Fortunately for its citizens, but unfortunately for those who think Sweden is still socialist, the Swedish government, more or less by universal consensus, turned sharply back toward capitalism beginning in about 1995. BY MICHAEL MUNGER Josh Billings famously diagnosed a problem with beliefs: “I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what […]
Submitted by Harris Kupperman of Adventures in Capitalism Miami has a highly cyclical property market where the magnitudes of the booms and busts dwarf anywhere else in the country. In my experience, trends in Miami real estate also tend to lead national trends by a few quarters. Therefore, smart guys always watch Miami. Roughly a year […]
by Jim Hoft President Trump yesterday announced that the US will increase tariffs on China and then ordered all US firms to begin seeking alternatives to doing business with China! The Chinese regime is in a lethal position and has only two choices. The regime can either give the US what it wants or perish. […]
Authored by Jake Dima via NationalInterest.org, New York City’s $15 minimum wage, which began to take effect Dec. 31, 2018, was meant to bolster earnings and quality of life, but for a lot of residents, it’s doing the opposite… Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation in 2016 to increase the New York York State’s minimum wage […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, So there is a lot of buzz that the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates – and it might actually happen. We’ll see. But if it does happen, it will directly contradict the carefully crafted narrative about the economy that the Federal Reserve has been […]
By JOHN BINDER A permanent 25 percent tariff on all imported goods to the United State from China would create more than one million American jobs by 2024, a new study concludes. The U.S. could undergo a massive, nationwide reshoring-jobs effort if it imposed a permanent 25 percent tariff on all Chinese imports, Coalition for a […]
Via Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), The manufacturing PMIs have become the holy grail of indicators for many market participants. ECRI’s U.S. Leading Index of Manufacturing PMIs (USLIMPMI) anticipates cyclical shifts in the ISM and Markit manufacturing PMIs for the U.S. to a 2 2/3-year low in June and the Markit PMI fell to a nearly-ten-year low […]
by Tyler Durden Pre-foreclosures are spiking in New York City according to a new PropertyShark analysis. On a quarter over quarter basis, they are up an astounding 31%. Analysis for New York indicated that the city saw 3,070 properties entering pre-foreclosure for the first time in Q2. According to the report, foreclosures are likely to increase in […]
Guest post by Ted Malloch, author of Davos, Aspen and Yale The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis just released this single snapshot of economic performance over the Obama years. What do you see? His eight years did more to destroy America than any of past presidents, be they Democrat or Republican. Look and study these few charts: Student […]
Elina Tarkazikis Cooling home price appreciation and growing wages may seem like good signs for house hunters, but home affordability still plunged to a more than 10-year low, according to Attom Data Solutions. Nationwide, Attom’s Home Affordability Index flopped to a reading of 91 in the fourth quarter, down 15% from a year ago and […]
