Friday, April 13, 2012

"We’re the best horse in the glue factory"

So says Gary Shilling, quoted here.

But he understands the fundamental fact that there's really no there there:

"Consumers have a lot of reasons to save as opposed to spend. They need to rebuild their assets, save for retirement. A lot of reasons suggest that they should be saving to work down debt as opposed to going the other way, which they have done in recent months. So if consumers retrench, there is not really anything else in the U.S. economy that can hold things up.”