David Haggith
David Haggith started writing about the economy after he predicted The Great Recession half a year before it hit and was puzzled as to why no economists or stocks analysts saw it coming. In the months after the crisis broke out, he started to write humorous editorials in a series titled “Downtime,“ which chided the U.S. government and bankers who should have seen the economic collapse coming but whose cronyism, greed and ineptitude caused them to run the world into a ditch. Those articles were published in The Hudson Valley Business Journal, The Valley City Times-Record (North Dakota), and The Daily Herald in Tennessee. Haggith is dedicated to regularly criticizing the daily news — not just the content but the uncritical, unthinking nature of almost all of the reporting. He now writes his own blog, The Great Recession Blog, to break down the news as an equal-opportunity critic toward both Republicans and Democrats / Conservatives and Liberals … since neither kind of politician has done anything worthwhile to plot a better economic course. His articles are regularly carried by several economic websites.
Articles by David Haggith
Taking a break from the things I could say about some of Trump’s lies and distortions in his State of the Disunion address, I want to focus on three particularly smart and positive things the would-be king is ordering up to help the little...
Friday was the day everything fell apart for King Donald McRonald. The Supreme Court finally got up the courage to tell the wannabe emperor he cannot declare fake emergencies and use those fakes to seize power that is not his to take. For...
While I have been saying for a long time the metrics by which we measure the economy are broken, the mainstream media is finally waking up to that, too. And, of course, those metrics have become much worse since the DOGE firings and the...
We just experienced the most astronomical gains in silver and gold I can remember. We all knew, if we were honest with ourselves, that it all looked too good to be true. It looked overbought or driven by some kind of market rigging. It...
The new Donroe Doctrine is already taking shape around Venezuela’s vast oil plays. Chevron has just contracted eleven tankers to start transporting oil out of Venezuela, making Big, Big Oil the obvious winner. The normally pro-Trump, but...
While I may be tempted to write in greater depths about some of these stories in my weekend Deeper Dive, we’ll have to see what more the week brings, but today sure brought a whirlwind of news. The swirling headlines of economic and maybe...
“The [stock] market is very fragile,” warns portfolio manager Lance Roberts. AI mania and the dot-com bubble crash have a lot in common, another article lays out. The economy’s “false calm” is actually its most dangerous sign, says an...
Shoppers are strongly complaining about how much they are struggling under inflation this Christmas season as they try to buy gifts. The Trump Administration, on the other hand, keeps insisting it is all a Democrat hoax, and conveniently,...
The results are fully in. We all remember the brazen braggadocio as Musk raised a chainsaw overhead and boasted that he was slashing government expenses. We also remember the ham-fisted job the DOGE brothers did that frequently resulted in...
Economists and politicians like to stick to the one big number to indicate how the economy is doing—GDP. However, as the first article below points out an economy can be in big trouble in many areas and still look OK on the top line. That...
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