Showing posts with label US housing crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US housing crisis. Show all posts
Friday, February 27, 2015

Chart of the Day: China’s Housing Bubble Unraveling Faster than pre Lehman US Housing Episode

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Great chart from Fathom Consulting at the Alpha Now Thomson Reuters with the following observation: (bold mine) Data published ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Causa Proxima: Will US Shale Oil Debt function as the Modern Day Equivalent of Housing Subprime Mortgages?

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Every crisis requires a trigger, a causa proxima or events or “incidences which saps the confidence in the system” as historian Charles Ki...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

US Government to Control Money Market Fund Redemptions

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The US government, via the Securities and Exchange Commission, will impose restrictions on the movements or fund flows in the money markets...
Friday, July 26, 2013

US Home Builders Slammed as 10 Year UST Yield Rise

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In my post yesterday I noted that the rebound in US housing looks increasingly tenuous in the face of the continuing turmoil in the bond m...
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Saturday, March 02, 2013

Knowledge Problem and the US Housing Bubble

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The great Austrian economist Friedrich August von Hayek explained of the fundamental reason why central planning can’t work: the knowledge ...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Why Short Selling has been at the Losing End

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Short sellers have been at the losing end. Notes the Economist THE long-short ratio of global equities, a gauge of market sentiment...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Falling US Home Sales Points To QE 3.0

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The Reuters reports , Sales of new U.S. homes sank to a record low in February and prices were the weakest since December 2003, showing...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

The US Dollar’s Dependence On Quantitative Easing

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Since every central bank of major economies has been inflating, it’s a question of which central bank has been inflating the most. The obvio...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Negative Chain Effects from Regulatory Arbitrage: The AIG experience

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In the Freakonomics blog , Daniel Hamermesh commented on a review of Kat Long ’s The Forbidden Apple where he notes of how prohibitions hav...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Expect A Different Inflationary Environment

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``For inflation does not come without cause. It is the result of policy. It is the result of something that is always within the control ...