Mauldin News

Is It Time to Sell Your Stocks and Run For Cover?

2012-02-10T18:38:53+00:00

When it comes to investing, it’s hard to know who to follow these days. Since September 2009, the Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund (VTSMX) is up 33.4 percent. The Dow is approaching 12,900, reaching a post-crash high while so much of the debt crisis remains unresolved in Europe as well as here at home.

Markets Rise as Europe Teeters on the Brink

2012-02-06T16:46:41+00:00

In the latest issue of News from the Frontline the market commentator John Mauldin makes the point that “Europe has problems that are structural and can’t be fixed with just another treaty or more ECB liquidity.”

It’s Time To Make The Hard Decisions

2012-01-29T22:21:01+00:00

Transcript for the Chris Martenson podcast with John Mauldin: It's Time To Make The Hard Decisions.

Is Greece Leaving The Eurozone?

2012-01-28T22:17:15+00:00

Lots of rumors flying in the last 24 hours over a potential Greek exit at the end of March. This comes via Niels Jensen and John Mauldin.

John Mauldin: It’s Time to Make the Hard Decisions

2012-01-27T19:12:32+00:00

Back in the 1930's, Irving Fisher introduced a concept called the 'debt supercycle.' Simply put, it posits that when there is a buildup of too much debt within an economy, there reaches a point where there simply is no other available solution but to let it rewind.

The Massive Debt Bomb

2012-01-25T18:26:37+00:00

When it comes to government debt, it is not just new debt that is the problem. Every single year, governments around the world must “roll over” gigantic mountains of debt that come due. That means that the actual borrowing that takes place each year is far greater than the yearly budget deficits that you see talked about on television.

Japan’s endgame nears

2012-01-24T17:18:18+00:00

In his 2011 book Endgame, New York Times best-selling author John Mauldin calls Japan a "bug in search of a windshield," and it's a great metaphor. Like a bug buzzing along a highway, Japan's economy has bumbled along for the past two decades, not really growing but not imploding either. In the not-too-distant future, Japan may be in for a good "splat."

Will the euro survive 2012?

2012-01-18T17:47:21+00:00

In his latest newsletter, US analyst John Mauldin, who participated in last November’s Kilkenomics Festival in Ireland, attempts to fill the forecast void by reinterpreting the Mayan Code and concluding – in his delightfully entertaining way – that the ancient South American tribe was predicting the end of Europe and not the world on December 21, 2012.

Greek Default Looking Likely

2012-01-17T17:10:22+00:00

Many prominent voices in the financial world that have been watching all of this play out are now openly declaring the Greece is about to default.

The End of Europe?

2012-01-16T17:43:14+00:00

So long as trade imbalances exist and peripheries remain unable to balance their budgets, countries like Greece will not stand on their own two feet, Mauldin believes.