United States

By John Mauldin of Mauldin Economics

These 2 Charts Show the Next Recession Will Blow Out the US Budget

The weakest recovery in modern history has stretched on for 69 months.

By 2017, it will be the third-longest recovery without a recession since the Great Depression. By 2018, it will be the second longest.

Only during the halcyon economic days of the 1960s have we seen a longer recovery; but that record, too, will be eclipsed sometime in 2019—if we don’t see a recession first.

Ten Indications That ISIS Is A US-Israeli Creation

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The popping of the Greenspan-era housing bubble took about six years in total to fully “deflate”.

Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),

No Return to Normal

Overall, world stocks have held up well, despite cascading evidence of impending doom.

It has been a dangerous time for minimum wage waiters and bartenders. While on one hand, never in the history of the US has there been more "food and eating place" workers, and soaring with every month - if only in the BLS' in house statistical models to compensate for the manufacturing recession the US finds itself in...

... on the other hand, their corporate employers, alarmed by the recent spread of minimum wage hikes have been taking measures such as these: