via reason: Four years after Philadelphia police seized the home of Markela and Chris Sourovelis for a minor drug crime committed by their son, the city has agreed to almost completely dismantle its controversial civil asset forfeiture program and pay $3 …
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; As a Canuck, I was shocked to come to realize that our Canadian government is confiscating the property of innocent people following the same practice in Washington. How can they justify this? Read the Canadian Justice …
The Fed cannot fight inflation and prevent financial asset bubbles from deflating at the same time. https://t.co/CiV5npQZA0 pic.twitter.com/dSaMH34MCI — Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) September 17, 2018 The next US bear market will most likely be caused by a spike in ten-year …
via mises.org: In his speech on April 7 2010 at the Economic Club of New York the President of the New York Fed, William Dudley argued that asset bubbles pose a serious threat to real economic activity. The New York Fed …
by David Robertson Here we are, ten years after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, and one would be hard pressed to find evidence of meaningful lessons learned. “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and …
This is a ‘Blow-off topping phase’ in one of the many central grotesque asset bubbles inflated by our reckless central banks. Can Apple go higher? $300Billion in Ponzi share buybacks? What could possibly go wrong? Party like it’s 1929! https://t.co/9Pejwlkrws …
by Egon von Greyerz This is it! The autumn of 2018 will be momentous in the world economy, markets and politics. We are now seeing the Last Hurrah for stocks, bonds, the dollar and most asset markets. The world economy has …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter When central banks distort the markets, risk disappears from view. “You could have a bunch of walking-zombie companies and you don’t even know it,” explained Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of JPMorgan Asset Management, on Wednesday at …
Via Global Macro Monitor, You would never know it listening to the market cheerleaders but asset prices, both real and financial, are, once again, at extreme valuation levels relative to the trend economy. The valuation reality coupled with the prevailing, …
Nobody wants to use the ‘B’ word, but a bubble is upon us, a growing number of market watchers are warning. And it could pop sooner than many expect, Centricus Asset Management Fund Manager Ralph Jainz said Monday. Assets like …
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BY SRSROCCO There seems to be a lot of misinformation being peddled on the internet about gold and bitcoin. One major misconception is the notion that bitcoin will replace gold as a monetary instrument. Some analysts, once stanch precious metals …
Fed Tightening Cycles Coincide With Or Lead To Bursting Of Global Asset Bubbles. Is President Trump The Next Hoover? pic.twitter.com/7PyInwq6xY — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 16, 2018 Short-term Treasury yields close at highest levels since '08… 3-mo: 1.92% 6-mo: 2.09% 1-yr: …
via Danielle Park Nomi Prins, author of “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World,” discusses how easy monetary policy has affected the global economy. Here is a direct video link. David Rosenberg’s recent corporate debt to GDP cycle chart goes well with …
via Danielle Park For anyone who may have been unconscious or in outer space for the last 20 years, here are the Coles Notes: If finance had not been able to ‘securitize’ debts (turn them into assets) and sell them to …
by visualcapitalist Is the commodity supercycle coming back from the dead? For now, such a claim could perhaps be considered both bold and premature – but there does seem to be some compelling evidence that is mounting to back it up. …
New trends and ventures often need acceptance from traditional institutions for them to get a semblance of legitimacy. Take Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, for example. It was only when institutional investors entered the market and exchanges such as Cboe and CME …
Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, After nearly a half century of unlimited dollar creation, multiple bubbles and busts…the current asset reflation has been the most spectacular…but alas, perhaps too successful. The Fed’s answer to control or restrain this present reflation is …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know brings you the latest stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold could suddenly become the most desirable asset, gold is heading to $1,400 if trade war breaks out, and could …
via thefederalist: Mollie Hemingway: There are poor ways, average ways, and shrewd ways to tackle the constitutional problems that arise from the administrative state. Many Republicans either don’t realize the problems of an unelected bureaucracy’s power, or fail to combat those …
by Simon Black They say that goldfish have the shortest memory in the Animal Kingdom… something like 3-seconds. But it turns out this isn’t actually true. Researchers at the Israeli Technion Institute of Technology conducted an experiment in 2009 proving that …
by Adam Taggart To all those investors expecting the Fed to step in to backstop the recent weakness seen in the stock market, Wolf Richter warns: The cavalry isn’t coming. After years of force-feeding too much liquidity into world markets, the …
The ratio of net worth to income made a new all-time record high last quarter: Natixis economist Joe Lavorgna Elevated asset valuations relative to disposable income are less a sign of “wealth” than a sign of impending market losses. …
Is it a coincidence that the assets that have received the most QE have increased the most? I really don’t know how anyone can overlook this obvious detail. The stock market has performed incredibly well since March 2009, showing impossible …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know brings you the latest stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold is the best safe asset and will go higher in 18 months, gold demand is growing while supply dwindles, …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know brings you the latest news involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Give gold some time and it will start trading like a haven asset again, using gold as a strategic asset, …
From Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, Editor, True Wealth: Everything’s up! Heck, everything is up a bit too much lately, right? People are starting to feel good about their investments again… Is there any sector or asset that hasn’t soared? Actually, yes… While stocks have …
Sheila Gunn Reid of The Rebel.Media reports: While Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau do their best to spin reality about an economic recovery in Alberta, the actions of the federal government are saying something very different. Watch as Sheila explains. …
Einhorn: If you look at the obvious problems from the financial crisis, we solved none of them. And we went on a different way, and we basically, went the bailout route. And said we are going to create a whole …
