In this week's Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish and Chris discuss:
- Behind the Bogus Jobs Numbers
- Overestimates in the hundreds of thousands
- The Massive Cost of Hurricane Sandy
- The indirect costs are as concerning as the direct ones
- Oh…Canada
- No longer immune to the ills of its trading partners
- The Fallible Fed
- Out of arrows at this point?
The carnage of Hurricane Sandy provided a distraction this week from the election spectacle. Expect only a few more weeks of juiced-up numbers (e.g., jobs) and economic claptrap (the rebuilding from Sandy will be an economic boon and increase GDP!) before the unavoidable sinks in: There is no more carpet left to sweep things under. Recession is claiming nearly all of the G7 countries, the $20+ billion cleanup price tag from Sandy will be a sucker-punch to the already-toddering U.S.
by rje