Category: Business & Economy

“Go to any large, high-density city like New York or San Francisco, and you’ll notice a difference in costs immediately. The price you pay for groceries, dinner at the restaurant, filling up your tank, or even your daily coffee goes up substantially… While this effect on costs is most evident in cities, it’s actually present throughout the country.”

The U.S. federal government just passed a record $20 trillion in publicly held debt. And, it will only grow higher unless President Trump and the U.S. Congress can agree to unprecedented spending cuts combined with tax increases. But when you look at another fiscal measure – the ratio of debt-to-GDP – the U.S. is not in the worst situation…

According to a recent note published by the Pew Research Center, Millennials now head more households living below the poverty line than any other generation and, in aggregate, represent nearly one-third of all impoverished households in the United States. 

America’s favorite rapidly-depreciating asset is now losing it’s value fast than ever… which is probably not good news for an auto market in which 25% people were already underwater by an average $3,635.

“As soon as lenders (and the investors behind them) get overconfident that they have better models and can make excess profits by disrespecting credit risk, they always get their hats handed to them sooner or later. The mortgage market learned this lesson at the expense of the entire global financial system, and it is playing out now in a micro-level, in the ABS market for subprime auto loans.”