Fred Sheehan

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• The Bed-Pan Economy

  Published 12 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Data portrayed in the "Employment in Total Non-Farm" payroll (NFP) chart is used by central bankers and Wall Street strategists to assert economic strength. They…

• April 2014 - Castles in The Air

  Published 06 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The word "bubble" is suffering from overuse. Still, with money for nothing inflating markets around the world, we are seeing how prices inflate to enormous…

• All The News That's Fit To Print - in 2014

  Published 26 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The most astounding rubbish is spoken every day by central bankers and other commentators who hold a monopoly on what the public at large knows.…

• The Shoe Dropped. What's Next?

  Published 23 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  A persistent presumption here is the limit to U.S. government bond issuance that (important qualification coming) can be traded at government-manufactured rates. "March 2014 -…

• Helping the Fellow Out

  Published 16 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  After biotech stocks hiccupped on Thursday, April 11, 2014, ISI analyst Mark Schenebaum told the world: "Horrible day in biotech. I'm frankly at a loss…

• March 2014 - One Month Closer

  Published 05 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Conventional wisdom, as expressed through the noisiest channels (Federal Reserve officials' daily speeches, Wall Street TV experts), believes Quantitative Easing (QE) has been of negligible…

• The Berkeley Free Speech Movement - Happy 50th

  Published 26 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Fifty years ago, after a few scuffles, the Free Speech Movement established its foothold at the University of California, Berkeley. On December 2, 1964, Mario…

• Deceived By a Mirage

  Published 20 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Second Crimean War has brought forth wonder, at least among some, at the stock market's indifference. Some would say stock market "exuberance," but with…

• Silent Minority or Majority?

  Published 19 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Understanding what the people think (popular opinion) is a difficult task. It is not the same as what the experts and media tell us to…

• We Are All Lab Rats Now

  Published 12 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "They sit there across the Pond, and sometimes I think they feel like they're in a lab and they're running experiments on rats and not…

• Another Go

  Published 05 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Advocates for Federal Reserve disclosure harp on the five-year wait for FOMC transcripts. The reasoning goes that institutions in a democracy should be more democratic:…

• Those FOMC Transcripts: Watch Out Below

  Published 26 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Federal Reserve releases transcripts of FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meetings after a five-year wait. The 2008 transcripts were made public late, last week.…

• Disintegration: An Interview with The Daily Bell

  Published 24 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Fred Sheehan on the Futility of Wall Street, the Coming Derivatives Disaster and the Craziness of Keynes With Anthony Wile - February 23, 2014 The…

• At the Margin

  Published 13 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  John Hussman (Hussman Funds) wrote in his February 3, 2014, Weekly Market Comment: "The latest data from the NYSE shows equity margin debt at a…

• The View From Madrid

  Published 07 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The View from Madrid Fernando del Pino writes "Independent views on Spain, Europe and the big picture of politics and money" one of the few…

• The State of the States: Post-Bernanke Bellum

  Published 01 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  One can almost imagine ex-chairman Bernanke shaking his head in disbelief. (For the record, I cannot conceive of Simple Ben possessing the capacity for what…

• Stocks

  Published 25 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  When markets tumble, the immediate cause is often baked into the cake years before. The structural (decades old) trouble with large, U.S. publicly traded companies…

• Enjoy it While it Lasts

  Published 16 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "Enjoy it while it lasts" - Sir Alan Greenspan, June 13, 2007,after suggesting "the global liquidity boom, which he dates back to the end of…

• Visions of Gallantry

  Published 29 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In "The Stock Market" (December 22, 2013), there is a mathematical problem with the following: "Zero Hedge recently reported the days on which the New…

• The Stock Market

  Published 22 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Thomson Reuters (This Week in Earnings, December 6, 2013) notes another New World Record. We are breaking plenty these days. This often foretells a Grand…