Middle class acquiesces through the looking glass of financial mediocrity: The financial system continues to pillage the wealth of working and middle class Americans.
2013 can be remembered as a year where the markets fully disconnected from Main Street. The trickle down promises are all empty and hollow words. For example, we had one of the best stock market rallies ever yet most Americans are not seeing any wage growth. The housing market boomed but more than 30 percent […]
Quantitative Easing has become heroin to the financial markets: Federal Reserve balance sheet hits $4 trillion this week.
Addiction is never an easy battle to overcome. This also applies to easy money addiction that is now part of the Quantitative Easing economy. The Fed’s extraordinary measures are now appearing to be more permanent measures. Every time the whispers of tapering are made the markets respond accordingly signifying that the stock market is fully […]
A Gilded Age built on debt for modern day financial aristocrats: Fed reports record for household net worth only problem is that most people do not own financial assets.
The Fed recently reported that US households reached an all-time record high when it comes to their net worth. A record $77.3 trillion net worth figure was reported with $7.65 trillion of this growth occurring over the last 12 months. The only issue here is that most Americans do not own any financial assets. The […]
Sheltered banks do not trust broke American public: Too big to fail securely in place while business inventories surge to record levels.
Tracking consumer spending we find that industries subsidized by easy debt are growing at dramatic levels. These include student debt and auto loans since most Americans simply do not have enough saved up. Many have nothing to their name. The student debt market has grown dramatically this year again largely due to the reality that […]