<div dir="ltr">A new posting - <br><h3 class="" itemprop="name"><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-us-economy-mid-year-report-card.html">THE US ECONOMY: A MID-YEAR REPORT CARD</a></h3><h3 style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black">It's
no secret that investors are frightened. A fog of uncertainty hangs
over US equity markets, with Wall Street mavens reassuring each other
that the course ahead is promising. Activity is down and performance
volatile, with institutional investors and fast traders catching
small waves at the end of trading days. Fear over Greek negotiations
and a possible Federal Reserve increase in interest rates haunt the
investment banks, fund managers, and other institutional investors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black">US
commentators hopefully hail any modestly positive economic news-- an
encouraging employment gain here, a small spike in consumer spending
there. At the same time, they are deathly afraid of a dampening
interest rate hike. Frequent bad news -- like the first-quarter drop
in GDP in three of the last five years -- is either dismissed as
weather related or conveniently attributed to other non-systemic
factors. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size:large"><br></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black">Cautious,
wary signals crop up in newspaper headlines: “Postcrisis
Financial-System Risk Casts a Darkening Shadow” (</span><span style="color:black"><b>WSJ</b></span><span style="color:black">,
4-9-15), “A World Awash in Almost Everything” (</span><span style="color:black"><b>WSJ</b></span><span style="color:black">.
4-25/26-15), “Tech Investors See the Froth, but None Dare Call It a
Bubble” (</span><span style="color:black"><b>NYT</b></span><span style="color:black">,
5-25-15). Warnings about “bloated” stocks by the Fed chairman,
and alarm over declines in business investment, industrial production
and worker productivity, all cast a shadow over the cheer leading of
stock purchase evangelists and other financial hucksters.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black">And
then there is the eccentric David Stockman-- President Reagan's
former budget director-- who makes a convincing case regularly that
the sky is falling. He forewarns: </span></span>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black">What
is coming, therefore, is not their father’s inflationary spiral,
but an unprecedented and epochal global deflation...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black">What
ultimately stops today’s new style central bank credit cycle,
therefore, is bursting financial bubbles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black">That
has already happened twice this century. A third proof of the case
looks to be just around the corner. (4-5-15)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black"><b>Where
Are We Headed?<br><br></b></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:0.04in" align="CENTER"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><i>To read the rest of the posting, go to:</i> <a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/">http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/</a></span><br></b></span></span><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black"></span></span><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:black"></span></span></div></div><br></div>