inflation”
- 10: Worst Headline Of The Week
- 10: CRE Iceberg Heading To A Town Near You
- 09: China Falls To The Laws Of Economics
- 09: KeithGram: How a Country Could Exit the Euro
- 09: KeithGram: Regulator Decides Not to Interfere in Silver Market
- 06: Real Estate Opportunities For The Next Decade (Part 1 of 3)
- 06: The Rich Pay Too Much In Taxes
- 06: The Mess We’re In
- 06: The Arbitrageur: Gold Sea Change
- 05: QB Asset Management: Real Return Investing
- 03: The Unemployment Charade Or, Ignore The Headlines
- 03: CRE “Recycling”
- 02: QE3′s Looming Failure Means Ben’s Days Are Numbered
- 02: CPI And The Parable Of The Pie Maker
- 01: Manufacturing Contracts — Again
- 01: The Fed: Nothing
- 01: India’s Socialist Mortmain
July 2012
- 31: Who Is Buying Gold?
- 30: The Grand Shi Strategy Of Ron Paul
- 30: Geithner And Schäuble: Fake Bonhomie
- 30: On Gold Bugs: Why They Have Been So Wrong?
- 30: Germans Love Cash, Hate Debt And Scorn Those Who Do
- 30: An Olympian Hurdle
- 30: CMBS Delinquencies Up 5th Straight Month
- 28: The Japan Syndrome
- 28: How Japanese Bonds Might Still Be a Good Investment
- 27: CRE: Still Under Pressure
- 27: GDP Q2 2012: A Picture Of A Stagnating Economy
- 26: Draghi Says “Print”
- 26: Fed Audit Bill Passes House: Throws Ron Paul A Bone
- 26: KeithGram: Draghi Talks Euro Up +1.6%
- 25: Caught In A Debt Trap
- 25: DocComment: Goldman Sachs on Housing, Then and Now
- 25: Bernanke’s Options To ‘Get Out of the Mud’
- 24: The Scarlett O’Hara Approach To Solving The Eurozone Crisis
- 24: Red Tape vs. You
- 23: Poverty Highest Since 1965
- 23: What Germany’s Biggest Bank Is Thinking
- 23: Spain Needs a Bail-In, Not A Bail-Out
- 23: Krugman: Turn Back The Clock!
- 23: Broke Bank Mountain
- 22: Economic Data at Variance with the Optimistic Zeitgeist; Thoughts on This Dichotomy
- 21: Gather Your Yield Where You May
- 20: Please Don’t “Get To Work, Mr. Chairman”
- 18: Playing To Win
- 18: Falling Interest Rates Destroy Capital
- 17: Bernanke’s Choice
- 17: Reverting To The Mean: GS And CalPERS
- 17: Obama Shrugs (The Core Of American Values)
- 16: The Real Housing Story: Bank Loan Loss Reserves Higher
- 16: Financial Disintegration In Europe
- 16: Spain: Are Rajoy’s Broken Campaign Promises Delegitimizing His Government?
- 16: Retail Sales Decline, As Expected
- 15: JPM’s Whale Problem Still Roiling As Bloomberg News Disputes Key Management Assertion
- 14: Barclays Fixed Rates
- 14: JPM’s Whale of a Problem and Futures Market Scandals May Help Lead to Negative Rates on Bank Deposits
- 13: The Real Story Behind Consumer Credit
- 12: Enemy Action in Munis
- 11: Operation Twist Will Fail — Again
- 11: Portugal: Capitulation Of Hope
- 10: KeithGram: The LIBOR Scandal
- 10: ECRI’s Achuthan: “We’re Already In A Recession”
- 09: Krugman Destroyed In Debate
- 09: Libor Pains
- 06: No Jobs: The Result of Wizard of Oz Economics
- 05: Paul Krugman: Argentina’s Next Finance Minister
- 05: Eurozone: “Bold” Moves Are Ineffective
- 05: Obamacare: You Can’t Fool All Of The People All Of The Time
- 04: SCOTUS: More On Roberts’ ‘Switch In Time’
- 04: Higgs Boson Discovered!
- 04: The Best Way To Celebrate Independence Day
- 04: Happy Fourth
- 04: Krugman’s Great Illusion
- 04: Consumer Nondurable Stocks May Be Unsafe Refuges As Investors Desperately Seek Yield
- 03: Two Different Stories About The Economy
- 02: Global Economic Decline Is Here, Now
- 02: Global Terror Update
June 2012
- 30: Bo Xilai: How China Is Really Governed
- 30: From Omid: Healthcare Explained!
- 29: Q1 GDP Report: Final BEA Obfuscation
- 29: Government And Health Care: Everything You Always Wanted To Know
- 29: It Ain’t Necessarily So
- 29: Obamacare Bill: One More (Tax) Thing
- 28: The Constitution Is What They Make It
- 27: This Frau’s Not for Turning (At Least Not Yet)
- 27: Real Personal Income Declined Q1 2012
- 27: Chicago Manufacturing Index Goes Negative
- 27: Rosenberg: “We Are Living In A Modern Day Depression”
- 27: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb*
- 27: Durable Goods Orders: Steepest 3-Month Drop in Three Years
- 26: Famous Last Words From Eurozone Founders
- 26: “The Great Abdication” — Of Responsibility
- 26: A Kind Of Magic
- 26: Things To Ignore
- 26: Another European Summit, Another Beggars At The Feast Spectacle?
- 25: Fragile Things Have A Tendency To Break
- 25: Breaking News: Regulators To Classify Gold As Zero-Risk Asset
- 25: Lawyers Need Not Apply
- 25: Update on Europe
- 24: John Hussman Makes New U.S. Recession Call
- 24: My New Favorite Show
- 24: The Bank for International Settlements Calls QE a Palliative
- 24: Overoptimism in Fed Manufacturing Surveys Correlates with the Post-Millenium Struggles of Stocks
- 23: Déjà Vu All Over Again
- 23: You Can’t Get Into This Nightclub
- 22: Simon In Belarus: Hyperinflation
- 22: “Spain Is Not Greece” And Other Choice Quotes
- 21: Moody’s: Too Much Risk
- 21: Greenspan On … Nothing
- 21: Hurricane Season Arrives: Still Liking Steady “Con ED”, Some Bonds and Cash
- 20: Greece Is A Monty Python Skit
- 20: ‘Special Interests’ (Washington) Benefit From Fed Twist
- 19: The Economy Is Floating On Air
- 19: The Current Malaise: The Failure Of Stimulus
- 19: The Myth Of A Short-Term Eurozone ‘Fix’
- 19: From Deflation Push …To Inflation Shove
- 18: Looking Forward to the FOMC Meeting and Beyond: Speculations
- 18: Your D.I.Y. Eurozone Bulletin
- 18: How The Fed Manipulated Interest Rates To “Profit” From Maiden Lane Bailouts
- 18: Greece Gives Europe A Chance
- 18: Greek Elections Are No Panacea
- 17: The Real Investment Action Has Moved West from Greece to Italy and Spain, Which Are More Important but Are Getting Less Media Attention
- 15: Money & Credit: Why Duration Mismatch Will Always Fail
- 14: More Downbeat Economic Data Points Out Today Continue to Support the Bull Market in Utility Stocks
- 14: Keith Weiner Lecture “Irredeemable Currency” Part 2.2
- 14: Keith Weiner Lecture “Irredeemable Currency” Part 2.1
- 13: The Dreaded “D” Word
- 13: The JPM Crony Capitalist Show Trial
- 13: KeithGram: Losses At JPM
- 13: The Arbitrageur: Gold Manipulation Conspiracy Theory Revisited
- 12: Have No Faith In Socialists’ Commitment To Reform
- 11: Today’s Macroeconomic Problems, The Expedient Solution And Its Consequences
- 11: More Pressure On Spain This Morning
- 11: Nobel Prize Slashed As Foundation Takes Losses
- 11: Flight Animals
- 11: Euro Panic: Will Spain’s €100 Billion ‘Fix’ Work?
- 10: Spreads On Eurozone Sovereigns Widen
- 10: James Brown Bio: “He Didn’t Do Weakness Or Softness”
- 10: James Brown Live
- 10: Increasingly, Europe Looks Like America of 2008
- 10: The Irish Problem
- 07: What the World Needs Now Is Yield, Sweet Yield: Focus on Utilities
- 07: Submarine Base For Sale: Inquiries To Dr. No
- 07: American Workers Are Less Productive
- 07: Why Greece Will Fail: The Video
- 05: Hurrah for Inflation!
- 05: This Goldstein Economy
- 05: Spanish Crisis Puts Pressure On Mexico
- 05: A Gold Standard Stabilizes Interest Rates And Avoids Booms And Busts
- 04: Economic Trends Lead Me to Continue to Accentuate the Negative
- 04: Manufacturing Is Stagnating And The Fed Is Worried
- 01: Unnatural Disasters: Jobs, Wages, And Savings
May 2012
- 31: The Bears On QE 3, 4, And 5
- 31: Are U.S. Stocks “Scared Enough” Yet?
- 31: Will: Trump A “Bloviating Ignoramus”
- 31: GDP Q1 2012 Revised Down To 1.88%
- 30: We’ll All Be Dead By The Time This Pays Off
- 30: The Latest Housing Data: Still Going Down
- 30: What Do “Home Grown” “Exercise” “Tucson” And “Pork” Have In Common?
- 30: Keithgram: Contagion Defined
- 29: Why The ECB Will Print
- 29: Mayday
- 28: Most Americans Are “Conservatives”: Don’t Stand Up And Cheer
- 28: Spain’s Financial Reform: A Mayan prophecy?
- 27: Another Chinese Invention: Catch 22
- 26: Keith Weiner on Irredeemable Currency, Part 2
- 26: Egos and Economists Who Yearn for the Nonexistent Past
- 25: Keith Weiner on Irredeemable Currency, Part 1
- 24: College Senior Starts Own Super Pac
- 24: Too Many Political Meetings on the Economy in Europe, Not Enough Input from Business
- 24: Downside Market Action Continues as Malinvestments Get Revealed; Equities Bounce Would Be Normal
- 24: Another Perspective On Gold Investments
- 23: Dollar Backwardation
- 23: The Austrians And The Swan: Birds of a Different Feather
- 21: Is This Deflation?
- 21: E-Trade Baby Facebook Losses
- 21: Must Read
- 19: Tax My Kids But Not My Dog
- 19: Has Jim Cramer Been Marking Important Tech Stock Tops?
- 18: The Ecclestone Girls Signal Market Top
- 18: The Canary In The Gold Mine: Gold Investment Strategies
- 18: Condolences To Mish And Family
- 18: JPMorgan and Central Banking
- 17: Flight To Safety Broadens From Government Bonds To Include a Non-Barbarous Non-Relic
- 17: Smart Money Sheds Stocks
- 17: Trees And Forests: Consumer Sentiment, Production, and Jobs
- 16: Greece Will Reset; Alas, Greece
- 16: Trepp CMBS Report: Galleria Officentre
- 16: Paul Krugman, Myopic Reactionary
- 15: The Lipstick on the U.S. Stock Market May Get More Smudged; Don’t Believe It’s All Greece’s Fault
- 15: Spain: A Lack Of Accountability
- 15: Brick & Mortar vs. Internet: Bricks Fight Back
- 15: Scary Housing Infographic
- 15: The Future According To MSFT (But Without Ballmer)
- 15: Backwardation In Gold And Silver
- 15: Bill Gross Finally Realizes Global Monetary System At A Breaking Point
- 14: Jim Rogers: Buy A Tractor
- 14: Eurozone Industrial Production Falls – Steepest Rate Since 2009
- 14: My Usual Market and Economic Indicators Are Looking Worse
- 14: Dimon Geezer
- 14: Julia: Who’s Your Daddy?
- 12: OECD Leading Indicators – Reliable?
- 12: Professor Krugman, Where Is The Austerity?
- 12: Who Is Investing In Facebook?
- 12: How Friendly Is Your State?
- 11: The, Umm, Methane Theory Of Global Warming
- 11: Obama’s Tired Rhetoric
- 11: Are Rich People Worth Having?
- 11: Willem Buiter, CMC (Certified Monetary Crank)
- 11: ECRI’s Recession Call Update
- 11: Germany Ignored Conventional Economic Wisdom And Now Look At Them …
- 11: Easy Useless Keynesianism
- 10: More Recessionary Market Signs
- 10: JPM Loses $2 Billion In Synthetic Trades
- 10: How the Fed Favors The 1%
- 10: Jobs And JOLTS For March
- 10: Goldman Bets On Gold, QE3
- 10: Mortgage Rates Lowest Since … Ever?
- 09: Austerity Is Blamed Not Praised
- 09: The Fed: The Ultimate Disorganizing Organization
- 08: Rising Consumer Debt Reveals Economic Weakness
- 08: Gold: A Most Civilized Investment
- 08: François Hollande, The New French President
- 07: Spiking the Housing Stock Football Before Crossing the Goal Line Represents Somewhat Irrational Exuberance
- 04: Munger On Gold, Jews, And Civilized People
- 04: Like Dude, We Forgot!
- 04: The Bears Explain High Gas Prices
- 04: Is the U.S. Stock Market Three-Peating Its Way To Yet Another Summer Downturn?
- 04: The Bernanke Bust: The Why How And When
- 04: Hand To Hand Combat With Martin Wolf
- 04: Unexpected Jobs Data Roils Markets
- 03: Bankers Plead; Will The Fed Shrug?
- 03: The Fed Speaks To The Daily Capitalist*
- 02: A $120 Million Scream
- 02: The Invisible Red Line
- 02: Argentina, Redux
- 02: “Disappointing” Employment And Manufacturing Data
- 01: Paradigm Lost: Why the rEVOLution Has Not Been Televised
- 01: Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman Video
- 01: Cyco And Skabby Go To Jail
April 2012
- 30: Gold Market $1.24 Bn ‘Fat Finger’ Trade
- 30: The Economy Is Stalling
- 30: The Fed: “Nothing good goes on in this place”
- 30: The Big Lie—TARP Made Money
- 30: The Politics Of Fear
- 29: Monetary Policy, The Real Economy, And Asset Prices: Where Are We?
- 29: In Defense of the Corporation
- 28: European Bank Funding Improved
- 27: Friday Bank Failure Report For April 27, 2012
- 27: GDP Growth Slows To 2.2% In Q1 2012
- 27: Gold Still Americans’ Top Pick Among Long-Term Investments
- 27: Howlin Wolf Video — “Smokestack Lightening”
- 27: The Truth About Oil Subsidies
- 27: Krugman: More Economic Destruction Needed To Revive Economy
- 27: Gold Standard By 2013
- 26: Eight Places Where Americans Can Still Bank Offshore
- 25: Open Letter To Steve Keen, Who Says Stimulus Is Necessary
- 24: Party On!
- 23: Edgar The Entrepreneur Video
- 22: Mises Lecture: The Problems Of Inflation
- 22: Man Strips To Protest TSA Screening
- 22: “Hunger Games”: Multicultural Games or Spirit of Liberty?
- 22: The Sorry History of the Bank of the United States
- 22: Marc Faber At His Usual Gloom And Doom
- 20: Did Bernanke Prevent Another Depression?
- 20: What Does This Mean?
- 19: Knife Catching, Booms, Busts, And Tops
- 19: Why Bankruptcy Is The New Black
- 18: Where Is The Recovery?
- 18: Hayek vs. Keynes Rounds 1 and 2
- 18: Grubb & Ellis Acquisition: WSJ Gets Facts Wrong
- 18: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
- 16: What Are Economists For?
- 16: Japan Runs Out Of Capital
- 16: Banks Are Even More ‘Too Big To Fail’
- 16: FCC Says: Google Acted Improperly and a Google Employee Took the Fifth; Proposes an Insignificant Penalty
- 16: Keith Weiner To Head Gold Standard Institute USA
- 15: Tax Day Reminder
- 15: Floating Exchange Rates: Unworkable and Dishonest
- 15: More Signs Of a Stock Market Topping Process Emerge
- 13: Obama, The Buffett Tax, And Economics
- 13: Irredeemable Paper Money
- 12: Gary Shilling Forecasts Recession
- 10: The Obama Plan To Increase Poverty
- 10: Eurozone: No “Exit”; China: Aims At RMB Internationalization
- 10: Chartocopia: OECD Snapshot of the World
- 10: Santorum Suspends Campaign for GOP Presidential Nomination
- 10: Goldman Sachs In Japan: “Arrogant”
- 10: Economic and Market Thoughts (Pre-Travel Summary)
- 09: Liquidity Traps, Unemployment, and the Future of U.S. Equity Markets
- 07: Blessed Are The Speculators For They Shall Give Us Abundance
- 06: Attention Bond Vigilantes: Japan May Be Your Next Target
- 06: The Arbitrageur: Takedown in Gold!
- 06: Weak Jobs Growth Questions Recovery, Demands For QE3
- 05: Sack Leaves The Fed: Let The Bidding Begin
- 05: The Real Vampire Squid
- 05: James Grant vs. The Fed
- 04: The Buck Stops Here: A BRIC Wall
- 04: Universal Mortgage Principal Reduction: Who’s Going to Pay for This?
- 04: Commodities Sink; Is Oil Next?
- 03: How the ‘Fulcrum Asset’ Has Changed The CRE Market
- 03: Obama Threatens Supreme Court
- 03: Reinhart and Rogoff Fight the Fed
- 03: European Banks: Showing The Strains
- 02: A Response To Bernanke’s ‘Misunderstanding’ About The Gold Standard
- 02: Problem Solving
- 02: AT&T’s ‘Speed Dating’ Won’t Help Negative Financials
- 01: Smithers Updates His Stock Market Valuation Data, I Update it Further and Conclude: A Bubble May Be Forming
March 2012
- 31: Ray Dalio Interview By Charlie Rose
- 30: Turn The TV Off
- 30: Germans Channel Austrians As They Prepare To Do What the U.S. Should Have Done Last Decade
- 29: “Broken Window” Investment Strategies
- 29: DB Reseach: EFSF Limits; Weaker PMIs
- 29: No Change GDP Q4 2011: Are The Numbers Believable?
- 29: Bernanke Quotes Show Pattern Of Denial
- 28: Different Markets Looking Very Different As the Period Of Highly Correlated Trading Has Ended (For Now)
- 28: Obamacare: Most Important Case in 50 Years
- 27: They Can Force You To Buy Broccoli
- 27: Jim Rogers Speaks … Again
- 27: Case Shiller Report: Down
- 27: Bears Scared Of Goldilocks After Papa’s Free Food Makes Her Too Strong To Challenge
- 26: Fed Policy: Bernanke Is Warming Up His Helicopter
- 26: Good News on Chocolate; Also, Ben Bernanke Speaks and Leaks
- 26: Telling Tales About Money
- 24: The Fluff And Puff Of Arianna Huffington
- 24: Norton Commmando Speaks
- 24: The Three Political Parties Of America
- 24: North Korea: Animal Farm Meets 1984
- 23: MF Global E-mail: Corzine Authorized Use Of Customer Funds To Cover MFGLQ Overdraft
- 23: Is Inflation, A Stagnant Economy, And Lower Standard Of Living In Our Future?
- 23: Supreme Court Admonishes “Strong-Arming” of Citizens By Government Agencies
- 23: Bernanke Explains Why Nothing The Fed Does Works, Without Knowing It
- 23: Where Is Superman When We Need Him The Most
- 22: How Can You Lose Money @ 0.15% Cost?
- 22: More Deflation Pressures Seen
- 21: High Gas Prices Explained
- 21: The Arbitrageur: Temporary Backwardation—The Path Forward from 2008
- 21: Why Aren’t You A One Percenter?
- 21: Newton’s Fruit Falls Upward
- 20: A Booming Money Supply Is Sowing The Seeds Of The Next Great(er) Recession
- 20: S&P: Key Trends Driving U.S. Banks’ Earnings And Loan Quality
- 20: Shlaes: Bernanke’s ‘Little’ Inflation Will Capsize U.S.
- 19: Stockman On High Oil Prices
- 19: Muppets 1 Gollums 0
- 18: Stocks in Extremistan As Recession Forecasts Continue
- 18: There Is No Such Thing As Harmless Price Inflation
- 17: Frank Capra On The Depression (1932)
- 16: The Sad Tale Of Three Big CRE Deals
- 15: The Glass Pavillion Marked Down
- 15: Caution: Falling Currencies
- 15: Ugly = Beautiful; Beautiful = Ugly: Ray Dalio On Deleveraging
- 14: “How Much Money Did We Make Off The Client?”
- 14: Limbaugh Takes Down Carbonite (Or Is It The Other Way Around?)
- 14: Update On the Economy and the Markets
- 14: Shaming the Non-Stock Buyer
- 13: FOMC Huddle Results In No New Plays
- 13: Taleb On Why Everything Is Rotten And Why He Is Supporting Ron Paul
- 12: What Happened At The Austrian Scholars Conference
- 12: Stockman On The Economy
- 12: A New Financial Glossary
- 12: The Arbitrageur: What Force in the World Could Take Gold Down $100?
- 12: Another Post-Depression Echo as U.S. Banks Become the New Japan and China and Buy Lots More Treasurys
- 11: Newt Gingrich Adopts Ron Paul’s Position on Afghanistan
- 11: DocComment: Co-Author of “This Time Is Different” Updates Her Thinking, and the BIS Opines on Operation Twist
- 09: The Cato Coup (Rv.)
- 09: Thoughts on Greece and Portugal, Old Europe and the New World
- 07: Least Surprising News Of the Day
- 07: Dichotomy of the Day
- 06: Limbaugh Advertisers Dive For Cover
- 06: Interview With Futurist Ray Kurzweil
- 06: The U.S. Economy Can Handle $4 Per Gallon Of Gasoline
- 06: Historically High US Debt Bomb
- 06: The Yankee Clipper and the Stock Market
- 05: The Daily Capitalist Goes To The Mises Institute
- 05: The Best Towns For Well-Being
- 05: Democrats: Half Full; Republicans: Half Empty
- 05: Garbage In …
- 05: ATTENTION Tax Forum Shoppers
- 04: Why ZIRP Became Inevitable and Why It May Be With Us a Long Time
- 04: Sponsors Force Limbaugh To Apologize
- 02: Why Mises Is Right And Fisher Is Wrong
- 02: Ron Paul To Bernanke: “The End Stages of a Grand Experiment”
- 02: FinCEN: Tomorrow May Bring Yet Another Stupid Regulation
- 02: KeithGram: What’s So Bad About Falling Consumer Prices?
- 02: Europe Joins America in Going for Growth
- 01: Why US Companies Refuse To Repatriate Foreign Earnings
- 01: The (Sad) History of the Income Tax
- 01: DocComment: Re Yesterday’s Price Move In the Precious Metals
February 2012
- 29: GDP For 2011 Revised Upward to 3.0% — Is It Real?
- 28: A Ron Paul Rally vs. Mitt Romney Rally
- 28: Fixed
- 27: Employment: The Three-Eighths Solution
- 27: S&P: Greece Now Rated “SD” Selective Default
- 27: Bank Privacy: RIP
- 26: Commodities Were So 2011: This Year It’s Tech’s Turn to Pop & (Maybe) Top
- 25: The ‘High Oil Prices = Recession’ Fallacy
- 25: Our Problem Is Not Insolvency: It’s Infinite Solvency
- 23: The “Sound Dollar Act”
- 23: New Bill To Destroy Homes
- 23: How The Death Star Will Create Jobs
- 23: Corporate Tax Plan: Is It Really Reform?
- 22: Gotta Pay Your Tax (Collectors)
- 22: If You’re Lacking an Outrage of the Day…
- 21: The Arbitrageur: The Decline and Fall of Silver Backwardation
- 21: Turnaround 2012 for Banks?
- 20: OECD GDP Down “Sharply” Q4 2011
- 20: The Great Repression
- 20: EMU Q4 GDP: Shades of Gray/Italy’s Chances
- 19: Hoisington’s Hunt Says It’s Recession For 2012
- 17: The Arbitrageur: Silver Backwardation
- 17: ZIRP Through 2014 In the U.K.: Implications
- 16: A New “New Halftime” Commercial
- 16: Is This Recovery? – Download
- 15: Is This Recovery? Part II
- 15: Gold Stocks vs. Gold Flows
- 15: Beware False Idols
- 15: DocComment: One Quick Reason Why It’s All Tech Most of the Time for So Many of Us
- 14: Is This Recovery? Part I
- 13: Gold: Faster, Higher, Stronger?
- 12: Truth, Lies and Afghanistan
- 10: Budget Travesty 2012
- 10: Why Greece’s Fate Is Important
- 09: Save The Judge!
- 09: Two Tid-Bits
- 09: The Greek 1% Is Different From Ours
- 09: Greece: Far From A Solution
- 07: The Fed Three-Peats
- 07: Clint Say It Ain’t So
- 07: Greece Seeks Alms For Growing Homeless Population
- 06: Stop The (Printing) Press!
- 05: Gallup’s Spending and Jobs Survey Data Cast Doubt on the Strength of the Economic Recovery
- 04: DocComment: Competing With the Lower-End Brands the Old-Fashioned Way
- 03: Unions Continue To Drive Themselves Out Of Business
- 03: Feds Dismiss Case Against Lance
- 03: Good News: The Financial Times Is Bearish On Gold
- 03: Nassim Taleb Supports Ron Paul
- 03: Does Improving Employment Point To A Recovery?
- 02: KeithGram: Baltic Dry Index Is Telling Us Something
- 02: Dow Chemical’s Q4 Results Make Me Wonder if the U.S. Was In Recession Last Quarter
- 01: State Of The Union Of An Alternate Universe
- 01: Euroland’s Hidden Balance-of-Payments Crisis
- 01: What The Heck Is Bill Gross Trying To Tell Us?
January 2012
- 31: Woe Is Housing, Part …
- 31: Here’s The Really Important Financial Market News Of the Day
- 31: Income And Spending Slowed To A Crawl In 2011
- 31: New Spending Bill Unveiled in House
- 31: Europe Tiring of Austerity Is Good for Gold In Both Euro and Dollar Terms
- 30: DocComment: Most Dangerous Headline of the Young Week
- 30: Obama And The Commanding Heights
- 28: Gingrich Rise Is Triumph Of Style Over Substance
- 28: Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon
- 27: How The Entertainment Industry Suppresses Innovation (SOPA)
- 27: The Meaning Behind Q4 GDP Numbers
- 26: Simon Johnson Knocks Down Libertarian Straw Men
- 25: Guest Post: It’s Not About Canadianism; It’s About Capitalism
- 25: Bernanke: Invest In Stocks
- 25: DocComment: On Apple and Back-to-Basics Capitalism
- 24: Newt And Voter Amnesia
- 24: Where Gold Comes From And Where It Goes
- 24: Should Mitt Pay More Taxes?
- 24: Living Off Immoral Earnings
- 24: IMF Urges EU To Go “Japanese”
- 24: Economic Adjustment In Euroland: Where Do We Stand?
- 23: Greek Update: Nothing Really Matters?
- 23: A Free Market For Marketing Freedom
- 23: Essay: The Loan — An Exchange Of Wealth For Income
- 23: “The AAPL Whisperer”
- 23: Rand Paul Detained By TSA
- 21: Bill Moyers Interviews David Stockman On Crony Capitalism
- 20: Occupy Wall Street Squatters Steal Single Dad’s Home
- 20: SOPA Victory: Bill “Postponed”
- 20: The Most Powerful Force On The Planet
- 20: The Sovereign Man
- 18: Looking Backward: Evaluating My September Gold/Muni Call: Further Thoughts
- 18: Are People Really As Confident As The Polls Show?
- 18: KeithGram: Margin Compression And Government Vultures
- 18: Killing The Internet To Save Hollywood
- 18: The Final Countdown
- 18: World Bank Accentuates the Negative
- 17: Bank Data Supports Austrian Theory For Rapid Recovery
- 17: Manufacturers Optimistic While Consumers Are Still Getting Poorer
- 17: S&P: “Greece Soon To Default”
- 15: An IPO That Helps Define an Era
- 15: Friday the 13th Felt Like a Market Top; ECRI Updates Its Economic Views; Might Treasurys Continue to ‘Rally-Ho’ Some More?
- 14: Is Newt Unstable?
- 13: Fed Doves Take Control Of FOMC And Monetary Policy
- 13: Simon Johnson: Ron Paul And The Banks
- 13: S&P Downgrades France
- 12: Toyland: The CES Display Of Rampant Capitalism
- 11: California Looking Greece-ier
- 11: The Mobility Gap: What Does It Mean?
- 11: Gasoline Use and NFIB Survey Still Recessionary
- 10: The Weirdness Gets Weirder Re Greece
- 08: Is Santorum An Economic Conservative?
- 08: December Unemployment Data: There Is Less Than Meets The Eye
- 08: THE END IS NIGH!!!
- 08: DocComment: Bad Weekend News for Stock and Commodity Bulls as Positive Economic News Heartens Fed Dove
- 08: PSLV Bulls In Deep Space 9-9-9
- 06: How To Cure A (Our) Depression
- 05: More Flatness: Non-Manufacturing
- 05: The Arbitrageur: Silver In Backwardation
- 05: DocComment: On the Benighted Eurozone Economies, 2012 Version
- 05: DocComment: The Fed Hearts GSEs
- 04: Ray Dalio Of Bridgewater Takes Dim View Of Economy; Concurs With Daily Capitalist
- 04: A Beef Quiz*, And A Revisited Koo
- 03: 2008: Iowa Matters; 2012 (Ron Paul): It Doesn’t Matter
- 03: A Politically Incorrect Look At Marginal Tax Rates
- 02: Somehow, It’s Getting Even Weirder in Greece
- 02: Updating Smithers: Continued Caution for Stock Bulls
- 01: How Registered Democrats Can Swing The Republican Primaries
- 01: Happy New Year 2012!
December 2011
- 31: Top Ten Tweets Of 2011
- 31: Top International Story Of 2011
- 31: Top Story Of 2011
- 30: Making Sense Of 2011
- 29: The Laffer Curve And Austrian School Economics
- 29: Greece Still Getting Worse
- 29: DocComment: Oil Price to Barrel Downhill?
- 28: Past Present as Layaway Plans Return: The Public Runs Short of Dollars
- 27: Is Ron Paul A Bigot?
- 27: Greece In A Great Depression As Japanese Echoes Reappear In The U.S.
- 26: Overpriced PSLV Is a Negative Portent for Silver’s Price
- 24: Christmas Trees And The Logic Of Growth
- 22: Conventional Wisdom And Our Stagnating Economy
- 22: The “Improving” Jobs Picture
- 22: Q3 GDP Revised Down—Again
- 22: You Like Ron Paul, Except On Foreign Policy
- 21: More Real Estate: Shadow Inventory; Home Sales
- 21: Extend And Pretend: The Story Of 666 Fifth Avenue
- 21: Kim Jong-Il’s Legacy
- 20: Real Estate: Catch A Falling Knife
- 20: Stocks Dangerous Here; Best-Advertised Gold Market Bottom in Memory if a Bottom It Is
- 20: Ben Bernanke And The Fat Cat Banksters
- 20: Athens Goes Detroit’s Way, While Greece’s Government Announces It Is (Very) Short of Cash
- 19: So Long, And Thanks For All The Stress
- 19: Indefinite Detention Of American Citizens
- 19: Just One Wish This Christmas: A Dollar As Good As Gold
- 19: Ron Paul And Jay Leno
- 19: Of Dollars and Euros
- 18: DocComment: Ghosts of Economies Past
- 17: DocComment: Gold
- 16: Jobless Claims, As Usual, “Unexpected” But To The Positive
- 16: KeithGram: Credit Agricole To Exit Commodities Trading
- 16: Ron Paul Day Is Today
- 16: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead
- 16: Are Investors Getting ‘Zynged’ Today?
- 15: Bernanke’s Legacy
- 15: Super Santas, Financial Version
- 15: Bill Of Rights Day
- 14: The State Of The European Monetary Union
- 14: The Oil Price is Too D— High
- 13: The Consumer Recovery Deception
- 13: No One Wants The Dollar
- 13: Bloomberg Accentuates the Positive and Then the Negative the Same Morning
- 12: How To Raise Taxes and Create Prosperity
- 12: Latest OECD Leading Indicators: Negative
- 11: Ludwig von Mises on Economic Growth, Denial, and Truth in Europe
- 11: Ron Paul: Video Of Iowa Debate
- 11: One Way Toward Fixing the Banks: Learn From a Survivor
- 11: What Bothers Me About the U.S. Stock Market
- 09: Liars Led By Junkies
- 09: Clash Of The Titans: Marc Faber vs. Jim Rogers
- 09: End of Week Comments: Just What Is the Stock Market Celebrating Today?
- 08: The Osawatomie Speech: A Defining Moment In History
- 08: Holiday Shopping: Black Friday Results Are In
- 08: Precious Metals Update: Focus on Silver
- 07: KeithGram: Irony In The Bond Markets
- 07: Forecasting: Why The Other 99 Guys Are Out Of Step
- 07: The European Tautological Fund or ETF
- 07: Blagojevich Gets 14 Years
- 07: Will Europe Unleash A ‘Money Bomb’? And Other Topics…
- 06: The Worldwide Depression/Recession Of 2012
- 05: TM@DB Research: China’s RMB; Germany’s Stagnation
- 05: Lenore Zimmerman, 85 Year-Old ‘Terrorist’, Strip Searched At Airport
- 05: The Obama Diet
- 05: “Default is not the end of the world” – Vernon Smith
- 05: A Relationship Between European Austerity and Municipal Bonds
- 05: … And the Winner Is—Ta Da—Treasurys
- 05: Senator Rand Paul On The Gutting Of The Bill of Rights
- 04: America Wins War On Terror (9-11-01 To 12-1-11)
- 04: QE Zero: Austerity Hits the Royal Family
- 03: What Does Mikhail Prokhorov Know About Gold?
- 03: Goldman Forecasts Stagnation
- 03: Gone! Herman Cain Drops Out
- 02: The Brazilian Way
- 02: Jobs Report: Don’t Start Cheering Yet
- 01: Today’s “Better than Expected” ISM Manufacturing Data Is Actually Consistent With An Evolving Industrial Recession
- 01: Will The Real Newt Gingrich Please Stand Up
- 01: Yesterday’s Rumor vs. Today’s Reality: Deutsche Bank
- 01: Was Black Friday A Bust?
- 01: Is The U.S. An Island Of Prosperity?
- 01: Foreclosure Time In U.S.: 631 Days
- 01: Another “Unexpected” Unemployment Report
- 01: Increasing Evidence of a Global Industrial Recession
November 2011
- 30: A Brief Market-Oriented Review of Prior Coordinated Central Bank Interventions
- 30: Debunking Gold Manipulation
- 30: China Eases While Commodity Prices Drop and German Interest Rates Go Negative
- 29: Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank?
- 29: A Plan To Implement A Gold Standard
- 29: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
- 29: Case-Shiller: Another Negative Housing Report for September
- 29: A Note On GDP
- 29: Barney Frank: The Joke Is On Us
- 29: Bank Regulators Abandon Credit Ratings To Measure Risk
- 28: Can The Government Force You To Eat Broccoli?
- 28: Black Friday: It’s Not What You Think
- 28: Barney Frank’s Early Xmas Present
- 28: Central Banker Quotes of the Day: Mervyn King Admits He Didn’t Realize the U.K. Really, Really Had a Banking Crisis
- 28: Boycotting the Thanksgiving Weekend Retail “Boom”
- 27: IMF To Lend Italy €400-600 Billion!
- 27: Splendid Isolation?
- 26: Rasmussen Finds Less Spending and Less Internet Shopping This Season Expected by Consumers
- 25: Japan: How Low Can You Go?
- 25: A Country Whose Name Begins With “United” Actually Intends to Fund a Social Program With New Taxes
- 25: It’s Getting to Look a Lot Like . . . “Deflation”
- 24: The Real First Thanksgiving
- 24: What You Should Be Thankful For On Thanksgiving 2011
- 23: Employers Go On Strike!
- 23: The Never-ending Bailout
- 23: The Fed’s New ‘Wink-Wink-Nudge-Nudge’ Communications Policy
- 23: The Economy Is In Jeopardy: Download
- 23: A $10 Trillion Asteroid Is Heading Toward The Eurozone
- 23: European Update: Bad News Continues
- 22: The Worst Economic Expansion You Can Imagine
- 22: Ron Paul On The Daily Show
- 22: How To Dent Your Pick: Cut Federal Spending
- 22: KeithGram: JPM Undermines Investor Confidence
- 22: The Economy Is In Jeopardy Part II
- 21: Supercommittee Fails: Congratulations!
- 21: TM@DB Research: Eurozone Recession; Euro Banks; Congressional Stalemate
- 21: God’s Retribution
- 21: The U.S. Economy Is In Jeopardy Part I
- 21: Good News for Chocoholics as Commodities, Including Stocks, Sell Off and Worse News Is Bruited About in the MF Global Mess
- 19: Ron Paul Can Win on Arithmetic, Not Just Philosophy
- 18: Bob Shrum Hearts Jon Corzine But Doesn’t Want Us to Know About the Missing Customer Funds
- 17: Still Staying Away from Risk, with MF Global a Downside Catalyst
- 17: KeithGram: Spoliation
- 17: KeithGram: Broken Hedges
- 16: A Note From A Mentally Disordered Austrian Theory Fanatic
- 16: Herman Cain’s Oops Moment
- 16: Unknown Republican Presidential Candidate Ties Leaders In Iowa Poll
- 15: Core Meltdown In Europe?
- 15: Millionaire Downward Mobility
- 15: HELOC Hell Jeopardizes Banks’ Tier I Capital
- 15: OECD Unemployment Rate Stays High
- 15: Libertarianism.org
- 14: The New Robust Daily Capitalist
- 14: OECD: Leading Indicators Point To Slowdown
- 14: TM@DB Research: Papademos In Greece; German Spending
- 14: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 14: Europoly: Europe’s Newest Game
- 14: India’s “Democratic Capitalism”
- 13: Banks To OWS: Please Move Your Money
- 13: France: Oops
- 13: Romney Takes Lead
- 12: KeithGram: The Problem With Swiss Banks
- 11: Jim Grant On Euro Crisis
- 11: Media Signals Short-Term Top for Gold?
- 10: Treasury Auction Weak
- 10: The Truth About China
- 10: The Fallout Of An Impending Worldwide Slowdown
- 10: Obamacare of Spain Is Running Out Of Money
- 10: The Latest Line On The Republican Presidential Race
- 10: Daily Capitalist Site Work
- 09: The Benefits Of The Eurozone
- 09: Long Treasurys for the Short Run?
- 08: How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- 08: The Dangers Of An Angry And Disaffected Populace In America
- 07: More Bad News from Europe
- 07: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 07: Bank Failure Report For November 7, 2011
- 07: TM@DB Research: Pandora’s Box, ECB Rate Cut, G20
- 07: Cain = Toast
- 07: Rah-Rah Reporting Continues
- 06: Good-Bye George
- 06: More Straws in the Wind that MF Global Bankruptcy May Be a ‘Tipping Point’
- 06: Words to the Wise from the Land of Bastiat
- 04: Trouble Ahead: Employment, Inflation, And The Fed
- 03: Capitalism: Death By A Thousand Cuts
- 03: Breaking News: Creditors Lose Money In MF Global Collapse!
- 03: Consumers Most Pessimistic Since Recession Bottom
- 03: Curious, Political George
- 02: Merkel, Sarkozy Furious At Papandreou; Hold Up Aid
- 02: Manufacturing Is Not “OK” And Will Decline In Coming Months
- 02: “Unleash Hell” — The CFPB
- 02: Condemn Venal Journalism For Severely Fooling The People
- 02: Free Trade: The Giant Sucking Sound
- 02: The Euro Debt Game Of Jenga
- 01: Curious, Duplicitous George
- 01: A Rush From Sugar Or A Rush To Gold?
- 01: Worst Headline Of The Day
October 2011
- 31: This Year’s ‘Lehman Moment’ Might Occur Soon
- 31: Wealth Disparity And Wall Street: The OWSers Are Wrong
- 31: Jon Corzine, MF Global, and Italy
- 31: The Eurozone Bailout Explained Video
- 31: TM@DB Research: Euro Bank Liquidity; ECB Debt Monetization
- 31: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 31: Bill, What’s Stopping You?
- 30: Q3 GDP Is A Head Fake
- 30: Peter Schiff vs. Cornel West Video
- 29: Movie Review: Margin Call
- 29: Tea Party, OWS, & Blue Republicans: Is This Phase Change?
- 29: Surprise! NYT reports Libya Reopens for (Western) Business
- 28: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 28: The Eurocratic Agreement Explained, and Related Observations
- 27: Kansas City Fed Reports Positive Manufacturing Data Which Also Shows the Path to Potential Recession
- 27: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 27: Best Newspaper Sentence of the Day
- 27: A Brief Guide To The Euro Crisis
- 27: Peter Schiff vs. OWS Video
- 27: Buy the Rally?
- 26: Durable Goods Continue Negative Trend
- 26: Housing Is Improving: Case Shiller
- 26: Richmond Fed Manufacturing Prints Negative
- 26: EU Summit Day 1: Lots Of Drama, No Solution
- 26: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 25: Italy’s Berlusconi Government Stands On The Brink And So Does The EFSF
- 25: To OWS: You Get Yours, Don’t Worry About Mine
- 25: Consumers And Small Business Owners Depressed About The Future
- 25: The Conference Board’s Guess: Soft Economy Ahead
- 25: Analysis of Perry’s Flat Tax Proposal
- 25: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 24: National Economic Activity Report Still Negative
- 24: Germany’s Outlook Darkened Further
- 24: Winners And Losers: The New Economy
- 24: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 23: A Macro and Micro Austrian Look at Current Markets: No Anorexia Consumptionosa
- 23: Ron Paul: Blame The Fed For The Financial Crisis
- 22: Worst Headline Of The Day
- 21: Congresswoman Supports New Slavery Bill
- 21: Big Hat Dictators Always Die
- 21: Fed Vice-Chairman Janet Yellen: QE3 ‘Appropriate’
- 21: Inflation, Women, And Divorce
- 21: Are U.S. Stocks Cheap?
- 20: Philly Shows Positive!
- 20: Jobless Claims Stuck At 400,000+
- 20: The Preferred Version Of The Presidential Debate—Video
- 20: Student Debt Jubilee?
- 20: Power Shifts To Federal Government
- 19: Looking Bad Looking Forward; and Looking Back
- 19: The Fed Doesn’t Believe We Have Inflation
- 19: KeithGram: Fractional Reserve Banking Is Not The Problem
- 19: More ‘Sensible’ Legislation From Washington
- 19: Americans Blame Government More Than Wall Street For Economy
- 19: Greece: The Problem With Socialism
- 19: Herman Keyne’s 9-9-9
- 19: KeithGram: Morgan Stanley’s ‘Gains’
- 18: David Stockman Interview, Part 1
- 18: What Colour Is Your Lifejacket ?
- 18: Spain Dinged; Is France Next?
- 18: Inflation AND Recession?
- 17: Keith Weiner: Irredeemable Currency vs. Gold Video
- 17: Industrial Production Shows Slight Increase
- 17: The World’s Biggest Sovereign Debtors
- 17: Vikram Bandit States The Obvious!
- 17: Retail Sales Went DOWN In September, Not Up
- 17: Damned Progress!
- 17: Pew Study Confirms: Paul Is Ignored By MSM
- 16: AAPL of Investors’ i?
- 15: The Demands Of Occupy Wall Street Protesters
- 15: Which Country Is No. 1 In Manufacturing?
- 15: Why Can’t We All Just Net Along?
- 14: Friday Bank Closing Report October 14, 2011
- 14: Obama Starts New War!
- 14: A Message To You From Van Jones
- 14: 9-9-9 or 6-6-6?
- 13: Spain Credit Rating Cut
- 13: The Green Jobs Answer Man Video
- 13: Occupy Wall Street: A Manifesto
- 13: Jobless Claims Disappoint—Again
- 12: Greece Will Default: It’s Just The Beginning
- 12: The Daily Capitalist And Jim Rogers
- 12: Ritholz Trashes Rand
- 11: JPMorgan: ‘QE3 By Q1 2012′ (Where Did We Hear That Before?)
- 11: Bank Failure Report For September 2011
- 11: Roubini Econ Research Firm Losing Money, Is For Sale
- 10: The Great Recession Never Ended
- 10: Are ‘Rich’ People Not Spending Too?
- 10: Keith Weiner Speaks At NZ Gold Conference
- 10: OECD Leading Indicators: Down
- 10: ‘Groundhog Day’ or ‘How To Start A Depression’
- 10: John Paulson’s Funds Take Big Hit
- 10: Deutsche Bank: Growth Recession Ahead
- 10: Bloomberg Says Mission Accomplished (Recession Averted)
- 10: Obama Goes After E-mails Of Government Opponents
- 09: Where Do You Hide Your Gold?
- 09: The Welfare Tipping Point
- 09: Too Big To Fail?
- 08: The Result Of Destroying Money
- 08: Why Doesn’t MoveOn Occupy Soros?
- 08: Where The Money Is
- 07: Consumers Choke, Credit Shrinks
- 07: George Will Takes Down Elizabeth Warren Hard
- 07: Message To Guevaristas Occupying Wall St.
- 07: Price Inflation Up Worldwide
- 06: Europe: Can You Say ‘Bailout’?
- 06: Megatrend No. 5: Home Ownership Rates Will Decline For The Long-Term
- 06: Mad About Them
- 05: Steve Jobs
- 05: Martin Wolf ‘Gone Mad’ Over Money Printing
- 05: Declining Manufacturing Will Let The Air Out Of The Economy
- 05: Taleb: It’s Worse Than 2008
- 04: Job Creation Down Again: Gallup
- 04: BofA: WTF
- 04: Bernanke: Economy “Close To Faltering”
- 03: Gold Decoupling From Other Commodities: Unsustainable?
- 02: Inflation or Deflation: A Mish Mash
- 02: Shocks for the Short Run
- 02: Chicago PMI Strongly Up; But Will Monday’s ISM Report Be Up?
- 02: Oupá! I Mean Oops: Greeks To Miss Targets
- 01: From Phoenecia to Hayek to the ‘Cloud’
September 2011
- 30: Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero
- 30: More David Stockman
- 30: ECRI Forecasts The Coming Recession
- 29: Bernanke Hints At QE3
- 29: Plosser Says Stagflation Is Risk To Economy
- 29: Q2 2011 GDP Revised Upward
- 29: Jon Stewart’s Liberal Challenge To Ron Paul
- 28: Shadow Inventory: Will Continue To Depress Housing Market
- 28: Challenging Markets Everywhere One Looks
- 28: Things To Be Grateful For: Peter Diamond, Private Citizen
- 27: The State of Employment In America
- 27: Case-Shiller Home Price Index Continues Downward
- 26: Chicago and Dallas: More Negative Data
- 26: ECB To Twist To A 50 bp Cut In October
- 25: Gold on Hold; The New Play May Be in Munis
- 24: Why The Economy Is Stagnating
- 23: Gold: Why You Should Read The Daily Capitalist
- 23: Mercedes Sales Slow In China
- 23: Jim Rogers Supports Ron Paul
- 23: NBA Ponzi Scheme
- 22: Keynesian Therapy
- 22: Jobless Claims ‘Locked In’ To 400,000+
- 22: China Joins A Stagnating World Economy
- 22: Wretched Excess v.MMV
- 22: The Market Rout: The Trouble With Europe
- 21: Operation Twist: The Consequences
- 21: “Why I’m An Austrian In Economics”
- 21: Gallup: Americans Blame Obama For Economy
- 21: Wall Street Rejects Operation Twist
- 21: Fed Announces Operation Twist
- 20: Goldman Says ‘Operation Twist’ Is Going To Be $300-$400 Billion
- 19: Short-Term Caution on Gold Bullion: Still Preferring the Miners
- 19: The Maasai Tracker
- 19: What Is The Dollar Really Worth?
- 19: How Much “Fairer” Should It Be?
- 18: The Hoax That Is The Infrastructure Bank
- 18: The Warren Buffet Tax
- 17: Ron Paul Can Win
- 16: Criticism Of Faith-Based Economics
- 15: Europe On $1,000,000 A Day
- 15: Ray Dalio Interview
- 15: Industrial Production: Further Economic Stagnation
- 15: New Jobless Claims Up For Fourth Straight Week
- 15: What Worries Americans The Most
- 14: Quiet Desperation
- 13: Some Of Us Aren’t Getting Poorer
- 12: Porsches & Diamonds
- 12: Professional Forecasters Depressed
- 12: The ECB’s Italian Job
- 12: OECD Leading Indicators Negative
- 11: Too Many Policy Errors a Decade Later
- 11: The Birth Of Reason
- 10: That Terrible Day
- 10: Obama’s Jobs Scorecard
- 09: Greece, The Eurozone, Uncertainty = Nervous Markets
- 08: Obama Goes ‘Japanese’ — $447 Billion Of New Infrastructure Spending
- 08: Jobless Claims Continues High
- 08: GOP Debate: Daily Capitalist Scorecard
- 07: What “Stagflation” Means
- 07: Gallup Reports Rich Folks’ Spending Down
- 07: We’re No. … 5! World Competitiveness Rankings
- 07: Liberal Fairy Tale: Federal Spending Creates Jobs
- 06: Worldwide Inflation Up 3.1%
- 06: Gallup Jobs Report Belies Government Data
- 06: ‘Regime Uncertainty’ — Not Just A Theory
- 06: CRE Still Greatest Risk For Banks
- 06: Lawyers, Big Oil Rated Higher Than Federal Government
- 05: Unemployment Will Remain High Because Obama Will Do All The Wrong Things
- 05: Happy QE Labor Day!
- 05: Workers Of The World Relax!
- 05: Bloomberg Ignores Major Stock Market Fall in Europe
- 03: Global Manufacturing PMI At Two Year Low
- 02: “Economists Say …”
- 01: U.S, EU Manufacturing Data Weak
- 01: The Imminent Failure Of The Eurozone
- 01: Harder Times for Americans May Yield Better Times for Gold Mining Stocks
August 2011
- 31: Slowing World Trade Q2 2011
- 31: Status of Residential and CRE: Video
- 31: Server Problem v. 3.0
- 31: FDR, Gold Confiscation, And Quantitative Easing
- 31: Whither Gold? Part III
- 31: Does GLD Have The Gold? Part II
- 31: The Gold Rush, Part I
- 30: The End Of The Long Con
- 30: The Fed’s War Against Savers v.2.0
- 30: Case-Shiller: June Prices Flat
- 30: Consumer Confidence Sinks In August
- 30: Server Crash v.2.0!
- 29: Dallas Fed August Report: Continues Negative
- 29: Next! Alan Krueger As Chair Of Council Of Economic Advisers
- 29: The Economic Benefits of Irene
- 29: Ignore The Cheerleaders: Income Down, Consumption Weak
- 29: A Dispirited Fed Chairman Emerges From Jackson Hole
- 29: Server Problems
- 26: The Hurricane Of 1938
- 26: Martin Feldstein Advocates Trashing The Dollar
- 26: Steve Jobs’ Impact On Us
- 26: Objective Index of Economy Deteriorating; Updated Comments on Stocks and Precious Metals
- 26: Q2 GDP Revised Downward
- 25: Is BofA to 2011 What Fannie, Freddie and Lehman Were to 2008?
- 25: The God Of Machines
- 24: July Report: Durable Goods Up; Capital Goods Down
- 24: Bernanke As Santa Claus
- 23: Who Am I? (Asset Version)
- 23: GS Faces Yet Another Lawsuit
- 23: Crony Capitalist Of The Month: Mohamed El-Erian
- 23: Richmond Fed Manufacturing Down Substantially In July
- 23: Why Recovery Is Stalling – “The Mortgage Hangover”
- 23: Roubini Flip: Recommends Gold In Financial Crisis!
- 23: U.S. Treasurys: Lose Money While You Sleep
- 22: The Art Market Economic Indicator
- 22: Run on the Dollar and Euro into Gold
- 22: DSK Goes Free!
- 22: Bloomberg: ‘Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion From Fed’
- 22: OECD: Slow Growth Q2
- 21: Lord Skidelsky Trashes Austrian Theory Adherents As “Fanatics”
- 21: De Gaulle 1965 Video Calling For Gold Standard
- 20: Daily Capitalist Interview With Marketplace Money
- 20: On Gold, Stocks, and Gold Mining Stocks
- 19: Friday Bank Closing Report August 19, 2011
- 19: The Week That Was
- 19: Why Americans Hate Economics
- 19: An Irritating Day
- 19: China and U.S. Seek Closer Ties Through Sporting Events
- 19: The Fed: “Whatever It Takes”
- 18: The Fed’s War Against Savers
- 18: The Bond “Bubble”
- 18: They Call It “Stagflation”
- 18: Central Banks Buy Massive Amounts Of Gold
- 18: Daily Capitalist On Marketplace Money
- 17: Chávez Nationalizes Gold Industry
- 17: Stockman On Perry’s ‘Treasonous’ Remark
- 16: Is July’s Positive Industrial Production Report An Outlier?
- 16: Jon Stewart On Why Ron Paul Is Ignored By The Press
- 16: Jim Grant On The Need For A Gold Standard
- 16: Warren Don’t Wait For Obama
- 15: Fed: Consumer and Mortgage Lending Remains Weak
- 15: NY Manufacturing Falls Fourth Straight Month
- 15: Moody’s Zandi Is Latest Economist To Support QE3
- 14: Modified Limited Bullishness on Stocks
- 14: Dear Ron Paul: Please Run To Win
- 14: Paul Narrowly Loses To Bachmann In Straw Poll
- 13: Republican Candidates In A Nutshell
- 13: Inflation: Where Cronyism Meets Poverty
- 13: Felonious Munk On The Budget
- 12: Modest Retail Sales But Confidence Sinking Like A Stone
- 12: SEC Muscles S&P
- 12: The Standard & Poor Downgrade Is Meaningless
- 11: Investment Posture Summarized: Times Past and Forward-Looking
- 11: DJIA Up 427 Thursday
- 11: BofA’s Biggest Regret
- 11: Jobless Claims Week Of August 6, 2011
- 11: How Mao Killed 45 Million People
- 11: George And Adriana’s Breakup Lawsuit
- 11: Rachel Maddow: “Don’t Know Much About History”
- 11: Stockman On Budget And Downgrade
- 10: Greece’s Budget Deficit Jumps — Bailout In Jeopardy
- 10: JOLTs Report: Flat
- 10: U.S. Q2:11 Productivity Report: Down Again
- 10: Did George Soros Make $10 Billion On Downgrade Bet?
- 10: DJIA Down 520 Points
- 10: Goldman Loses Money?
- 10: Goldman Jumps On QE3 Bandwagon
- 09: Jobs: Desperation In The White House
- 09: The Fed’s Latest Tool: Jaw-Jaw Clarity
- 08: Shoot The Messenger And The Cavalry
- 08: What A Day!
- 06: Austrian Medicine For The MMT Patient
- 06: China: America Will Still Be The Only Superpower For The Next 20 Years
- 06: Falling Interest Rates and Duration Mismatch
- 05: Profligate U.S. Knocked Off Its Pedestal By S&P
- 04: Bad Day at, and for, BlackRock
- 04: Thanks DoctoRx – We Saw It Coming
- 04: The Eurozone Debacle: They Ate The Golden Goose
- 04: Jobless Claims Remain High
- 04: Hayek (Selgin) vs. Keynes (Skidelsky)
- 04: Berlusconi Shoots Messenger
- 04: Paul Singer: The Fed — “A Group Of Inbred Academics”
- 03: Inflation Nation
- 03: CMBS Loans Hit All-Time High Delinquency Rate: Trepp
- 03: Services Sector Declines; New Factory Orders Drop
- 03: Pimco and BlackRock: Economy At Stall Speed, Need QE3
- 03: Drunken Ben Bernanke Tells Everyone At Neighborhood Bar How Screwed U.S. Economy Really Is
- 03: Jersey Shore’s Snookie Does Shark Week?
- 02: The Problem With Rep. Ellison
- 02: Wages Lag Price Inflation As Consumers Suffer
- 02: World Inflation Is Up; GDP Down
- 02: Market Sees Through Budget “Solution”
- 02: So True …
- 01: Budget Debate Fraud Part 2
- 01: Democrat’s Cuts Total $1
- 01: The Global Manufacturing Slowdown
July 2011
- 31: Q2 GDP Reveals Continued Stagnation
- 31: Budget Deal Reached Sunday Night
- 30: What Would Happen If U.S. Defaults?
- 30: Statists Invent a New Argument Against Gold: They Want You to Ignore It
- 29: Boehner Bill Passes House; Senate Votes No
- 29: Friday Bank Closing Report July 29, 2011
- 29: Look Out Below?
- 28: The Budget Debate Fraud
- 28: Continental Drift
- 28: Is Economic Weakness Determining the Large-Deficit Outcome of the Debt Ceiling Debate?
- 27: Your Demographic
- 26: The Trend Is Your Friend Till It Ends
- 26: The Small Bank Problem: Why We Are 40,000 Properties Away From Recovery
- 24: Got Gold Miners?
- 20: A French-German Agreement On Greece?
- 20: Fractional Reserve is Not the Problem
- 20: A Look At The Gang Of Six Budget Plan
- 19: Stockman on Budget Machinations
- 19: Thoughts on Today’s Market Actions
- 18: Bullish On a Few of My Favorite Things
- 18: Sprott Physical Silver Trust Much Too Expensive
- 16: Weekend Fun Part 4: OVERDOSE: The Next Financial Crisis
- 16: Weekend Fun Part 3
- 16: Weekend Fun Part 2: Rand Paul On Balanced Budget Amendment
- 16: Weekend Fun Part 1
- 16: Gold’s Surge to a New Record Price Still Hasn’t Impressed the WSJ
- 15: Inflationistas vs. Deflationistas: What Does CPI and PPI Tell Us?
- 15: Bank-Rupt?
- 15: Industrial Production Continues Weak Trend
- 14: Chávez Alienates Noam Chomsky?
- 14: Flat Sales And Higher Prices: Today’s Data Reports
- 14: U.S. Default? Why Are We Surprised?
- 13: Ron Paul vs. Ben Bernanke
- 13: Bernanke On QE3
- 13: Bernanke Implies More Market Pain Before QE3
- 12: WallStreetJournal.Com Crashes — Hacked?
- 12: Fed Discusses QE3 At FOMC Meeting!
- 12: The Euro 1999 – 2012 R.I.P.
- 11: Friday* Bank Closing Report July 11, 2011
- 11: Gross and Rosenberg Jump on the QE3 Bandwagon
- 11: But Krugman Always Says That
- 11: The World Is Turning … Down
- 11: Are the Markets Making Sense Today?
- 08: Unemployment: It’s More Than A “Soft Patch”
- 08: Traders Not Fully Accepting the Implications of Today’s Dismal Employment Report
- 07: How The Fed Crashed The MBS Market
- 07: News Flash–Rare Earths Not Rare!
- 07: Why Don’t People Like Rupert Murdoch?
- 07: A Historical Look At Dividend Yields and Stock Prices
- 06: Manufacturing Growth Is An Illusion Of Monetary Stimulus
- 06: Surprise! The Establishment Is Touting More Government As the Solution to the Housing Situation
- 05: Stockman vs. Reich Video
- 04: You Were Great in Your Day, America
- 03: Celebrate Independence Day
- 03: Is Silver a Short-Term Buy Again?
- 01: Is Timmy In Trouble? v2.0
- 01: Manufacturing: Following The Dollar
- 01: ECRI Gets More Bearish, Raises Recession Possibility for First Time Since Last Year
- 01: Bullish Headlines Just Reflect that Stocks Have Risen
June 2011
- 30: Is the US Already in a New Recession?
- 30: Note To Readers–The Plus +1 Button
- 30: John Paulson Needs To Go Austrian
- 30: A Solution For The Medicaid Crisis
- 30: Greece and Oil, and Gold
- 29: The New Theater Of The Absurd: The Budget Debates
- 29: LEAP Before You Look: The State Of Thinking On The Continent
- 29: Sixth Circuit Upholds Obamacare
- 28: JPM Underperforming as in 2007
- 28: Lagarde New IMF President
- 28: Consumer Confidence Tanks In June
- 28: The Story Of A CMBS Foreclosure: The Oasis of Tallahassee
- 28: Case-Shiller Report April 2011: Flat
- 28: Important Battle at Four Dollar Copper
- 27: Taleb Quote Of The Week
- 27: Price Inflation: Up; Wages and Spending: Down
- 27: Why GDP Is Useless and Deceptive: There Was No Recovery
- 26: Yotai Gap to Provide Fuel to the Treasury Bond Bull?
- 25: Financial Smoke Worsens
- 24: Greece Is Europe: Article Download
- 24: Video: Stockman on Dylan Ratigan
- 23: Credit Conditions In U.S. Banks: Still Tight
- 23: Who Is Going to Buy Treasurys Now that QE2 Is Ending?
- 23: Financials Emitting More Smoke; Any Fire Yet?
- 23: Caption Contest Winners!
- 22: Greece Is Europe: The Failure Of The Euro (Part I)
- 22: Greece Is Europe: The Failure Of The Euro (Part II)
- 22: Financially, the US Is In Some Ways Already More “Japanese” than Japan
- 21: Understanding The Eurozone Greek Crisis
- 20: Sutton’s Law Points in the Bearish Direction
- 20: Ron Paul Wins Republican Straw Poll
- 20: The Great Stagnation of 2011
- 19: Dealing with Financial Repression
- 19: Wall Street Journal Says We Need Inflation
- 19: Did Washington Save The Economy?
- 18: Ignore The Noise: News Reporting and Markets
- 17: Demand Versus Desire
- 17: Drop in Oil Prices Good for Treasurys and Gold Miners
- 16: Worsening Wealth Disparities Reflect Downside of Excessive Money Creation
- 15: Thoughts on the Failure of Yesterday’s Turnaround Tuesday Rally
- 13: The Bifurcated Economy
- 13: Interview With Economic Cycle Research Institute’s Lakshman Acuthan
- 13: A Quick Tool for Timing the End of the Silver Correction
- 12: The Bilderberg Conspiracy Unmasked
- 12: Why Bill Russell Would Be a Bear on the Stock Market Now
- 09: Only You Can Prevent Your Own Investments From Burning Up
- 09: Video: Jim Rogers At His Best
- 08: Job Openings Are Down In April
- 08: Goldman Wrong on Rates, Zero Hedge Wrong on Oil As Deflationary Side of Biflation Begins Its Ascendancy
- 07: Too Big To Fail Banks Will Kill All Reforms
- 07: Why Gold Above $15,000 Per Ounce By 2020 Is Realistic Without Hyperinflation
- 06: Why I Covered My Shorts Today
- 06: Diamond Withdraws As Fed Governor Nominee
- 05: Market Views for the Week Ahead: Playing Defense But No Panic
- 04: The End of Sound Money and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism
- 03: Slow Pace Of Bank Failures Holding Back Recovery
- 03: Grim Unemployment Numbers for May 2011
- 02: Sinking Manufacturing Is A Stagflationary Trend
- 02: Silver Is Probably Overpriced
- 02: Too Much Complacency in the Stock Market
- 01: Rolling Down The Yield Curve: A Play In Zeroes
- 01: Home Prices vs. Gold vs. Inflation
May 2011
- 31: Case-Shiller Down 5.1%: What Will Stop It?
- 31: Poor People Control 61% of World’s Wealth
- 30: Daily Capitalist Caption Contest
- 30: Gold and US Treasurys
- 30: Mamet Is A … Conservative?
- 27: The Daily Capitalist on Fox Business News
- 26: Econophile On Fox Business News
- 23: Exited, Pursued by a Bear
- 23: Exclusive Video: Dominique Strauss-Kahn In Jail
- 22: Bernanke Will Be Forced To Do QE3
- 20: Which Performed Best Over The Past 15 Years: Zeros/Munis Or Stocks?
- 20: Attention Judgement Day Zealots
- 20: Home Prices Back To 1978
- 19: Must Have Stock Sectors In A Declining Economy
- 19: Chase Is At It Again: Moral Hazard In Action
- 18: La economía estadounidense está cayendo en una espiral de estanflación
- 18: Crony Capitalist Vikram Bandit Gets A Bonus
- 18: Conventional Economics Cannot Explain Chile’s Success
- 17: Industrial Production Declines–Again
- 17: End The Fed
- 17: What To Tell A 22 Year Old About Social Security
- 16: Who Owns Our Sovereign Debt?
- 16: NY Manufacturing Data Sinks
- 16: DSK Arraigned; Held Without Bail
- 16: Trump Won’t Run
- 15: The Economy Is Sliding Into A Stagflationary Spiral
- 11: Is Mish Correct in Predicting Intermittent Deflationary Periods?
- 10: Permanent Gold Backwardation: The Crack Up Boom
- 09: Changing on a Paradigm
- 06: Daily Capitalist Interviews Maria Bartiromo
- 06: Message To Bill Gross On Stagflation
- 05: The “New” Wall Street Risk Management Strategy
- 04: Message From The Land Of Conventional Wisdom 2.1
- 04: Message From The Land of Conventional Wisdom 2.0
- 04: Message From The Land Of Conventional Wisdom 1.2
- 03: Message From The Land Of Conventional Wisdom 1.0
- 01: The Daily Capitalist At The Milken Institute Global Conference
April 2011
- 29: Friday Bank Closing Report April 29, 2011
- 28: Hayek vs. Keynes: Round 2 Rap Video
- 27: American Exceptionalism And Standard & Poor’s
- 27: Why The Swedish Kroner Is A Good Investment Alternative To The Dollar
- 27: Case And Shiller On Housing
- 26: Inflation and Rising Prices
- 23: Too Clever For Words
- 22: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lote the Stock Market
- 21: Wages And Jobs Remain Flat
- 21: Taxes: More People Are Receiving Than Giving
- 20: ¡Ahora! ‘The Daily Capitalist’ En Español
- 20: Dump Trump
- 20: The Gold:Silver Ratio
- 20: Doonsbury Takes On Trump
- 19: The Great Flattening of Q1 2011
- 18: Is the Precious Metals Train Changing Speed or Direction?
- 18: S&P Threatens To Downgrade U.S. Sovereign Debt
- 17: Atlas Shrugged: The Movie Review
- 17: Santa Barbara Under State Of Emergency
- 16: Japan Disaster Update April 16, 2011
- 16: Friday Bank Closing Report April 15, 2011
- 15: Atlas Shrugged Tonight!
- 15: First Nationalized Bank
- 14: Bernanke’s End Game
- 14: Jobless Claims Rise Last Week
- 14: PPI Up Again For March 2011
- 13: Worldwide Inflation Is Impacting Recovery
- 12: On Treating Economic Crises the Way We Treat Heart Failure
- 12: Start Crying For Argentina
- 12: Budget Forecasts: Obama vs. Republicans
- 12: Thought For The Day
- 08: Current Data Reports: What Do They Say?
- 08: The True Cost Of TARP
- 08: CMBS March Loan Loss Report: Trepp
- 08: Stagflation Update: Focus on the U. S. and Brazil
- 07: The “New” Daily Capitalist
- 06: What Is Happening In The CMBS Market And Why Is It Relevant To Recovery?
- 06: Fractional Reserve Banking Debate: Part III
- 06: Inflationary Adventures in Extremistan
- 06: Argentina Is Heading Toward Hyperinflation
- 06: China’s Salt Bubble
- 05: The Republicans Finally Do Something: The Budget
- 02: The 5 Worst Promoters of Nonsense
- 01: Where Is Unemployment Heading?
- 01: America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
- 01: San Onofre and Sunset: Persistence of the Past
March 2011
- 31: Fed Reveals Banks Needing Money Post-Lehman
- 31: Microsoft Has No Honor
- 31: Employment Report Tomorrow
- 31: OECD Inflation Watch For February
- 31: Japan Quake-Meltdown Update
- 30: HAMP, HARP, HAFA: Help
- 29: Woe Is Housing: Part 36
- 29: Crony Capitalist Is Great Humanitarian
- 28: Consumer Spending and the Debt Problem
- 28: Invading Extremistan
- 28: The End of Sound Money and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism
- 28: Atlas Shrugged: The Movie
- 25: Fractional Reserve Banking: Some Comments On The Debate
- 25: Fractional Reserve Banking: A Response To Mish
- 25: Housing Bubble: Why China Has A Huge Problem
- 24: Crony Capitalism Strikes Again
- 24: Adios David Rosenberg
- 24: Jobs And Durable Goods
- 24: Gary Shilling Agrees With The Daily Capitalist
- 24: War Revives the Stock Market
- 24: The Fed’s New “Openness”
- 24: Adios Barry Minkow
- 23: Meltdown Update 3/23/2011
- 23: Miner Leagues
- 22: Fractional Reserve Banking: The Real Story
- 20: Ben Bernank Speaks: Translation By Adam Smith
- 20: The Future of Nuclear Power
- 18: Worldwide Inflation Is Hitting Home
- 18: Stationary Cycles
- 15: Safety First
- 15: Meltdown?
- 14: Indian Poker
- 14: Unbelievable Video of Tsunami
- 13: Japan’s Struggle To Recover
- 12: Another Look At The Spending Issue
- 11: Spending Cuts Put Into Perspective
- 10: Risk On Or Risk Off?
- 09: Wisconsin Passes Anti-Union Coercion Bill
- 09: Senator Paul Speaks The Truth On The Budget
- 09: NPR Unravels: The Movie
- 09: Gold Shines Brightest With Inflationary Growth
- 08: Is Unemployment Really Declining?
- 08: Housing Negative Equity Remains At Historic High
- 08: Commercial Real Estate Loan Liquidations Continue
- 06: The Great Immoderation
- 06: Thank You For Being Successful! Please Hand It Over When You Leave The Planet
- 04: QE To Infinity: Not?
- 04: Why Real Estate Will Hold The Economy Back
- 02: Things Are Sometimes What They Seem
February 2011
- 28: Getting Real
- 25: GDP: Nothing Is Ever As It Seems
- 25: Price, Time And Precious Metals
- 24: Voodoo Treasury-nomics
- 24: The Fed Will Never Go Broke
- 24: Spending Restraint Part II
- 23: Spending Restraint Part I
- 23: Selling The Rebound
- 22: Woe Is Housing
- 22: Are You Confident In The Future Of The Economy?
- 21: Stuff And Swag
- 21: Whither Durable Goods Orders?
- 21: With The Markets Closed, An Important Day For The Markets?
- 20: Massive Protests Threaten To Topple New Regime
- 19: Caterpillar And The Dollar
- 18: Friday Bank Closing Report February 18, 2011
- 18: Stranger And Stranger In A Strange Land
- 17: The Broken Window Fallacy: Consumer Metrics Institute vs. The Daily Capitalist
- 17: Bad Medicine: One-Year Review Of Obamacare
- 16: As Far As The “I” Can See
- 15: A Note On Inflation: It’s Here
- 12: Are Banks Lending? A Report From The Trenches Part II
- 12: Are Banks Lending? A Report From The Trenches Part I
- 10: Extremism
- 09: To Hell With Farming
- 09: The More Markets Change, The More They Remain The Same
- 08: SmartEconomics
- 08: Why The January Jobs Report Is Alarming
- 05: A Note On Unemployment
- 04: Why You Should Stay Invested In Real Assets
- 03: Is Manufacturing Leading A Recovery?
- 03: Bernanke Speech Translation
- 02: More Stimulus Spending To Balance The Budget?
January 2011
- 28: Friday Bank Failure Report January 28, 2011
- 28: “Something” Happened: What The GDP Report Means
- 28: Best Bailout Cartoon
- 27: Nothing Has Changed
- 26: Crony Capitalist Of The Month: Vikram Pandit
- 26: Gauging The President And The State Of The Union Speech
- 26: Mises v. Hayek v. Boudreaux
- 22: America’s Most Bizarre Taxes
- 21: Friday Bank Failure Report For January 21, 2011
- 21: Communist Monopoly
- 21: Olbermann gone!
- 19: Fraudclosure Non-Solution
- 18: China’s Property Bubble
- 14: Gasoline Wars
- 13: Is Inflation Finally Here?
- 13: Moody’s Warns U.S. On Sovereign Debt Ratings
- 12: Food Prices, Riots, And Starvation
- 11: CoreLogic: November Housing Prices Down 5.07%
- 11: Sticky Wages and Long-Term Unemployment
- 10: Turning Insanity Into Politics
- 09: Census Data Illustrated
- 07: What The Job Reports Mean
- 07: The Top Ten Trades Ever
- 07: Mark Zuckerberg: Time’s Person of the Year
- 06: Paul and Paul: The Government Is Bankrupt
- 05: Mercantilism in Economics: A Prelude
- 05: Bankruptcy Update
- 04: California Is No. 2!
- 04: Congressman Declares Worthless Piles Of Paper As Wealth
- 03: Something Is Still Happening
- 01: Happy New Year!
- 01: The Daily Capitalist’s Top 12 of 2010
December 2010
- 30: Holiday Spending Was Up–So What
- 28: Crony Capitalist of the Month: Peter Orszag
- 24: Happy Holidays!
- 22: Will The Tax Bill Stimulus Create Economic Growth?
- 21: A Poll: Did You Shop Online This Season?
- 20: Will The Housing Market Continue To Decline?
- 20: Small Business Confidence Index Jumps
- 20: The Baby Bummer Generation
- 20: Wordle Toy
- 20: The Law of Unintended Consequences Video
- 18: Friday* Bank Failure Report For December 18, 2010
- 16: Death And Taxes
- 16: Ron Paul Meets The Press–Finally
- 15: Your Chance To Question The Head Of The IMF
- 15: Why Unemployment Will Remain High For Years (Part II)
- 15: Entitlement Recipients Riot In Greece
- 15: David Stockman On Dylan Ratigan
- 14: Why Unemployment Will Remain High For Years (Part I)
- 13: Federal Judge Strikes Down Mandatory Provision of Obamacare
- 12: Sparks vs. Obama on Health Care
- 12: Who Says There Are No Jobs
- 12: Are Jobs Growing Or Stagnant?
- 10: News Of Nothing In Particular
- 10: Banana Republic Finance: Why Keynes Is Rolling in His Grave
- 08: Bank Credit Errata
- 08: Jon Stewart Catches Bernanke’s Lie
- 08: Should We Cheer Or Jeer Wikileaks?
- 07: What Is Happening With Banks, Lending, and Credit?
- 07: Another Austrian Theory Cartoon
- 06: The Federal Reserve: America’s Fourth Branch of Government
- 03: Where Are Economists On Gallup Trustworthiness Poll?
- 03: Jobs Report Fuels Bernanke’s Printing Press
- 03: How Capitalism Changed The World In 200 Years
- 02: Chain Stores Report Good November Sales
- 02: Who Got The Stimulus Money?
- 02: Who Got The Bailout Money?
- 01: Why Quantitative Easing And Fiscal Stimulus Are Unnecessary
- 01: Ben Bernanke: “My Head Hurts”
November 2010
- 30: Obama Proposes Federal Worker Pay Freeze
- 30: The “New” Economics Isn’t New
- 29: Post-Thanksgiving Economic Review
- 25: What You Should Be Grateful For On Thanksgiving Day
- 24: CNBC And Austrian Theory Economics
- 23: Dazed and Confused: The Fed’s Clouded Vision Of The Future
- 19: Friday Bank Failure Report For November 19, 2010
- 18: Conservative Affirmative Action
- 18: Will We Have A Merry Christmas?
- 18: Cognitively Dissonant Californians
- 18: Warren Buffett’s Humbug
- 17: Welcome to Mises Wiki
- 17: Obama and Hu Press Conference
- 17: Obama Replaces Costly High Speed Rail Plan With High Speed Bus Plan
- 17: A Thorough Explanation of QE2 From An Austrian Perspective
- 16: Why Investing Is So Unfair To Investors
- 16: My Kindle and Marcus Aurelius
- 16: Open Letter To The Fed
- 15: Something Is Happening
- 14: Debunking Obama Tax Increases
- 13: The Saga of QE and The Ben Bernank
- 12: Friday Banks Closings For November 12, 2010
- 12: Taleb Shreds Bernanke
- 11: Obama Strikes Out Twice At G-20
- 11: Obama: “I Don’t Understand”
- 10: Hot Money, Gold, Foreign Exchange And The Fallout From QE
- 10: Will the Next Recession Look Different from the Last One? (Assuming the Last One Has Ended)
- 09: Please, Sarah, Shut Up!
- 09: In Praise of Theory
- 08: Two Contrarian Reasons To Be Bullish On The Long Bond
- 08: Ron Paul Speaks – Wisely
- 07: Goldman and Bernanke are Wrong on Inflation
- 07: Government Misstatements About Billionaires and Other Gold-Friendly Actions
- 07: The Beauty of Critical Thinking
- 07: P.J. O’Rourke On Free Markets
- 05: Unemployment: Some “Good” News
- 05: Interview With Greenspan And Bernanke
- 04: Financial Media Busy Spinning the Results of Money-Printing
- 03: The QE2 Sails
- 03: The Election Results And Gridlock
- 02: I Dare Paul Krugman To Debate Austrian Theory UPDATE 2
- 02: Homeownership Rate In America Declines To 10-Year Low
- 02: Is Obama Keynesian?
- 02: Dumb Headline Of The Day
- 01: While We Are Waiting …
- 01: The World Awaits
October 2010
- 30: Obama vs. FDR: Compare and Contrast
- 28: Bernanke’s Conundrum
- 27: Are Banks Lending Again?
- 27: Currency ‘Agreement’ Lasts 4 Days
- 26: Goldman Says Fed May Need To Print $4 Trillion To Start Inflation
- 25: Fed QE and Historical Analysis Both Reveal Gold is Better Than Bonds and Stocks
- 23: I Dare Paul Krugman To Debate Austrian Theory
- 22: Friday Bank Closing Report For October 22, 2010
- 21: Germany Defies Keynesian Stimulus And Recovers!
- 20: Federal Reserve Paychecks Soar
- 19: Buffett Is Wrong On Gold
- 18: Is Retail Recovering Or Is It Just Inflation?
- 18: Fed: We Are In A Liquidity Trap Which Can Only Be Cured By Inflation
- 14: Unemployment And The Dollar
- 14: Humdrum: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
- 13: Why Short Duration Treasuries Are Overvalued But Long-Term Treasuries May Be a “Buy”
- 13: Crony Capitalist of the Month: Bill Gross
- 13: Postal Union Irony
- 12: Bernanke Is Heading Into His “Japanese” Phase
- 11: Is Residential Real Estate Recovering?
- 08: What The September Unemployment Reports Mean
- 08: Monetizing All the Debt, All the Time
- 07: Is Commercial Real Estate Recovering?
- 07: It’s Simple To Balance The Budget Without Higher Taxes
- 06: An Interview With Consumer Metrics Institute’s Rick Davis
- 06: Verizon To Sell iPhones!
- 05: QE2: The Ship Is Leaving The Dock
- 05: Failed Economic Policies Drives Drinkers To Cheap Booze
- 04: TARP Is Dead; Long Live QE
- 04: Current Data Survey Points To Stagnation
- 04: An Optimist In A Pessimistic World?
- 04: Hedging Against U. S. Dollar Weakness: Part III
- 01: D’Souza’s Rage Against Obama
September 2010
- 30: Will We Have Hyperinflation In America?
- 29: Consumer Confidence Takes A Dive
- 29: Democrat Bill Favors Unemployment
- 29: Sound Money Gaining Important Media Mindshare
- 29: Gold: Arguing with Mister Market
- 28: Would You Hire Larry Summers?
- 26: New Jobless Claims Rise
- 26: Where Are The Borrowers?
- 26: Stocks Increasingly Frothy
- 24: Crony Capitalist of the Month: Jeffrey Immelt
- 21: The Fed Speaks: September FOMC Report
- 21: There Will Be Dancing In The Streets: Summers Quits
- 20: Money Credit And Recovery
- 19: Hedging Against Dollar Weakness – Part II
- 17: Gold’s New High and Monetization of the Debt
- 17: Friday Bank Failure Report 9/17/2010
- 17: The Economics of Mass Destruction-Parts I and II
- 15: The Economics of Mass Destruction – Part I
- 12: Hedging Against Dollar Weakness Part I
- 11: A Movie You Must See
- 10: Stockman Says Tax The Rich
- 08: Urgent Letter To The President
- 03: Will Unemployment Continue to Climb?
- 03: Income & Spending Report Generates Illusion of Gains
- 02: Important Manufacturing Indicators Look Weak
- 02: Dr. Doom’s Latest Gloom: Double-Dip
- 01: Battle Between My Disagreeable Readers
August 2010
- 31: Good is Bad, Bad is Good
- 29: Are Stocks Finally A “Buy”?
- 29: The Evils Of … Cartoons?
- 29: Obama Administration vs. The Facts
- 26: Daily Capitalist Spreads Like A Virus
- 25: New Fed Proposal To Bankrupt America: Government Guarantee Of Entire ABS Market
- 24: Housing and Jobs: The Underlying Problems Are Re-emerging
- 20: China: Price Increases Coming
- 20: Friday Bank Failure Report
- 20: The Road To Stagflation
- 19: Welcome DoctoRx As A New Contributor
- 18: Why Small Banks Are The Key To Recovery-Part 2
- 18: Download For Complete Dodd-Frank Act Article
- 17: Why Small Banks Are The Key To Recovery-Part 1
- 15: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: The Triumph of Crony Capitalism (Final, Part 4)
- 13: Are We Facing a ‘Double-Dip’ Recession?
- 13: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: The Triumph of Crony Capitalism (Part 3)
- 12: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: The Triumph of Crony Capitalism (Part 2)
- 11: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: The Triumph of Crony Capitalism (Part 1)
- 10: Anti-Deflationists Win The Day At The Fed
- 10: ‘Broken Window’ Video
- 06: Mrs. Romer: Gone But Not Forgotten
- 06: What The Weak Employment Numbers Mean
- 04: Government Subsidies For Bloggers?
- 03: The Data Keeps Coming In Soft
- 02: Is A Shift In Fed Policy Coming?
- 02: The Newest Deflationists
- 02: Worldwide Economic Slowdown?
July 2010
- 31: Friday Bank Closings
- 30: GDP Sags In Q2 2010
- 29: Are Banks Becoming Utilities?
- 29: Feds Guarantee Zero Down Loans!
- 28: Fed Reports A Sluggish Economy
- 28: The Problem With Rosie On Inflation
- 28: Do I need To Remind You …
- 27: Why Keynesian Economics Is Internally Inconsistent
- 27: Is The Real Estate Market Turning Around?
- 26: Economists ‘Don’t Understand Deflation’
- 24: The United States: Export Powerhouse
- 23: Friday Bank Closings
- 23: If Everything Is So Good, Why Am I Feeling So Bad?
- 21: The Mandarins Speak
- 20: Banks Still Aren’t Lending; Credit Crunch Continues
- 19: Leading Indicators Have Turned South
- 16: Friday Bank Closings Report
- 15: Obama Says It’s The “Recovery Summer” But The Fed Says It Will Take 5 or 6 Years
- 15: Economists Disagree!
- 14: How To Start An Economic Recovery
- 11: Tales of Vegas Part I
- 09: Friday Bank Closings
- 09: Freedom Fest 2010 Las Vegas
- 08: Retail Sales Show Mixed Results
- 08: Consumer Credit Falls, Again
- 08: Is Today Similar To The Great Depression?
- 08: Keynes vs. Hayek: The Great Debate Continues
- 07: Are We Heading Toward A Double Dip?
- 05: An Outbreak of Fiscal Sanity in Europe? Insanity in the U.S.?
- 05: New Fed Monetary Stimulus Program
- 04: Government Spending Inhibits Economic Growth
- 03: New Gullwing Does Barrel Roll in Tunnel
- 02: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 01: Fed Economist Slams Econ Bloggers
June 2010
- 30: Open House in Montecito
- 29: Will We Have Inflation, Deflation, or Hyperinflation? (Download)
- 29: Nassim Taleb on Bloomberg
- 29: Will We Have Inflation, Deflation, or Hyperinflation? Part 4 (Final)
- 27: Will We Have Inflation, Deflation, or Hyperinflation? Part 3
- 25: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 25: Will We Have Inflation, Deflation, or Hyperinflation? Part 2
- 24: Will We Have Inflation, Deflation, or Hyperinflation?
- 22: Dear Reader
- 18: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 17: How The Tax System Works
- 16: Cool Music Video With Absolutely Nothing To Do With Economics
- 11: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 11: Should France Invade Greece?
- 10: The Latest Data On Commercial Real Estate Loan Losses
- 10: Foreclosures Reach Record In May
- 10: The Fed Funds NYC Restaurant Recovery
- 09: RealtyTrac: 3.8 Million Foreclosure Filings in 2010
- 09: Do Liberals Understand Economics Better Than Conservatives?
- 09: Federal Employee Pay or Why D.C. Is One Of the Wealthiest Areas In The U.S.
- 09: Is The Obama Administration Creating Economic Uncertainty?
- 08: The Power of Theory
- 08: How Bad Economic Theory Caused Santa Barbara Bank & Trust To Fail
- 04: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 04: May Jobs Report Is ‘Disappointing’
- 03: Mostly Flat: Reports For Thursday
- 03: Roubini: Economic Consensus Turning Down
- 02: Chávez Wields The Brutal Fist of Socialism
- 02: What Will Drive Manufacturing?
- 02: Why More Econ Majors Are Republicans Rather Than Democrats
- 01: Al and Tipper Separate
- 01: Firm Hires Kathy Ireland As Director of Securitizations
May 2010
- 28: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 28: Oil Drilling Liability Cap Led To The Gulf Spill
- 26: A Plan For Economic Recovery
- 25: Bailouts Didn’t Save Day, Deserve Scorn
- 25: Housing Prices Continue 6 Month Decline
- 24: Tax Credit Will Distort Housing Through June
- 24: New Forecast From ‘Professional’ Economists
- 24: Stock Markets, Cycles, and Dopamine
- 22: Seth Klarman Is Worth Listening To
- 22: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 21: National Unemployment Increases To 9.9%
- 21: Financial Regulation Bill Passed By Senate
- 20: Ten Percent of US Banks In Trouble
- 20: The Fed Has No Idea That It Causes Inflation
- 20: Jobless Claims ‘Unexpectedly’ Rise
- 19: CPI Declines ‘Unexpectedly’
- 19: Home Price Data Slipping: A New ‘Bust-Bust’ Cycle?
- 19: Al Gore: The Most Depressing Graduation Speech Ever
- 17: How The Heck Did GM Pay Back That Loan?
- 17: Fed Policy Stealing From Our Future Part 3
- 17: Wolves vs. PIIGS
- 15: Fed Policy Stealing From Our Future Part 2
- 15: Fed Causes Art Auction Binge
- 14: Daily Show on Banksters
- 14: Friday Bank Closings
- 14: Fed Policy Stealing From Our Future
- 13: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Interview
- 13: Why You Should Still Ignore Economists
- 12: Greece: The One Solution They All Ignore
- 11: Goldman Sachs and Helicopter Ben
- 11: Roubini and Whitney See Double Dip
- 11: Busy Day in the Senate: Fed Audit and GSE Reform
- 10: Fannie and Freddie: Can We Finally Admit the New Deal Failed?
- 10: Mortgage Problems Remain High
- 10: Save The Euro By Destroying It
- 09: Eurozone Bailout Cost: $955 Billion
- 09: Destroying Our Freedom To Save Freedom
- 07: The Friday Bank Closing Report
- 07: Employment vs. Unemployment
- 06: The 25 Minute Panic
- 05: Bear Stearns: The ‘Immaculate Calamity’
- 03: Spending, Industrial Output, and Recovery
- 03: Cato’s Dan Mitchell on Capital Gains Taxes
- 03: An Old Story: Justinian I vs. Economics
- 02: Data to Watch For This Week
- 02: Buffettapalooza in Omaha
April 2010
- 30: Friday Bank Closings
- 30: Perfectly Useless But Very Cool
- 29: Let The Reign Of Terror Begin
- 29: Napa Vineyards Tank
- 29: Message to Earth Day Doomsayers: It’s Getting Better, Not Worse
- 29: Stunning New Dollar Bill Designs
- 28: Obama To Nominate Three to Federal Reserve Board
- 28: The Specialization of Labor
- 28: Fed Keeps Rates Unchanged
- 28: A Look At The Goldman Case
- 27: Housing Reports for February
- 25: Unintended Consequences of Financial Reform
- 25: Foreclosure Inventory = 103 months
- 25: NYT: SEC vs. Goldman/Financial Reform Bill Timing is Coincidence
- 24: Daily Capitalist Adds Reading List
- 23: Friday Bank Closing Report
- 23: Government Program Massively Distorts Housing Market
- 23: Value-Added Tax: I Told You So v5.0
- 22: Revisited: Where is the Money Coming From to Fund Spending?
- 22: Treasury Harnesses the Power of Geithner
- 21: Romer Channels Keynes
- 20: Salt Is A Class I Drug
- 20: Where Is The Money Coming From To Fuel Spending?
- 17: The Goldman Thing
- 16: Friday Bank Closings
- 15: Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke
- 14: April 15
- 13: Morgan Stanley Loses $5.4B In RE Fund: Biggest Loss In History!
- 12: Is The Recession Over?
- 09: Cheerleading By The Media
- 09: Friday Bank Closings
- 08: The Daily Capitalist Now On Seeking Alpha
- 08: Trust Babies Beg For More Taxes
- 07: Buy This Bank
- 07: Things I Worry About: China, Geithner, and Tariff Wars
- 02: Unemployment Remains Unchanged in March
- 02: “How To Ruin A Perfectly Nice Country,” By Hugo Chávez
March 2010
- 31: Jobs, Recovery, and the Barrista
- 30: Consumers Draw Down Savings For Personal Consumption
- 27: New York Fed Official Says Incentive Pay Fueled Credit Crisis
- 27: Alonzo’s Rant
- 27: Health Care Reform: Things They Forgot To Tell Us About
- 26: Friday Bank Closings
- 25: Notes On February Data: Housing, Credit, and Inflation
- 25: Bernanke: It Is Still Not Working
- 24: Winning Hearts and Minds: Part II
- 23: What Do China and The United States Have In Common?
- 23: A Comment On Health Care Reform: Winning Hearts And Minds
- 22: Paul “Smoot Hawley” Krugman
- 22: See What They Have Done: The Myths of the Health Care Legislation
- 22: Failed Banks Update
- 21: Health Care in America: We Now Join Europe
- 20: China: An Infrastructure Anecdote
- 19: China’s Fragile Economy, Its Housing Bubble, and What It Means To Us: Download
- 17: China’s Fragile Economy, Its Housing Bubble, and What It Means To Us: Part III
- 16: Google: A Moral Company
- 16: China’s Fragile Economy, Its Housing Bubble, and What It Means To Us: Part II
- 15: Does Premier Wen Read The Daily Capitalist?
- 14: China’s Fragile Economy, Its Housing Bubble, and What It Means To Us: Part I
- 12: This Week’s Bank Closings
- 10: Dear Senator Feinstein …
- 10: Party Boy Roubini Worries About Double Dip
- 09: US Transportation Agencies to Lay Off 2000 as Funds Expire
- 09: Greece Cries Wolf, Again
- 09: Government Health Care Kills, Part II
- 09: FDIC Needs Cash, Lots of Cash
- 07: Are We in a Recovery?
- 05: Friday Bank Failures
- 05: CBO Says White House Underestimates Deficits
- 05: Government-Run Health Care Kills Thousands
- 02: Capitalism Saves Lives, Part II
February 2010
- 27: Friday Bank Tombstones
- 25: Expect The Unexpected
- 24: Support ‘America Saves Week’ or Spend?
- 23: It’s Supposed to Work Part II: Housing, Consumer Confidence, and Banks
- 22: The President’s Health Care Proposal
- 20: It’s Supposed to Work: The CPI and Further Adventures in Keynesian Policy
- 20: Latest Bank Closings
- 18: Fed Raises the Discount Rate
- 17: The Fed’s New Plan to Drain the Pond
- 17: Bernanke Disavows Money
- 16: Snow Day Gridlock
- 16: That IndyMac Video
- 15: John Stossel: A Shameless Plug
- 14: The Giant Redwood, The Larch … I want to be … An Anarchist
- 12: State of the Economy 2010 complete version
- 12: How to Get Rich in Real Estate
- 12: Another Conversation Between Econophile and Martin Wolf
- 11: State of the Economy Part III
- 11: Surprise! The Feds Just Discovered CRE is Freezing Credit
- 10: State of the Economy Part II
- 10: Does Anyone See the Humor in This?
- 10: Why Does Martin Wolf Want to Punish the Germans for Helping Greece?
- 09: State of the Economy Part I
- 05: Unemployment Falls to 9.7% (Did it Really?)
- 03: 824,000 Jobs Will Disappear on February 5
- 02: How To Fail
January 2010
- 31: New Music Video: The Government Can
- 30: Six More Banks Shuttered
- 30: 2009 GDP Declines 2.4%, Worst Year Since 1946
- 30: “If these folks want a fight, it’s a fight I’m ready to have”
- 28: GDP Numbers Come Out Friday
- 27: It’s Still Not My Fault and I Feel Your Pain
- 27: China’s Housing Bubble
- 26: Stimulus Bill Cost Now $862 Billion
- 26: S&P Threatens to Downgrade U.S. Credit Rating (er, Japan, excuse me)
- 25: Corporations and Freedom of Speech
- 25: Hayek Got Mad Truth
- 25: Barney Frank Wants to Eliminate Fannie and Freddie?
- 25: Do We Need Another Stimulus Bill?
- 20: More on the Brown Victory in Massachusetts
- 20: Warning From the World Economic Forum in Davos
- 20: A Very Good Morning
- 19: Avatar’s Big Tix Boffo Bombs with Chicom Film Czars
- 18: New Bank Closures
- 18: Avatar: The Philosophy
- 15: Capitalism Saves Lives and Haiti is Proof
- 14: Is Obama’s Populist Rage Valid?
- 12: Hugo Chavez: International Economic Clown
- 10: Dear Econophile: Advice For the Economic-lorn
- 09: Lassie! Is Timmy In Trouble?
- 08: The TSA: We’re Here To Make Your Journey Miserable
- 08: That Was Quick (2): The Rise of D.C.
- 07: Health Insurance Takeover?
- 05: That Was Quick: Northrop Moves To D.C.
December 2009
- 28: 2009: Why It Will Affect Everyone’s Future For Generations To Come
- 26: The Economic Impact of Deficits
- 15: Whither Gold, That Barbarous Relic
- 14: Visualizing Bank Failures
- 14: Never Speak Ill of the Dead, But …
- 11: Climate Change: Summary of Current Science
- 10: New Stock Exchange Opens in Africa
- 09: Dear President Obama, Here’s The List You Asked For
- 09: That Nice Mrs. Romer Is . . . Dangerous
- 07: Unemployment Map
- 07: Japan’s Government Encourages Unemployment
- 06: Cinderella Story, Outta Nowhere: Daily Capitalist Milestone
- 04: Nothing Is As It Seems: Factory Orders and Unemployment
- 04: The Incredible Bread Machine–Revisited
- 03: Why The Housing Market Is In Trouble
- 01: The Big Thinkers: The Brainy Awards
- 01: Econophile is Back!
November 2009
- 23: New Republican Presidential Candidate
- 12: On The Road
- 07: Mises: The Man Who Predicted the Depression
- 05: Is the Economy Recovering? The Curious Case of 1920 vs. 1929
- 04: European Health Care is Not the Way to Go
- 01: Stimulus Creates 640,000 Jobs: A Big Lie
- 01: A Cold War Cartoon
October 2009
- 31: Golf Carts: Obama Taketh With The Right Hand And Giveth With The Left
- 31: Bank Tombstones For Friday
- 30: Q3 GDP: Proceed At Risk
- 27: Ty Warner In Trouble: $425 Million Loan on “Credit Watch”
- 25: Coming Up on The Daily Capitalist
- 24: A Bohemian Bankruptcy
- 21: Heather Graham On Health Care Policy
- 20: Learn To Move Music Stands And Make $530,000 A Year
- 18: Nassim Taleb: His Solution Won’t Work
- 17: Money: A Semi Fictional Fable
- 16: Morgan Stanley’s Stephen Roach Fails Econ 101
- 15: Global Housing Cycle
- 14: Stop, Sheila! Stop!
- 09: Will We Have a Lost Decade(s) Like Japan?
- 09: Obama?
- 06: Site Software Updates
- 06: Fed Says CRE Loan Losses To Be 45% in 2010
- 05: Notice to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, et al.
- 01: How Brave of Goldman to Change Their Employment Forecast the Day Before the BLS Report
- 01: President Obama: Please Call Angela Merkel ASAP
September 2009
- 30: Looking at the Economy Through Gray Colored Glasses
- 29: National Sales Tax, Chapter 3
- 28: The Daily Capitalist and Zero Hedge
- 25: The Economy in Q3 2009
- 23: Global Economics
- 22: The United States of America vs. Andrew Hall
- 22: Economic Blog Bailout Bill
- 21: Exit Strategy: Can The Fed Stop Inflation?
- 19: Muddy’s Housing Recovery Map
- 18: Cap and Trade: We Can’t Tell Them it Costs That Much
- 17: Credit Is Shrinking?
- 15: Economic Megatrends That Will Drive Our Future
- 14: The New Deal v. 3.0: Tire Wars
- 14: The New Deal v. 2.0
- 12: Critique of “W” Bush
- 11: Don’t Call Me a Socialist
- 05: Unions vs. Workers; Fond du Lac vs. Stillwater
- 04: Econophile Talks to the Fed
- 03: Ben Bernanke on the Housing Bubble He Never Saw Coming
- 02: Economists and the Stock Market
- 02: Manufacturing Index Up; Inventories Reduced; Consumers Lag
- 01: The Fed Can Do That?
- 01: Evidence Proves Stimulus Works
August 2009
- 30: The Third Quarter Bump
- 30: Anatomy of a Deflation
- 28: U.S. vs. Europe, v.2.0
- 28: Ted Kennedy and the Death of an Era
- 27: Bernanke’s Reappointment A Mistake?
- 26: The Housing Market and the First Time Buyer Credit
- 24: Treasury Auctions and The Housing Market
- 23: Treasury Auctions This Week
- 20: Reluctant Shoppers Prepare Way For Recovery
- 20: We Are Not Alone
- 20: Debt Star
- 20: Why Is Deflation Bad?
- 19: Japan’s Second Quarter Mirage
- 18: Rose Friedman Dies at 98
- 17: Europe versus The U.S.
- 16: Dr. Doom’s Latest Views
- 14: The Problem With Economic Forecasts
- 14: Taleb and Roubini on CNBC
- 14: Tell It Like It Is, Part II
- 13: Tell It Like It Is
- 13: Happy Days at Treasury
- 10: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc*
- 10: Recent Economic Data Examined
- 09: What’s Another Name For “Health Care Coalition?”
- 07: So The Russians Took Twitter and Facebook Down?
- 06: China “Asks” For More TIPs
- 06: Home Ownership to Decline for a Decade According to New Study
- 05: Conversation Interruptus: Martin Wolf vs. The Daily Capitalist
- 05: White House Enemies List
- 05: The State of Economics Education in America
- 04: Peter Schiff on the Future of the Dollar
- 04: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Part 2
- 03: Cash for Clunkers = Cash for Unions
- 03: The Government Option is Not a Trojan Horse for a Single Payer System
- 01: I Am So Lucky
July 2009
- 31: Q2 GDP: Are We in Recovery?
- 30: Bank Health 2009
- 30: China Sends a Message
- 30: Geithner’s House
- 29: China Has a Problem: Us
- 28: Bank Loan Contraction Continues
- 28: Did Home Prices Go Up or Go Down?
- 28: Our Recession versus Past Recessions
- 27: Home Stats Continue to Improve
- 25: Charts and Charts
- 25: High Unemployment Until 2015?
- 24: Is the US Economy Close to Hitting Bottom?
- 23: Harvard’s Woes and Schadenfreude
- 22: The Fed’s Precision
- 21: Krugman vs. Goldman and Moral Hazard
- 21: 2.37 Trillion and Counting
- 20: Good News vs. Bad News: Which Do You Want To Believe?
- 19: Worldwide Energy Consumption Declines
- 17: The Future of the Dollar
- 16: Investing Geniuses: Cramer and Dykstra
- 15: Oh, The Irony
- 14: The Lucky 300,000
- 13: Taleb and The Daily Capitalist
- 12: The Other Half: Art and Wine
- 10: Obamacare
- 10: We Buy and Sell California IOUs
- 08: Long Term Capital Management v.3.0
- 07: Buy and Hold vs. CDs
- 06: Bank Liquidity Report
- 06: Biden: We Really Don’t Know What We’re Doing
- 05: How To (Really) Fix Our Banks
- 03: What A Deficit Looks Like
- 03: Unemployment Spaghetti Charts
- 02: Fed: “Deflation Won’t Be Tolerated”
June 2009
- 30: Home Prices Fall — Again
- 30: No Recovery Until Home Prices Stop Falling
- 29: Honduras and Democracy
- 29: Don’t Mess With the Dark Arts
- 26: The Truth About Consumer Spending Reports
- 25: The Health Care Debate
- 24: Nouriel Roubini Says U.S. Economy `Sort of Stabilizing’
- 24: Adios Have-a-Tampa
- 24: Why the Fed Didn’t (and won’t) Raise Interest Rates
- 24: The Great Depression: A Short History
- 23: Dandelions in the Weeds: Real Estate
- 22: Mr. Fixit
- 22: Ben: We’re Watching You
- 22: Apple 3G S: One Million Units in 3 Days!
- 19: Largest Credit Contraction in History
- 17: Deflation: U.S. vs. Ireland
- 16: More on Black Swan Investment Fund
- 16: Systemic Risk Council
- 15: John Maynard Summers
- 10: Econophile On-Off Line
- 10: The Massachussetts Model of Health Care
- 09: The Audacity of Failure
- 09: Was TARP a Fake Out?
- 06: Finally, Some Good News!
- 05: Unemployment and the Future
- 04: Why Bernanke and Geithner Aren’t Sleeping Well
- 03: The DC Kids
- 02: Do We Need An Automobile Industry?
May 2009
- 31: Mr. Black Swan Bets on Inflation
- 30: The Big Inflation Scare is Real v2.0
- 29: National Sales Tax Revisited
- 29: Rosenberg on the Recession’s Progress
- 28: The State of Our Deflation
- 26: Single Payer System
- 24: California: We’re Number One!
- 24: Bernanke: A Stunning Revelation
- 19: The Wall Street Journal Misleads Investors
- 18: Californians, Stop The Fraud and Vote No!
- 15: What Happened to the Green Shoots? (v.4.0)
- 15: The New Business Center: Washington, D.C.
- 14: Taleb Speaks at Merrill Lynch Conference
- 13: Todays Headlines: The Rest of the Story
- 11: Stress? Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
- 11: Meredith Whitney on Stress and the Banks
- 10: Tim Geithner on the Stress Test
- 09: Newspeak, Doublethink, and Taxes
- 08: Unemployment Hits 8.9% (Officially)
- 06: Inflation or Deflation?
- 06: Fire in Santa Barbara
- 05: Mr. Sunshine Calls the Turn!
- 05: Deflation in the California High Desert
April 2009
- 30: The Latest Numbers: Bad is Good
- 30: Ah, the French: President Obama, Just Say Non!
- 29: Green Shoots II: GDP Declines 6.1% 1Q
- 28: Why You Should Ignore Economists
- 28: Ron Gettlefinger: The New President of Chrysler?
- 27: Portfolio Magazine: RIP
- 24: What Is Money ? Part I
- 22: Green Shoots?
- 22: Flash: GM Headed for Bankruptcy
- 21: Economic Czars Cause Tighter Credit Through New Credit Card Rules
- 20: National Sales Tax: You Read It Here First
- 20: Fortune 500 for 2008
- 17: A Short Citizen’s Guide to Kooks, Demagogues, and Left-Wingers: A Reply to Robert Reich
- 13: Tax Freedom Day
- 09: Nassim Taleb on Avoiding Black Swans
- 08: Nominate Sun Wenguang for Nobel Peace Prize
- 07: The Wall Street-Washington Financial Complex
- 03: The Unintended Consequences of the New Mark-to-Market Rules
- 03: Keynesian Theory in Action!
- 02: Daily Capitalist Recants Conversion!
- 01: My (Surprise) Conversation with Paul Krugman
March 2009
- 31: The White House: Your New GM Dealer
- 30: Barack Obama: GM’s New Chairman of the Board
- 27: Weekend Miscellanea
- 26: Cash for Crap v.2.0: The Public Private Investment Program
- 26: The Chinese, Part II
- 24: The Meditations of St. Barack
- 24: Geithner: “This Plan Will Work”
- 24: The Chinese Aren’t As Dumb As the Fed Thought
- 23: Why Falling Home Prices is Good News
- 22: AIG Bonuses: The Cirque du Politique Comes to Town
- 18: Who is Barack Obama?
- 16: Another Explanation of Keynesian Stimulus
- 16: Professor Krugman and Professor Keynes
- 13: Stewart vs. Cramer
- 11: Obama Administration Plans Major New Controls Over Economy
- 11: The Mind of Mr. Black Swan
- 09: Tim Geithner Finally Comes Up With A Plan
- 07: AIG Gets $30 Billion Bailout — To Bailout Goldman Sachs?
- 06: Peter Schiff Yet Again
- 05: Jon Stewart vs. The Talking Heads
- 05: How Long Will It Last v.2.0
- 03: AIG Must Fail
- 03: Things to Ponder
- 02: Will We See a National Sales Tax?
- 01: Stimulus Explained!
February 2009
- 25: The Fed + Easy Money = A Petri Dish of Greed
- 24: Failure of the Anglo-Saxon Business Model
- 21: The First Four Year Plan
- 21: Robert Reich and the New Deal Religion
- 19: Rick Santelli Speaks Truth
- 18: Go See Cal
- 17: Why the ‘Do Something’ Stimulus Bill Won’t Work
- 16: If Our GDP Was Down 13% I’d Drink Too
- 14: Stimulus Package Explained
- 12: Why Do These Guys Get Air Time?
- 12: Suspend the Payroll Tax as Fiscal Stimulus
- 11: Warren G. Harding, Pt. II
- 11: Why We Shouldn’t Help Brent and Whitney
- 09: What Would Warren G. Harding Do?
- 07: Republicans Propose Nationalization of US Mortgage Market
- 05: Can Fiscal Stimulus Revive the US Economy?
- 04: You Gotta Love This Guy For Trying
- 03: Amity Shlaes and the New New Deal
- 02: The Obama Problem
January 2009
- 31: Clueless in Davos
- 29: Declining Home Prices: When Will It End?
- 27: The Daily Capitalist Has Arrived!
- 21: Smart Government™
- 17: BofA Bailout: Let’s All Start a Bank
- 15: Flash News: Econophile Not Hired By Obama Administration
- 15: Keynesian Stimulus Examined in Video
- 10: What’s Wrong With Mark-to-Market?
- 08: The Japanese Disease
- 07: $1,000,000,000,000
- 06: How Long Will It Last?
December 2008
- 30: Econophile’s Top 10 for 2008
- 23: Some People Never Learn
- 17: This is What I’m Talking About
- 17: Schiff on Fiscal Stimulus
- 17: Do We Need Another New Deal?
- 12: Bernie Made Off With the Money
- 08: There Will Never Be Another Depression
- 07: The Most Important Economic Issue of the Century
- 05: Black Swan Author on Charlie Rose
- 04: Smartest Guys in the Room, Part II
November 2008
October 2008
- 26: Taleb and Mandelbrot Discuss the Economy
- 24: Black Swans, White Swans, and Fat Tails
- 24: I’m Shocked that Greenspan’s Shocked
- 15: Credit Default Swaps Explained!
- 03: The Law of Unintended Consequences
August 2008
April 2008
March 2008
- 30: A(nother) Cautionary Tale: Or, if it’s too good to be true, it isn’t
- 23: The Chairman’s Report Card
- 12: Now What Do We Do?
February 2008
December 2007