Japan – Passenger Car Registration Falls Most Since 2011
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 2nd of April 2016 to The Sounding Line. Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan has taken accommodative monetary policy to an extreme unmatched anywhere […]
Bill Gross – When Bonds Can’t Produce Capital Gains Other Risk Assets Won’t
Bill Gross of Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund spoke with CNBC and highlighted the risks to financial market returns when bond yields are at or below zero saying “Yields are negative. So instead of […]
Jim Rogers – Oil Prices a Result of Geopolitics
Jim Rogers had an interesting interview with Yahoo Finance where he expresses his opinion that the decline in oil prices had less to do with structural supply and demand issues […]
The UK – EU Referendum – What’s at Stake?
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 26th of March 2016 to The Sounding Line. A central argument put forth to oppose a British exit is the idea that membership in […]
Chinese Trade Data Showing Long Road to Consumer Economy
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 23rd of March 2016 to The Sounding Line. Despite surging oil imports and refined product exports in China (link here), both Chinese imports and […]
Jim Grant – Real Wages Can Gain in Deflationary Environment
Jim Grant spoke with CNBC on the the 16th of March 2016 on the subject of the Fed, inflation/deflation, and real wage growth.
Interest Rates and U.S. Federal Debt
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 17th of March 2016 to The Sounding Line. The Federal Reserve met this week to hammer out the next steps for interest rates. The […]
David Stockman – Fed & Health of Economy
Former U.S. Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman spoke with Bloomberg on the 14th of March on the appropriateness of Fed policy and the health of the economy
Wolf Richter – Global Real-Estate, Auto Loans, and More
Wolf Richter of wolfstreet.com spoke in a very informative and wide-ranging interview from the 10th of March 2016.
Home Ownership and Home Prices – The Concerning Disconnect
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 13th of March 2016 to The Sounding Line. Despite constant claims that the U.S. is in the midst of an economic recovery, a number […]