double dip

In the following post I list a number of risk factors which I believe investors should give serious consideration, but I do not for one second pretend for that list to be exhaustive. Neither should you read anything into the order of which…

This is the analysis emanating from the ECRI: (CNN) - Op-Ed by Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji The good news is that the much-feared double-dip recession is not going to happen. That is the message from leading business…

Note: I had corrected this post title due to the data from the BLS. However, the data were from last week as the embargoed data from this week had yet to be put up. I have amended it back to the original title and replaced the quote from…

David Tice, chief portfolio strategist for bear markets at Federated Investors, talks to Bloomberg about the outlook for the U.S. economy and stock market.  He is expecting to see signs of a `Double Dip' Recession.  He also…

This interview with Bloomberg is from last Friday (hat tip Scot). Bianco says that despite more benign trailing and coincident indicators, the decline in leading indicators supports his market-bearish view. The interview runs about 10…

Warren Buffett wants his street cred back! He's coming down on the side of most people on main street who believe the recession is still ongoing despite what the NBER stat gurus say. Reuters quotes: "We're still in a…

Robert Shiller puts the odds for a double dip recession at greater than 50%; so he is worried that we are headed back down again. I missed Robert Shiller's Big Interview with the Wall Street Journal last month so I am posting it now. Here…

The main street reaction to the NBER's determination of a recovery starting in June 2009 has been – as expected – angry. Here are a few sample comments to my post on the recession's end: Obviously we need to redefine…

by the Consumer Metrics Institute We founded the Consumer Metrics Institute precisely because we felt that the economic bureaucrats in Washington were out of touch with the economy that most of us live in. They remind us of those patients…

by Gary Shilling Investor attitudes have reversed abruptly in recent months. As late as last March, most translated the year-long robust rise in stocks, foreign currencies, commodities and the weakness in Treasury bonds that had commenced…