On Wire

BY JOHN WARD It’s hard to see anything more than more of the same The great thing about Sundays once the kids quit the nest is that it can revert to being a time for cool reflection. I include this next chart not to be a wiseass (I am that man, after all, who hung … Read more

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlSsQQI7Lk   David, patriarch of that family and of a vanished Wasp establishment, celebrated his 100th birthday. These days he is pretty low in the billionaires’ pecking order: 603rd according to Forbes magazine, the chronicler of such matters, with a fortune of “only” $3.2bn. Even the family’s total wealth, much of it locked away in … Read more

Deustche Bank is the largest bank in Europe and by some scales, the world. It grew significantly after the 2008 recession after the arrival of new executives that particularly focused on accumulating exactly the kind of high risk derivatives (essential lottery tickets) that led to the 2008 recession. Many of these were illegalised after that … Read more

by James Quinn In case you haven’t noticed February 2016 is September 2008 all over again. Deutsche Bank is dead bank walking. It’s collapse will unleash a whirlwind of pain upon the global economy that is already teetering. The market is down 14% from its May all-time high. It is going to fall at least … Read more

BY JOHN WARD “Oh shit, you mean I’m Janet Yellen?” PART TWO OF THE SLOG’S TRIPLE-HEADER ON WHY MARKETS ARE RIGHT & MONETARISTS ARE WRONG Watching the live coverage yesterday, I found Janet Yellen’s experience of ‘testifying’ to Congress about US Fed policy, by turns, encouraging and hilarious. Ms Yellen has that irritating contemporary habit … Read more

There was a story in the Yahoo Financial section yesterday about how Deutsche Bank was just fine, everything was great and they had enough capital to survive the end of the world… It brought to mind the spin the MSM tried to put on Lehman eight years ago…when they say, don’t worry…that’s when you fuckin’ … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The key take-away: focus on owning income-producing assets, not a primary residence. One truism of investing is to follow the lead of those who are building wealth.This chart reveals the foundation of the wealth of the top 1% and the next 9%; business equity, i.e. ownership of enterprises. Compare the assets boxed … Read more

By Michael Snyder On Tuesday junk bonds continued to crash, the price of oil briefly dipped below 28 dollars a barrel, Deutsche Bank was forced to deny that it is on the verge of collapse, but the biggest news was what happened in Japan.  The Nikkei was down a staggering 918 points, but that stock … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5p6hiMEkg4 1929, 2008, 2016: Three Economic Crashes, Same “Happy Talk” To Hurt You http://www.thebubblebubble.com/1929-c… http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/192… https://mises.org/library/ludwig-von-… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L… http://economicsofcontempt.blogspot.c… http://www.pravdareport.com/business/… http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/… https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/… http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st… http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/08/news/… George4titleisascam vid, Peter Schiff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YTY… Mike Maloney vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAQmX… Ron Paul for Dummies vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgBO… http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/… http://archive.fortune.com/galleries/… http://www.investorhome.com/predicted… http://beforeitsnews.com/self-suffici… https://www.caseyresearch.com/article… http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/05/news/… http://www.smh.com.au/world/america-i… http://newsroom.mastercard.com/news-b… https://www.rt.com/usa/328707-obama-s… http://www.freedom-school.com/the-uni… http://www.alt-market.com/articles/26… http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com… SGTreport vid with Harley Scglanger: … Read more

By Michael Snyder There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start.  For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major banking collapse was coming to Europe, and now it is finally unfolding.  Let’s start with Deutsche Bank.  The stock of the most important … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3iDX2_QBog The US Treasury Department says a record number of Americans living abroad are renouncing citizenship due to a stringent US tax policy. Some 4500 individuals did so in 2015 in comparison to over 3400 people the previous year. The cause behind the massive increase in renunciations is believed to be the Foreign Accounts Tax … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV8W6S0OJJU Bill O’Reilly asked GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump if President Obama should receive any credit for the latest unemployment rate of 4.9 percent. TRUMP: “Look, you can’t give credit. The economy is having the worst — it’s so bad. Hey, Bill, every time I go out, I have packed auditoriums, packed rooms because people … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmE9HK8TBc It’s not just Walmart! It’s other mainstream stores and private companies as well! All part of the same nefarious agenda… And just what is that nefarious agenda? Why all the SUDDEN store closings and job layoffs? WHEN a State of Emergency is nationally declared, martial law will be “unofficially” enforced, whether that be due … Read more