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- Is Organized Labor Back?
- Michael Panzner submits: The influence of organized labor has been waning for years. Among the reasons: the growth of "offshoring," which has thinned the ranks of traditionally heavily-unionized domestic manufacturing industries; a sustained period of economic expansion (up until recently, at least), which convinced many workers that they did...
- External links 2008-12-07
- U.S. Economy: Another Crack Opening Up?
- Michael Panzner submits: You see plenty of reports nowadays suggesting that financial Armageddon has been avoided. Meanwhile, "experts" in Washington and on Wall Street congratulate each other on their apparent success in preventing the crisis flood waters from breaching the financial system's levee walls. In reality, all...
- External links 2009-07-23
- U.S. Economy: How Those in Charge Have Learned Very Little
- Michael Panzner submits: It's funny how little those in charge have learned from the nightmare of the past two years. All the evidence suggests that the various machinations of the Fed, the misjudgments of the Treasury, the manipulations of the moneyed interests, and the malfeasance of elected officials who...
- External links 2009-07-26
- The Curious Economic Recovery
- Michael Panzner submits: Gregory Scotland Yard detective: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time."Holmes: "That was the curious incident." (From the Wikipedia entry for Sir...
- External links 2009-07-29
- Commercial Real Estate Market Teetering Like a Jenga Tower
- Michael Panzner submits: Image courtesy of Hasbro In the classic Milton Bradley/Hasbro game of skill, players take turns removing a wooden block from a tower of such blocks and balancing it on top, creating a "higher and increasingly unstable structure as the game progresses." The...
- External links 2009-08-01
- Housing: Not a Pretty Picture
- Michael Panzner submits: It would be hard to argue that these are pretty pictures: Image source by Michael Panzner
- External links 2009-08-09
- Dollar Has Only One Way to Go (Hint: It's Not Up)
- Michael Panzner submits: Nothing says the dollar has only one way to go in the long run (hint: it's not up) like this oldie-but-goody graph of U.S. price levels (.pdf) from 1665 to 2013 estimated by Robert C. Sahr, Associate Professor of Political Science at Oregon State University: click...
- External links 2009-08-10
- U.S. Suburban Developers Face Heavy Debt, Tough Decisions
- Michael Panzner submits: Hope springs eternal in the human breast;Man never Is, but always To be blest:The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,Rests and expatiates in a life to come.--Alexander Pope,An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733 Most people would probably agree that the English poet's words aptly...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Banking Sector Rally - A Sight to Behold
- Michael Panzner submits: I've been around long enough to know that the day-to-day -- and even the month-to-month -- action in the stock market is often detached from fundamental realities -- you know, silly little details like earnings and revenues, or a multi-trillion-dollar crash in housing values. ...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Fannie, Freddie and Washington: Denial Ain't Just a River
- Michael Panzner submits: It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.--Bill Watterson, author I have a very highly developed sense of denial. --Gwyneth Paltrow, actress by Michael Panzner
- External links 2009-08-18
- Double Helping of the Astute David Rosenberg
- Michael Panzner submits: In Wednesday's Huffington Post column, "Feeding the Ducks on Wall Street," I referenced data and reports detailing the varied list of players, many with intimate knowledge of what is occurring on Main Street's front lines, who have viewed the run-up in share prices as an opportunity...
- External links 2009-09-20
- Mortgage Delinquencies Set Record; Commercial Real Estate Resumes 'Steep Decline'
- Michael Panzner submits: As far as I can tell, most analysts now concede that the bursting credit and real estate bubbles played a key role in bringing about the devastating downturn of the past two years. Logically, that would suggest that a sustainable recovery is going to...
- External links 2009-09-21
- American Retailers, Chinese Exporters: 180 Degrees Apart
- Michael Panzner submits: The key holiday selling season is fast approaching and reports are beginning to surface about what we should expect. In "Retailers Expect Flat Christmas Sales This Year," the New York Times suggests the mood in the industry is brightening up: In the retail...
- External links 2009-10-04
- U.S. and China: Protectionist Straws Piling Up
- Michael Panzner submits: Image source Although it is never really clear until after the fact which adverse development will be the one that breaks the camel's back, one thing is clear: each addition to the overall burden draws us that much closer to the breaking point....
- External links 2009-10-12
- Dow at 10,000: Good News for Main Street?
- Michael Panzner submits: Many people are cheering the fact that the Dow Jones Industrials Average has reached an apparently signficant milestone -- 10,000 -- and are suggesting that it means good news for Main Street. Yet even during more "normal" times, the relationship between the stock market...
- External links 2009-10-16
- The Bad Cs of Credit
- Michael Panzner submits: Before the era of Frankenstein Finance and the fanatical focus on fee-based income, lenders tried to hold themselves out as models of probity (for the skeptics out there, I did say "try."). Those responsible for making credit-granting decisions and looking after the interests of shareholders also...
- External links 2009-11-01
- Why Housing Hasn't Bottomed Yet
- Michael Panzner submits: All we want are the facts, ma'am.--"Sergeant Joe Friday" actor Jack Webb in the TV series, Dragnet Like most people, I prefer good times to bad. Even though I correctly anticipated that the imbalances and excesses of the past would lead to an unhappy ending,...
- External links 2009-07-20
- Persistent Ignorance by 'Those Who Know Best'
- Michael Panzner submits: It's funny -- or sad, depending on your perspective -- how those who supposedly know best -- the highly paid "experts" on Wall Street -- keep misreading what is happening in the real economy. For example, all signs point to the fact that what...
- External links 2009-07-19
- No Rescue or Bailout Can Save the Dying Banks
- Michael Panzner submits: Until now, the desperate machinations by central bankers, regulators, politicians, and industry officials have been characterized as "bailouts" and "rescues." Yet the realists among us know that none of those terms accurately describes what is going on. However, in a commentary for the Financial...
- External links 2009-01-20
- Finally, Establishment Types Admit Possibility of Hyperinflation
- Michael Panzner submits: Two years ago, Financial Armageddon raised eyebrows and caused lots of sniggers with an in-your-face title and a table of contents that included the following section: PART TWO: RISKS by Michael Panzner
- External links 2009-02-01
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