David Haggith
Market Commentator & Financial Writer
David Haggith publishes The Daily Doom and writes satire. The Daily Doom contains economic, social, and political news about our troubled times--a non partisan weekday collection of the most consequential stories about our complex times with insightful editorials and weekly economic analysis. As an equal-opportunity critic of America's sharply divided, two-ring political circus, David divides his satire into sister publications so you can pick the one you find agreeable and ignore her sassy sister.
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David Haggith Articles
Without digging into what effect Trump’s tariffs, tax cuts, vanquishing of cheap immigrant labor, etc. might have on the economy in 2025, let’s just take a quick overview of the latest economic data and commentary that came in this week...
Powell finally admitted that inflation is higher again and that the Federal Open Market Committee that sets the Fed Funds Rate expects inflation will be even a little higher still in 2025. As a result, the FOMC made the one rate cut still...
Ten days ago I published a Deeper Dive featuring a number of interviews with people from the week before, saying a huge blow-off top in the stock market was imminent—huge as in, at least, a 50% plunge. Now, nine days later, the Dow has...
As promised, this weekend’s Deeper Dive will pull together the best bits from a few videos published in The Daily Doom headlines this week about the prospects for an imminent major stock market crash. I’ll include each video and bullet-...
One thing I have not predicted for 2024 is stock-market crash, and so far I haven’t predicted one for 2025 either. However, Adam Taggart’s guest in a video posted below says he anticipates a huge market crash is coming soon.
At the start of the year, the US zipped past $34-TRILLION in debt. In July, we zoomed past $35-TRILLION. And now, in even less time, we screamed past $36-TRILLION. The mileposts to financial doom are flying by so fast they are just a blur...
Now that the re-ignition of inflation is becoming somewhat more common talk around town, as anticipated here, let’s take a brief look at what Trump’s tariffs are likely to do to inflation down the road.
We now move from the stage where I was, in a lonely manner, predicting for months inflation would rise near the end of summer to the stage where everyone is in on it because it has become obvious, so the rise in today’s report is suddenly...
More voices are harmonizing with mine by saying that the recession already began this year. (Which is not to say they are saying it with any awareness of what I’ve been saying, as I don’t suppose they are.) Today, Ed Dowd says that Donald...
Trump’s victory was an all-out sweep. He took all of congress to a shimmering red victory in the wake of his own presidential win, thoroughly reformed the Republican party in his image, and he won the electoral vote by a large margin and...
