The Latest Breaking News from Albert Edwards

Are global stock markets heading for a crash?

Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20

Why is the Trump administration causing turmoil in the bond markets?

As yields are dragged higher in the UK, Europe and Japan, the impact for consumers and businesses will be far-reaching

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20

The Death of Savings: Why Americans' Financial Safety Nets Just Shrank to a Panic-Inducing 2.6%

Société Générale warns that dwindling US savings and record household debt expose the economy to risks, especially if the AI-driven market rally falters.

International Business Times UK · Jun 22

'Some form of crisis is almost inevitable': The $38 trillion national debt will soon be growing faster than the U.S. economy itself, watchdog warns

"The United States is deeply indebted, and its finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory," says the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Fortune · Jan 22

Why the $38 trillion national debt doomed Fed independence regardless of the Trump/Powell drama, top economist says

“The reason markets didn’t react more is because we already wrecked the independence of the Fed,” said Tyler Cowen, economist and blogger extraordinaire.

Fortune · Jan 13

Scott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’

“When you see that people have a stake in the system, they don’t want to bring the system down,” the Treasury secretary argued at the DealBook Summit.

Fortune · Dec 3, 2025

K-shaped economy and 'collective holding of breath' about the AI bubble both appear in Fed’s temperature check

The latest "Beige Book" describes a widening gap between America’s social classes, with “early signs of strain on middle-income consumers.”

Fortune · Nov 27, 2025

Cathie Wood Pushes Back On Bubble Narrative, Says AI Boom 'Has Just Begun' And We're In The 'First Inning'

Investor and CEO of Ark Invest, Cathie Wood, has pushed back against claims of an unsustainable bubble in the AI and crypto markets, saying that the current liquidity strain is temporary and poised to reverse course soon.

Benzinga · Nov 25, 2025

Analyst who called the dot-com bubble says Americans are turning a deaf ear to AI warnings—and a worse meltdown than 2008 looms

“Generally, when you're gripped by a bubble, people just don’t want to listen because they’re making so much money,” warns Albert Edwards.

Fortune · Nov 23, 2025

The analyst who once predicted the ‘end of capitalism’ sees Zohran Mamdani’s election as a ‘day of reckoning coming in’—and corporates only have themselves to blame

Albert Edwards says Zohran Mamdani’s policies are “lunacy,” but big companies “laid the seeds for their own destruction.”

Fortune · Nov 22, 2025