Crack Up Boom?

A chart by Callum Thomas showing projected credit growth based on easing credit standards is in line with a boom, and an inflationary one at that. See Credit Growth About…

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Monetary Metals: Weiner on His Game This Week

Keith Weiner's reports, usually beginning with some macro commentary and ending with the supply/demand fundamentals of gold and silver, are posted each Monday over at Biiwii. Today it's this one...…

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Credit Managers Index: Credit Contraction

"There is quite obviously some serious financial stress manifesting in the data..." That is not me, the caution-toned risk manager writing.  That is a quote from the first paragraph of…

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Amid the Noise…

Amidst the din of every pitch man with an opinion on the markets (and these days everybody's a genius with an opinion) the big picture barometer to global economic contraction…

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Filter the Hysteria

I first became activated to start a website in part because of David Walker, the former top financial cop at the GAO.  Something was terribly wrong with America's chronic and…

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Raghuram Rajan’s Sneaking Out the Door (Raises Interest Rates)

The economist who predicted the financial crisis just sounded another alarm—it would be wise to listen this time

A good article (thanks Tom) about a good man trying to get out ahead of a rising interest rate world; India’s head of the RBI, who is raising interest rates while the US Fed keeps things stable for the rest of the world to start deleveraging.  Is this really what is in play, a world setting up to clean up its debts and inflationary excesses?

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