Nov 7 2009

Employment Engineering: Firing those who Work with Their Hands. Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Jobs Protected by Bailout Structure. Other Sectors Dealing with Depression Trends.

It is hard to imagine why Wall Street would cheer a 10.2 percent official unemployment rate since the stock market actually ended the day higher after this dismal news.  Since the start of the recession, 8 million people have lost their jobs.  A total of approximately 27 million people are unemployed, underemployed, or have given […]

Oct 26 2009

Commercial Real Estate Implosion: 67 Percent Fall in Multifamily Starts, Ghost Buildings, $3 Trillion in Debt, 41 Percent Drop in CRE, and Collapse in Rents.

Driving along the highway at night, it is an eerie sight to look at some of the vacant buildings.  The lights are on but the floors are empty awaiting an audience that will never come.  Can it be that commercial real estate, with over $3 trillion outstanding be in worse shape than residential housing?  In […]

Sep 15 2009

S&P 500 is The New Bubble: Current S&P 500 Value is Betting on Return to Bubble Peak, Housing Mania, and 4 Percent Unemployment.

One question that seems to pop up every so often is whether the S&P 500 is overvalued.  To put it simply, it is hyper-valued.  From the 666 low reached in March the index has rallied 57 percent.  Unfortunately much of the rally is based on temporary government stimulus, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve trashing […]

Apr 26 2009

20,000 Americans Lose Their Job Each day but we Still Bailout Wall Street and Banks: 4 Charts Highlighting this Historical Financial Crisis. GDP, Inflation, Industrial Production, and Excess Reserves.

Four banks and one credit institution failed on Friday.  This is now becoming a common Friday ritual.  On February 13 four banks were also taken over by the FDIC.  Multiple bank failures on one day are now growing in size.  Yet the FDIC is quickly blazing through their insurance fund and soon, the taxpayer is […]

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