Bulls and Bears both make money and lose money; but Bulls lose more.

MirageGuy,   Cheap, plentiful money supply creates bubbles. Show me where there is not a bubble in the U.S. economy? There is a bubble in bonds, stocks, gold and a small re-bubble in real estate. The only place there isn't a bubble is in economic activity and employment.

Massive amounts of QE and inflation is tame at 1.7% ? This could only happen if the US is actually in an underlying deflationary environment. Otherwise, the monetary action of the Fed would be spiking inflation to around 7%. The conclusion? The economy would be contracting if it wasn't for Spend Happy Obama and his sid...more

Great article again Anthony !!!  Don't worry about all the haters of your recent doom trend in writing. You are right. You are in good company with Robert Shiller, Peter Schiff, etc.

K man,   Wanting the economic situation to get better and believing it will are two different thought processes. Do you really think positive thinking is going to keep foreign investment in the US from fleeing once the iceberg is sited? The USD is being debased enormously.

Having the Fed print more money and buy mortagage backed securities, US bonds or any other asset is just a backdoor method of monetizing debt. In essence, the fed purchases government bonds that already exist via printed money while the government is able to "monetize" even more debt outside of the fed. Don't believe...more

What about Greece? How can the ECB commit to purchasing Spanish and Italian debt without solving the Greek problem?  Not one mention of Greece in this article. Greece is trying to postpone their mandated austerity measures.  Spain and Italy are no dummies, they will follow suit.   There has been a lot things said, ...more

Pete,   There you go blaming republicans for the demise of the U.S. Better that you blame both or neither. This social democratic, lobbyist, selling off our birthright, political contribution mayhem is to blame.   We need to kick the foreign lobbyists out of Washington D.C., limit political campaign contributi...more

Send the Japanese over some more of our junk food! They'll be overweight and unhealthy too. Then Jenny Craig and Weightwatchers can enter that market too.