Kyle Bass: Investing For Armageddon
(Via The Pragmatic Capitalist)
(Via The Pragmatic Capitalist)
Anyone counting on a meaningful economic recovery will be greatly disappointed. How do I know? I follow credit, and credit is contracting. Access to credit is being denied at an accelerating pace. Large, well-capitalized companies have no problem finding credit. …
Target (TGT) reported 2nd quarter earnings before the open this morning and what really caught my attention was the detioration in their credit card portfolio (TGT Earnings Release). Target, a $40 billion market cap company, has its own credit card…
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The consensus after Fed Chair Powell’s speech Friday morning at Jackson Hole is that the Fed will cut rates by 25 basis points on September 17. Therefore interest rates are going lower, right? Not so fast. The Fed controls the…
The combination of all this fiscal and monetary stimulus is turbocharging what Keynes called aggregate demand. All that demand is putting tremendous stress on the global supply chain resulting in bottlenecks and raw material inflation. The inflation we are now…
Leading used car retailer CarMax (KMX) reported 3Q22 earnings for the period ended August 31 Thursday morning. Used vehicle sales units declined 6.4% year over year to 216,939 after consumers couldn’t get their hands on enough cars during the pandemic….