Oh no! Not This Again!
Here we go again! Forget all the ruminating about how things are slated to go south in the markets and the economy. It seems all it "right" with the world - again. Of course, that's how it seems . The reality remains what it is. But - and a BIG BUT: It would seem "they" have succeeded in pushing back any sort of reckoning (whether mild, reasonable or worse) for a few more months - maybe into 2025. Yea, we were thinking this fall would bring trouble. And we were not all that excited about what's touted as a strong economy. And now this. What's "this?? Well, we'll pass on a kind of summation of what we've concluded from our usual sources, plus some good additional resources that help us remain steady in the face of the fakery that passes for news, analysis, etc. spewing from the government, the Fed, and the financial and other legacy media. Fakery? Well, yeah. We've brought a bunch of this fakery to the table in the past: the ginned up eco