Self-dealing enables companies to sidestep market price discovery, mark their asset values to fantasy and boost their management fees while keeping existing investors believing that their equity value ...

Homebuilders are already offering buy-down rates in the 3 percent range in the US and Canada. Still, new home sales have contracted year over year, while the inventory of new US single-family homes ...

If we had a dime for all the times people say silly things, like “You’ll never lose money in real estate” or “high-end properties always hold their value.” Not true, never has been. The current real ...

Margin debt (people borrowing against their security portfolios) has now topped $1 trillion for the first time in history, +25% over the past year alone. Other, lesser, margin-abuse peaks occurred ...

The ongoing housing downturn is the biggest story, and it’s getting little coverage. No doubt, there is financial pain unfolding, but longer-term, much lower home prices are a massive part of the ...

Last night at midnight, goods from more than 60 countries and the European Union became subject to tariff rates of 10% or higher. Products from the EU, Japan and South Korea are taxed at 15%, while ...

The ever-complacent risk-on investment community may be interested to know that over the past six decades, the type of ...

The winds of change are blowing around the globe. 74 countries representing half of the world’s population held national elections last year. Many of them — including the US — saw a replacement of the ...

Worth a listen to this one. Michael Green warns that passive investing has quietly turned markets into a self-reinforcing bubble (Ponzi-like in nature) and reveals why bonds now offer ...