Monthly Archives: January 2012

As the usual suspects resume their long-always, perma-bull calls for stocks looking into 2012, we are reminded like Groundhog Day of every other January since stock markets began.  Always the same old forecasters calling for broad market targets magically 10%+ … Continue reading →

Measuring countries’ debt to GDP and why governments, such as Germany, is allowing massive de-leveraging, with Sean Egan, Egan-Jones Ratings Company founding principal/president & managing director.  Here is the direct link.

We live in a surreal world today.  Leverage has mounted in our financial system so much over the past 30 years, that today we toss around talk of billion, trillion and even quadrillion in order to express the state of the world … Continue reading →