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Compared to previous generations entering the family/household formation stage:

1) average take home earnings are lower

2) college debt is higher

3) good paying jobs are harder to come by

4) housing is way more expensive.

Something has to give.

Another thing we used to have is inflation, so that the debt that people, corporations and the government took on was always paid back with dollars that were worth less. Of course countering that a little is lower interest rates, but not enough.

It's a fragile situation, and the problem of too much capital at the top has to sort itself out eventually. The best way would be for a lot of that capital to be invested somehow in society(no not in welfare - or not primarily).

Look, everyone knows capitalism is broken. Even "The Economist" says (U.S.) capitalism is broken. That's why we have Trump and Sanders as major contenders for the Presidency.

Logan Mohtashami says

Our kids might be soft, but they will be fine! This is America, it isn't Europe or Japan

You mean kids with 250K in student loan debt and a degree in anthropology.

tr6 says

out sourcing

The Chinese are desperately trying to copy our game plan on this

tr6 says

You mean kids with 250K in student loan debt and a degree in anthropology.

You guys know me enough by now to know I am going to throw down facts

70% of SLD is 14k and under
13% is over 50K
3% is over 100K

Majority of all loans delinquent are from college drop outs

Logan Mohtashami says

You guys know me enough by now to know I am going to throw down facts

70% of SLD is 14k and under

13% is over 50K

3% is over 100K

That's looking backwards. Education costs are the highest now and going forward. Do you think kids will stop taking in student load debt today.

tr6 says

That's looking backwards. Education costs are the highest now and going forward. Do you think kids will stop taking in student load debt today.

Liberal art degree might not get you much in life... but starting base median pay for college grads were between 48K-54K in 2015

Logan Mohtashami says

Majority of all loans delinquent are from college drop outs

I just met somebody with a regular job that has 60K of student loans from a degree she is not using (she is not paying them). I know it's anecdotal evidence. Just like I met a person with 250K in loans with 80K salary.

tr6 says

I just met somebody with a regular job that has 60K of student loans from a degree she is not using (she is not paying them). I know it's anecdotal evidence. Just like I met a person with 250K in loans with 80K salary.

I have looked at personal finances of people for 20 years.

All high student loan debt people are doing fine, the own homes, have babies, having sex, have cars, they're good!

It's the poor that need help

over 1 Trillion of student loan debt. 143M in labor force. That's 7K per worker. Logan, your numbers are off.

tr6 says

Not the proper way to look at it... Let me get my charts that break it down

Not the way to look at it hold on one sec... I will be right back

Logan Mohtashami says

I have looked at personal finances of people for 20 years.

All high student loan debt people are doing fine, the own homes, have babies, having sex, have cars, they're good!

It's the poor that need help

Both of the people I described are professionals with post graduate education.

I have tons on data on this

Here is a simple way to look it.

So much of debt is little but Grad students make up 40% of all the debt ... of course due to their degree... Please don't feel bad for them, they will be fine

Since you can't de leverage the debt, the real problem is with those who don't graduate college but still have the debt

That's the group that needs help big time

(Hence) why I am all for Free State College

Yes college inflation is an issue and yes we have 40% of total people not making their payments,

But... it's not as bad as it seems

You really don't want to *$#=-2 around when you're at school ..

Logan Mohtashami says

(Hence) why I am all for Free State College

Where administrators make 300K plus if you include their benefits.

And perhaps most concerning are the millions who borrowed, then dropped out, failing to get the degree that leads to an earnings boost. Dropouts are a disproportionately high share of defaulters, a group that typically owes under $9,000, according to the Education Department.

It seems to me there is going to be a huge reconciling of the higher level education process.

Goodnight gentlemen!

Logan Mohtashami says

There is a reason Obama is not Bernie. If students were not taking huge amounts of debts, who would?
The gov would have to do it on their behalf.

indigenous says

Only if we get another FDR, which could happen with Hillary?

The usual "Hillary is to the right of Pinochet" talk, used to justify supporting Trump, is risible, but this is even funnier.

Let me give you guys a core thesis why I am so against the Anti American Bears and will be

This cycle

We came off a massive household debt leverage bubble and right into a weak demographic patch and we still grew at 2% with retail sales looking like this

Speaking of another thing, did you guys read the Truila Report on San Francisco, the economist and I met at that UCLA conference last month and we talked about this very thing which he made a heat map data of.

Nice Gifs here

http://www.trulia.com/blog/trends/million-dollar-homes-2016/?cid=soc|

Heraclitusstudent says

Student loans are a better debt than credit card and auto debt.

Nice charts. Thanks Logan.

When I know the left and right are united bearish against America... I see a opportunity to show why the extreme take on the American decline is way too bearish

For a country our size, no body does it better and nobody will.

History has show us that demogoues are a function of historical human nature

HydroCabron says

The usual "Hillary is to the right of Pinochet" talk, used to justify supporting Trump, is risible, but this is even funnier.

The progression of the Democratic Party

What's next

Logan Mohtashami says

I am so against the Anti American Bears

Logan Mohtashami says

left and right are united bearish against America

First of all, the stock market isn't America. I'm all for the stock market and our corporations doing well, but America is much more than the price of it's assets. If anything what ruins America is too much emphasis only on it's assets increasing in price.

Secondly, bears aren't anti America. If they are right, they are helping to prevent a future crash due to over priced markets bid up by gung ho "patriots" lol.

If they are wrong, they are simply adding bricks to the necessary "wall of worry" that a secular bull market needs.

Ever heard of a "short covering rally?"

When everyone is long equities, to the hilt, then the market will have nowhere to go but down.

Patriotism has nothing to do with it.

Plus technology has been a boost

Linkedin and others aren't killing jobs,

We aren't losing our jobs to robots

https://www.linkedin.com/in/logan-mohtashami-5167631?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile

marcus says

First of all, the stock market isn't America.

I am not talking the stock market, I am talking economics. Old school economics and the left and right for their own agenda purposes have lost it with their false economic theories

This is why I target Gold Bugs and MMT which I have studied for years now and Lord have mercy they're so not versed in economics that they simply just make up stuff that's not true

Especially the lie that 24-95 million Americans aren't working

That's not how economics work

In their lies about America

We ended with

43 low claims and 16 year high in Jobs openings

Just calling them out for the lack of depth

I have to assume the housing prices are a result of too much money chasing too little product?

Apparently you are saying that the current interest rates are new normal.

I get it.. if you're an extreme left and right economic thinker this was your shot to try to make America some imperialistic empire that was about to decline

Hell No... Lord you guys completely whiffed on that

Hence why I wrote the

American Economy Is About To Crash article just to prove the point that Math, Facts and Data Matter

We are going to spend the next 20 years remembering all the Anti American Talk and drags their names out for 2 decades as being Demagogues, very sensitive men who have no idea what it means to be American tough

It will be my pleasure for the next 20 years to do this

indigenous says

Apparently you are saying that the current interest rates are new normal.

Low rates are the norm, high rates and inflation isn't

and the increase in the housing prices?

Don't forget the power of this

The king dollar, that is from toughness? or iniquity?

indigenous says

and the increase in the housing prices?

It's hot for sure, demographic demand for housing was good from 1996-2007 ... soft patch here and then we will get a better demand curve

However, be mindful not to mix renter economics with ownership economics

2 different sets of financial profiles

indigenous says

The king dollar, that is from toughness? or iniquity?

Biggest economy in the world, biggest military in the world, 81% prime age working force are working! 100 Trillion Dollars of net worth

I can't express how the Anti American Bears have blew it bad this cycle

The owner profile has been given a windfall from the housing crash and the renter profile has been given the sharp stick in the eye?