Alan H.

Is there any making sense of stock prices. In the face of a global downturn, they have generally remained strong. A short look at the substructure, focusing on the "Fed put," the history of the Fed insuring financial markets against losses. aharvey.substack.com/p/whats-with...

The economic meltdown we're facing will develop in seven stages - by Christmas, by which time things are going to be ugly. youtu.be/UunBWAzzr9c?...

The Buffett Indicator divides the total value of the stock market by GDP. As Buffett says, it’s “probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment.” At its current level, the indicator is beyond the 200% threshold that is when investors are “playing with fire”. (ht

Credit cards are already getting loaded up, ahead of the gasoline price shock. This is not good #economycharts

How long will the Strait of Hormuz be closed? As long as Iran wants it closed. btw Closed only to the actors and allies of Israel and the US. After the unprovoked attack assissinating the Iranian leadership (and the bombing of a girls school). #economycharts

Are you in? Join us on March 28. Find an event near you: go.aft.org/nokings

Pew Poll on Data Centers 03/16/26 #economycharts

Remember how Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023? Trump's cronies on the Fed want to make sure you don't.

Wealth by Percentile since 1990 Green is the top 0.1% Purple is the top 1% Orange (flat line at the bottom) is 50th percentile 20th percentile does not register #economycharts

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable? MIT Sloan #economycharts mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

Q4 2025 US GDP at a miserable 0.7 #economycharts

Trump: ‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’. Thousands killed, children orphaned, infrastructure destroyed, UN emasculated to enable US companies to make bigger profits - capitalism thrives on destruction. Trillions of atoms, billions of years of human evolution and the world got Trump.

Employment to Population Ratio #economycharts

Gasoline (USD/Gal) 3/12/26 #economycharts

Natural Gas EU 3/12/26 #economycharts

US Heating Oil 03/11/26 #economycharts

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Household Debt, Mortgage and Non-Mortgage 1980-2024

If you think federal debt is out of control, compare it to the wealth of the top 1%. It has exploded since 2009.

"When asset prices rise but sentiment remains depressed, it suggests that the benefits of economic growth are not being felt evenly (see Figure 1)." www.etftrends.com/etf-strategi...

www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman...

Paramedics said last weekend’s bombing of an elementary in southern Iran was a so-called “double-tap” airstrike — a common tactic used by US, Israeli, and Russian forces by which attackers bomb a target and then follow up with a second strike meant to kill survivors and first responders.

Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”. They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth. UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.

Big Oil is shamelessly arguing that they should be allowed to dump carcinogenic plastic pollution into the Gulf of Mexico.

Bibi and Putin are in power only beause their countries are at war. Trump is playing that card now. His clown show magnified the deaths from Covid by one million souls. Imagine what it will do in a war.

White men protecting dark secrets with soldiers’ lives.

Trump’s New Tariffs Are Also Illegal The 1974 Trade Act was designed to counter long-gone problems. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/26/t...

FEDSPEAK: “.. the deterioration in private credit is accelerating.” This week: 1. Apollo/MidCap Financial div cut 2. KKR/FSK div cut 3. Blackrock/TCP capital div cut 4. Blue Owl conference call