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Is the Fed Too Late Prevent A Housing Market Decline? – Chris Vermeulen (08/23/2019)

So, the reality is that based on our modeling system and our research, there are only two ways that the US Fed (and likely...

Tariffs Accelerate Trucking and Shipping Slide – Peter C. Earle (08/23/2019)

Trucking and transportation firms more broadly are both seasonal and cyclical businesses, and some of the earliest signs of damage from the current administration’s...

What Will Jackson Hole Bring to Us and Gold? – Arkadiusz Sieroń ,...

The 2019 Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole has begun! On Friday, we'll hear Jerome Powell discuss the latest monetary policy shifts. How will it...

A Wobbling Stock Market – Charles Hugh Smith (08/23/2019)

A third period of heightened volatility shouldn't surprise us. Consider this chart of the SPX (S&P 500) over the past two years: take a look...

Fake News: The Media Cannot “Cause” Recessions As Trump Claims – Source – Ron...

The president took to Twitter this morning to make a claim that doesn't hold any water about the economy and the media....

Real Savings Are the Key for Economic Growth – Frank Shostak (08/23/2019)

As long as the pool of real wealth is expanding, easy monetary policy will appear to “work,” and  loose monetary policy is likely to...