Tag Archives: Case Shiller

As we look into the future, we see a high risk of the world money supply increasing further. Or put in layman’s terms, your money being devalued by rampant inflation.

But odds are high we won’t simply ride up the inflation curve in a straight line from here.

Deflationary corrections, perhaps severe ones, will punctuate the process. And when they do, windows of very attractive investment opportunities will open.

Take real estate; which appears to entering the start of a correction now.

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Running PeakProsperity.com requires me to read and process a lot of data on a daily basis. As it's hard to digest it all in real-time, I keep a running list of charts, tables and articles that catch my attention, to return to when I have the time to give them my full attention.

Lately, that list has been getting quite long. And it's largely full of indicators that concern me, signals that the long era of "extend and pretend" in today's markets may finally be at its terminus.

Like crows circling overhead, everyday brings with it new worrisome statistics that portend an ill change ahead. Indeed, these signs are increasing so quickly now that it's hard not to feel like Tippi Hedren in Hitchcock's classic The Birds.

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Through the long sweep of history, the bursting of asset bubbles has nearly always been traumatic.  Social, political and economic upheavals have a bad habit of following asset bubbles, while wealth destruction is a guaranteed feature.

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• U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says (Update2)
• Airman Ben Comes a Cropper (MachineHead)
• Are the US and UK Too Spoiled to Accept Austerity?
• Millionaires Go Missing
• Case-Shiller: House Prices Tracking More Adverse Scenario (Chart 1 of 2)
• Case-Shiller: House Prices Tracking More Adverse Scenario (Chart 2 of 2)
• House Prices: Real Prices, Price-to-Rent, and Price-to-Income
• Why Interest Rates will go UP
• PetroChina to Pay $2.2 Billion for Singapore Refining (H/T Doug)
• Re-defaults
• Consumers ‘do believe in the green shoot story’ (Video on page)
• Fall in Libor May Overstate Improvement in Interbank Lending Market
• AIN’T NO REST FOR THE WICKED (Repost in case you missed it)
• Towns Rethink Self-Reliance as Finances Worsen

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