Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘ Consumer Debt ’

Prepare for a Long Period of Downsizing

Aug 11th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Politics & Economics

What’s ahead? A “Lost Couple of Decades… ” says Comstock partners.



Robert Reich: This Will Be an X-Shaped Recovery

Jul 17th, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground

Or you could take heed of Bill Clinton’s former labor secretary Robert Reich. He reckons we’re not in for a “U” or a “V” or an “L” shaped recovery but an “X”. This from underground investor Jon Herring, writing for Investor’s Daily Edge:



Dollar Tree Set to Surge In a Frugal Future

Jun 16th, 2009 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Notes From the Investment Underground, Stock Market Investing

Consumer deleveraging has barely even started, says Payout Trader editor and Crisis Strategy Alert senior analyst Charles Delvalle.



Consumers Are Still Playing Defense

Apr 8th, 2009 | By Andrew Gordon | Category: Financial News

Consumers are feeling poorer, saving more and spending less. With the exception of refinancing their homes, they’re also borrowing less.



Marxism Marches On

Feb 4th, 2009 | By Dan Denning | Category: Financial News, Politics & Economics

The week begins with a bang, according to the Financial Times. The FT reports that, “The Obama administration is gearing up for a ‘big bang’ announcement within the next two weeks that will combine a bank clean-up with measures to reduce home foreclosures and probably steps to kick-start credit markets.”



More Profit Taking

May 28th, 2008 | By Chuck Butler | Category: Politics & Economics

Yesterday, I left you with the thought that the London traders had been buying dollars since they arrived back from their three-day Holiday weekend. The U.S. traders did the same… And I believe profit taking was the order of the day.



At the Center of a Snowball of Debt

Apr 30th, 2008 | By Richard Daughty | Category: Politics & Economics

“Total debt everywhere, like Old Man River, just keeps rolling along, like a snowball rolling downhill, getting bigger and bigger, which is such a strange mix of metaphors that I realize that I am completely confused and frightened.”