The Curious Engineer

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December 2016

  1. Is the “Trump Trade” Already Unwinding?
  2. Who Exactly Benefits from Italy’s Ballooning Bank Bailout?
  3. “A Warning for Property Investors in Australia”
  4. Is the 2nd Half of 2017 when Sears Finally Kicks the Bucket?
  5. Scandal & Cover-Up Plagued Toshiba Re-Implodes
  6. Home Buyers Sapped by Soaring (but Still Low) Mortgage Rates, Sky-High Home Prices
  7. Deflating Manhattan Housing Bubble Hits Amy Schumer
  8. Bank Bailout Balloons, Tab for Italian Banking Crisis Soars
  9. Minimum Wages Jump on Jan. 1 in Cities & States. Here’s what I Think about it.
  10. New Census Data Shows Why the Job Market is Still “Terrible” (as Trump said), but the Numbers Get Hushed up
  11. Bundesbank Hauls its Gold back from New York & Paris Faster than Planned
  12. A New Crisis Is Brewing in Spain
  13. Canada’s Goods Producing Sector Caves
  14. World Trade Falls to 2014 Level, just in Time for a “Trade War”
  15. France Comes up with a Real Jewel to Prop up its 4 TBTF Banks
  16. Red Flag on Recession Crops up in NY Fed’s Coincident Economic Index
  17. Even Single-Family Rentals Sink in Once Hottest Markets
  18. Nightmare Before Christmas for Spanish Banks
  19. IPOs Have Worst Year since 2003, and the Dow is at 20,000?
  20. What the Heck’s Happening to Our Share Buyback Boom?
  21. “Car Recession” Bites GM: Inventory Glut, Layoffs, Plant Shutdowns
  22. TiSA: The Transatlantic Corporatocracy’s Last Straw
  23. How Will Homebuyers Swallow these Mortgage Rates?
  24. Italy Banking Crisis is Also a Huge Crime Scene
  25. Trump Talked, the Fed Listened: Let’s Shrink the Balance Sheet, Bullard Says
  26. No Demand, No Problem: Inflation Pressures Surge
  27. “This Indecisiveness We’re Seeing? It’s Fear”
  28. Foreigners are Dumping US Treasurys as Never Before
  29. Here Are the Multinationals whose Bonds the ECB is Discreetly Buying
  30. Currency Armageddon? A Word about the Hated Dollar
  31. Yellen Speaks, Yields Spike, Mortgage Rates Jump, Oil Plunges: But Why?
  32. Trump Tweets about China, US Businesses Freak out
  33. Treasuries Melt Down, Junk Bonds Boom, Yield Spreads Collapse
  34. So Who Gets to Pay for Italy’s Banking Crisis?
  35. Is it Just Trump Tower? Or is the Entire New York City Housing Bubble Unwinding?
  36. How Inflation Bites Much More than the Official Hoax
  37. Why the Peso Crisis Won’t be “Contained” to Mexico
  38. Government Bond & Mortgage “Carnage” Enters Sixth Week
  39. If Everything is so Bullish, Why Are Bank Insiders Dumping Their Shares at Record Pace?
  40. Who the Heck are these Households that are Worth $90 Trillion?
  41. Job Market Nearing Full “Recovery?” Here’s a Dose of Reality
  42. US Shale Set To Kill Oil-Price Rally
  43. Texans Close their Wallets, Houston’s Economy Gets Crushed
  44. Foreclosure Crisis Comes Full Circle? Biggest Buy-to-Rent Landlord Plans IPO (Despite Red Ink Everywhere)
  45. This is how the Fed Has Been Sneak-Tightening Notch by Notch
  46. Get Used to Lousy Growth AND Rising Rates: Fed Dove Dudley
  47. Italians Vote “No,” Renzi to Resign, Banking Crisis Now Looking for Taxpayers
  48. Why No One Will Even Try to Tame the US Healthcare Monster
  49. The Fix Is Already In, as Italy’s Moment of Truth Beckons
  50. Vancouver Housing Market Freezes Up, Sales Crash, Prices Sag, For-Sale Signs Proliferate
  51. Government Bond & Mortgage “Meltdown” Crushes NIRP
  52. The Great Unwind Unravels Hottest Rental Markets in the US
  53. Subprime Auto-Loan Delinquencies Surge to NY Fed’s Attention

November 2016

  1. Crunch Time for “Zombie Bank… on Brink of Collapse”
  2. Debt & Deficit Outlooks for France, Italy, Spain, & Portugal
  3. OK, I get it: Companies Clamor for Cheap Labor, Fed Delivers
  4. Sudden, Infectious Enthusiasm for “Current Economic Conditions” after Trump Called them “Terrible” for Months?
  5. Things Are Getting Serious in Mexico’s Corporate Debt Crisis
  6. What Happens “If the Boom Ends with a Bang?”
  7. Black-Friday-Weekend Woes End “Trump Effect”
  8. China Inc. & Billionaires Dodge Capital Controls via Global Buyout Binge. Government Not Amused
  9. Hit by Global Turmoil, Banks in Spain Get Jittery (Again)
  10. Black-Friday Woes: The Death of the Department Store
  11. Profits over People: How Big Pharma’s Money Affects Our Health and Wallets
  12. Shipbuilding in Japan, Korea, China Collapses in Death Spiral of Orders
  13. How (Slightly) Higher Mortgage Rates Maul Housing Bubble 2, Affordability, and the Rest of the Universe
  14. Strongest Pillar of Shaky US Economy has Cracked
  15. The Trump Effect on Americans’ Perception of the Economy
  16. Will Trump’s New Financial-Engineering Loophole Make Stocks Rally and Bonds Crash?
  17. Now it Begins to Unravel
  18. Why Billionaire “Philanthropist” Bill Gates Loves India’s Demonetization Program
  19. Italy’s Crisis Turns into a Multi-Headed Hydra
  20. Bond Carnage hits Mortgage Rates. But This Time, it’s Real
  21. Bank of England Trips over London House-Price Bubble, Hilarity Ensues
  22. It Gets Ugly in Houston
  23. US Pension Crisis: This is How Families Get Squeezed to Bail Out Pension Funds in Chicago
  24. What’ll Happen to Housing Bubble 2 as Mortgage Rates Jump?
  25. Who’ll Get Hit by Fallout from the $11-Trillion Commercial Property Bubble in the US?
  26. India Launches War on Corruption, Hits Cash, Chaos Ensues
  27. Why this Oil-Price Bust will Drag Out a Lot Longer than the US Oil Industry Claims
  28. Whiff of Panic in Miami’s Condo Market
  29. Here’s My Experience with Healthcare in Mexico
  30. Is Microsoft Purposefully Degrading/Crashing Internet Explorer to Bully Users into Upgrading to Windows 10 & Edge?
  31. The Global “Populist” Doom Tour Swings to Italy
  32. The Amazing Collapse of Russia’s Auto Market
  33. Will the “Rout” in Government Bonds Turn into Carnage?
  34. Financial “Hurricane” Trump Is Approaching Mexico
  35. What the Heck’s going on with Foreclosures? Why this Spike?
  36. This is What Happened to the “Trump Crash”
  37. The Chilling Thing Hertz Just Said about the US Auto Boom
  38. Trump Surges, Canada’s Immigration Website Crashes
  39. France Just Set a Very Scary Precedent
  40. This is How Consumers Turn into Debt Slaves
  41. This is “Unusual Outside a Recession Period”: New York Fed Grapples with Weak Demand
  42. Boone Pickens on Natural Gas: It’s the Way to Defeat OPEC
  43. Bitter Irony: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose have the Worst Roads in America, Worse even than Detroit
  44. Despite what Everyone Thinks, Biggest Threat to Mexico’s Economy isn’t Trump but Pemex
  45. Come on Moody’s, Spare us these Falsehoods: That $1.3 Trillion “Overseas Cash” is Already in the US
  46. What the Heck’s Wrong with This Market? Biggest IPO of the Year Sags to New Low
  47. “More than a Dozen” Drugmakers under Criminal Investigation for Price-Fixing, Shares Plunge, after Getting Crushed All Year
  48. How PE Firms Are Flipping Drugs in Price-Gouging Scheme that Cannibalizes the Entire US Economy
  49. Another European Bank Becomes a Penny Stock
  50. It’s Not a “Housing Crisis” for Everyone
  51. How “Risk-Free” Bonds Will Trigger Bloodletting in Bonds, Stocks, other Assets
  52. Is Merger-Mania-October the Classic Paroxysm before it All Comes Unglued?
  53. Done in by Overcapacity, Stagnant World Trade, and China, Korean Shipbuilders Collapse on Top of Taxpayers
  54. What the Heck is Going on with Rents?

October 2016

  1. Yuan Devaluation Triggers Exodus of Wealthy Chinese, US West Coast Primary Target
  2. Worrying Signs in the Oil Markets
  3. Here’s What’s Booming: $6.6 Billion Plowed into 2016 Election
  4. Italy’s Banking System on Verge of Nervous Breakdown
  5. EVs will Crush Jobs in Auto Manufacturing, VW Warns
  6. Next Step in “Irreversible Decline”? Exxon Books 38% Lower Earnings, Blames Refining Margins
  7. What’s Really Different this Time: Business Investment Drops to Lowest September since 2010
  8. Next “Bad Bank” to IPO in Spain, after 2 Prior IPOs Imploded
  9. Google Fiber Lays Off 9%, “Pauses” Expansion, as Alphabet Cracks Down on Costs, Division CEOs Quit
  10. Herd Behavior: Why Lack Of Patience Could Spark Argentina’s Next Crisis
  11. Bubble Mentality Collapses in San Francisco Office Market
  12. Why the Jobs Aren’t Coming Back
  13. Housing Bust 2? Low- and No-Down-Payment Mortgages Surge, “Shadow Banks” Dominate
  14. Venezuela Escapes Bankruptcy for Now… But Oil Production Continues To Plunge
  15. Smartwatch is Dead, Market Implodes, Apple Watch Shipments Collapse
  16. How the Ballooning “Pension Crisis” Will Impact the Economy
  17. Italy’s Banking Crisis Gets Addressed: How to Conceal a Problem that Threatens to Engulf the Entire Eurozone
  18. I Went to a Wells Fargo Branch, this is What Happened Next
  19. Tiny Region of Wallonia in Small Country of Belgium Trips up Global Corporatocracy
  20. China House Price Bubble Soars Most Ever, Government Freaks out, Preannounces Plunge
  21. Is Chicago’s Housing Market Next?
  22. To Some, it “Feels More Like a Crash”
  23. Who Benefits from the Wind-Power Boom in the US?
  24. Who’s Powering the War on Cash?
  25. US Freight Volume Drops to Lowest Level since 2009, “Industrial Recession” Hits Full Stride, Overcapacity Crushes Rates
  26. EVs May Send Big Oil into “Investor Death Spiral”: Fitch
  27. Shadow Banks, No-Down-Payment Subprime Mortgages in Canada’s House Price Bubble
  28. The Economy is Cracking under Too Much Debt
  29. It Starts: Shutdowns, Production Cuts, Layoffs at Auto Plants
  30. Is this Why US Industrial Companies Don’t Invest?
  31. Rattled German CEOs Seek “Revival of Germany Inc.” as “Protective Wall” against US and China
  32. Why Italy’s Banking Crisis is Spiraling to Heck
  33. Biggest Nuclear Boondoggle Ever: Taxpayers, Pull out Your Wallet, Costs Exploded Again
  34. Layoffs Hit Craft Brewer, as Big Beer, Big Money, Overcapacity Rattle American Craft Beer Market
  35. The Amazing Down Spiral of Atlanta Fed’s Q3 GDPNow Forecast
  36. “Worst Labor Market” on Earth: Spain’s Jobs “Recovery” Could Hit the Rocks
  37. There’s No Plateau in a Housing Bubble, Not Even in Canada
  38. Rail Freight Gets Clocked from all Sides in this Economy
  39. Apple Mac Shipments Plunge, even as PC Shipments Rise from the Dead
  40. What the Heck’s Going on with the New Global Reserve Currency, the Chinese Yuan?
  41. Hard-Brexit Fears Begin to Rattle the “City of London”
  42. These Debt & Rent Slaves Get Blamed for the Lousy Economy
  43. “Credit Squeeze” Planned in China to Deflate Housing Bubble?
  44. Reek of Desperation Surrounds EU Banks, Regulators Prepare for “Derivatives Clearing Crisis”
  45. Texans Are Cutting Back, Wheels Come off Houston Economy
  46. I Need Your Feedback about WOLF STREET Email Updates
  47. Fed Vice Chair Fischer Admits Fed is Waiting for Godot
  48. UBS: Liar Loans Surge in Australia’s Housing Bubble, Pose Risk to Big Four Banks, “Financial Stability”
  49. How Big Pharma Censors the Internet
  50. The Great Debt Unwind: Business Bankruptcies Soar 38%
  51. Kicking Cans Down Long, Empty Roads, Spanish Style
  52. Vancouver Housing Bubble Bursts, Hot Money Flees to Toronto
  53. Heavy Truck Orders Plunge, Worst September since 2009
  54. Could the Bottom Fall out of this Oil Rally?
  55. Rescue of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi Gets ‘Dark’ & ‘Complicated’
  56. Owners at “Leaning Tower of San Francisco” Knock Condo Values to Zero
  57. Subprime Auto-Loan Backed Securities Turn Toxic
  58. App-Maker Unicorn Tries to “Disrupt” Residential Real Estate
  59. Restaurant Industry, Leading Indicator of US Economy Sours, Bankruptcies Pile up
  60. This is Why US Gov. Deficit Numbers are a BIG Lie
  61. Stealth Bailout of 2 Franken-Banks Now Happening in Spain

September 2016

  1. Rents Sink in San Francisco, New York. “Mixed” Nationally
  2. I’m in Awe of How Fast Deutsche Bank is Falling Apart
  3. The Loophole for Deutsche Bank’s Bailout: Game almost Over?
  4. Wells Fargo Getting Clocked by California: What, No Perp-Walk?
  5. Sinkhole City Chicago in Worse Fiscal Shape than Detroit?
  6. EU Banking Mayhem, One Bank at a Time, then All at Once
  7. The Endpoint of Automation
  8. “Negative Growth” of Real Wages is Normal for Much of the Workforce, and Getting Worse: New York Fed
  9. Small Banks Must Go: Megabank-Meister Draghi
  10. Deutsche Bank in Free Fall. Shares, CoCo Bonds Plunge. Merkel Gives Cold Shoulder on Bailout. Bank Denies Everything
  11. In Miami Condo Glut, Preconstruction Resale Market Freezes up
  12. The Secrets of Commenters & Comment Readers on WOLF STREET (and the Entire Financial Media)
  13. As Default Looms, Venezuela Pushes Highly Dubious Oil Deals
  14. No-Exit Policies: Central Banks Make Mess, Can’t Get Out
  15. Canadian Housing Bubble, Debt Stir Financial Crisis Fears
  16. World Trade Grinds Lower, Hits 2014 Levels
  17. Time to “Be Alarmed” about Emerging Market Debt: UN
  18. OECD Warns Fed, BOJ, ECB of Asset Bubbles, “Risks to Financial Stability,” Pinpoints US Stocks & Real Estate
  19. This is Why the Job Market Stinks, but No One is Talking about it
  20. Mexican Peso Plunges against Dollar, in Toxic Cocktail of Forces
  21. Recession Watch: US Freight Drops to Worst Level since 2010, “Excess of Capacity” Crushes Rates
  22. “Or We’ll Lose the Whole Middle Class”: Gallup CEO
  23. How Italy’s Banking Woes Could Crush Already Faltering Domestic Demand
  24. Chinese Consider Home Prices “High and Hard to Accept,” but Buying Frenzy Surges
  25. Amazon Algorithm Makes Decision about WOLF STREET, Hilarity Ensues
  26. Why Hanjin’s Zombie Collapse Won’t Be the Last One
  27. Italian Banking Crisis Turns into Mission Impossible
  28. “We had a lot of Drama in the Markets this Week,” Thanks to the Bank of Japan
  29. Dear Reader, Are You Missing Out on Our Comments?
  30. Deutsche Bank’s CoCo Bonds Speak of Fear of the Worst
  31. “Pension Crisis”: This is How You’ll Bail out Municipal Pension Funds
  32. “Where’s the Money Gone?” Rescue of Spain’s Biggest-Ever Corporate Bankruptcy Stumbles in Mexico
  33. That 5.2% Jump in Household Income? Nope, People Aren’t Suddenly Getting Big-Fat Paychecks
  34. “Crazy Things” Happen with Bond Math at ZIRP & NIRP
  35. Self-Driving Vehicle Revolution to Wipe Out 4 Million Jobs
  36. The Chilling Thing CEOs of Corporate America Said about Jobs
  37. After Donating 4 Times to Hillary’s Campaign, Fed Governor Tries to Prop up the “Financial Markets”
  38. Another Big Central Bank Warns on Housing Bubble, Frets about Risks to Banks, Blows Whistle on Stimulus
  39. Barcelona just Declared War on Airbnb (and its Hosts)
  40. Fed Dove Frets about Asset Bubbles, Wall Street Freaks out
  41. German Exports Plunge 10% Overall, 14% to Non-EU Countries
  42. Dell-EMC to Lay Off 2,000 – 3,000 US Workers after Requesting 5,000 H-1B Visas & Green Cards to Import Foreign Workers
  43. Goldman Sachs Just Launched Project Fear in Italy
  44. “Tech” Paid $5 Billion in Fees to Wall Street in 2016, and Look What it Got for it
  45. The Great Debt Unwind Beneath the Surface: US Commercial Bankruptcies Soar
  46. Crude Oil Freight Rates Plunge to Record Lows
  47. EU Launches New Power Grab, to Roaring Public Approval
  48. Household Discretionary Spending Stuck in 4-Year Quagmire
  49. “Zombie Apocalypse”: The Hanjin Bailout that Didn’t Happen
  50. Canadian Auto Industry is in for a Rough Ride
  51. The 11 Ghastly Things I Got out of NSO Group’s iPhone Hack
  52. How a Small-ish Stock Market Swoon Might Unleash the Next Credit Nightmare
  53. It Starts: Rents Drop in 10 of the Top 12 US Markets
  54. No “Free Money for All,” only for Corporations & Governments; Consumers Need Not Apply: ECB’s Nowotny

August 2016

  1. Sinkhole City Chicago: Taxpayers Sensing Greater Slice of Flesh Being Stripped off their Bones?
  2. Worst Plunge in Canada’s GDP since 2009
  3. “If You Own a Home in Palo Alto, CA, Sell it Now”
  4. What Rail Freight Volume just Said about China
  5. Fear Spreads of a Housing Crash in Canada
  6. QE, End of the Private Sector? Japanese Government Now Largest Shareholder of 474 Big Companies
  7. New Leak Confirms: Brussels Has Learnt Nothing from Brexit
  8. The 11 Bone-Chilling Things I Gleaned from Yellen’s Chart
  9. Japan Mega-Pension Fund Dives into Stocks, Foreign Assets, Loses Shirt. People Not Amused
  10. Pemex Collapse Threatens Biggest Banks in Mexico
  11. Bank of Japan Prepares for Crash Triggered by Fed Tightening
  12. Did Moody’s Just Sever Energy Giant’s Last Life Line?
  13. Toxic Mix in Fed’s Asset Bubble Nirvana: Hedge Funds on Track this Year for Second-Highest Redemptions in History!
  14. This is What’s Wrong with US Oil
  15. World Trade Falls for Second Quarter in a Row
  16. Suddenly Scared of Vancouver’s Commercial Property Bubble?
  17. What the Heck Happened to Pokémon Go?
  18. “Mother of all Shorts” when Stocks Cave to Reality?
  19. Revealed: ECB Secretly Hands Cash to Select Corporations
  20. New SEC Money-Market Fund Rules Forcing a Liquidity Squeeze?
  21. ‘A Good Reason Not to Panic’ about July’s Plunging Home Sales
  22. We’ve Entered the Twilight Zone in Oil
  23. The Impossible Italian Job
  24. The Biggest American Layoff Queens in 2016 “So Far”
  25. Business Loan Delinquencies Rock Past Lehman Moment Level
  26. Canadian Debt Slaves Pile it on, Millennials Fall Behind
  27. Why China’s Multi-Decade Manufacturing Miracle is Over
  28. With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy
  29. Cisco to Lay Off 14,000. No Growth, No Problem: Stock at 9-Year High
  30. Are Big Health Insurers Screwing with Consumers, Businesses?
  31. The “Housing Crisis” in San Francisco Strangles Demand
  32. How Can Stock Market Jockeys Be This Stupid?
  33. The Pooh-Poohed Doom-and-Gloom Scenario for Miami’s Condo Bubble and its Lenders Has Arrived
  34. UK’s Nuclear Future Threatened by Chinese Espionage, Brexit
  35. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, “Other Banks” Ask Fed to Let them Dodge the Volcker Rule till 2022
  36. Get Ready for More OPEC Rumors this Month
  37. Nightmare at the Mall: Brick-and-Mortar Retail Totally Loses it
  38. Saudi Arabia about to Buckle in Oil Price War?
  39. Big Unwind Begins in San Francisco, Miami, New York, Houston: Rents in “Primary Markets” Sunk by Apartment & Condo Glut
  40. Profits Plunge, Sales Drop at Macy’s. Slashes Jobs, Closes Stores. Stock Jumps 18%
  41. Wendy’s CEO Blames Rising Inflation, Falling Wages, Election Mayhem for Restaurant Sector “Slowdown”
  42. When Will the Record Corporate “Debt Binge” Collapse?
  43. This is When the Jobs “Recovery” Goes KABOOM
  44. China Furious, French Energy Giant Desperate, as UK Stalls $24bn Nuclear Deal
  45. Chilling Thing Twitter Said about San Francisco’s Office Bubble
  46. It’s Getting Uglier in Spain
  47. City of London Office Values Plunge 6% in One Month
  48. LEAKED: Who Profits the Most from Italy’s Banking Crisis?
  49. Why this Job Market is Still Terrible: The Politically Incorrect Numbers Everyone is Hushing up
  50. Big European Banks Try to Block Contagion from Italian Banking Crisis (Before it Sinks them)
  51. Whiff of Panic among Australia’s Biggest Banks?
  52. “Shockingly, Boards of Directors Encourage this”: Gallup CEO
  53. Vancouver Housing Bubble, Meet Pin
  54. Is the “Leaning Tower of San Francisco” the Only One?
  55. This is a Warning Sign for Stocks
  56. Despite Shady Accounting, Construction Giant Suffers Rout
  57. Junk Bond Issuance Collapses in the US and Europe
  58. “We’re Not Dangerous”: Deutsche Bank’s Chief Risk Officer

July 2016

  1. “Stock Markets Should be Down Massively,” but Investors “Hypnotized that Nothing Can Go Wrong”
  2. Did Germany Just Blink?
  3. The Massive Prop Barely Holding up the US Economy Cracks
  4. Another Retailer Leveraged Buyout Bites the Dust
  5. The American Dream Plunges to Record Low
  6. US Government Mucks up Money-Laundering in Real Estate, Puts Luxury Housing Bubbles at Risk
  7. In this Market, Short Sellers who Cannot CAUSE a Stock to Crash are Cannon Fodder
  8. Contagion from Italy’s Bank Meltdown Spreads
  9. Stocks Were Already Crashing the Last Two Times this Happened. So What Gives?
  10. Crude Oil Markets Smell a Rat
  11. Why this Spike Will Perforate Yield Chasers
  12. Is the ECB out of Control?
  13. Whither Texas: Boom or Bust or Both?
  14. It Starts: First Mega-Foreclosure Hits Houston Office Market
  15. Global Trade Meets Ugly Reality
  16. Look Who’s Frantically Demanding that Taxpayers Stop Italy’s Bank Meltdown
  17. How the Oil Bust is Crushing a Downtown of Office Towers
  18. Here’s What’s so Crazy about this Stock Market
  19. US Credit Conditions Drop to Worst Level since Q3 2009, Markets Soar
  20. Americans’ Economic Gloom Festers as Stocks Hit New High: Gallup Stumped
  21. Russia Cracks Down on Internet Freedom
  22. Which European Bank is Most Exposed to Fallout in Turkey?
  23. Nightmare on Wall Street: Republicans & Democrats Agree on Reinstating Glass-Steagall Act
  24. London Housing Bubble Melts Down
  25. LEAKED: UBS, other Banks “Scrutinized” by Singapore over Money Laundering in 1MDB Scandal
  26. Why this Won’t Work out for Spain
  27. How & by How Much Big Pharma Fools Investors
  28. This is What’s Cannibalizing the US Economy
  29. Wealthy US Consumers Hit by Brexit & Global “Uncertainty”
  30. The Global Oil Glut Gets Uglier
  31. Stocks Will Crash – and Crush (California’s) Pension Funds & Taxpayers: Report
  32. Spain’s Banks are Suddenly “Too Broke To Fine”
  33. The “Mass Psychosis” in Bonds Takes a New Twist
  34. Race to Displace “City of London” Turns into Feeding Frenzy
  35. Great American Oil Bust Rages on; Defaults, Bankruptcies Soar
  36. Why this Won’t Work out: Rampant Rent Inflation Collides with Stagnant Incomes
  37. Congress: “Too Big to Jail: Inside the Obama Justice Department’s Decision Not to Hold Wall Street Accountable”
  38. Global Investment to Plunge, Trade to Languish, on “Depressed” Demand: G-20 Trade Ministers
  39. Who’s Most Afraid of Contagion from Italy’s Bank Meltdown?
  40. Keep an Eye on the Dollar: It’s More Important than Ever
  41. Fear, Loathing & Record Money-Making in Government Bonds
  42. Brexit Plows into British Consumers, Economy to Spiral Down
  43. Is this What Hit Housing in San Francisco, Manhattan, and Miami? Suddenly, Foreign Investors Pull Back…
  44. Did the EU just Kill Trade Pacts CETA and TTIP with Canada & the US? Or is it a Perfect Trap?
  45. I’m in Awe at How Fast Deutsche Bank is Coming Unglued
  46. The Big Unravel: US Commercial Bankruptcies Skyrocket
  47. This Company Is Stealing Value From Its Shareholders
  48. Teardowns and Shadow-Flipping: Living Inside the Insane Vancouver Housing Bubble
  49. These 2 Forces Will Crush the San Francisco Housing Bubble
  50. Investor Fears Spike as Italy (and the EU) Inch Closer to Doomsday Scenario
  51. So What’s Going on with Inflation in Argentina?
  52. Do Oil Markets Signal A Global Downturn?
  53. LEAKED: Japan’s Mega-Pension Fund Plows into Stocks, Eats $50Bn Loss, Tries to Hide it till after Election
  54. Desperately Trying to Salvage Canada-EU Trade Pact after Brexit, EU Escalates Assault on Democracy
  55. What the Heck is Happening to Junk Bonds?
  56. Bullish Sheen on Oil Markets Wears off
  57. It Gets Real: Manhattan Apartment Sales Plunge
  58. As Fears of “Bank Run” Escalate, Italian Banks Get €150 Billion Bailout of Empty Promises

June 2016

  1. Cryptocurrency Crash
  2. NIRP Absurdity Soars after Brexit, Hits $11.7 Trillion
  3. Who Really Holds the Cards in the EU-Brexit Stand-off?
  4. When Markets Sour, Stuff Suddenly Oozes from the Woodwork
  5. How Vulnerable is the Shaky US Economy to Brexit Fallout and European Bank Meltdown?
  6. European Banks Get Crushed, Worst 2-Day Plunge Ever, Italian Banks to Get Taxpayer Bailout, Contagion Hits US Banks
  7. ECB Blows €400bn on “Brexit Black Friday” Bank Bailouts
  8. Brexit Blowback Hits Italian and Spanish Banks
  9. Not a Plunge but a Long, Slow Grind Lower
  10. UK Pound Collapses, Nikkei, European Futures Crash, Oil Dives, Gold & Bonds Soar as Brits Choose “Leave”
  11. Here’s What Fueled the Rally in Stocks since February
  12. Worst “Zombie States” in America “Deteriorate Faster, Further”
  13. Even if Brexit Vote Wins, there may be No Brexit: Daiwa
  14. Is the EU Preparing for Another Stealth Coup?
  15. From Investment-Grade to Bankruptcy in 4 Months: Why Ratings Agencies are Still a Joke
  16. NY Fed Warns about Booming Subprime Mortgages, now Insured by the Government
  17. US Freight Drops to Worst May since 2010
  18. End in Sight for Alaska’s Oil-Based Economy?
  19. Share-Buyback Announcements Plunge, Stocks Risk Getting Clocked
  20. What the Heck’s Going on in Global Stocks?
  21. Day of Reckoning for Banks in Italy, Spain, & Portugal Kicked Down the Road (Elegantly) for 18 Months
  22. Turns out, OPEC Isn’t Dead Yet
  23. Age Discrimination on LinkedIn Hitting ever Younger Ages?
  24. How the Government Hides Inflation, as Housing Costs Soar
  25. Dollar-Peso Woes Re-Hit Mexico, with a Vengeance
  26. OK, I Get it, the US is a Service Economy, but this Looks Terrible
  27. Why this Economy Feels Even Crummier than the Data
  28. Brexit Chaos to Serve as Cover for ECB Bank Bailouts
  29. NIRP Absurdity Sets Record, Euro Stocks Drown in Bear Market
  30. These Debt Slaves are the Government’s Largest Asset Class, and it will Haunt the Economy for Years
  31. Why US Coal Production Collapsed to Lowest Level since 1981
  32. Even Central Bankers Begin to Despair of the Draghi Effect
  33. What Dun & Bradstreet just Said about Business in America’s Relentlessly Tough Economy
  34. Why the Standard 60/40 Stock & Bond Portfolio Won’t Survive the Next Decade
  35. “Death of the Dollar” Not Yet
  36. Fearful of EU Disintegration and Mired in Crisis, France Wants Britain Punished for Brexit Revolt
  37. ECB Gets Clocked by the Two Biggest German Banks
  38. LinkedIn Job Postings Plunge, “by far the Worst Month since January 2009”
  39. Next Banking Scandal Explodes in Spain
  40. “Leveraged Loan” Backed Asset Stripping Resurges
  41. This is How Draghi Will Sock it to Investors that Weren’t Invited to the Secret Meetings
  42. Consumers in Texas Begin to React
  43. “San Francisco Housing Crisis” Hits Market Limit
  44. After the Lending Club Debacle, what’s Next for P2P Lending?
  45. This is how the Houston Office Market is Melting Down
  46. “The Specter of a Break-up Is Haunting Europe”
  47. Why the Oil Rally May Have Run out of Juice
  48. Should You Follow David Tepper’s Big Bet?
  49. What Makes this Jobs Report so Truly Ugly?
  50. Helicopter Money Drops on Europe, But Not for ‘Normal’ Folks
  51. US Commercial Bankruptcies Soar (despite Rosy Scenario)
  52. The Lie Behind Argentina’s “Growth” Model
  53. China Is the Biggest Short…Ever
  54. It Starts: Apartment Glut in San Francisco & New York City
  55. How We’ll Know When to Buy This Hated Commodity
  56. How the Fed Stopped the “Corporate Profit Recession” (and the Media Fell for it)

May 2016

  1. The Big Mac Peso-Dollar Blues in Mexico
  2. Tourism Threatens to Collapse in France
  3. Last Time this Happened in the Housing Market
  4. The Banking Crisis in Spain is Back
  5. US Dollar Begins to Re-Exert Real Stress
  6. Ultimate Market Timer Sam Zell: “Know What the Problem Is?”
  7. The NIRP Refugees Are Coming to America
  8. After Losing $11 Billion on $9.4-billion Nokia Buy & Axing 27,650 Jobs, Microsoft Dumps Consumer Smartphones
  9. Apple Is a Dead Money Stock
  10. Uber’s Partially “Undisclosed” Ton of Money
  11. What Will Sink the US Auto Boom?
  12. NIRP is “Killing Us,” Wheezes Spain’s Second Biggest Bank
  13. Manufacturing Recession Goes Global as Demand Withers
  14. Pemex-Peso-Dollar Crisis Takes its Toll in Mexico
  15. Hedge Funds Are Betting Record Amounts on Meltdown of Australian Banks and Housing Bubble
  16. Share Buybacks Now Bought Out, American Enterprise in Decline
  17. Despite Rally, Hype, and NIRP, Bear Markets Hound the Globe
  18. OK I Get it, Corporate Earnings are a Fairy Tale and Reality is Crummy, But Do They Have to Push it This Far?
  19. Shipbuilding Industry Collapses, Hits China and South Korea
  20. Business Loan Delinquencies Spike to Lehman Moment Level
  21. Russia Frets about Risk of “Recession” in China
  22. ECB Prepares to Expand its Racket, Markets Salivate
  23. Silicon Valley Housing Market Hit as Chinese Money “Dried up”
  24. European Natural Gas Prices Collapse, as US Exporters Try to Muscle in on Russia, Norway, Qatar
  25. Mall Owners Begin to Feel the Pain of Brick & Mortar Retailers
  26. Monsanto about to Be Given a Taste of its Own Medicine?
  27. These Charts Show the Truly Dismal State of Young People in Bailed-Out EU Countries
  28. US Treasury Quashes Saudi Threat of Dumping Treasuries
  29. Why the Gold and Silver Futures Market Is Like a Rigged Casino
  30. Blackstone Deal Hammers San Francisco Commercial Real Estate
  31. Recession Watch: Freight Volume Drops, Worst Level since 2010
  32. ECB Admits: “We’re the Magic People” in a Clown Show
  33. Chinese Government Now Fretting about Auto Industry
  34. US Companies Stockpile the Profit “Overseas.” But where the Heck is the Money?
  35. Silicon Valley Commercial Property Boom Ends, Totally Exposed to Big-5: Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn
  36. Mergers Collapse, Bubble Deflates, Debris Hits Hedge Funds
  37. Who’s Really Most Afraid of Brexit? And Why?
  38. China Inc. Tries to Buy the World, with Impeccable Timing
  39. Can Saudi Arabia Really Break Its Dependence On Oil?
  40. Another Asset Bubble Cracks: Art Sales Plunge
  41. Creditors Stumble into New Black Hole at Energy Giant Abengoa
  42. Chinese Government Warns World of “L-Shaped Path”: a Dive & No Recovery
  43. Official “Labor Market Conditions” Give off First Warning Signs
  44. How Wall-Street Hocus-Pocus Inflates S&P 500 Revenues
  45. Manhattan Luxury Condo Sales & Prices Fall
  46. Saudi Arabia’s Oil-Bust Cash-Flow Debacle Begins to Bite
  47. China’s Population Dooms the Transition to Consumer Economy
  48. “Market is on Edge”: US Commercial Real Estate Bubble Pops, San Francisco Braces for Brutal Dive
  49. US Commercial Bankruptcies Skyrocket
  50. Wrath of Draghi Hits Germans who Refuse to Blow their Savings
  51. Freight Rail Traffic Plunges: Haunting Pictures of Transportation Recession
  52. R.I.P. TTIP?
  53. This is Why No One Should Bail Out the “Smart Money” Stuck in Brick-and-Mortar Retailers: Let them Shed their Own Tears
  54. Google Growing on Fumes: Something Is Rotten in the State of Online Advertising
  55. Houston Office Market Melts Down
  56. US Manufacturing Sinks Deeper into Mire, Sep. 2009 evoked
  57. Why China Is Really Dictating the Oil Supply Glut
  58. China’s Furious Stimulus-and-Debt Binge Backfires
  59. What the Heck is Going on With the Dollar and “Fear?”

April 2016

  1. Spanish Banks Brace for Ultimate Showdown
  2. The Hong Kong Housing Market Fizzles
  3. Why this Economy Feels Even Lousier than the Lousy GDP Print
  4. This Chart Shows the Collapse of “King Coal” by State, and Why Miners Are Going Bankrupt
  5. A New Crisis Kicks off in Mexico
  6. Canary in the US Housing Market: Canadian Snowbirds Cash Out
  7. Why Saudi Arabia Will Not Win The Oil Price War
  8. Look Who’s Lying About Inflation Again
  9. Consumers, Small-Business Owners Souring on This Economy
  10. Apple’s iPhone-iPad-Mac Fiasco in Charts
  11. A Torrid Week for the Transatlantic Corporatocracy
  12. China’s “Lehman Moment?”
  13. US-Style Mortgage Fraud a ‘Nuclear Bomb’ to Australian Banks
  14. Perma-Bear Gets “Gored,” Buys Stocks. Contrarians Go Wild
  15. How the iPhone Will Maul Tech Sector Earnings
  16. With Impeccable Timing, ‘Economic Miracle’ in Spain Unravels
  17. How a $9-Billion Unicorn Imploded
  18. World’s Worst Sinkhole-Government Sports World’s Most Negative-Yielding Debt
  19. Retailer Bankruptcies Are Hailing Down on the US Economy
  20. Toxic Mix Eats into Hedge Funds
  21. Canada’s Financial Sector just Crapped on its Bondholders, Hoping They Don’t Care
  22. Who the Heck Is Buying the US Stocks that Chinese and other Foreign Investors Are Massively Dumping?
  23. “We Cannot Afford another Draghi”: Germany Attacks ECB
  24. Recession Watch: Inventory Glut, Iffy Consumer Demand Sink US Freight Volume
  25. This Also Happened the Last 2 Times before Stocks Crashed
  26. Mobs of Angry Investors Fight Market Rigging, Maul Deutsche Bank in Class-Action Lawsuit, other Banks Next
  27. China Ocean Freight Index Collapses to Record Low
  28. OK, I Get it, this Junk-Bond Miracle-Rally Is Doomed
  29. Big-Oil Sinkhole of Debt & Corruption Gets Taxpayer Bailout. Wall Street Thrilled
  30. The Revolt of the Debt Slaves Has Started
  31. Big Pharma Trips Over the Maxed-out American Consumer
  32. It’s Gotten So Bad in Europe, Even Eurocrats Begin to Worry
  33. Why This Economy Is Now Running Aground
  34. Peak Negative-Interest-Rate Absurdity? Hilarity Ensues
  35. What in the World’s Going on with Banks this Week? Emergency Meetings, Summits, Crashing EU Banks…
  36. Is China’s Economy in even Deeper Trouble than We Think?
  37. US Commercial Bankruptcies Suddenly Soar
  38. BP CEO Gets Huge Raise, after Record Loss, 5,000+ Layoffs
  39. BlackRock CEO Fink: Negative & Low Interest Rates Eat into Consumer Spending at Worst Possible Time
  40. Next Shoe to Drop on Spanish Banks
  41. China “Could Push Whole World into Fresh Economic Crisis”
  42. San Francisco’s Epic Condo Construction Boom
  43. GDPNow Forecast for First Quarter Falls to 0.1% Stagnation
  44. Helicopter Money “Not on the Table,” ECB Swears Furiously
  45. Colombia Pays the Steep Cost of So-Called “Free” Trade
  46. M&A Boom Implodes, US Deal Failures in 2016 Worst Ever
  47. KKR’s Chilling Message about the “End of the Credit Cycle”
  48. Google Tells Customers “Ownership” is now an Illusion
  49. Fretting over Mortgage Backed Securities, Fitch Warns about Home Prices in Texas
  50. Debt Spiral Grips Both, Pemex and Mexico
  51. BOJ’s Kuroda Threatens More Easing, Stocks Tank, Absurdity Reigns
  52. This Shows Why Consumers Are Bogged Down
  53. How the Ultimate “Smart Money” Got Stuck in the IPO Pipeline
  54. The EU Has Bigger Trouble than Brexit alone
  55. First-Quarter Earnings Are Now Expected to Really Suck
  56. Gas Pipeline Uses 160 Eminent Domain Suits To Get People’s Property In 3 States
  57. The Fretting Among Wall Street Gurus Has Begun
  58. Job Cuts Pile up

March 2016

  1. “Are We Prepared to Impose Temporary Debt Standstills?”
  2. If This Plays Out, Friday Will Get Ugly
  3. “Economy-Wide Misconduct” among Financial Advisers
  4. This Shows Financial Reality Has No Place in Today’s Markets
  5. Buy Gold & TIPS for Coming Volatility, Inflation: BlackRock
  6. Positions Hit “Bullish Extremes,” Risk Getting Undone
  7. First Ocean Freight Rates Collapse to “Zero,” China Freight Index Plunges to Record Low, Bailouts Loom
  8. Atlanta Fed’s 1st-Quarter GDPNow Forecast Plunges
  9. “Spike in Defaults”: Standard & Poor’s Gets Gloomy, Blames Fed
  10. Monsanto Losing Its Grip?
  11. High Deductible? As Doctor: Here’s what Doctors Can do to Save You Money. Hospitals, Health Insurers Hate it
  12. World Trade Collapses in Dollars, Languishes in Volume
  13. The Big Unwind Hits Investment Banking
  14. Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England
  15. Desperate Chinese Investors Flood US, Canadian Housing Markets, But Real Numbers Are Taboo
  16. Three Reasons to Be Bearish Right Now
  17. Bank Earnings Get Mauled by “Leveraged Loan” Time Bomb
  18. This Oil Sector Hasn’t Crashed Yet… But It’s About to
  19. It Starts: San Francisco Office Boom Deflates, but Fitch Says It’s “Unlikely to Collapse” this Time
  20. Subprime Nightmare on Wall Street for TBTF Grupo Santander
  21. Share Buybacks Turn Toxic
  22. Why the “Stubborn Persistence of Optimism” by Stock Analysts?
  23. China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption
  24. Catalonia Nears Default, Threatens Spain’s Debt
  25. What Happened to Nuclear Power in the US?
  26. Political Turmoil Rages in Brazil, Puts Oil Industry On Edge
  27. Super-Luxury Homes Hit by Reversing “Wealth Effect”
  28. The Terrible Oil News Nobody Noticed
  29. And this is When the Jobs “Recovery” Goes Kaboom
  30. Big-Oil Bailout Begins as Pemex’s Debt Spirals Down
  31. What’s in Store for the Real Economy
  32. Panicked Chinese Suddenly Buy US Assets in Monster Deals at Peak of Seven-Year Boom
  33. China Ocean Freight Indices Plunge to Record Lows
  34. For Stocks, a Reality Too Ugly to Behold?
  35. What Concerns Me about this Rally in Oil
  36. Economic Bubbles Are Leaking. Once They Pop, Game Over
  37. Saudi Arabia Turns to Nightmare for Spanish Consortium
  38. Bundesbank Fears “Doom Loop”
  39. What’s Uncle Sam’s Largest Asset? It’ll Haunt us for Years!
  40. The Vacant Condos in Vancouver
  41. Desperate “Dumb Money” from China Arrives in the US
  42. NIRP Kills Off All Money Market Funds in Japan
  43. The $9.2 Billion Bet Against OPEC Dominance
  44. This is Why I Don’t Short Anything Anymore
  45. Consumers in Texas Hit by “Negative Ripple Effects”
  46. Oil Fundamentals Deteriorate, Prices Should Fall Hard
  47. OK, I Get it, this Stock Market Is Going to Be a Mess
  48. “Freedom Always Dies Bit by Bit”: Bundesbank Takes Sides in War on Cash
  49. This Is Bear Market 2.5 of my Career
  50. It Begins: Palace Revolt against ECB’s NIRP
  51. Aubrey McClendon’s Legacy
  52. Dallas Fed Unplugs Oil Bulls, Warns of Liquidity Crunch, Contagion
  53. Another Private-Equity LBO Queen Bites the Dust
  54. A Secret About Oil You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
  55. Corporate Default Rate Jumps Past Lehman Moment
  56. Prelude to a Bailout
  57. It Gets Ugly in the Startup Bust

February 2016

  1. Miami’s Epic Condo Boom Turns into Glut
  2. The Delusional Australian Housing Bubble
  3. “Valuations Will Fall Back”: Bank of England Gov. Carney Pooh-Poohs NIRP Miracle
  4. We’re at the Tail End of the Relief Period for Markets
  5. ECB Unveils Ingenious Strategy to Reduce Banking Stress
  6. Now It’s Even Worse Than it Was When Lehman Collapsed, But It’s “Contained”
  7. Subprime Auto-Loans Unravel: My Interview on WRKO, Boston
  8. Investors, Creditors Getting Demolished by this Global Renewables Giant
  9. Will this Crush the Insane San Francisco & Silicon Valley Housing Bubble
  10. Is This the Beginning of the Next Recession?
  11. Brexit Panic Sets In
  12. It Starts: Subprime Auto Loans Implode (in Your Bond Fund)
  13. After Messy Price War, OPEC Gets the Blues, Can’t Figure Out How “to Live Together” with US Shale Oil
  14. A New Level of Absurdity
  15. “Prelude to Recession”: the Dallas Fed’s Unsettling Charts
  16. Desperate Oil Giant Pemex Makes a Deal with KKR
  17. Another Doomed Rally in Oil
  18. Forget Deflation. Stagflation Arrives in Canada
  19. Revolt against NIRP Breaks out, Bank of Japan “Baffled”
  20. Five-Year Retail Boom in Texas Implodes
  21. As War on Cash Escalates, Cash Lovers Fight Back
  22. Argentina Imports Still Closed For Business
  23. The Saudi/Russia Oil Deal “Just a Bunch of Bull”
  24. Sudden Death? Junk-Rated Companies Headed for Biggest “Refinancing Cliff” Ever: Moody’s
  25. Downturn Now Hitting The Refining Sector
  26. Things Are Coming Unglued for Canadian Investors
  27. I’m in Awe at Just How Fast Global Trade is Unraveling
  28. Italy’s Banking Crisis Spirals Elegantly out of Control
  29. Deloitte About to Pay for its Spanish Sins?
  30. Hounded by NIRP: Global Bear Market Progress Report
  31. This is How Financial Chaos Begins
  32. Dollar Crushes Mexican Peso as Problems Balloon
  33. Global Stocks, Oil Take Drubbing. Gold, Treasuries, Yen Soar
  34. “Worse than 2008”: World’s Largest Container Carrier on the Slowdown in Global Trade
  35. Banking Crisis in Europe? Deutsche Bank’s CoCo Bonds Collapse
  36. It’s Official: Cash is Now Public Enemy Number One
  37. Contagion Hits Japanese Banks, Nikkei Plunges, 10-Year Yield Negative for First Time Ever
  38. What’s Booming in this Economy? Bankruptcy & Restructuring Business “Highest Since Great Recession”
  39. Whiff of Panic? Global Bear-Market Progress Report
  40. What the Heck is Going On in the Stock Market?
  41. German Judges Pooh-Pooh Obama’s Sacred US-EU Trade Pact
  42. Negative-Interest-Rate Effect already Dead, Central Banks Lost Control over Stocks
  43. Prelude to a Nightmare
  44. This is the Bubble in China Everyone Ignores
  45. CCC-Rated Junk-Bond Yields Blow Past Lehman Moment, hit 20%, as Consensual Hallucination Fades
  46. Oil vs. Electricity: Argentina’s Impossible Emergency
  47. The Transportation Recession Spreads
  48. Restaurant Industry Suddenly Tanks, Worst Plunge since the Beginning of the Financial Crisis
  49. Hedge Funds, Wall Street not Happy with the New Spain
  50. Another IPO Fiasco: Shoulda Bought a Ferrari Instead of its Misbegotten Shares
  51. Negative Interest Rates Already in Fed’s Official Scenario
  52. What Deutsche Bank’s Plunging CoCo Bonds Just Said about the Bank’s Future
  53. So Just How Bad is the Revenue and Earnings Recession?

January 2016

  1. QE in Japan Nears End: Daiwa Capital Markets
  2. The Big-Oil Bailouts Begin
  3. The Home as Miracle Subprime ATM Re-Surges
  4. Crushed Currency, Oil, Domestic Demand Broadside Small Businesses in Canada, Worst since March 2009
  5. Already Lousy Corporate Investment Comes Totally Unglued
  6. A “Death Spiral” for the Chinese Yuan?
  7. Ka-boom Goes the Bottom of the US Bond Market
  8. Who Gets to Pay for the Italian Banking Crisis?
  9. Office Market in Houston Gets Hit
  10. ‘Footprint Rationalization’: Sears adds to Woes of Canada’s Malls
  11. This Stock Market is Really Sick, and Big Institutional Investors are Bailing out
  12. Banks Much Deeper in the Hole on Oil & Gas Collateral than they Pretend
  13. This is Why Junk Bonds Will Sink Stocks: Moody’s
  14. One of World’s Biggest Construction Companies to Hit the Wall?
  15. Davos, Dalio, and a Depression?!
  16. After $7.8 Trillion Got Wiped Out in three Weeks, “Global Stocks Surge Most since 2012”
  17. Deep “Freight Recession” Hits Railroads, Trucking, Air Freight
  18. Schlumberger Loses $1 Billion, Raises Layoffs to 30,000, Doubles Share Buybacks to $20 Billion
  19. “Watch out, the Market is a Myth Buster”
  20. Ruble Plunges 26% in 90 days, 6% in Two Days, Hits New Low, Government Says to Heck with it
  21. Is Inflation Spiraling out of Control in Argentina, or is it just a ‘Sensation,’ as New President Claims?
  22. IPOs Crash, Startup Valuations Plunge, Era Ends
  23. Small Businesses in Europe Fear Getting Trampled by TTIP
  24. Tiffany Sings Brick-and-Mortar Blues
  25. Canada Rebels against the Destruction of the Loonie
  26. Mega Investment Bank Suddenly Pooh-Poohs QE
  27. Dollar-Based Investors Eviscerated in Global Stocks
  28. Consensual Hallucination Fades, Global Stocks Crushed
  29. Facing the Reality of a Bear Market
  30. “Everything Has Come to a Standstill”: Political Fallout Hits Business in Spain
  31. This is Where Industrial Production Normally Meets a Recession
  32. Wal-Mart Rubs Salt on Deepening Retail Wounds
  33. Chilling Thing Jamie Dimon just Said about the Economy
  34. When “Story Stocks” Crash Like this, the Market is Kaput
  35. OK, I Get it, this is Going to be a Mess: Standard & Poor’s Lowers Boom at Worst Possible Time
  36. Time to Get “Radical” for Emerging Market Central Banks
  37. Canadian Stocks in Bear Market, Loonie Swoons, Crude Crashes to $16, Consumer & Business Confidence Dives…
  38. Oil Plunges toward $30, Dallas Fed President Sucker-Punches any Leftover Oil Bulls
  39. What Will China Dump Next, After Treasuries, to Keep Control?
  40. Let’s Not Kid Ourselves: The Capture of the World’s Most Wanted Businessman Changes Nothing
  41. Hedge-Fund Dazzle Has Peaked, Record Closures Next
  42. Big Winners During Fiasco Week
  43. Emerging Market Meltdown Sinks Spain’s Biggest Companies
  44. How Could Stock Markets Croak Like This First Thing in 2016?
  45. This is What Happens after PE Firms Get Through with a Retailer
  46. “The Sky is Falling” on California Manufacturing, Worst since February 2009, Might Kick Regional Economy into Recession
  47. Oil Plunges to $32-Handle, Chinese Stocks Crash and are Halted, Whiff of Mayhem Breaks out
  48. Defaults and Restructuring Next for Retailers
  49. A “Stealth” Bear Market Has Already Begun
  50. Global Corporate Debt is Coming Unglued
  51. What Will Knock the Dollar off its Perch?
  52. The Perverse Paradox in Mexico’s “Model” Economy
  53. In this Dismal Economy, There’s One Thing that’s Booming!
  54. Gold, Silver? Betting on Deflation May Be a Huge Mistake
  55. A Climate of Fear in C-Suites: Spain Faces Tough 2016
  56. Welcome to 2016! With Just a Touch of Mayhem
  57. It Starts: Tech Trouble Mucks up Silicon Valley Real Estate Party
  58. Even Bankruptcy Can’t Slow US Oil Production Much, it Seems
  59. The Risks of the War on Cash
  60. Happy New Year Californians: US Largest Utility Jacks up Rates the Most since 2006 Despite Collapse of Natural Gas Prices

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December 2015

  1. Business in the Midwest Takes Worst Hit since July 2009
  2. At Times, it Pays to Raise Your Head and Look Around
  3. Oil Crash Shrinks Russian GDP, Energy Minister Blames Saudis
  4. Google Sarcasm, or How I (and the Entire Industry) Make a Living
  5. Buffett’s Utility Monopoly In Nevada Socks Musk’s Solar Firm
  6. Will the Australian Economy Eat Dirt in 2016?
  7. What Secret Do Global Banks Know about Chinese Banks?
  8. 5 Possible Market-Moving Surprises In Energy For 2016
  9. Where’s the “Dumb Bid” in the Junk-Bond Rout?
  10. I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing?
  11. Lower Oil Prices Are Shaking the World
  12. Which State Has the Most Per-Capita Household Debt? Despite What You Think, it’s Not California
  13. Dear Electric Utility CEO: Merry Xmas and Cut the Dividend?
  14. Former Hot Startup Whacked Down 60%(!?) Whither the Tech Boom?
  15. White Elephant Inc: This is What I Love about Spain
  16. “Sudden Withering Demand” & End of Housing Bubble 2, or just an “Anomaly?”
  17. IPOs Collapse, “Worst Year Since 2009,” Worst Dec. since 2008
  18. Mother of all Shorts: How BlackRock Made a Killing from Spain’s Biggest Ever Corporate Meltdown
  19. It Gets Ugly in the Toniest Parts of London
  20. What the Heck Happened to Our Santa Rally?
  21. Dollar-Debt Blows up in Mexico, Pushes Biggest Construction Firm toward Abyss
  22. Carnage in US Natural Gas as Price Falls off the Chart
  23. Bone-Chilling “Plateau” in Apartment Boom Resurfaces, Smartest Money Bails Out
  24. Fed is Raising Rates for the Opposite Reasons They Claim
  25. “Perverse, Unpredictable Effects” of Negative Interest Rates: Mortgage Rates Soar in Switzerland
  26. Spain’s Biggest Bankruptcy Ever Hits Banks, Mexico, Brazil, Descends into Bitter Farce
  27. Freight Shipments Hammered by Inventory Glut, Weak Demand
  28. Why’s the Fed Talking up the (Lousy) Economy Just Now?
  29. Retail Sales in Texas Plunge
  30. European Dream Turns into Dystopian Nightmare
  31. How Junk-Bond Contagion Hits Stocks
  32. Dealing With The New Oil Price Reality
  33. Bank of Canada Crushes Loonie, Created Mother of All Shorts
  34. It Starts: Junk-Bond Fund Implodes, Investors Stuck
  35. World Trips Over the Explosive Dollar
  36. Tragic-Comic Economic Mess Hits Argentina’s New President
  37. China’s Steel Industry Bleeds, Prices Collapse, Losses Mount, and Now the Government Gets Gloomy
  38. Rumors of New Bank Bailouts in Spain
  39. Bond King Gets Antsy as Junk Bonds, Which Lead Stocks, Spiral to Heck
  40. Dogged by Lousy Global Demand and Wild Overcapacity, China Containerized Freight Index Crashes to Worst Level Ever
  41. Financial War over Oil Reshapes World, Will End with Much Higher Prices
  42. Industry Holds Breath for Craziest-Ever Commercial Property Boom to Implode
  43. US Exports & Manufacturing Debacle Covered up by Oil
  44. What Happens When the Auto-Loan Boom Blows Up
  45. Toxic Mix Hits Trucking, Orders for New Trucks Totally Collapse, Pummel Manufacturers
  46. Recession Watch: Hidden Messages in the Jobs Report
  47. All Heck Breaks Loose after Draghi Fails to Outdo his Own Hype
  48. How This Bull Markets Ended
  49. “Distress” in US Corporate Debt Spikes to 2009 Level
  50. It Begins: Investors Brace for Mexico’s Biggest Corporate US-Dollar Bond Default in 20 Years
  51. It Gets Ugly in Brazil
  52. Undeterred By Global Glut, US Pushes Ahead On LNG Exports
  53. Subprime “Alt”-Mortgages from Nonbanks, Run by former Countrywide Execs, Backed by PE Firms Are Hot Again

November 2015

  1. There Better Be a Miracle for Retailers
  2. Dollar-Denominated Corporate Time Bomb Set to Blow
  3. BlackRock Spreads its Tentacles in Brussels
  4. One Chart Shows Where Oil Prices Could Be Headed
  5. Consumers Lose Grapple with Reality, “Decline in Economic Aspirations” Sets in
  6. Spain Braces for its Biggest Corporate Insolvency… Ever!
  7. The Predators Are Pouncing on the DC Housing Market
  8. M&A Spikes to Craziest Frenzy Ever, even as Bottom Falls out of Riskiest End
  9. Recession Watch: Falling Commodity Prices to Hurt America
  10. Who Exactly is Trying to Kill off Cash?
  11. Why the Price of Oil is Doomed for Longer than Expected
  12. Ultimate Weapon in Existential Struggle: Using the TPP for Hostile Takeover of Mexican Agriculture
  13. This Will Bust San Francisco’s Insane Home Price Bubble
  14. Why We Aren’t Buying this Rally
  15. The Mad Euro Project Just Got A Lot Madder
  16. Capital Destruction Rages Beneath S&P 500 Tranquility
  17. Recession Watch: Turning Point in Unemployment Claims?
  18. Stunning Blow to EU Scaremongers over Brexit
  19. “Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” Sinks Hedge Funds
  20. Financially Engineered Stocks Drag Down S&P 500
  21. Fed’s Vice Chairman Gives a Warning, US Factories Agree
  22. The Chilling Thing Caterpillar’s President Said about China
  23. What Will the US Do in a Recession? Look to Japan for Answers
  24. Foreign Investors Bail out of Canada’s Money Machine
  25. Bloodletting 8 Trading Days in a Row: Junk Bonds Go to Heck
  26. Business Inventory Glut Hits US Ports, Container Imports Plunge in Peak Shipping Season
  27. It’s Always Darkest Before The Dawn
  28. Investors Fret as Noose Tightens Around Catalonia’s Economy
  29. IMF’s Lagarde Anoints Chinese Yuan. Will it Now Demolish the “Dollar Hegemony?”
  30. Now Flying Below “Stall Speed”
  31. Last Two Times this Happened, it was Mayhem
  32. US Freight – Trucking, Rail, all of it – Goes to Heck
  33. Is the Troika About to Lose Control of South-Western Europe?
  34. A Currency on Edge
  35. What Copper Just Said about China
  36. We’re in the Early Stages of Largest Debt Default in US History
  37. Fed Trips over Commercial Real Estate Bubble, Sees “Early Signs” of “Search for Yield”
  38. Australian Housing Illusion Set to Burst
  39. Venezuela Liquidates Gold, other Assets as Crisis Worsens
  40. China Trade Swoons, Collapse of Containerized Freight Index Hits Worst Level Ever, Global Slowdown Worse than Forecast
  41. San Francisco’s Luxury Condo Bubble Turns into Condo Glut
  42. “First They Came for the Pennies…” in the War on Cash
  43. Merger-Mania Bites Back, Men’s Wearhouse Crashes
  44. Seeing the New America in the Details of the Jobs Report
  45. Giant Sucking Sound of Capital Destruction in US Oil & Gas
  46. Kamikaze Economics: Spain Threatens to Cut Financial Supply Lines to Its Richest Region
  47. “Strong Dollar” Headed for the Chopping Block?
  48. US Gross National Debt Jumps $340 Billion in One Day
  49. Corporate Profits Are the Stock Market’s Foundation. What Will Break Them?
  50. Is San Francisco Housing Suddenly Going on Sale?
  51. Currency Controls Strangle Argentina, But Hey, “Take it up with the Next Government, We’re on Our Way Out”
  52. So “the Sky is Falling” on California Manufacturing(?!)
  53. How Wall-Street Financial Engineering Vaporized Valeant
  54. China Slowdown, “Global Turbulence” Trigger Collapse of Export Orders for German Equipment Makers
  55. Petrodollar Reflux to Hit Treasuries, Other Assets
  56. US Threatens UK over Brexit Vote

October 2015

  1. S&P 500/US Dollar Index Ratio Warns: October Rally Will Fail, Bear Market is Here
  2. Cheating, No Problem: Automakers Win Again in Europe
  3. China’s Economy Even Worse than Suspected?
  4. If You Own Apple Stock Today…
  5. Time to Keep Your Cash in the Microwave?
  6. Chilling Thing Hershey Just Said About American Consumers
  7. Shell Scraps Oil-Sands Project, Points at Big Issue For Canada
  8. Global Corporatocracy’s Unborn Baby Just Got A Lot Bigger
  9. And Now Trucking Is Suddenly Slowing Down
  10. IBM Discloses SEC Investigation, Plunges to Worst Level since 2010, Even Share Buybacks Don’t Work Anymore
  11. Next Few Weeks Reveal Extent of Calamity in Oil & Gas Industry
  12. “Million Dollar Shack” In Silicon Valley (Video)
  13. Markets Loathe Uncertainty, But Loathe Kirchnerism Even More
  14. And Now Defaulted “Leveraged Loans” Go Kaboom
  15. Do You Own This Popular, But Dangerous, Investment?
  16. Short Sellers Lower Boom on Wall-Street Hype, Big Pharma
  17. China Containerized Freight Index Collapses to Worst Level Ever
  18. Barcelona Threatens to Print Parallel Currency, Madrid Seethes
  19. Why Investors Should Take “Lower For Longer” Seriously
  20. This Is Why It’s Going to Get Even Tougher
  21. Draghi Speaks, Euro Falls Off Chart, Stocks Soar Despite Layoffs, Shrinking Revenues, and Evil “Strong Dollar” that just Got a Heck of Lot Stronger
  22. “Bank Failures and Systemic Breakdowns”: Regulator Warns on Autos, Subprime, Commercial Real-Estate…
  23. Euro Sinks Deeper into Limbo
  24. Who on Wall Street is Now Eating the Oil & Gas Losses?
  25. Why Mainstream Economists Deny Housing Bubbles Until After They Implode – Which They ALWAYS Do
  26. Saudi Arabia Cuts Spending, Slows Payments, Hits Spain Inc.
  27. Saudi, US Oil Inventories Hit Record High as Demand Fizzles
  28. Pummeled by Lousy Global Demand and Rampant Overcapacity, China Containerized Freight Index Collapses to Worst Level Ever
  29. The Dismal Thing Schlumberger Just Said about US Oil
  30. “Political Show Trial” of Catalonia’s Premier over Independence Referendum Hits Raw Nerve
  31. Moody’s Warns “of Jarring Slowdown” in Jobs, Jumps on Recession Bandwagon
  32. Big VW Investors Lose Shirts, Blame Lobbying
  33. Wrath of Financial Engineering: It’s Now Eating into Earnings
  34. What Will Cause the Next Recession?
  35. The Chilling Thing Wal-Mart Said about Financial Engineering
  36. Resource Investors, Be Wary…
  37. US Freight Shipments Have Worst September since 2010
  38. Six Nagging Facts About Spain’s “Recovery”
  39. Peak Desperation
  40. And What’s Going to Happen at the Next Recession?
  41. Junk Bond Issuance Collapses as “Distress Ratio” Spikes
  42. Bill Gross Seeks Revenge: Blockbuster Lawsuit Reveals Deceit, Greed, Risk-Taking, and Brutal Power Struggle at PIMCO
  43. “Problems Likely to Snowball from Here,” at World’s Second Largest VW Factory
  44. Last Time that Ratio Soared like this, Stocks Crashed
  45. Global Shipping Veers into Capital Destruction
  46. Did the European Court of Justice Just Torpedo the Mother of All US Trade Agreements?
  47. While We Sleep, Corporate Execs Strip-Mine America
  48. China, Russia, Norway, Brazil, Taiwan Dump US Treasuries
  49. This is How the Trade Pact Escalates the Currency War
  50. On the Brink, Argentina Asks China for More Money
  51. Not the “Death of the Dollar” but “Death of the Euro?”
  52. Something’s Up: Panic Buying of Super-Liquid Treasuries
  53. US Economy Flies into “Coffin Corner,” But We Don’t Mind!
  54. “They’re All Just Zombies”: Ron Paul
  55. Last 2 Times this Happened, the US was Falling into Recession
  56. High Priests of Global Finance Stoke Emerging Market Fears
  57. Corporation vs. Nation: The Ultimate Showdown
  58. This Chart Truly Depicts New, Terrible Trend in Jobs Mess
  59. Argentina Forces “Pesofication” of Dollar Assets – to Avoid Bond Payment due Monday?
  60. ECB Chief Economist: OK, I Get it, the Euro Doesn’t Work
  61. Oops, Atlanta Fed’s GDP Forecast Suddenly Plunges
  62. Australia’s “Black Swan Moment”
  63. This is what Happened When Showden Joined Twitter

September 2015

  1. US Manufacturing Recession Draws Eerie References to 2009
  2. Spain Leaps Toward Political Breakdown
  3. Next Shoe to Drop on Stocks? Junk-Bond Meltdown Hits M&A
  4. The Tell-Tale Signs of a Bear Market
  5. The Stock Market Gives us 2 Classic Warnings. Will We Listen?
  6. Market Rout, Volkswagen Fiasco, China Sink German IPOs
  7. Shell Oil Loses $7 Billion in US Arctic, Leaves it For Dead
  8. This is When Bonds Go Kaboom!
  9. What the Heck’s Happening to the Global Stock Markets?
  10. Volkswagen Fallout Hits Mexican Economy
  11. It Gets Ugly in Biotech
  12. ‘Sanction Spiral’: Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe Soar
  13. Yellen Slams Lid on This Rising but Wacky Doctrine
  14. Volkswagen Gets Blamed for the Fiasco in Japan
  15. Canada’s Retail Prices Jump the Most in “Over a Decade”
  16. Commercial Real Estate Shoots Off Chart, Fitch Frets about CMBS, Points to Financial Crisis
  17. The Blue Dollar Is Up and So Is Corrupt Arbitrage
  18. The US Bond Market is far Larger than the Stock Market: If Even Part of it Blows, it’ll Dig a Magnificent Crater
  19. Uruguay Does Unthinkable, Rejects Global Corporatocracy
  20. Australia’s Mega LNG Projects are in Serious Trouble
  21. Is Volkswagen the Only One?
  22. Fed’s Bullard Fires Broadside at Fed, Shrapnel Hits his Foot
  23. Spanish Banks Warn of Financial Meltdown if Catalonia Votes for Independence
  24. FBI Ramps Up Biometrics Programs to Catalogue Information on Everyone in America
  25. German Stocks Crush Dream of Central-Bank Omnipotence
  26. Bankers Threaten Fed with Layoffs if it Doesn’t Raise Rates
  27. A Spinoff Goes to Heck, after Just 10 Months
  28. The Time Bomb under Canada’s Economy: Soaring Household Debt, and Suddenly Delinquencies!
  29. World Holds Breath, Waits for “Death of the Dollar”
  30. Inside Janet Yellen’s Brain at 4 a.m.…
  31. World Is Now “More Exposed than Ever” to Explosive Dollar
  32. The Bull Market in Cash Is On
  33. “There’s Just No Cash”: Oil Bust in Canada Hits Creditors
  34. Freight Goes to Heck, Now Even in the US
  35. Is Brazil About to Drag Down Spain’s Biggest Bank?
  36. A Change in Market Dynamics I Find Particularly Troubling
  37. Is Catalonia About to Go All In?
  38. A Worrying Development for Stock Market Bulls
  39. Corporations in Rate-Hike Panic, Sell Bonds like there’s No Tomorrow, Investors Blissfully Eager
  40. Three unmentionable insights about people, free from Ashley Madison
  41. This Is Another “Subprime” Waiting to Blow
  42. Global Economy Nearing a “Structural Recession”
  43. Oil Suddenly Gets Ugly in Mexico
  44. Buyout Binge in American Craft Brew Revolution Gets Personal
  45. Investors Get Jittery As Spain Enters Whole New World of Pain
  46. What a Million Dollars Buys in Australia’s Housing Market
  47. Revenue Recession Spreads past Dollar, Energy
  48. The Default Next Move For Oil Is Down, And Here’s Why
  49. Why Hedge Fund Hotshots Finally Got Hammered
  50. What’s Coming Unglued Now in Canada?
  51. Brilliantly Timed Oil Reforms Push Mexico into Fiscal Meltdown
  52. Stock Market Crash Mauls Home Sales in Hong Kong
  53. UK’s Fake Housing Market Makes Fake Millionaires
  54. Liquidity Stress Spikes to Worst Level since Financial Crisis
  55. Europe’s Rising Fear of Upheaval in Spain
  56. ‘Gravity’ Is Returning to the Markets
  57. Market Rout Hammers Economic Confidence of Americans
  58. Bank of Japan Drops Ball, Government Pension Fund Stops Buying Stocks, Nikkei Plunges, J-REITs Eviscerated
  59. Macau’s Economy Blows Up

August 2015

  1. A Hot September for Catalonia
  2. It Gets Even Uglier In Canada
  3. Why Are the Four Richest Men in Mexico Getting Crushed?
  4. China Entering Ugly Recession, Not Just a “Hard Landing?”
  5. This Market Is a “Wheelbarrow of Dynamite” Waiting to Blow
  6. “We’re Seeing the Beginning of a Liquidity Crisis” in the Startup Boom, Suddenly
  7. “The Most Astounding Credit Binge in History”
  8. Mexican Gourmet Chefs Sharpen Knives in Global Food War
  9. Stocks Crashed the Last Two Times This Happened
  10. Why Saudi Arabia Won’t Cut Oil Production
  11. New Vehicle Sales Collapse in Canada’s Oil Patch
  12. “Hot Money” Flees Latin America, Triggers Currency Bloodbath, Risk of Mega Debt Crisis
  13. Americans’ Economic Outlook Plunges
  14. First the Miners, now the Banks, then Property? Going to be a Hard Landing for… Australia
  15. Who Gets Hurt from the Next Stock Market Crash?
  16. This is when Bullard Usually Says the Fed Should Restart QE
  17. Meltdown in Asia and Europe, US Stocks in Turmoil, Oil Plunges, Dollar Swoons, as Central Bank Omnipotence Fails
  18. Whose Capital Is Getting Destroyed in US Natural Gas?
  19. Just How Ugly Can Britain’s Fracking “Revolution” Get?
  20. What the Heck is Going on in the Global Markets?
  21. Foreign “Smart Money” Frets about Turmoil at Home, Flees, Plows into US Housing Bubble 2, Thinks it’s a “Safe Haven”
  22. German Newspaper Accuses Spain’s Central Bank of Hiding Collateral Risks from ECB
  23. The Chilling Thing Smartphone Sales Said about China Debacle
  24. It Starts: Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War
  25. Wall Street is Running out of Time… and Money
  26. LEAKED: GM Sees Overcapacity Fiasco in China, Hopes Americans Will Buy Lots of Chinese-Made Buicks
  27. Greek Stocks Are Down 60% Since Last Summer. Time to Buy?
  28. Canada “Getting Clocked” by Something Far Bigger than Oil
  29. Extortion Inc: Spain’s Financial Regulator in the Hot Seat
  30. Junk-Rated Offshore Drillers Headed into Bankruptcy: Fitch
  31. Housing Affordability in San Francisco & Bay Area Plunges; Stocks, Interest Rates Could Trigger Epic Bust
  32. Riskiest End of the Junk Bond Market Just Blew Up
  33. China Mess, Yuan Devaluation Spread to the US
  34. World’s Most Hated Major Currency Hits 11-Year Low
  35. U.S. Containerized Exports Fall Off the Chart
  36. Spain Gets Bitter Costly Foretaste of its Beloved Trade Pacts
  37. Wall Street Sees Junk Bond Collapse, Prepares to Profit from it
  38. Carlos Slim, World’s 2nd Richest Man, Mexico’s Biggest Oligarch, Master of Slimlandia, Suddenly Loses Billions
  39. All Heck Breaks Loose After Freaked-Out People’s Bank of China Devalues Yuan Again
  40. Big Natural Gas Driller Bites Dust, ‘Smart Money’ Gets Crushed
  41. People’s Bank of China Freaks Out, Devalues Yuan by Record Amount, Vows to “Severely Punish” Capital Flight
  42. Worst Year for Car Sales in Japan since Earthquake
  43. The Oil Train Boom Is Over, Railroads Get Slammed
  44. Airbnb and its Hosts Hung Out to Dry in Barcelona
  45. China’s Hard Landing Suddenly Gets a Lot Rougher
  46. Corporate Dollar Debt Explodes in Mexico as Peso Dives
  47. The Great Unwind Has Begun, Bankruptcies Soar
  48. The Saudi Oil Price War Backfires
  49. The Seventh-Largest Economy in the World Spirals Down
  50. It’s “Impossible to Pay Nothing” to Vulture Funds, Suddenly Says Argentine Economy Minister
  51. A True Jobs Massacre Spreads in US Oil & Gas
  52. The Central Bank Enabled 30-Year Bull Run in Stocks Is Over
  53. The Unnerving Thing Global Automakers Just Said About China’s Economy
  54. Company “at Leading Edge of Financialization” Crashes
  55. Oil Re-Bloodies the “Smart Money”
  56. Businesses Flee Catalonia, Foreign Investment Plunges, as Confrontation with Spain Comes to a Boil
  57. Citizens Go After the Most Despised Company in Japan
  58. It Gets Ugly in Canada
  59. Smart Money Dumps Assets at Record Pace, But Who the Heck Is Borrowing and Buying Like There’s No Tomorrow?
  60. The Risk of Contagion is Permanently Higher
  61. The “Internet of Things” Gets Hacked To Smithereens

July 2015

  1. This is What We’ve Been Waiting for, the True Recovery of the American Economy
  2. Liar Loans Pop up in Canada’s Magnificent Housing Bubble
  3. Fat Chance: Cameron Vows to Clean Up UK Property Market
  4. What’s Left of the American Dream Withers at Record Pace
  5. Mexican Peso Dives, Fretting Begins About Peso Crisis
  6. Americans’ Economic Confidence Gets Mauled
  7. The Bull Market Is Nearing an End
  8. Wall Street Still Didn’t Get The Memo – China’s Done!
  9. Pessimism Among Oil Traders Soars to 5-Year High
  10. Corn Crashes, Other Commodities Brutalized
  11. Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Plunges to New Low
  12. How Much Worse Can the Junk-Bond Sell-Off Get?
  13. What the Heck Just Happened in the Global Markets?
  14. French Government Sells Out Citizenry to Coddle Saudi Royals
  15. UBS’s Puerto Rico Bond Funds Implode, “Collateral Value” Drops to Zero, Investors Screwed
  16. Time for “Distressed Investing” in Commodities, Gold?
  17. The Mother of All Storms Builds Over Catalonia’s Independence
  18. The Chilling Thing China’s Electricity Consumption Just Said about the Economy
  19. World Trade Drops Most Since Financial Crisis
  20. The Advertising Glut Dooms Social Media Industry
  21. Argentine Peso Crashes, “Blue Dollar” and Unease Rise
  22. It’s Happening: Debt Is Tearing up the Fracking Revolution
  23. US Coal Producers Dropping Like Flies
  24. Americans’ Economic Confidence Gets Whacked
  25. Obamacare? Wall Street Suddenly Scrambles to Buy Doctors, “Leverage” Their Patients
  26. What Insulates Russia From Low Oil Prices?
  27. The San Francisco “Housing Crisis” Gets Ugly
  28. Shell Warns: Oil Price Recovery Will Take 5 Years
  29. Epic Glut of Office Space Crushes Hope in Canadian Oil Patch
  30. ECB Hits Small Banks, Makes City of London, Wall Street Salivate
  31. No Growth, No profit, No problem
  32. “Leveraged Loan” Time Bomb Goes Off
  33. Is Mexico Ready For Life Without Its Sugar Daddy?
  34. This Prediction about the Euro Deserves a ‘Nostradamus Award’
  35. The Biggest Energy Crooks
  36. Bank of Canada Sees Global Economy, Freaks Out, Cuts Rate, Warns of Financial Stability Risks, Loonie Plunges
  37. European Commission Wants to Repress Internet Freedom
  38. Largest “Alternative” Mortgage Lender in Canada Plunges, Denies “Systemic Problem” in Housing Market
  39. Is Canada Next? Recession Is “Quite Contained”
  40. Spain Is Not Greece, It’s Spain (And That’s Worrying Enough)
  41. It Starts: Greeks Rebel Against Bailout, Risk Collapse
  42. Despite Wall Street Conniptions, Another Fed Dove Caves
  43. Why I Don’t Short Stocks or Bonds in this Crazy Environment Where Nearly All Assets Are Overpriced
  44. New Global Taxman to Wage War on Informal Economy
  45. Peak Financial Engineering? Trends Spiral South
  46. Will We Ever Be “Allowed” to Have a Crisis?
  47. U.S. Primary Bond Market Seized Up, Junk Bond Issuance Frozen, Chaos in China, Greece, Puerto Rico, Commodities Cited
  48. China Is Just Another Front in the Zombie War
  49. US Companies Left Out in Russia as EU, Asia Ignore Sanctions
  50. Microsoft Tallies True Costs of M&A Boom: Layoffs, Write-Offs, Shut-Downs, Economic Decline
  51. “A Situation That Spirals Out Of Control Quickly”
  52. Today It’s Brussels’ Turn to Tighten the Noose on EU Citizens
  53. How to Avoid Epic Collapses in the Resource Sector
  54. China Syndrome Burns Stocks, Commodities
  55. The Chilling Thing Gartner Just Said About a Once Hot Engine of Global Growth
  56. Petrobras Scandal Balloons, Losses Pile Up, Forces Brazil’s Hand
  57. Chinese Stocks Come Totally Unglued
  58. Oil Falls Off the Chart, Crushes Hopes
  59. Central Banks Scramble, Fail to Rescue Stocks, after Greece
  60. Panicked Chinese Government Imposes Desperate Measures to “Aggressively” Rescue a Lot More Than Just Crashing Stocks
  61. As the Eurozone Teeters, the IMF Does Something Weird
  62. The Biggest Greek Banks “Have Failed,” and “Resolving” Them Won’t Work: Fitch
  63. “Everyone Is Wondering When the Volcano Will Erupt”
  64. LEAKED: How the Biggest Banks Are Conspiring to Rip Up Financial Regulations around the World
  65. It’s a Steamroller, and It’s Headed for Us All
  66. Greece’s Largest Industry Suddenly Takes a Terrible Hit
  67. Home-Buying Panic Sets in, Housing Bubble 2 Soars, Industry Drools, But It’s Doomed, Says Zillow
  68. Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China’s Stock Market

June 2015

  1. Why Greeks Still Want to Keep the Euro, in One Chart
  2. Bond Insurers Crash, Hit by Puerto Rico’s Default Shrapnel
  3. Panicked Hedge Funds Now Praying for a Miracle in Greece
  4. Does HSBC Know Something Other Banks Don’t?
  5. “Risk of Collapse” and “Panic” in the Air, China Cuts Rates
  6. These 3 Countries Worry Corporate America the Most
  7. Canada’s Oil Patch Goes Into Convulsions, Business Confidence Plunges to Financial Crisis Lows
  8. The Five Horsemen (and One Horsewoman) of Europe’s Monetary Apocalypse
  9. ‘Huge Increase’ in Oklahoma Quakes ‘Game-Changer’ For Oil & Gas Industry
  10. The Crucial Thing to Know About This Economy
  11. Wall Street Frets about its Nightmare Generation
  12. Bank of England Could ‘Trigger the Next Financial Crisis’
  13. Why This Economy Feels So Lousy
  14. The Fuse is Lit
  15. At Worst Possible Time, China’s Auto Exports Plunge
  16. Look Who’s Trying to Squash Fears that the Bad Old Times Are Back for US Airlines
  17. Container Shipping Rates from China to US, Europe Collapse
  18. San Francisco vs America in Housing Bubble 2
  19. Is This What Our Bond Bear Market Already Looks Like?
  20. Wave of Defaults, Bankruptcies Spook Bond Investors
  21. LEAKED (Denied then Confirmed): ECB Not Sure If Greek Banks Can Open Monday
  22. About these “Signs of Hope” in the Chinese Housing Market
  23. Starbucks Machinery Lurches Forward, Runs Over My Croissant
  24. Container Carriers Wage Price War to Form Global Shipping Oligopoly
  25. How Are Investors Feeling? Somewhat Nervous
  26. Biggest Glut in Recorded Crude-Oil History Taking Shape
  27. Manufacturing in Canada Sags, Triggers Chilling References to Financial Crisis
  28. Texas Tries to Bring Home its Gold Bars, Distrusts NY Fed, HSBC
  29. ECB Press Release this Wednesday Could End Extortion Racket over Greece – à la Cyprus 2013
  30. The Men Who’re Stealing The Sun
  31. It Gets Messy in Canada
  32. How Australia’s Big 4 Banks Can Sink the Entire Economy
  33. San Francisco Home Prices Spike, Exuberance Reigns
  34. Toronto’s Epic Condo Bubble Suddenly Turns into Condo Glut
  35. What Does California Gov. Jerry Brown Know about the Next Crash and Recession that We Don’t?
  36. “China Momentum Indicator” at Hard-Landing Level
  37. Democracy on Hold: President of European Parliament Suspends Vote on Secretive U.S.-EU Trade Pact as Tide Turns Against It
  38. PE Firms’ Exit from Buy-to-Rent Boom Drains Nest Eggs
  39. QE Begins to Screw Investors
  40. Is This Why U.S. Treasuries Are Diving?
  41. Concerns Over Fracking Earthquakes Spread To Texas
  42. Australia’s “Largest Housing Bubble on Record” in 4 Charts
  43. Humans Not Yet Doomed: Watch even the Coolest Robots Fall
  44. It Scares “the Hell Out Of” Bill Gross, Yet in Last-Ditch Effort, Companies Sell More Bonds than Ever
  45. Germany, France Call for Fiscal and Political Union. Public Ignorance Vital for Success of EU Power Grab
  46. China Containerized Freight Index Collapses
  47. Get Used to Selloffs, Central Bankers Say as They Fret about the Terrifying Moment When Liquidity Evaporates
  48. The Dumbest Man in China
  49. You’re (Probably) a Federal Criminal
  50. Canadian Mortgage Insurer Tells US Hedge Funds Why Canada’s Housing Bubble Is Immortal. Hilarity Ensues
  51. Asian Financial Sector Hit Hard By Low Oil Prices
  52. ECB Loses Its Grip, Bond Market Comes Unglued
  53. Startup Bubble Too Big For Exit, Investors in La-La Land
  54. Last Two Times This Happened, Stocks Crashed
  55. Are You Still Banking with a Criminal Enterprise?
  56. Today’s ‘Liquidity Regime’ Is ‘Far More Dangerous for Investors’
  57. Is Goldman About To Lose A Tentacle?

May 2015

  1. Mortgage Broker to Australia’s Youth: Give Up Life, Fun, Holidays… Buy an Overpriced Home
  2. California Water Crisis: What’s Next
  3. When Betting on QE Suddenly Goes Wrong
  4. Why the Bank of Japan Can’t Stop a Sudden Collapse of the Yen
  5. It’s Getting Ugly in Spain
  6. US Containerized Exports Plunge Off the Chart
  7. Junk-Debt Apocalypse Later
  8. When Chasing The Tape, Please Mind The Lemmings
  9. New Giant Jumps into Oil Trading Fray as Banks Bail Out
  10. “Our Goal Has Been to Survive Until the Third Quarter”
  11. The Chilling Thing an Industry Insider Said about Glyphosate, GMOs, and Why He Sold His Conventional Seeds Company
  12. Global Trade Dives Most since the Financial Crisis
  13. Monsanto Bites Back
  14. What Does Exxon Know That We Don’t?
  15. Downturn in South America Mauls Spanish Companies, Threatens Spain’s “Recovery”
  16. Atlanta Fed: Inflation Heating Up Beneath Surface
  17. Schwab Warns on Munis, those “Affected by Pensions” Are Toxic
  18. New Jersey May Not Be Able to Find Money for Pension Payment This Year, State Officials Say
  19. The Sudden Housing Bubble in Dallas: Personal Perspective
  20. What Are They Shorting in this Psychotically Bullish Market?
  21. Are These Ticking Time Bombs In Your Portfolio?
  22. Former Fed Governor Predicts “Wrenching” Market Adjustment
  23. Goldman: Oil Rally “Self-Defeating,” Oil at $45 by October
  24. This Is How Insane San Francisco’s Housing Bubble Really Is
  25. “Cash Is Coined Freedom”: War on Cash Becomes Official in Germany, Reaches G-7, Draws Withering Fire
  26. Why Bonds Are No Longer a “Safe Haven”
  27. America’s Shadowy Energy Connection With Azerbaijan
  28. “Buyers beware”: Capital Markets “Completely Backwards”
  29. Cuba Flaunts Oil – Russia, US, Others Line Up
  30. The Global Trade Corporatocracy Slams into Local Resistance
  31. Heading into the First Bond Bear Market in a Generation
  32. China Momentum Indicator Plunges to “Hard Landing” Level
  33. Afraid of Losing Trillions, Wall Street Fights Fed Rate Hikes
  34. “Brazil Just Getting Worse and Worse”
  35. Coal Company Bites the Dust, Again
  36. Why the Heck Is the Trucking Business Slowing Down?
  37. AOL, the Sound of the World Wide Wait
  38. Saudi Arabia, Russia in No Mood to Cave to US Fracking Boom
  39. China Downturn Hits US Automakers
  40. How Soaring Housing Costs Impoverish a Whole Generation and Maul the Real Economy
  41. Why It’s Time to Be Cautious in the Oil & Gas Sector
  42. Spanish Construction Giant Reels From Mexican Hangover
  43. Schäuble Warns of “Sudden” Greek Default
  44. One Wild Week in the Bond Markets, and Look What Happened
  45. Global Demand for Chinese Goods Sinks, Chinese Leaders ‘Caught Off Guard by Sharpness of Downturn’
  46. How the Liquidity “Delusion” Leads to a Crash
  47. Bond Investors Are Making One Big Mistake Right Now
  48. Guess Who’s Designing Europe’s New Tax System?
  49. Dollar Hits Air Pocket, Euro in Epic Short Squeeze
  50. But Don’t Cry for the Bond Market Gamblers
  51. Is This The Top For Oil Prices For Now?
  52. “Smart Money” Prepares to Profit from Bond Market Rout
  53. Confidence in the US Economy Plunges
  54. China Containerized Freight Index Plunges to Multi-Year Low, Shanghai-EU Rates Totally Collapse, US Rates Morose
  55. Australia’s Sacred Cow Threatens Banking System
  56. Water Crisis: Lake Mead, Largest US Reservoir, Faces Federal “Water Emergency,” Forced Rationing
  57. This Is What Happened When An Aussie Read My Book on Japan
  58. Housing Bubble 2: Investor Purchases Hit Record, Small Investors Pile in, ‘Smart Money’ Gets Out
  59. Angela Merkel’s NSA Nightmare Just Got A Lot Worse

April 2015

  1. Stocks in This Totally Hyped Sector Are Crashing
  2. Caving In to Corporatism: Endgame for Secret “Trade” Pact Negotiations
  3. Atlanta Fed’s “GDP Now” Model Totally Nailed Ugly Q1, “Blue-Chip” Economists Ludicrously Optimistic
  4. Record Financial Engineering Will Goose Stocks: Goldman
  5. Manufacturing Falls Apart in the Middle of the US
  6. Aussie Comedians Clarke & Dawe: Government Is Your Fault
  7. Americans Suddenly Sour on Buying a Home, Worst Drop since 2008, Optimism Plunges in the West
  8. Australia’s Bad Bet on China
  9. The “War on Cash” in 10 Spine-Chilling Quotes
  10. Canada’s Magnificent Housing Bubble Goes Nuts, Cracks
  11. Financial Mania Strikes Back
  12. This Is What’s Happening in Junk Bonds, and It’s Not Pretty
  13. The EU’s Five Worst Unemployment-Fiasco Regions?
  14. The Greek People Just Destroyed Syriza’s Strategy
  15. Tony Blair, a Walking, Talking, Grinning Conflict of Interest
  16. Oil Prices Won’t Recover Anytime Soon – Exxon CEO
  17. Central Bank Governor Veers Off Script, Sees “Illusion of Liquidity” & “Asset Bubbles,” Dreads Crash
  18. The World’s Financial System Is Going Nuts
  19. F35, The Jet That Ate the Pentagon
  20. Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Collapses: China-US Rates Hit Hard, China-Europe Rates Plunge to All-Time Low
  21. Who Is Saudi Arabia Really Targeting In Its Price War?
  22. The Chilling Thing Blackstone Said about the Oil Bust
  23. Strange Things Are Happening in European Bond Markets
  24. How to Beat the Bots on Wall Street
  25. Former IMF President, Bank-Bailout-Fiasco President, and VP of Spain, Long Untouchable by the Law – Suddenly Gets Crushed
  26. Money from Heaven, Path to Hell
  27. How Wall Street Is Exporting Toxic Junk Loan Waste To Japan
  28. Despite Fierce Opposition, EU Opens Back Door to Fracking
  29. Bankruptcies Suddenly Soar Across Corporate America, Worst First Quarter Since 2009
  30. Australia Runs out of Luck, Now Needs a Miracle
  31. Russia Expands Sphere Of Influence via Iran Nuclear Deal
  32. Fed’s Dudley Warns about Wave of Municipal Bankruptcies
  33. Japan May Not Restart Nukes After All
  34. Magnificent Housing Bubble Unravels in Much of Canada
  35. No Major Country Is More Exposed to Banks than Australia
  36. Top Corporate Excuses for the Current Earnings Debacle, And What Gets Silenced to Death
  37. Global Financial Markets Go Nuts
  38. Moody’s Has a Cow, Slams GE’s Masterful Financial Engineering
  39. Here’s What’s Killing the American Dream
  40. Is This New $2-Billion Fund by a Russian Miner A Signal for Palladium?
  41. Keep Pushing Until Something Really BIG Breaks?
  42. Oil Crushed by US-Saudi-Russian Supply Glut
  43. American Dream to Export LNG Evaporates
  44. This Could Sink Banks in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy
  45. Wall Street Sells Junk Bonds, CLOs at Record Pace, But Investors Hit by “Dismal” Returns
  46. Calgary Housing & Office Markets Crushed, Alberta Sinks, Vacancies Spread Across Canada, but Vancouver…
  47. “Bad Bank” Mania Spreads in Europe
  48. Coal is Dying, not just in the US. Look What’s Happening in China
  49. Greece Brandishes Drachma, Threatens Euro Exit
  50. China Targets Dollar, Washington Has Conniptions
  51. “The Mother of All Bubbles” in Stocks and Bonds: Bank CEO

March 2015

  1. This Is Where the Oil Trains Are Going
  2. Rajoy Horror Picture Show Nears Grisly Climax in Spain
  3. The “New Era” in Healthcare: Buyouts, Financial Engineering Instead of Innovation
  4. Oil Prices to Get Hit By Iran Nuclear Deal: Societe Generale
  5. It’s Just a Question of Whose Capital Will Be Destroyed
  6. Worst Revenue & Earnings Declines Since Crisis Year 2009
  7. Marriage Made in Corporatist Heaven Slams into Resistance
  8. Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds
  9. You Should See the Reasons Cited for the Plunge of the Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Index
  10. Now What in America’s Mucked Up Housing Market?
  11. Airlines Keep Fuel Savings For Themselves
  12. US Economy Heads Toward Zero Growth in Q1
  13. Ketchup & Mac Merger Emblematic of “Fatally Deformed American Capitalism”
  14. Surprise Attack: French Megabank Slams Draghi’s Currency War
  15. The “Insanity Trade:” Where Does It Go From Here?
  16. Chinese Government Hypes Stocks
  17. Realtor: Low Mortgage Rates Are Killing the Industry
  18. Wall Street Banks Hit by Oil & Gas Defaults, Bankruptcies
  19. The US Oil Bust Gets Uglier
  20. Rich Man’s Bank Hit by Bank Run, Collapse, “Bail-In”
  21. Dumping American Junk in Europe, Draghi Asked for it
  22. Just as Global Oil Glut Deepens, China Cuts Oil Imports
  23. A “Wave of Bankruptcies” About To Hit Coal Industry
  24. Sign of a Stock Market “Top” at a Classic Car Auction
  25. Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up
  26. ECB Inaugurates Hyper-Luxury HQ, While Frankfurt Burns
  27. The World’s Most Popular Trade May Soon Explode
  28. Who Loses, Who Wins: Amazon, Apple, Facebook & Google
  29. Economy Finally Reaches “Escape Velocity,” Heads South
  30. The 10 Worst “Sinkhole States” in America
  31. Oil Investors, Beware The “Fracklog”
  32. Junk-Rated Oil & Gas Companies in a “Liquidity Death Spiral”
  33. In its Desperation, Scandal-Riddled Spanish Government Criminalizes Solidarity Among Citizens
  34. US Government Plans to Bail out Oil Industry, Consumers to Pay
  35. The US Oil Bust Just Got Worse
  36. Household Debt Soars in Canada, “Stability” at Risk
  37. In Global Food War, Monsanto Trips Over Mexican Judge
  38. That’ll Kill the High-End Housing Boom in US Trophy Cities
  39. The Great Immoderation: How The Fed Is Sowing The Next Recession
  40. Saudi Exec: $1-Trillion Drop In Global Oil & Gas Investments
  41. Last Time This Ratio Spiked, Stocks Crashed
  42. The End of the Great Debt Cycle
  43. Fracking Industry Conspiring To Cover Up Oklahoma Earthquake Evidence?
  44. Housing Construction Skids in Canada, Crashes in Oil Patch
  45. How Debt Has Caught Up With Fracking
  46. Apple Comes Out with a Watch, and Look What Happens
  47. A “Crush” of Bond Sales Before the Market Goes to Heck
  48. Is the IMF About to Make Greece an Offer It Can’t Refuse?
  49. This Chart Shows the True Collapse of Fracking in the US
  50. Spanish Judge Pursues Bankers, Government Pursues Judge
  51. West-Coast Port Fiasco Does ‘Permanent, Irrevocable Damage’
  52. Get Ready for a “Zero Returns” World
  53. The Great Financial Shuffle
  54. “Default Monday”: Oil & Gas Companies Face Their Creditors
  55. Austria ‘Pulls Ripcord’ on Bailouts, Lets ‘Bottomless Pit’ Hypo Alpe Bank Drag State of Carinthia into Bankruptcy
  56. Christina Goes to War with Argentina’s Soy Farmers to Get Their US Dollars
  57. Macau Bleeds, Warns About Chinese Economy
  58. The Unnerving Thing Wells Fargo Just Said About the Auto Boom
  59. Crunch Time for the Global Corporatocracy

February 2015

  1. Cashing Out of the “Bet on America” Might Get Messy
  2. The Fracking Bust Exacts its Pound of Flesh
  3. Activist Investors — What You Need to Know
  4. If Greeks Did This, the Terrible Crisis Would Be Over
  5. Venezuela Unravels: Paranoia & Purges
  6. Housing Crash in China Steeper than in Pre-Lehman America
  7. Investors Left in the Cold in Washington, DC Real Estate
  8. “Perfect Storm” for Junk Bonds, Mutual Funds to Get Hit
  9. What the Heck Has Suddenly Hit American Consumers?
  10. Oil Bust Mauls Texas Manufacturers, Atlanta Fed Sees Hit to US Economy
  11. Making Me Pay For My Crimes Would Send “Message of Uncertainty to the Markets”: Bank President to Spanish Judge
  12. Fracking Bust Deepens, Sets Records
  13. Subprime Pump-and-Dump Frenzy Heats Up
  14. This Is What Happened When I Tried to Save My Patient $610
  15. NSA and GCHQ Stole the Encryption Keys to Your Cellphone
  16. What the ECB Has to Do to “Prevent a Market Meltdown”: French Megabank
  17. As Banks Tighten Grip on the Media, British Journalist Rebels Against HSBC-Run Telegraph
  18. The Chilling Thing Devon Energy Just Said About the US Oil Glut
  19. Smaller Businesses Dread the Wrath of US-EU “Free-Trade” Deal
  20. Money Is Bailing Out of Canada
  21. The “Vultures” Are Still Circling
  22. Reckless Stock-Market Leverage Intoxicates Politicians
  23. Spanish Judge Violates Global Rule, Makes Bank President & Former IMF Chief Pay for Financial Crimes
  24. The Fracking Bust Hits Home
  25. Something Rotten Is Piling Up in this Economy
  26. A Correction in Silicon Valley Will Send Out Shockwaves
  27. Oil Bust Hits Office Construction Boom, Banks, Suppliers – But Hey, “So Far” No Apocalypse
  28. Oil-Price Debacle Is Far From Over
  29. This Is How HSBC Celebrates 150 Years of Banking Crime & Corruption: Happy Birthday
  30. A New Red Flag for Our Rosy Economic Scenario
  31. Wall Street Has a Dream About the Price of Oil
  32. The Final Chapter in the Credit Bubble Story
  33. Crunch Time as Greece’s Terrible Deadlines Loom
  34. American Workers ‘Roadkill’ for Lobbyists, Immigration Lawyers
  35. Oil Rig Count Plunges 29% from Peak. Halfway to Bottom?
  36. Why the Beautiful New Greek Government Is Screwed
  37. Lies, Lies, Lies, and A Bubble in Burgers?
  38. In Search of Cheap Labor in Tech: Behind the H1-B Visa Scenes
  39. Oil Glut Gets Worse – Production, Inventories Soar to Record
  40. ‘Vulture’ Investors Descend on Oil Patch
  41. How Long Can Central Banks Push Bonds to Absurdity?
  42. Immensely Concentrated Positions in “Fantastically” Overpriced Markets with “Unlimited Tolerance for Risk”
  43. Bad News For World Economy That No One Wants To Hear
  44. Who Really Owns Your Drones?
  45. Chaos, Fear, Panic Descend on EU’s Hallowed Halls of Power
  46. Canada Mauled by Oil Bust, Job Losses Pile Up – Housing Bubble, Banks at Risk

January 2015

  1. Oil Price Soars, Rig Count Plunges Worst Ever, But Bloodletting Just Beginning
  2. The American Dream Dissipates at Record Pace
  3. “Recipe for Disaster”: Canadian Government to Expand State Surveillance Powers (Again)
  4. “Oil Capital of California” Declares Fiscal Emergency
  5. Alaska’s State Budget Collapses by 50%
  6. Iran De-Dollarizes Its Trade
  7. Hounded by Evil Dollar & Collapsed Commodity Prices, Corporate America Clamors for Total Currency War
  8. Global Drug Trade Gets More Efficient, Defies US War on Drugs, Revolt Builds in Latin America
  9. Junk-Bond Bubble Implodes Beyond Energy, Deals Scuttled, Yields Soar, Suddenly “Insufficient Demand”
  10. Greece’s Hard Choice: Escape or Merely Reset EU Servitude
  11. How Capitalism Dies
  12. I Have a Mineral Royalty in Texas, and This Is What Happened
  13. Debt and Fracking at Low Oil & Gas Prices: Wave of Defaults, “Outright Liquidations” Next
  14. Troika Punches Panic Button on Greece and Spain
  15. Billionaire’s Dream: Uber’s New American Economy
  16. Oil Drilling Cut Fastest Since Stock Market Crash
  17. Germany: ‘Got Gold?’ – Draghi: ‘Try Some Bananas’
  18. This Chart Shows Why the Oil Bust Will Last
  19. Mario Draghi: Charlatan Of The Apparatchiks
  20. Why the Great American Oil Bust Will Be Long & Painful
  21. HealthCare.gov in Cahoots with Dozens of Tracking Websites
  22. Recession in Tar-Sands Rich Alberta?
  23. Manufacturing Hit by Oil-Price Plunge? Southeast Worst Since Financial Crisis
  24. Look Who’s Dragging Down the Global Economy Though No One Is Allowed to Say it
  25. Europe Gets Cold Feet on “TTIP,” Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy
  26. Oil Drillers Abandon High-Cost Areas
  27. Fears of Capital Controls, Savings Confiscation Trigger Bank Runs in Greece
  28. These Two Charts Show the True Fiasco of US Oil & Gas
  29. Money Dries Up for Oil & Gas, Layoffs Spread, Write-Offs Start
  30. My Wine! What Just Happened on in the Streets of Mendoza?
  31. Without QE, “Eurozone Financial Markets Would Collapse”
  32. Shorts Jump off Cliff? US Natural Gas Soars 19% in Two Days
  33. The American Dream Goes Bust, KB Home Wrecked, Other Homebuilders Follow
  34. China Bails Out Latin America for Oil
  35. How Wall Street Drove the Oil & Gas Drilling Boom That’s Turning into a Disaster
  36. Oil Bust Could End Up Like the Zaitech Collapse in Japan
  37. This Is Just the Beginning of the Great American Oil Bust
  38. Peak Oil Pulled a Fast One on Me
  39. Subprime Spikes Auto Sales, Delinquencies Soar, Industry in Total Denial, Fallout to Hit Main Street
  40. Oil-Price Crash Hits LNG Exports
  41. This Giant Oil Company Is Headed for Disaster
  42. Venezuela Joins Argentina & Russia, Bends Over For China
  43. Hot Air Hisses out of ‘Advertising Tech’ Startup Bubble
  44. This Isn’t Investing… It’s Russian Roulette
  45. Deflation Calamity Howlers Are Dead Wrong – in Europe and Everywhere Else
  46. ‘Crazed Housing Markets’ in Spain, Italy
  47. Oil-Bust Bloodletting: Projects Cancelled, Layoffs Ripple to Other Areas, Default Hits Private-Equity and Pension Funds
  48. Russia Sanctions Stir Up Top-Level Mini-Revolt in Europe
  49. Why You Can’t Buy Oil Stocks – Yet
  50. Consumer Companies Issue Most Negative Guidance Ever, Despite Lower Gasoline Prices
  51. The Snake-Oil Peddlers in Europe
  52. The Future of Fracking as Oil Price Crashes: ‘When Will People Stop Giving these Companies Money?’
  53. In 2015, it Boils Down to this: Argentina Will Not Pay Because President Christina Doesn’t Want to
  54. What Macau Just Said About China’s Economy
  55. Peak Irony in No-Exit Union: As Grexit Chaos Resurges, Lithuania Joins
  56. Oil-Price Plunge Triggers Layoffs in the US, Businesses Shutter
  57. U.S. State Department Heaps Further Pressure on Mexico’s Struggling Economy

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