Why the Housing Bubble Bust Is Baked In

by Charles Hugh-Smith Putting this all together, it’s clear that the source of the current housing bubble is the explosion of financial speculation fueled by central bank policies. Those benefiting from speculative bubbles have powerful incentives to deny the bubble …

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Concurrent Deflation And Hyperinflation Will Ravage The World, Gold The Ultimate Against Wealth Destruction

by Egon von Greyerz of Gold Switzerland FLATION will be the keyword in coming years. The world will simultaneously experience inFLATION, deFLATION, stagFLATION and eventually hyperinFLATION. I have forecasted these FLATIONARY events, which will hit the world in several articles in the past. Here is a link to an article from 2016. …

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Blue State Bleeding…

Blue State Bleeding Report – Chevron Selling California HQ – Moving To Texas Chevron intends to sell its vast headquarters campus in San Ramon, keep its head offices in the same East Bay city and shift jobs to Texas, a …

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Mish Shedlock: Home Prices Have Peaked

Home Price Disconnect Notes National is the Case-Shiller national home price index. 10-City represents the weighted average of the cities in the first chart. CPI is the Consumer Price Index OER stands for Owner’s Equivalent Rent. It is the single largest component …

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Fuel Shipping Costs Soar

by Martin Armstrong The cost of shipping has added another variable to the complicated global inflation and energy crisis. According to the Baltic Exchange data as reported by Bloomberg, hauling rates have reached a high not seen since April 2020. The …

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