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Mike Shedlock

Author: Mike Shedlock

Michael "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

2012

Consumer Credit 'Demolishes Expectations' Really? ... - 09 Feb 2012
Is Romney to Blame for Paying Low Taxes ... - 06 Feb 2012
Trim Tabs Fearless Forecast: US Payrolls +45,000 Jobs... - 01 Feb 2012
Greece Prime Minister Calls 'Crisis Meeting' Attacks EU, IMF; Does G - 31 Jan 2012
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet; Another Trillion (or Two) Euro LTRO Comi - 30 Jan 2012
Triumph of One and the Price of Arrogance; Merkozy Treaty to Fail on - 28 Jan 2012

2011

We Must Crush Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Nouriel Roubini, Martin Wolf, - 11 Nov 2011
France, Germany have 'Intense Consultations' on Smaller Eurozone; Br - 09 Nov 2011
Perfect Storm; Eight Reasons to be Bullish on the US Dollar - 08 Nov 2011
Pimco El-Erian Video: 'Unfortunately it's a Mess' in Europe - 04 Nov 2011
Eurozone's Waterloo; Papandreou Forced to Cancel Referendum... - 03 Nov 2011
Brilliant Moves by Papandreou; EMU Mentions Eurozone Exit Possibilit - 02 Nov 2011
Dear Christina: Reflections on Economic Fools and the Policies they - 31 Oct 2011
Massachusetts Supreme Court Foreclosure 'Bombshell' Ruling Nothing B - 27 Oct 2011
Magic Turns 340 Billion Euros Into 940 Billion Euros... - 21 Oct 2011
Prepare for Another Plunge as Fear Recedes... - 19 Oct 2011
Nouriel Roubini's Global Research Brand vs. Nouriel Roubini's Prescr - 19 Oct 2011
A 'Must See' Heart Wrenching Video of Moral Deterioration in China - 19 Oct 2011
Lowes to Close Stores;Gap to Close US Stores, Expand in China... - 17 Oct 2011
Two Sides (Republican and Democrat), of the Same Bloated War-Mongeri - 14 Oct 2011
Chinese Banks Deteriorate; Loan Sharks Come Knocking; Copper Ponzi F - 14 Oct 2011
Arrogance of 'One-Trick Pony' Hedge Fund Billionaire Paulson; Is the - 13 Oct 2011
Hypothetical Employment and Unemployment Charts from the Atlanta Fed - 10 Oct 2011
Real Reasons for Last Week's Rally Emerge - 08 Oct 2011
Yet Another Piss Poor Idea to Stimulate Housing: Tax Breaks for Rent - 07 Oct 2011
Ben Bernanke Fans Fires of Protectionist Legislation to Senate Joint - 06 Oct 2011
How Ben Bernanke "F*d" the Banks and Fixed Income Savers a - 06 Oct 2011
Reader Question Regarding the Role of Credit in Inflation/Deflation; - 05 Oct 2011
Bond Bears Plow Into Treasuries; Six Reasons to Fade PIMCO Revisited - 03 Oct 2011
Real Disposable Personal Income Drops Second Consecutive Month; Drop - 30 Sep 2011
Shilling Sees Evidence of Deflation in 5 of 7 Key Areas; Bernanke Be - 30 Sep 2011
European Stocks Climb Most in 16 Months... - 27 Sep 2011
Cash Crunch in China Picks Up Momentum; Chinese Economy 'Teetering O - 27 Sep 2011
Bizarro World Inflation; About that 2011 Hyperinflation Call ... - 22 Sep 2011
Misleading Indicators - China's Growth Won't Last; Chanos on Chinese - 21 Sep 2011
Stocks Rally on Dead-on-Arrival Eurobond Proposals, Rumors, and Patc - 14 Sep 2011
'Orderly Insolvency for Greece Cannot be Ruled Out' says German Econ - 11 Sep 2011
Can Government Lies Calm the Markets? - 11 Sep 2011
Germany Prepares 'Plan B' Default... - 09 Sep 2011
Dissecting the Lies in Obama's $447 Billion 'Shock-and-Awe' Reelecti - 09 Sep 2011
Bernanke's Waterloo; Midst of Deflationary Collapse or Brink of Infl - 07 Sep 2011
Switzerland to 'Buy Foreign Currency in Unlimited Quantities'... - 06 Sep 2011
Economic Crossroads of Immense Consequences: Will Governments and Ce - 06 Sep 2011
Trichet Warns Heads of States; Italian President Warns 'Markets Lost - 05 Sep 2011
Global Recession, Right Here, Right Now... - 02 Sep 2011
US In Recession Right Here, Right Now - 29 Aug 2011
Hello Richard Bove, Repeating Nonsense Does Not Make It True; Bank o - 24 Aug 2011
Video Content and Blogs by Kids, How Kids See Products, Humor, Polit - 21 Aug 2011
Former Moody's Senior Vice President Accuses Rating Agency of Fraud, - 19 Aug 2011
In Praise of Timely, Blatant Incompetence - 19 Aug 2011
Earnings Collapse Coming Up; Don't Worry Companies Will Still 'Beat - 17 Aug 2011
Media Ignores Ron Paul So Blatantly, Even Time Magazine Recognizes I - 16 Aug 2011
BNP Paribas Leveraged 27:1... - 15 Aug 2011
Growing Gloom for States and Cities; Who is to Blame? What About Sol - 14 Aug 2011
U.S. Circuit Judge Upholds Right of Two US Citizens, Tortured in Ira - 13 Aug 2011
Yes Virginia, U.S. Back in Deflation; Inflation Scare Ends; Hyperinf - 12 Aug 2011
Return of the Bear; De-mystifying Interest Rate Policy; Do Central B - 10 Aug 2011
Trichet's Secret 'Dragon Transfer' Letter to Italy PM... - 09 Aug 2011
Butt Ugly Close; Futures Selloff Continues After Equity Close - 08 Aug 2011
Email From 'An Irate German' Over the Transfer Union; German Bank Ex - 08 Aug 2011
Do These Idiots Realize How Stupid They Sound? - 08 Aug 2011
France AAA Rating on the Line; SP Says 1 in 3 Chance of Further US D - 07 Aug 2011
Mass Layoffs Rise... - 05 Aug 2011
Another Major Feud Between the German Central Bank and the ECB Over - 04 Aug 2011
Bailout of Italy on Tap... - 03 Aug 2011
ISM says 'Business Conditions Flattening Out'; Why Services Number W - 03 Aug 2011
Italy Calls 'Financial Stability Meeting'... - 03 Aug 2011
Bill Gross says 'Fed Approaching Dead End Unsolvable Dilemma'; Felds - 03 Aug 2011
Gap-and-Crap it Was; ISM Plunges to 50.9, Lowest Level in 2 Years, N - 01 Aug 2011
Boehner's Credibility Gone in Revised Proposal; Boehner Tells Congre - 28 Jul 2011
Fiat Money Produces Endless Sea of Wars, Debt ... - 25 Jul 2011
Boehner Walks Out On Obama; 'Grand Bargain' Collapses ... - 22 Jul 2011
Sad State of Employment - Employees Covered by Unemployment Insuranc - 20 Jul 2011
30-Year Extend-and-Pretend Plan for Greece, Ireland, Proposed Amid T - 18 Jul 2011
Ireland Deputy Prime Minister Requests "Nanny State" Commo - 17 Jul 2011
European Government Bond Spreads at Record Highs vs. Germany - 11 Jul 2011
Michael Pettis Warns of 'Virulent Political Turn Against Euro', Adds - 08 Jul 2011
Hugo Salinas Price and Michael Pettis on the Trade Imbalance Dilemma - 08 Jul 2011
Greek Sovereignty Massively Limited - 06 Jul 2011
Bill Gross' Fatally Flawed Plan to Fix the Education System and the - 05 Jul 2011
Jobs, Income Data Show Right-To-Work States Have Advantage - 05 Jul 2011
China Bought More Treasuries Than Disclosed, Perhaps Illegally; Nucl - 03 Jul 2011
Union-Busting is a 'Godsend'; Elimination of Collective Bargaining i - 03 Jul 2011
Obama-Pimco Fear-Mongering Duet Chants More Sour Notes - 30 Jun 2011
Value Traps Galore (Including Financials and Berkshire); Dead Money - 20 Jun 2011
IMF 'Ready and Willing' to Throw Away More Money - 16 Jun 2011
Opposition Tells Greek Prime Minister to Step Down - 15 Jun 2011
Rubini Eyes 'Perfect Storm' and Bond Market Revolt ... - 12 Jun 2011
Chris Whalen: Geithner Cries Wolf, 'No Downside' to Not Raising the - 09 Jun 2011
Ron Paul on Debt Ceiling: Boehner Will Cave - 08 Jun 2011
Bernanke's Self-Serving Bold-Faced Lies - 07 Jun 2011
Beyond the Point of No Return; Operation Twist to Infinity - 06 Jun 2011
Guru Focus Interview with a Value Investor; Dissimilar Starting Poin - 05 Jun 2011
Inane Department of Education Ruling Sends Education Stocks Flying - 02 Jun 2011
Mish on Yahoo Finance Daily Ticker on Slowing Global Economy - 01 Jun 2011
TV Censorship in China; Reflections on the Yuan as a Global Reserve - 31 May 2011
Hyperinflation Nonsense in Multiple Places - 25 May 2011
Structural Problems in Greece Compared to US - 24 May 2011
Chris Christie on Sick Pay Payouts: 'Only in Government'; What You C - 20 May 2011
Huge Cracks in Global Recovery Thesis; Industrial Production Unexpec - 16 May 2011
McCain on Torture and Waterboarding; Ron Paul on Bin Laden and Tortu - 15 May 2011
Housing Adjusted CPI, Gold, and the Deflation Grand Supercycle Theor - 10 May 2011
Torture Never Works; Ron Paul on Torture and Secret Prisons; 'Tortur - 09 May 2011
Trichet Backs off Rate Hikes; US Dollar Up Sharply; Currency Fundame - 05 May 2011
Is Inflation High and Rising or Low and Falling? A Four-Quadrant Mod - 04 May 2011
Gallup: U.S. Job Creation At Post-Recession High; What's Next? How C - 03 May 2011
Governor Quinn Holds Illinois Cities Hostage Over Budget Proposal; C - 01 May 2011
Radical Plan to Cut Military Spending and Help Balance the Budget - 28 Apr 2011
No 'Miracle' Cures from Inflation; Impossible to Inflate Out of this - 24 Apr 2011
It's Different in China and Here's Why - Is the Yuan Undervalued? - 19 Apr 2011
Deficit Reduction: Are Higher Taxes and Reduced Military Spending Co - 17 Apr 2011
Appalling Suggestions by California Teachers' Association - 14 Apr 2011
Obama Wants to Take 'Scalpel Not a Machete' to Reduce $1.6 Trillion - 10 Apr 2011
Teachers' Unions Don't Give a Damn About Kids; Feeling Guilty, But . - 08 Apr 2011
Fed Lending Increases Ultimate Cost of Bank Failures; 111 Banks Fed - 05 Apr 2011
Dear Treasury Secretary Geithner, With All Due Respect Please 'Go To - 04 Apr 2011
Spanish Prime Minister Drops 2012 Reelection Bid - 04 Apr 2011
Fed Releases 895 PDFs in Response to Court Order - 31 Mar 2011
Geithner's Blatant Lies at the G20 Meeting; Four-Pronged Solution - 31 Mar 2011
Poisonous Illinois; Caterpillar CEO Threatens to Leave Illinois over - 27 Mar 2011
Central Bank Authorized Fraud; Fractional Reserve Lending Problems G - 24 Mar 2011
U.S. Petroleum Usage, New Home Sales, Jobs, Consumer Credit and the - 23 Mar 2011
Global Crisis in Leadership Nearly Everywhere You Look - 17 Mar 2011
Anatomy of Bubbles; Negative Returns for a Decade Revisited; Is Gold - 15 Mar 2011
Michael Moore Manipulates Student Fools Who Buy His Self-Serving Soc - 12 Mar 2011
Bloodstained Property Map and Trampled Rights; China's Population: 1 - 09 Mar 2011
Paul Krugman, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, others, Ignore Extortion, - 03 Mar 2011
China Holdings of US Treasuries Revised Up 30%; An Unsustainable Mod - 01 Mar 2011
Commodities Bloodbath Except Gold, Silver, Crude; Nasdaq Off 2.7%, S - 22 Feb 2011
Bank of America Preys on Elderly Depositors; Culture of Greed, Arrog - 16 Feb 2011
Money Heaven - 09 Feb 2011
Negative Annualized Stock Market Returns for the Next 10 Years or Lo - 07 Feb 2011
Prime Healthcare accuses SEIU of Extortion; Cell Phone Graft, Pay Ex - 04 Feb 2011
Are Teachers 'Special'? Is Anyone? Why? - 03 Feb 2011
Bernanke Reports 'Good News' on Inflation Targets; Treasury Selloff - 01 Feb 2011
Japan Learns to Live with Deflation (If Only Analysts Could Figure O - 31 Jan 2011
Egypt Closes Banks, Stock Market; Protests Spread to Saudi Arabia, J - 30 Jan 2011
Creative Art of Bullish Excuses: Stock Market Still 'Good to Go'; Ho - 29 Jan 2011
Blood on Bernanke's Hands - 27 Jan 2011
Steve Keen Responds to 'World Economic Forum Endorses Fraud' Post; S - 25 Jan 2011
Timothy Geithner Meets Vladimir Lenin Stage II; Accounting Rule Chan - 23 Jan 2011
Budget Deficit Accounting Fraud and the Off-Balance-Sheet Student Lo - 22 Jan 2011
China Secretly Buying US Treasuries Via UK Accounts? Trade Deficit M - 21 Jan 2011
'Consensus Nonsense'; Is the Yuan Undervalued? Who Wins a Currency W - 20 Jan 2011
Vallejo Bankruptcy Plan Offers Unsecured Creditors 5-20%; JPMorgan C - 20 Jan 2011
Point of No Return; Fiscal Shell Games; Texas to Cut 8,000 Jobs; Dee - 18 Jan 2011
Shanghai Prepares for Property Tax to Curb 'Speculative' Buying; Chi - 17 Jan 2011
Baby Steps or Simply Mush from Christina Romer Regarding 'What Obama - 16 Jan 2011
Chinese Bank Lending Spree Continues; $75 Billion New Loans First We - 15 Jan 2011
Business Owners Blast IL Tax Hikes; Quinn's Blatant Lies ... - 13 Jan 2011
Brown Seeks 10% Pay Reduction For State Employees, Unveils $12.5 Bil - 10 Jan 2011
Playing Chicken with Debt Limits: Obama as a Senator vs. Obama the H - 05 Jan 2011
Australia Heads For Economic Crunch - 02 Jan 2011
In Praise of Volunteer Fire Departments - 01 Jan 2011

2010

Indiana Bill Would Allow Cities to Declare Bankruptcy; Gary, Lake St - 28 Dec 2010
WSJ Reports New Jersey Pension Deficit at $54 Billion; Actual Defici - 24 Dec 2010
Alabama Town Defaults on Pensions, Breaks State Law; Renewed Calls F - 23 Dec 2010
Spotlight on European Government Bonds; Current State of the Soverei - 21 Dec 2010
Why the United States of America is Broke - 21 Dec 2010
Asininity from Paul Krugman Regarding Money Supply and Ron Paul - 19 Dec 2010
Cincinnati Threatens to Outsource Entire Police Department - 19 Dec 2010
Bloodbath in Muni Bond Funds; Reasons for the Muni Selloff; Will it - 14 Dec 2010
Still More Hype Regarding Silver; Just the Math Maam - 14 Dec 2010
Williams Calls for 'Great Hyperinflationary Great Depression'; A Ver - 12 Dec 2010
Wisconsin Governor-Elect Proposes Abolishing State Employee Unions - 08 Dec 2010
Dr. Mr. Speaker - 07 Dec 2010
Lies, Half-Truths, and 100% Hubris on 60 Minutes; Deficit-Chicken Re - 07 Dec 2010
'Economics 101' Video Exposes Keynesian Consumer Spending Fallacy - 03 Dec 2010
State Secrets or Blazing Stupidity? US a Pawn for Oil Producers? Nex - 02 Dec 2010
Amazon Drops WikiLeaks on Request of Sen. Lieberman; Lie of the Day - 01 Dec 2010
Social Enterprise Survival Tactics and Some Very Uncreative Economic - 01 Dec 2010
Terms of Enslavement; Irish Citizens Say 'Default'; Agreement Violat - 29 Nov 2010
To Ireland With Love - 28 Nov 2010
San Diego Mayor Proposes Eliminating City Pensions; Public Union Con - 20 Nov 2010
Bernanke Seeks New 'International Monetary System' - 19 Nov 2010
Investigation of Bernanke's Proclaimed 'Success' of QE II at Lowerin - 16 Nov 2010
Open Letter to Bernanke from 23 Economists Complaining About QE II; - 15 Nov 2010
'Midas Crush' - MarketWatch Attempts to Explain 'Why Gold is a Bad I - 15 Nov 2010
Fed-Bashing Three Ways; Night of the Living Fed (A 2008 Claim) - 11 Nov 2010
Ceridian Report says 'Shipping Decline Signals Weaker Holiday Season - 09 Nov 2010
Revolutionizing House Monetary Policy; Balanced Budget Amendment Win - 08 Nov 2010
South Korea, Hong Kong, Brazil, China, Volcker Complain about Bernan - 05 Nov 2010
QEII Announced, Fed Set to Buy $600 Billion in Bonds, Reinvest $250 - 03 Nov 2010
Tax Avoidance by Google and Apple, Corporate Cash, Job Creation Duri - 01 Nov 2010
Money's Already Quite Cheap - 31 Oct 2010
Double Dip Delayed, Not Derailed; Understanding Consumer Spending - 29 Oct 2010
California Cut 37,000 Government Jobs in September; Much More to Com - 24 Oct 2010
Severe, Life-changing, and Consciousness-Altering State Budget Cuts - 21 Oct 2010
Industrial Production Unexpectedly Declines, First Drop in a Year; W - 18 Oct 2010
Gold Market on U.S. Elections: So What? - 14 Oct 2010
Emerging Market Economies Turn to Capital Controls; Forex Market in - 13 Oct 2010
Krugman and the Inevitable 'I Told You So' ... - 12 Oct 2010
Unclear Titles Will Sideline Buyers of Foreclosed Properties for Man - 11 Oct 2010
FDIC Authorizes $1 Billion Lawsuits Against Failed-Bank Executives; - 10 Oct 2010
Economic Nonsense from Ezra Klein at the Washington Post - 09 Oct 2010
Fantastic News: Nonfarm Payrolls Decline by 95,000, Much Weaker than - 08 Oct 2010
Open Dissent at the Fed: Charles Plosser (Philly Fed) Opposes QE2; T - 29 Sep 2010
QE Engine Revs, Car Goes Nowhere - 28 Sep 2010
Pied Piper Politics; Krugman and Candle Makers Complain About the Su - 27 Sep 2010
$30 Billion Offer No One Wants - Small Businesses Hit by Deflation - 25 Sep 2010
Reading Between The Lies - 22 Sep 2010
Amazing Arrogance, Gall, Chutzpa, and Unmitigated Effrontery from Be - 20 Sep 2010
Good News: The Great Recession is Over; Bad News: It Doesn't Feel Li - 20 Sep 2010
Myths About 'What's Economically Important' - 17 Sep 2010
CFO Survey: Optimism Tumbles, Employment Picture Bleak; Liquidity, N - 16 Sep 2010
Home Prices Drop in 36 States - 15 Sep 2010
Retail Sales Rise .4 Percent From July - How Far To Pre-recession L - 14 Sep 2010
Wholesale Inventories Rise More than Expected; OK So Where's the Dem - 10 Sep 2010
Labor Day Insanity from Clinton's Secretary of Labor - 06 Sep 2010
New Job Opportunity - Spitting at the Moon - 04 Sep 2010
Email From 'Morally Conflicted' One Year Later After Walking Away - 29 Aug 2010
Existing Home Sales Plunge 27 Percent... - 24 Aug 2010
Epidemic of Thrift vs. Leap of Faith; Housing Slide Will Seal Recess - 24 Aug 2010
Small Businesses are Not Hiring - Why Should They? - 20 Aug 2010
58 out of 58 Economists Overoptimistic on Philly Fed Manufacturing E - 19 Aug 2010
Corporate Hiring No Longer Improving; Americans Less Optimistic - 04 Aug 2010
Readers Chime in on Union Productivity - 02 Aug 2010
Should China Dump Dollars for Commodities? - 30 Jul 2010
Bernanke Says Economic Outlook is 'Unusually Uncertain', Fed Prepare - 21 Jul 2010
Five Reasons for Nonsensical Forward Earnings Estimates - 19 Jul 2010
Roubini Ponders the 'L-Shaped Recession' - 18 Jul 2010
Teenagers Scared Over Plight of their Parents; Attitudes - Bernanke' - 30 Jun 2010
The Economist 'Rising Government Debt is a Ponzi Scheme' - 28 Jun 2010
States Take Aim at Pension Costs ... - 20 Jun 2010
China Plays Obama like Violin on Yuan Exchange Rate - 19 Jun 2010
Texas Sales Tax Collections Stagnating - 11 Jun 2010
Bernanke says 'Gold Acting Differently than Rest of Commodities Grou - 10 Jun 2010
MasterCard Study Says Consumer Spending Has Taken A Break - 03 Jun 2010
Czech Republic President says 'The Euro Zone Has Failed' - 01 Jun 2010
Social Unrest Spreads to Slovenia and Spain; Images Around the Globe - 23 May 2010
Shock and Awe Phase II - 18 May 2010
Email From Canada: It's Different Up Here - It Really Is! - 16 May 2010
Ron Paul Says It's NOT Too Late To Call Your Senator - 11 May 2010
'We Will Defend the Euro, Whatever it Takes' Says EC President - 08 May 2010
America is Wall Street's Sucker - 07 May 2010
John Dennis for California District 8 - San Francisco - 06 May 2010
Political Hypocrisy - 06 May 2010
Trichet, a Monetarist Pussycat at Heart, Throws ECB Rulebook Out the - 04 May 2010
Fed Privately Lobbies Senate to Kill Audit; What You Can Do! - 04 May 2010
How Safe Is Your Bank? Texas Ratios of 7,500+ Banks - 25 Apr 2010
Goldman Sachs Fraud Roundup; The Story Has Just Begun - 19 Apr 2010
Richard Koo On Why This Recession Is Different; Mish On What To Do A - 15 Apr 2010
Small Business Optimism "Very Low and Headed in the Wrong Direc - 13 Apr 2010
19,000 Job Cuts Projected For NYC; Illinois Bill to Slash Pensions; - 25 Mar 2010
Stupid In America; What's Wrong with the U.S. Education System? - 15 Mar 2010
The $2 Trillion Public Pension Hole and What You Can Do About It - 15 Mar 2010
ISM Service Sector Expands, Backlog of Orders and Employment Still C - 03 Mar 2010
For 15 Million Unemployed any Job is a Good Job; Questions for Polly - 28 Feb 2010
Short Selling Restrictions "A Great Indicator of Imminent Market Cra - 27 Feb 2010
Weekly Unemployment Claims Spike To 496,000; Will Reality Soon Set I - 25 Feb 2010
"Nascent" Recovery or "Nascent" Economic Collapse? - 25 Feb 2010
Krugman Says Inflation Is The Answer - 17 Feb 2010
Misguided Economists Say Unemployment Rate Has Peaked - 12 Feb 2010
Governor Christie Declares "New Jersey on Edge of Bankruptcy" - 11 Feb 2010
$550 Million Will Create 400 Jobs ... In Mexico - 09 Feb 2010
Former Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis Charged With Fraud; Its Only A - 04 Feb 2010
824,000 Will Disappear On February 5; BLS Admits Flawed Model But Pl - 03 Feb 2010
Secret Deals Involving No One; AIG Coverup Conspiracy Unravels - 29 Jan 2010
Dump Bernanke - How You Can Help! - 22 Jan 2010
Healthcare: The Un-Baked Cake - 21 Jan 2010
Brown Wins - Complete Repudiation of Obamacare - What's Next? - 20 Jan 2010
Worry Over the US$ and PIIGS - 19 Jan 2010
Bernanke Makes Like a Squid, Sprays Clouds of Ink Hoping to Confuse - 15 Jan 2010

2009

Thoughts on Fed's Exit Strategy: Stephen Roach vs. Mish - 14 Dec 2009
Yield Curve Steepest Since 1980; Hard Times Ahead in 2010 - 11 Dec 2009
Zombie Capitalism: Bernanke "Marching Ignorantly Forward" - 01 Dec 2009
Holiday Shoppers Shun Credit Cards Use Cash; Self-Serving Fed Infome - 30 Nov 2009
Audit The Fed Needs Your Help ... Again! - 19 Nov 2009
Economists Opposing Fed Audit Are On Fed Payroll - 19 Nov 2009
Mapping Unemployment - You Make The Call - Downloadable Spreadsheet - 16 Nov 2009
10 States In Deep Fiscal Trouble - 12 Nov 2009
What Is Inflation and How Does One Measure It? - 09 Nov 2009
U.S. Faces Second Lost Decade "Because" of Misguided Stimulus - 23 Oct 2009
Bernanke Guilty of Coercion and Market Manipulation - 20 Oct 2009
Overly Optimistic Consensus Plays Greater Fools Game Once Again - 09 Oct 2009
Case Shiller CPI At Negative 5.1% - 04 Oct 2009
Huge Downward Jobs Revisions Coming - 02 Oct 2009
Reflections on the Unexpected Negative Surprise in Chicago Purchasin - 30 Sep 2009
Daniel Amerman vs. Mish: Reflections on the Great Inflation/Deflatio - 26 Sep 2009
Strategic Default Data Suggests Foreclosure Prevention Tactics Usele - 19 Sep 2009
Yellen Calls For "U" Shaped Recession and Another Jobless Recovery - 15 Sep 2009
Ghost Fleets and Protectionism - 14 Sep 2009
One Sixth Of All Construction Loans In Trouble - 05 Sep 2009
Greater Than One in Four FDIC Insured Institutions are Unprofitable; - 28 Aug 2009
Fed's Dual Mandate Is Mission Impossible - 27 Aug 2009
Collapse Of The "Ownership Society" - 16 Aug 2009
Government Bailouts and the Stock Market - The Seen and the Unseen - 11 Aug 2009
U.S. Home Vacancies Hit 18.7 Million; Whats the Real Story? - 24 Jul 2009
For One-Third of US, Frugality is the "New Normal" - 22 Jul 2009
Health Care Bill Will Raise Taxes, Then Raise Them Again - 12 Jul 2009
Geithner Lies Again as PPIP Prepares for Launch - 08 Jul 2009
Senator Shelby Calls Fed's Expertise "Grossly Inflated" as Geithner - 18 Jun 2009
Lack of Transparency in Fed Balance Sheet and Liquidity Programs - 11 Jun 2009
Kennedys Healthcare Bill Will Increase Expenses, Decrease Employment - 08 Jun 2009
Mortgage Meltdown, More Pain To Come - 31 May 2009
Speak Out - Audit the Fed, Then End It! - 21 May 2009
Effect of Household Deleveraging on Housing, Consumption and the Sto - 19 May 2009
Credit Card Defaults At Record Highs But Worst Is Yet To Come - 16 May 2009
How Banks Become Condo Rental Agents - 03 May 2009
Anti-Libertarian Nonsense From Henry Kaufman and Company - 29 Apr 2009
Deflation Returns To U.K. - 22 Apr 2009
Economist Mankiw Defends Policy of Theft - 21 Apr 2009
Time For Mankiv To Resign - 19 Apr 2009
How To Take Advantage of Low Mortgage Rates - 10 Apr 2009
Fed's Effort To Roll Snowball Uphill Is Failing - 06 Apr 2009
New York Times Threatens To Shut Boston Globe - 04 Apr 2009
Geithner's Gift To Pimco - 02 Apr 2009
Bank CEO calls Geithners Plan "Asinine" - 16 Mar 2009
All Manias Leave Something Undervalued - 11 Mar 2009
Time To Stop Squandering Taxpayer Money - 10 Mar 2009
Jobs Contract 14th Straight Month; Unemployment Rate Soars to 8.1% - 06 Mar 2009
Frank Monstrosities - 05 Mar 2009
Stop The Seller Funded Down Payment Assistance (SFDPA) Scam - 04 Mar 2009
Warren Buffett Loses His Way - 01 Mar 2009
Bernanke's Hide and Seek Delaying Tactics - 24 Feb 2009
Citigroup Begs To Be 40% Nationalized - 22 Feb 2009
Nationalization Revisited - 20 Feb 2009
Fed and BOE Shell Games to Bailout Insolvent Banks - 18 Jan 2009
Obama Calls For Sacrifices, Scales Back Campaign Promises, Ups Jobs - 10 Jan 2009
Jobs Contract 12th Straight Month; Unemployment Rate Soars to 7.2% - 09 Jan 2009
Media Blamed For Making Economic Crisis Worse - 06 Jan 2009
Reflections On 2008, Themes For 2009 - 06 Jan 2009

2008

Couples Hitched To The Economy, Not To Pets - 21 Dec 2008
Nonsense About Gold Backwardation, Ameros,Yuan Devaluations, etc. - 08 Dec 2008
Stop The Auto Bailout Campaign - Phase Three - 04 Dec 2008
GM Bankruptcy Option Under Discussion - 04 Dec 2008
Search For Stimulus In A ZIRP World - 02 Dec 2008
Credit Risk Rises on Citigroup Breakup Speculation - 21 Nov 2008
Stop The Auto Bailout Campaign - 17 Nov 2008
Chicago Prepares For Mass Layoffs: Mayor Daley - 13 Nov 2008
Battle Over Bazooka Point Lending - 11 Nov 2008
Baltic Dry Shipping Collapses - 15 Oct 2008
That Giant Sucking Sound - 02 Oct 2008
Rep. Brad Sherman On Bailing Out Foreign Investors - 01 Oct 2008
How To Stop A Run On The Banks - 30 Sep 2008
Final Push To Kill The Bailout Monstrosity - 29 Sep 2008
The Bailout Failed: Whats Next? - 29 Sep 2008
Nouriel Roubini: Paulson Plan is a Disgrace - 26 Sep 2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sells Out - 25 Sep 2008
Ron Paul Says "Call Them!" - 24 Sep 2008
Senate Majority Leader Reid: "No Blank Check" for Wall Street Bailou - 23 Sep 2008
Treasury Auction Scam and How To Stop It - 23 Sep 2008
Phone And Fax Numbers For All US Senators; More On What To Do - 22 Sep 2008
Bush Administration Seeks "Dictatorial Power" - 21 Sep 2008
Lies From Paulson Keep Stacking Up: What You Can Do About It - 21 Sep 2008
Congressional Leaders Stunned That Bernanke Finally Admits The Truth - 19 Sep 2008
Stock Market Cheers Fiscal Insanity - 18 Sep 2008
Global Financial Seizures Continue, Gold Soars - 17 Sep 2008
Telling Action In Euro, Dollar As ECB Holds Rates - 05 Sep 2008
Commodity Hedge Fund Ospraie Shuts Down After Losses - 03 Sep 2008
Conspiracy Theory Psychology - 28 Aug 2008
Revisiting the M3 Contraction - 21 Aug 2008
EBay Cuts Fixed-Price Fees By 70% - 20 Aug 2008
M3 Contraction - The Future Is Now - 19 Aug 2008
Australia Reserve Bank "Shocked" by the Severity of the Slowdown - 12 Aug 2008
Record Declines In Case-Shiller Home Index - 30 Jul 2008
Contact Your Senator: Say No To Fannie Bailout - 16 Jul 2008
How Many Bullets Does The Fed Have Left? - 14 Jul 2008
Metalworking Business Index Trends - 04 Jul 2008
Deflationary Hurricanes to Hit U.S. and U.K. - 30 Jun 2008
Fed Looking To Bend Rules To Aid Banks - 26 Jun 2008
Telling Rift Over Fed Lending Facility - 28 May 2008
Unstoppable Credit Contraction - 30 Apr 2008
Fed Auction Futility - 24 Apr 2008
Vacancies Soar In Commercial Real Estate Bust - 21 Apr 2008
Misguided Calls For Activism - 08 Apr 2008
Fed Defends The Indefensible - 03 Apr 2008
As Desperation Sinks In, Non-Solutions Proliferate - 18 Feb 2008
Shadows of the CDS Market - 17 Feb 2008
Businesses Advised To Walk Away - 15 Feb 2008
Countrywide And Chase Shut Off The Cash Spigot - 01 Feb 2008
60 Minutes Legitimizes Walking Away - 28 Jan 2008
Faith In The Fed: The Last Bubble To Pop - 23 Jan 2008

2007

Losing Control Of Monetary Policy - 10 Dec 2007
Will Ambac and MBIA Survive? - 28 Nov 2007
LIBOR Rates Show Stress - 26 Nov 2007
Liquidity Pump Runs Dry - 23 Nov 2007
Citibank SIVs Hit Norway Townships - 21 Nov 2007
Downward Spiral of Deep Junk - 03 Nov 2007
Question of Solvency at Citigroup - 02 Nov 2007
When Will Housing Bottom? - 25 Oct 2007
Enron Accounting at Citigroup - 19 Oct 2007
Super SIVs - A Fraudulent Attempt at Concealment - 15 Oct 2007
Every Reason To Panic Over Portland Condo Glut - 09 Oct 2007
Debt Slave Act of 2005 Revisited - 08 Oct 2007
Drowning in Debt: How do we protect ourselves? - 03 Oct 2007
Buyout Bingo Reversal Continues - 22 Sep 2007
Shattered Confidence - 17 Sep 2007
Global Savings Glut Exposed - 12 Sep 2007
Moonbats Active Again in Massive Jobs Disaster - 07 Sep 2007
A New Dance Craze - The Bernanke Shuffle - 06 Sep 2007
Implode-O-Meter Stats vs. the BLS - 02 Sep 2007
Duration Mismatch to Bankruptcy (in one week flat) - 19 Aug 2007
Mad Dash For Cash - 18 Aug 2007
Duration Mismatch at Sentinel - 16 Aug 2007
$100 Billion Bond Backup - 11 Aug 2007
High Rate CDs and other Moral Hazards - 08 Aug 2007
Cold Feet and Sea Bass - 03 Aug 2007
Massive Bets On Idiots - 31 Jul 2007
Is $100 Oil Coming? $200 Anyone? - 25 Jul 2007
Missing The Boat On Globalization - 06 Jun 2007
Construction Jobs Puzzle - 01 Jun 2007
Squeeze on Wage Earners Accelerates - 15 May 2007
Rear View Mirror Housing Experts - 13 May 2007
Housing Bright Spots - 10 May 2007
Capital Spending Suggests Hard Landing - 28 Apr 2007
Mod Squad Containment - 23 Apr 2007
Supply Side Economics - 09 Apr 2007
March Employment Numbers & Leading Indicators - 07 Apr 2007
Spillover Scorecard - 05 Apr 2007
Hot Lines for Hard Times - 25 Mar 2007
Who's to Blame for the Housing Mess? - 19 Mar 2007
1st Helicopter Drop Now Being Organized - 13 Mar 2007
February Jobs / Employment Data - 09 Mar 2007
Fed Is Ready and Willing To Act - 28 Feb 2007
Does Anything Mean What It Used To? - 27 Feb 2007
Pricing Risk - 21 Feb 2007
Largest Home Price Drop on Record - 15 Feb 2007
Focus on Currencies (Part 1 of 2) - 13 Feb 2007
Counterfeiting Money - Crime or Good Economics? - 09 Feb 2007
Inflation Is Now Illegal - 08 Feb 2007
Jobs - the Good, Bad, and Ugly - 03 Feb 2007
Gold, M3, and Willingness to Lend - 23 Jan 2007
World Oil Demand - 21 Jan 2007
Credit Swaps And Bond Yields - 20 Jan 2007
Leading Economic Indicators - 16 Jan 2007
Significant Shifts In Psychology - 04 Jan 2007
Lennar Lays an Egg / Defective Homes Update from Morgan - 02 Jan 2007

2006

Monetary Shock Therapy - 21 Dec 2006
Paulson, Bernanke Strike Out - 17 Dec 2006
Interview with Paul Kasriel - 11 Dec 2006
Housing Industry Employment - 20 Nov 2006
The PPI, Gold, and Dr. Copper - 14 Nov 2006
Earnings, Confidence, and Boxes - 25 Oct 2006
Kool Aid and Krispy Kremes - 16 Oct 2006
A Discrepancy in Jobs? - 11 Oct 2006
Outsourcing Homework - 29 Sep 2006
Updating the Arrow after Home Prices Drop - 27 Sep 2006
Kiss Goldilocks Goodbye - 22 Sep 2006
More Anecdotes - 21 Sep 2006
No Hard Landing - 19 Sep 2006
On the Cusp - 02 Sep 2006
Reflections on Danville Illinois - 23 Aug 2006
Five Stages of Grief - 25 Jul 2006
Time Preferences - 17 Jul 2006
Strike Three - 11 Jul 2006
Thank-you Again, Ben Bernanke - 10 Jun 2006
9th Inning Liquidity - 02 Jun 2006
Greenspan Predicts Housing Bust - 29 May 2006
WCI and DHOM / Let's do the Math - 10 May 2006
Oh Lord, Please don't let me be misunderstood - 03 May 2006
Canaries at the Periphery - 25 Apr 2006
Financial War Games - 20 Apr 2006
Sinkholes and Hurricanes - 18 Apr 2006
New Math on Homes - 02 Apr 2006
The Apologists Club - 26 Mar 2006
In Praise of Saville - 23 Mar 2006
Mideast Contagion? - 17 Mar 2006
The Sorry State of US Gov't Accounting Practices - 14 Mar 2006
Bubble Busting Phoenix - 12 Mar 2006
Dust Bowls and Hurricanes - 08 Mar 2006
The Red Queen Race - 24 Feb 2006
Peak Water? - 17 Feb 2006
KBH Insider Sales - 15 Feb 2006
Foreclosures Rise / More Defaults Expected - 08 Feb 2006
The Kondratieff Cycle Revisited - 18 Jan 2006
Has the FED Already Overshot? - 16 Jan 2006
Energy Crisis & the Politics of Oil - 12 Jan 2006
Hybrid Loan Time Bomb - 03 Jan 2006

2005

Affordable Housing - 31 Dec 2005
No Worries - 23 Dec 2005
Timing the Credit Event - 07 Dec 2005
Parties, Gifts, and Bonuses - 28 Nov 2005
No Social Security Number? No Problem! - 22 Nov 2005
Bank Lending Practices - 16 Nov 2005
The Education Gap - 08 Nov 2005
The Kids Have Spoken - 01 Nov 2005
Playing Hardball With Softwood - 27 Oct 2005
Totally Out of Touch with Reality - 25 Oct 2005
Ben Bernanke Inflation Fighter - 18 Oct 2005
Personal Bankruptcy Followup - 17 Oct 2005
Personal Bankruptcies Soar - 14 Oct 2005
Faith Based Financing - 03 Oct 2005
Thoughts on the Davis Bacon Act - 29 Sep 2005
Focus on the UK Consumer - 22 Sep 2005
Thoughts on Savings - Part 2 - 16 Sep 2005
Thoughts on Savings - Part 1 - 15 Sep 2005
A Just in the Nick of Time Downgrade - 14 Sep 2005
Competition is Killing Subprime Margins as Risk Skyrockets - 13 Sep 2005
Renminbi Trading Ranges to Widen - 09 Sep 2005
The Train They Call The City of New Orleans (Part 1) - 02 Sep 2005
Reflections on Central Banking - 27 Aug 2005
Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom? (part 2) - 24 Aug 2005
A Sign of the Times - 20 Aug 2005
Gold's Honest Discipline - 17 Aug 2005
Bank Lending Practices - 16 Aug 2005
GM Offers "Heaps of Gold" to Entice Car Buyers - 05 Aug 2005
What Housing Bubble? - 02 Aug 2005
The Great "Flation" debate - Whats coming and how to profit from It - 27 Jul 2005
Inflationists Respond - 22 Jul 2005
The Kondratieff Cycle - 16 Jul 2005
Seasonal Adjustments to Jobless Claims - 08 Jul 2005
King Copper and Steel - 06 Jul 2005
Trade War Tensions Flare Over Oil - 05 Jul 2005
UK Headed for Recession - 01 Jul 2005
Spotlight on Silver - 29 Jun 2005
Thoughts on Volatility - 14 Jun 2005
Conspiracy Theories and Market Tops - 10 Jun 2005
Steel Revisited - 08 Jun 2005
Same Data / Different Interpretation - 07 Jun 2005
Buy to Rent - 02 Jun 2005
More Concern Over Rising Foreclosures - 31 May 2005
Foreclosures on my Mind - 29 May 2005
An Evolution in Transportation Funding - 26 May 2005
Concern About Froth - 25 May 2005
Should the Government Sell Bread, Orange Juice, or Mortgages? - 19 May 2005
U.S. Warns Lenders To Elevate Standards - 17 May 2005
Reader Question on Gold and Silver - 11 May 2005
Cyclical Endgame - 10 May 2005
Making Sense of April Payroll Numbers - 08 May 2005
A Measured Pace of Fake Transparency - 05 May 2005
Deflation is in the Cards - 04 May 2005

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