Diving Into the GDP Report - Some Ominous Trends - Yellen Yap - Decoupling or Not?

Yellen Yap On Thursday, Fed Chair Janet Yellen met with Senate Democrats at a private luncheon. She told the Democrats that the U.S. Economy...

Canada in Recession, US Will Follow in 2015

On January 21 when the Canadian Central Bank unexpected slashed interest rates, I wrote Canadian Recession Coming Up . Following the rate cu...

Greece Will Not Accept Bailout Extension or Deal With "Rottenly Constructed" Troika; Mish's Game Theory Math

Greece Will No Longer Deal with ‘Troika’ It now strongly appears as if Greece, Germany, and the nannycrats in Brussels are all on one hell o...

Financial Blogger Profile of "Mish" on Equities.Com

Daniel Banas at Equities.Com interviewed me last week via phone for their profile series on " the most distinct and noteworthy voices i...

Eurozone, Including Germany, in Deflation; Strange Times for Denmark, Deutschland and EU

Eurostat released HICP Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices statistics today. In spite of promising that deflation would not hit again, here...

Marine Le Pen Soars Into Lead in French Presidential Polls for 2017; Don't Worry, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

In spite of the Charlie Hebdo murders that raised the popularity of French president Francois Hollande and his staff, Les Echos reports than...

Conscription of People, Cars, Businesses in Ukraine for Mindless Slaughter; Entire Villages Leave to Avoid Servitude; Hop on the Bus Gus

Ukrainians Fighting Ukrainians Forced military conscription (slavery is a better word) imposed on citizens of Ukraine has reached new height...

Alexis Tsipras "Open Letter" to German Citizens Regarding Extend-and-Pretend Unserviceable Debt

Here's a story from January 13 that just came my way today thanks to a reader wootendw who posted a link as a comment to one of my arti...

Asset Price Deflation Coming Up? Food Prices About to Drop? CPI About to Go Negative? Credit Deflation?

When inflation alarmists want to convince everyone the dollar is about to become worthless, they post this chart of the CPI. CPI - Urban Con...

Slope of Hope vs. Reality: Greek Assets Hammered, 3-Year Yield Near 17%; Worst Day Ever for Greek Bank Stocks

Investors who plowed into Greek assets ahead of Mario Draghi's QE €60 billion a month bond-buying spree figuring the ECB could paper ove...

MarketWatch Infomercial: Can Millennials Finally Afford a Home?

The Outside the Box MarketWatch Opinion of Damian Maldonado is Millennials Can Finally Afford Homes with New Mortgage Rules . Let's sta...

Clash Over Sanctions: Syriza Opposes Sanctions on Russia, Calls Them "Neocolonial Bulimia"; Negotiation Rules

The Blowout Victory of Syriza has taken on some new meaning outside of Grexit possibilities. Please consider Greeks Rebuff EU Call for More...

Greek Payback Math at 0% Interest

Payback of Greek Debt Greece has something like €315 billion of public debt. Forget about that. Instead focus on liabilities as presented in...