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"Companies are starting to do what they do when there is rampant uncertainty, which just stops issuing guidance." 

As the trauma from the Great Recession fades from memory, are Americans increasingly embracing one of the financial maneuvers that caused a great amount of pain a decade ago – cash-out refinancing?

Mainstream economics is moving away from grand theory, big questions,... toward small-scale, incremental, experimental, and largely atheoretical measurement exercises...

It is imperative to appreciate the exceptionality of the situation. Never before has the world gone into recession with interest rates so low and with the balance sheets of central banks so massive. This time truly is ”different”...

... the stock market still trades close to its highs and credit markets are seemingly placid. And yet, the first cracks are actually beginning to show up...

“With a synchronized slowdown and uncertain recovery, the global outlook remains precarious,”

...today's veritable alphabet soup of monetary policy tools (QE, OMT, TLTRO, APP, ABCP...) means that no asset class is free of distortion...

... thanks to the explosion in pork prices (as 'pig ebola' spreads), Chinese consumers are facing the highest inflation since 2013.

Major inflection points in consumer spending intentions have been a clear leading indicator to what awaits the US unemployment rate, and according to the latest data, Unemployment is set to spike to 5% in the coming months.

"Why is MZM parascaling a wall of worry? If you’ll forgive the deeply dissatisfying honesty, we can’t say for sure."

"Something like 50% of sows are dead." 

“We have a very good currency, it’s stable. Why not use it for global transactions?”  —Russian Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin

Few if any know the sordid story of one of the largest whole loan origination “malpractice schemes” to occur in the Housing Bubble era.

Is the "strong" US consumer about to collapse?

...the consequences are unthinkable for the authorities.

Socialist tyrants were the greatest mass murderers in history, and the young must be apprised of this melancholy fact...

The Federal Reserve will be adding assets to its balance sheet again, but Powell insists it’s not “quantitative easing”...

"This deal hardly resolves any of the major underlying sources of trade and economic frictions between the two countries"

"Not since the global financial crisis in 2008 has demand fallen for ten consecutive months. This is deeply concerning." 

"Every buyer's name will be publicly available under the state's Freedom of Information Law."