How Housing Bubbles Destroy Productivity
More evidence that housing bubbles distort economic activity and act as a damper on growth.
Read more...Category Archives: Credit markets
Oil And Gas Bankruptcies Set To Double This Year
Heavily indebted oil and gas companies have managed to hold off the day of reckoning, but analysts expect bankruptcies to spike.
Read more...Deutsche Bank Unlikely to Get Much of a Break From the DoJ’s $14 Billion Mortgage Fine Target
Deutsche Bank isn’t likely to have much luck in trying to get a big break on a pending Department of Justice fine.
Read more...The Private Debt Crisis
Why private debt is so dangerous, and why that risk looms large, particularly in China.
Read more...The Rise and Rise of the Bubble Managers
It’s becoming even more obvious that Fed policy is focused on keeping the bubble inflated over real economy concerns.
Read more...Ilargi: China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP
More concerned tea-leaf reading in the wake of a BIS report that sounded alarms about China’s debt growth.
Read more...The City Will Decline—and We Will Be the Poorer for It
What might Brexit-induced losses to the City cost the UK economy?
Read more...Revealed: ECB Secretly Hands Cash to Select Corporations
Is the ECB’s latest bond-buying program creating corporate winners and losers?
Read more...Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson: Finance is Not the Economy
Picking apart the conflation of real capital with finance capital and explaining how that confusion undermines sound analysis of the crisis.
Read more...SEC Shamed: Whistleblower Refuses Multimillion Dollar Award Due to Ex-Deutsche Bank Attorneys at SEC Protecting Deutsche Execs (and Themselves)
Deutsche Bank whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi makes a huge financial sacrifice to call out corruption in SEC enforcement.
Read more...How the Fed Promoted “Financial Dominance” and Shadow Banking by Promoting Repo
Yves here. This is a very important post, and sadly I’m not providing it with the introduction and commentary it warrants because I am scrambling to get organized to get out of town. By Daniela Gabor is associate professor in economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Originally published at the Institute […]
Read more...Economists Mystified that Negative Interest Rates Aren’t Leading Consumers to Run Out and Spend
It been remarkable to witness the casual way in which central banks have plunged into negative interest rate terrain, based on questionable models. Now that this experiment isn’t working out so well, the response comes troubling close to, “Well, they work in theory, so we just need to do more or wait longer to see […]
Read more...Financialization and its Discontents
Untangling the credit versus money focus in the critiques of financialization.
Read more...European Bank Shares Fall Out of Bed as Monte dei Paschi Rescue Fails to Reassure
Investors in European bank shares are in a bit of a panic, and for good reason.
Read more...Dumb Money Watch: ZIRP-Starved Insurers Beefing Up in Lending as Banks Exit the Pool
Insurers are going long risk at one of the worst possible junctures.
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