Showing posts with label Jeffrey Snider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffrey Snider. Show all posts
Thursday, September 29, 2022

This inflation is transitory

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Friday, February 7, 2020

LOL: Donald Trump's crackpot 35% unemployment in February 2016 is 37% today

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Jeffrey Snider : In February of 2016, then-candidate Trump deployed his typical grandiose, exaggerated style after his win in the New Ha...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Hello, maybe bank reserves are the problem, not the solution?

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I don't think I've ever seen Jeff Snider shake his damn head: Tbills are the very best collateral in repo and the Fed has decided to lock them up

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This is going to be highly . . . educational, but the Fed will still flunk out in the end. When aiming your gun at the ground, make s...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Jeffrey Snider explains the decline in bond yields to The Wall Street Journal's Andy Kessler, tells a clueless Fed what must be done

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The Fed Can’t See Its Own Shadow   Its asset purchases are squeezing nonbank lending and sinking long-term bond rates. ... Shortage...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Foreign holdings of US Treasury securities hit $6.636 trillion in June 2019, driving down yields

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Nobody asks why US debt securities are so popular. People like Jeffrey Snider of Alhambra know why, but nobody listens to him.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Jeffrey Snider: The whole global economy is in trouble, and it isn't because of a few billion in US tariffs on Chinese goods

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Rather it is because hundreds of billions of dollars worth of liquidity keep disappearing since the Great Financial Crisis.
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Economic shrinkage illustrated: Average consumption post-Great Recession has collapsed by 42%

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Average 4.3% PCE up to year 2000, 2.5% post-Great Recession:
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Jeffrey Snider: The last 11 years of real GDP worse overall than the Great Depression

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 Told ya. Are the Great Depression and the Last 11 Years Comparable? In terms of modern calculation of real Gross Domestic Product,...
Friday, September 28, 2018

If this is an economic boom how come new home sales are at 1982 recession levels for a year and a half?

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(h/t Jeffrey Snider)
Monday, August 27, 2018

Martin Wolf for The Financial Times likes business historian Adam Tooze's important new book CRASHED: HOW A DECADE OF FINANCIAL CRISES CHANGED THE WORLD

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See Martin Wolf,  What really went wrong in the 2008 financial crisis? Tooze has been making the rounds at places like Bloomberg  (and...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Atheist George Will conflates economy and stock market, remains oddly superstitious about deficits

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George Will forgets we've had trillion dollar deficits quite recently but without a stock market crash.  The trillion dollar defic...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

If it's an economic boom why aren't inventories surging?

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h/t Jeffrey Snider
Friday, June 15, 2018

The boom goes bust: "Investment activity is grinding to a full stop for the first time in China's modern history"

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Also, "weakest consumer spending since 2003". And, 46 consecutive months of industrial production at or below 8%, "unpr...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Jeffrey Snider: Fix the suffering in the labor force or next time you might actually get socialism

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Here : The American labor force is suffering like it hasn’t since the 1930’s, but nobody seems willing to challenge Economists’ easily...
Thursday, January 4, 2018

The face of the declining middle class in 2016 was concealed as 15 million more lived in doubled-up households than in 2005

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Zillow reported ( here ) in December that working age adults in 2016 were living in doubled-up households at a rate of 30% compared with 2...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Opioid epidemic is far more likely an effect of this depression economy than one of its causes

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Jeffrey Snider, here : What the cash flow and profit series tell us is that Economists once again have it backward. The opioid epidemi...
Friday, July 29, 2016

GDP "anomalies" have been showing since 2011 that "the US economy is in serious, long-term trouble"

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Jeffrey Snider, here : The US economy is in serious, long-term trouble. We knew that very well by the volatile nature of GDP almost ...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Thirty-five years ago the economy mattered more than actual power

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"[Economists] never offer anything but the same command approach to the obvious exception of everything else that used to be easily a...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Minus 2.9% GDP has never occurred outside of a recession: They're ignoring it like 2008

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Jeffrey Snider, here : The most recent example of this, in a larger scale setting, was the first quarter's GDP estimate. Rather than emb...