Still Rock and Roll to me

I’ve already mentioned in my prior post “The Greatest Recession” the importance of Richard Koo’s work on the balance sheet recession. Indeed, we are lucky to have this guide as we recognize the consequence, significance, and inevitable results of putting our fiscal laxity into hyperdrive. This post is not intended to harbinger gloom and pessimism, the world will continue regardless, but these are obvious vulnerabilities that did not have to metastasize – and they ought […]

The Greatest Recession

The greatest recession, according to many of the smartest guys in the room, could also be the most boring. Words like collapse, crash, flashing signals, are the usual adjectives we use to describe the abnormal. However, the decline of the credit cycle has a new look, and like most trends in the techno-age, it emerged in Japan first. The private sector began paying down debt after the debt-financed asset bubble collapsed, leaving only debt in […]