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Infrastructure Spending Could Lead To Devastating Crash, Druckenmiller Warns

Jul 24, 2021 | Economic Collapse

This isn’t the first time billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller has warned that US markets is heading towards a devastating crash. He recently mentioned that we are caught up in a “raging mania” fostered by the trillions of dollars in government...

We Destroyed the World’s Greatest Economy for No Reason

Oct 13, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Everyone knew the second quarter of 2020 was going to be a disaster, and it was. The U.S. economy fell by 31.4% (annualized) in the second quarter. But, the expectation was that we’d have a V-shaped recovery with a sharp bounce-back in the third quarter, a reopening...

Trump Can Ensure a V-shaped Economic Recovery by Heeding the Lessons of 1921

Aug 5, 2020 | Economic Collapse

A U or V? That is the question—whether the economic recovery from the COVID-19 shutdown will be a long, drawn-out process, a wide, flattish U” or a sharp, upward-bound one, a V. To best wrestle with this question, let us look back a bit...

The Employment Situation Is Still A Disaster

Jun 11, 2020 | Economic Collapse

Last Friday, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released new unemployment data. The report surprised many because it showed a decrease in the unemployment rate, while many observers had expected an increase. According to the official headline (seasonally adjusted)...

Fed Economist Pushes For Negative Rates

Jun 8, 2020 | Economic Collapse

The Federal Reserve will probably keep interest rates at zero when it meets this week. But its own ranks are increasingly clamoring for an unprecedented move: sending rates into negative territory. In theory, negative interest rates would motivate more people and...