Common Sense Declares "Something Far Worse Is At Work In The Economy"
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,
Today's stock market brought to you the number '25' and the word 'algo'...
What happened during the last FOMC meeting week?
Charts: Bloomberg
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Presented with little comment.. aside to note that every rip from a dip is greeted by the mainstream stock enthusiasts as a balls-deep buying opportunity in every oil & gas stock... only to be grossly disappointed a day or two later...
Stocks flip-flopped from USDJPY to crude as correlation-algo-in-chief...
But did stops just get run?
And credit is continuing to collapse as stocks bounce...
"Fool Me Thrice?"
Charts: Bloomberg
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Combine this regulatory burden with the decline of entrepreneurship, and you get a bubbling brew that is toxic to self-employment/small business.
Why has the percentage of the population that's in the work force declined so dramatically? It's a question many have asked, and Gordon T. Long and I attempt to answer in our most recent video program The Participation Rate Mystery--Solved.