David Haggith

Contributor since: 13 Dec 2015

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• The Best And Worse Case Scenario For The U.S. Stock Market

  Published 23 March 2020 | viewed 5,007 times

  As the carnage continues with stocks now ignoring anything the Fed throws at them — and the Fed has pretty well thrown everything it has…

• We're Officially In A Bear Market

  Published 12 March 2020 | viewed 5,506 times

  The bear roared today, ripping the ears off everyone, as the Dow and Russel 2000 both landed more than 20 percent below their last peak.…

• Is A New Housing Bubble Forming?

  Published 10 February 2020 | viewed 10,369 times

  The best time to size up the collapse in housing that I called almost two years ago will be when it is over — so…

• Is The Fed Going To Cause A Global Recession

  Published 26 September 2019 | viewed 2,302 times

  As noted in my last article, “Fed Loses Control of its Benchmark Interest,” bank liquidity strains are written all over this month’s troubles. Some may…

• Trickle Down Tax Cuts Aren't Helping Bolster GDP Growth

  Published 20 August 2019 | viewed 3,940 times

  Let me help remove the rose-colored glasses for anyone who still thinks GDP this year is good.  First, GDP growth in the first quarter was…

• Dollar Falls As Powell Teases Rate Cuts

  Published 11 July 2019 | viewed 8,463 times

  The bears that are gathering will soon enough be picking flesh off the sun-bleached bones of this market. Even the Fed Chair, who usually does…

• Market Mayhem Sparks Worries Of A Looming Recession

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 4,376 times

  “The perfect storm” has become a cliché, but the current setup for a 2019 recession just became so textbook perfect in the alignment of the…

• Why China Won't Back Down In Trump's Trade War

  Published 12 June 2019 | viewed 3,853 times

  A bump from Donald Trump’s thump on Mexico’s head is causing the US stock market to swell this week. Trump tariffied the market last week because his…

• The Federal Reserve's Perfect Unwind

  Published 01 March 2018 | viewed 4,007 times

  The Federal Reserve is now hacking its own zombie recovery to death and eating it by reversing the actions it employed to create this artificially…

• Stock Market’s Massive Moves Not Seen Since Great Recession

  Published 12 February 2018 | viewed 0 times

  Talk about the market busting a move … and a lot of people! In less than half a month, the Trump Rally lost a third…

• The Ghosts of Crashes Past, Recent, and Future as they Appeared on this Blog

  Published 02 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  t’s not boasting to state plainly that you were right if you are equally direct about your errors. I have until now rightly predicted all…

• Stock and Awe, Bears in Bondage

  Published 15 November 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The Trump Rally pushed ahead relentlessly through a summer full of high omens and great disasters, all which it swatted off like flies. Even so, all…

• Hurricane Harvey aids Trump’s infrastructure spending program

  Published 13 September 2017 | viewed 0 times

  It is widely believed that World War II gave us the end of the Great Depression. As a result, people have said for decades there…

• US Economy Keeps Moving Into Summer Storm

  Published 13 July 2017 | viewed 0 times

  One of the kookiest moments last month came when Fed Chairwoman Yellen spoke about seeing no financial collapse in sight during our lifetimes “Would I…

• The Broken States of the Union

  Published 03 July 2017 | viewed 0 times

  For the first time in US history a handful of US states is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Illinois is about to be downgraded…

• Carmageddon Crashes Into 'The Recovery' Right On Schedule

  Published 19 June 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Carmageddon, as Wolf Richter has called it, is hitting the US economy exactly as I said a year and a half ago would start to…

• Summer Storm Keeps Building as Second Dip of Great Recession Approaches

  Published 05 June 2017 | viewed 0 times

  These updates to my list of “Seven Troubles Assailing the US Economy” are far too important to remain buried at the end of that article…

• We’re Sailing Into A Massive Stock-Market Crash

  Published 30 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  If I can show you that economists, central bankers and stock analysts are blind in the area of their expertise to the most obvious setup…

• If Wannacry Cyber Attack Didn’t Make You Wannacry, The Next One Will!

  Published 19 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The Wannacry malware that hit like a global mega-bomb, showed everyone how vulnerable we are to a global cyber attack. Billed as “one of the…

• Krunch Time for Korean Krackpot Despot, Kim Jong-Un: Missile Crisis Countdown Has Begun

  Published 14 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The Korean missile crisis has never been hotter. Trump is turning the screws on everyone to force action. China, Japan, and South Korea join in…