John Hussman shows why US corporate earnings are now experiencing significant downward pressure, at a time when expected long term returns on US equities are already very poor.
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GDP Growth is a Scam
What appears to be healthy economic expansion in the headline Real GDP statistics can disguise a chronic and perpetual recession in the private sector, running on borrowed time, and heading

