Thursday, February 26, 2015

Those Who Don't Learn From History. Lose Everything.

"Stocks have reached a permanently high plateau" - Irving Fisher, 1929

"Irving Kahn, who shorted the 1929 crash, dies at 109"
(a lot of Irvings in those days)



MAX COMPLACENCY: The new permanent plateau


Greenspan: "Effective demand is as weak as the late 1930s" 
"The way I measure it, it's probably tantamount to what we saw in the later stages of the Great Depression,"

Forty years ago, a 20% output gap was called a severe recession:



Got deflation?