Thursday I am asked regularly for my opinion on bitcoin etc. Even two of my sons have recently expressed interest. I understand the thrill of a speculation that is going through the roof, but I also understand the danger. It is a speculation, not an investment. A speculation requires a bigger fool and in a world of peak stupid that has been a good bet. But when the … [Read more...]
Zombieland
Wednesday Central bank bluster notwithstanding, interest rates will continue to trend downward. It can be no other way. The servicing of sovereign zombie debts insists that interest rates don’t rise. And then there are the zombie debts and zombie jobs of the zombie corporations that facilitate employees taking on their own zombie loans. The aggregate of all that is what … [Read more...]