Economic News

[heelinhell]

If you want to know where the economy is heading follow the bond market. The bond market had been selling off a bit even before Iran. At this point the question is whether we will be in a recession before November or shortly thereafter.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

People loading up on defense stocks.

 

[lawtig02]

There's so goddamn much money now that has nowhere else to go. Europe is a crapshoot. Asia is not realistically possible. I, like most people who post here, are benefiting from it, but the markets now appear to be completely divorced from economic dynamics.

 

[nycfan]

Amazing how that looks like a blood vessel (albeit a weird one with blood going both ways).

 

[Calheel]

Amazing how that looks like a blood vessel (albeit a weird one with blood going both ways).

And a bit of plaque build up on one of the artery walls.

 

[05C40]

Can we PLEASE change the analogy. I got an echocardiogram last week and tomorrow morning I see my cardiologist about what it says. Which hopefully will not be anything worse than the one I had in August. Let's switch to an old man urinating. That's something I still do OK.