Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Markets Two (by Silver Singularity)

By -

To see Part One of this post, click here.

In fact it preceded 3 of the last 5 recessions 1982 1990 and 2007. Not a bad start considering that the 2020 recession was a very special one.

Now even if 1990 was a recession year it can be considered as a soft landing, things ended up really well at that time and there’s another period that you should take a look at: 1994 when Greenspan aggressively raised rates without causing a recession.

When you look at the chart the pressure index was raised well above the red line and for a relatively long period of time, why did we end up in a no-landing scenario?

(more…)