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This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished.
Not even the seasonally-adjusted sentiment surveys can give a glimmer of hope any more. A few weeks after the July ISM manufacturing report printed at the lowest since March, moments ago the Markit mfg PMI index was released, printing at justt 52.9,
Investors who bought into Twitter's public debut officially dipped underwater today. On Thursday, for the first time, shares of the embattled social media company dropped below $26--the pricing set during the company's November 2013 initial publ
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index tumbled the most since February 2014, sending it below a trading range that has supported it for most of the year amid intensifying concern that global growth is slowing.
Jobs are strong, wages are a mystery and China risk is up
The US housing bubble was an attempt to cover up/recover from the dot-com bust. Now the US is in a financial bubble engineered to recover from the housing bubble debacle. Soon this bubble will burst. Only the date is unknown.
Some of you might remember the glossy highly produced advertisements back in the early 1980s when Wall Street decided it was time to turn American retirement plans into casinos.
If History Is Any Indication, Junk Bonds And Copper Are Telling Us Exactly Where Stocks Are Heading Next
As you're no doubt aware, the Fed is fond of using the research departments at its various branches to validate policy and analyze away bad economic outcomes.
The July index of leading indicators, from The Conference Board, cratered in July. The self-referential index (which includes Treasury yields) tumbled to -0.2% as the curve steepened. The last time it was weaker than this was March 2013.
A new report on the freedom of countries around the world ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S.
Federal Reserve officials said last month that while conditions for raising interest rates were approaching, they need more confidence inflation is moving toward their goal, according to meeting minutes that prompted investors to reduce bets for a Se
The Federal Reserve is putting some of its post-crisis actions under a magnifying glass and not liking everything it sees.
The rebound in U.S. home construction picked up in July as builders broke ground on more projects than at any time in almost eight years.
There is little that happens in society in general and the market economy in particular that most on the political "left" do not think needs more government intervention, regulation and redistribution to make "better."
In the nearby column Jim Quinn debunks Wall Street's latest claim that the American consumer is bounding back.
If you think the top of the list should be California, New York and Washington, you guessed wrong. The top three states, according to a new list of fastest-growing states for tech jobs: Minnesota, Utah and Nebraska. New York and California rank, but
Amid a recovery in the housing market, plus an improving economy and still-low interest rates, people have been increasingly more willing to spend money to fix up and renovate their homes.
A billionaire hedge fund manager linked to George Soros bought up gold shares after multiple financial experts warned a stock market crash is coming.
Doug Casey and Jeff Berwick Discuss Imminent Financial Collapse & A Brighter Future Beyond Collapse
Oil prices have hit six-year lows, and Cumberland Advisors' David Kotok thinks the worst may be yet to come.
It's not your imagination. Rent really is too high.
Oil prices are at a six-year low, and almost nowhere is the pain being felt more than in Texas.
Just two days ago we warned of the dramatic disconnect between equity insurance and credit insurance markets - at levels last seen before Bear Stearns collapse.
China's move to devalue its currency roiled the markets last week, and stoked new fears about the health of the world's third largest economy.
Many people have said to me in the past month, "I'm going to buy a home." Or, "What do you think of the idea of me buying a home?"
The price of crude oil hit its lowest level in 6½ years Friday amid concerns over a slowing economy in China, a huge energy consumer, and strong global production.
Asset price inflation, a disease whose source always lies in monetary disorder, is not a new affliction. It was virtually inevitable that the present wild experimentation by the Federal Reserve -- joined by the Bank of Japan and ECB -- would produc
Jim discusses the rapid drying of the Treasury bond liquidity market, the introduction of a new U.S. currency very soon, the BRICS challenge to the London-New York financial power base, criminal activity in financial markets, the global re-set of the
The business of betting on other peoples' lawsuits is heating up. I had lunch recently with 30 Under 30 honoree Jay Greenberg and his partner Max Volsky of LexShares, a legal-funding platform they launched last November.
