Monday, August 24, 2020

Stocks Reach New Record Highs Even As Corporate Bankruptcies Soar

 

Financial analyst Daniel Lacalle today shares the following insight:

"One of the most alarming facts about this crisis is the pace at which bankruptcies are rising. Despite an $11 trillion liquidity injection and government aid in 2020, stocks and bonds at all-time highs and sovereign as well as corporate yields at all-time lows, companies are going bust at the fastest pace since the Great Depression. Why? Because a solvency crisis cannot be disguised by liquidity."

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Are We At a "Dire Turning Point"?

 An article today on The Atlantic website asked an important and valid question. Are we reaching a "dire turning point" that could send the economy into collapse?