Of Green Shoots And Broken Windows

By Rick Ackerman, GoldSeek Our memory stumbles whenever we try to recall any recent sightings of “green shoots” that would support the officially promoted illusion of a U.S. economy in recovery.  Actually, this vision is more of a hallucination than an illusion, since one’s mind needs to venture beyond the pale of rationality, light years beyond the [...]

America’s Sugar High

Bullion Vault "The more Washington spends like a drunken sailor, the more I want to own Gold…" The MAJORITY of ECONOMIC DATA now supporting the “green shoots” crowd are in fact being driven by the rising stock market, writes Dan Amoss for The Daily Reckoning. The US Index of Leading Economic Indicators, which has been [...]

Watching & Waiting

Bullion Vault As the US fights deflation, credit inflation is alive and well in China… The INVESTMENT COMMUNITY is divided at present as to whether the world economy faces hyperinflation or deflation, writes Puru Saxena of Money Matters and Puru Saxena Limited in Hong Kong. Some observers are convinced that the central banks’ printing press [...]

Green Shoots To Soggy Grass

By CAPTAINHOOK, GoldSeek A skyrocketing yield curve is normally a sign the economy is dangerously heating up, and that market rates in fixed income securities are signaling the likelihood of higher administered rates soon as well. Along these lines then, short-term rates have been rising on the expectation that the Fed will need to talk [...]

Trampled Green Shoots

By Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com Subscribe: Hat Trick Letter The so-called ‘Green Shoots’ have been trampled by people walking to their Unemployment Insurance Offices to collect jobless claims in order to pay their bills. The so-called ‘Green Shoots’ have been trampled been people walking (or running) away from their homes as they are being foreclosed. The so-called [...]