False recovery?

Doesn’t anyone see that if “financial services” accounts for 40% of our GDP that it means we are kidding ourselves? THAT only means we are trading from the left pocket into the right pocket into the back pocket and around again — and counting it as GDP. Our real GDP is far lower than anything [...]

Mortgage/Credit Bust: Vapor without Value

The American Economy: Vapor without Value My effort here has been to point out that we are creating a fraudulent environment, much like an embezzler, that requires more fraud and more lies each time to cover up the last fraud and the prior lies. Our economy is now one which runs on boom and bust [...]

Mortgage Meltdown: A New Bubble: Fraud Redux

Hold everything!!: Second Bubble on the Way!!!???? Interest rates dropping, Fed lowering its rates, and incoming capital from China like it was water. We now see the strategy to prevent the world from marking the Bush administration down as the most foolish, stupidest in history.  The plan is to create a second bubble. They will [...]