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A linear trend failure *and* an exponential trend failure? All in the same chart? I think I just died and went to trend failure heaven!
October 27, 2005
Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust
U.S. house prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years, noted Bernanke, currently chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, in testimony to Congress's Joint Economic Committee. But these increases, he said, "largely reflect strong economic fundamentals," such as strong growth in jobs, incomes and the number of new households.
Wikipedia: Good cop/bad cop
The good cop/bad cop routine is a common dramatic technique in cinema and television, where the bad cop often goes beyond the boundary of legal behavior. A common variant to subvert expectations is to seemingly introduce the 'bad cop' first, only to reveal that he's actually the 'good cop' despite his harshness and that the real 'bad cop' is even worse.
If credit is the lifeblood of this economy, then we just need to work through this "soft patch" and all will be well again. Right?
Investopedia: Soft Patch
This term gained popularity when former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan used it in his review of the overall U.S. economy. Central banks often cut interest rates in an attempt to spur the economy through the soft patch.
Two quick questions and I'll let you go.
1. Where the @#$% is the good Fed?
2. Is it normal for a soft patch to last more than 5 years?
Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart
Is it normal for a soft patch to last more than 5 years?
ReplyDeleteHey, there's a reason it's called the "new" normal now.
"Used cars"?? No, no, no. "Certified pre-owned"!
People just love to pay more! Look at hedge funds. Or better yet, funds of hedge funds aka funds of fees!
See how it works?
mab,
ReplyDeleteOr better yet, funds of hedge funds aka funds of fees!
Genius!
Just to be clear, I definitely don't want any old index fund of hedge funds though.
No, sir. I want a professionally managed fund of hedge funds where each individual hedge fund within it invests in professionally managed funds of hedge funds! And to boost my returns I expect some circular logic too! The better my fund does the more I expect the hedge funds within it to buy shares of my fund with borrowed money (using derivates to reduce the risk to zero of course)!
Fees? Who cares as long as everyone wins!
Leveraged Fund Fees of Funds' Fees of Fund Fees of Funds' Fees For The Win!
LFFFFFFFFFTW! ;)