Markets can fall of their own weight, even as they look for a reason to rally. This one was doing just that on Monday when Nobel Prize- winning Princeton University economist Paul Krugman predicted that the U.S. economy will probably emerge from recession by September. The market woke up from its lethargic trance and rallied sharply on the comments, recouping the morning’s losses.
U.S. mortgage applications fell to their lowest level since February, in numbers released today. With interest rates guaranteed to go higher (thanks to the collapse in U.S.
Not all the efforts of the U.S. propaganda-machine are directed at generating false-hope in the U.S. economy and warping economic statistics beyond recognition. A large component of this campaign is to undermine confidence in other economies – in order to try to make investing in U.S. assets appear to be the least-worst alternative.Of course, there is no need for the U.S.
The recent government stress tests were made laughable last week as the US unemployment rate hit a recession high of 9.4%. This unemployment data was released Friday, June 5th, less than a month after the government completed the stress tests of 19 major financial companies.
The comedy duo of Bernanke & Geithner are still promising an “economic recovery” for the U.S. in the second half of this year, and their faithful, media talking-heads continue to parrot this nonsense.Don't get me wrong here. I'm not suggesting that we couldn't see a positive, GDP reading for the U.S. in the 3rd quarter.
With another, fraudulent U.S. monthly jobs-report due out tomorrow, the U.S. propaganda-machine is uttering one absurdity after another.Today, it was trumpeting the news that “continuing claims” fell last month for the first time in five months.
Can anyone still remember back to the fall of last year, when the U.S. financial crime syndicate whined about how it needed HUGE, government hand-outs – in order to be able to lend more money, and rescue the U.S. economy?
While the corporate propaganda-machine (i.e. the “free press”) provides little in the way of “news” any more, it has made up for this deficiency (somewhat) by becoming a regular source of comedyThe script-writers at Reuters penned their own hilarious farce on May 31st, titled “Federal Reserve Puzzled by Yield Curve Steepening”.
