Chart of the Day: Putting Bitcoin in Perspective
All the bitcoin in the world is worth $41 billion, about the same as the net worth of Google Co-founder Larry Page
The Wealth Effect – Stock Ownership Has Plunged
The percentage of US households who claim to own stocks or mutual fund shares has plunged from 65% at the peak of the market in 2007 to just 54% today
Argentina Sells 100 Year Bonds – They Have Defaulted 6 Times in 65 Years
Via our Top News Stories Column – From Wolfstreet.com: Argentina Sells 100 Year Bonds As Wolf Ritcher points out, these are 100-year dollar denominated bonds from a junk rated country […]
Never Make This Mistake
Never make the mistake of believing that economic deterioration always sends stock prices lower. The Venezuelan stock market: If stocks are the least bad investment, people won’t sell them, some […]
If You Want to Understand What’s Going on With Politics, Watch This
I came across this speech about the US political landscape by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson via Maggie’s Farm this morning, and while the speech is a couple months old, I […]
This is Who Bought Equities in the First Quarter
A net total of over $306 billion of corporate equities were bought in the first quarter…
Art of the Day From Jonathan Plotkin
Via the great artist and cartoonist Jonathan Plotkin at Spontonist.com: “Since I came down from Oregon There’s a lesson or two I’ve learned By standing in the road alone Standing […]
Grant Williams: Pension Crisis is Biggest Macro Issue in US
Grant Williams believes that the greatest macro-economic challenge facing the US is the emerging pension and retirement crisis
Chart of the Day: How US Debt Has Changed
There have been dramatic changes in the composition of debt in the US since the housing bubble popped in 2008…
Lacy Hunt: Fed Policy Has Destabilized the Economy
Hoisington Investment Management’s Lacy Hunt, recently spoke with Mauldin Economics to discuss the effects of Federal Reserve Policy since the 2008 financial crisis. While Lacy Hunt holds that the Fed’s […]