by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “April 2021 money supply and monetary base growth continued to explode” – John Williams, Shadowstats.com Williams is referencing the “base” monetary aggregates which are compiled monthly. The Fed’s balance sheet grows by the week, hitting $7.922 trillion …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Expert says gold is still at bargain price, how Basel 3 could boost gold and silver prices, …
$1,000 a day – that is how much Sydney house prices are rising. Experts say cheap loans and a lack of available stock will drive that figure even higher, and that could have an impact on home loans. 7NEWS at …
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EVERYTHING IS WONDERFULMARKETS ARE CHEAPSENTIMENT IS MODESTA US TRADE DEAL WILL FIX EVERYTHING [NOT] https://t.co/AFDP32xwQX — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 15, 2019 Remember China March trade, esp imports contracting further? Want to see wut it looks like per country breakdown? It's …
Financial Writer John Rubino says, “It is possible that a garden variety one year recession would blow-up the financial markets. That’s the stuff that they are hearing (in the White House) that is terrifying. . . . There are probably …
Economists tend to think of central-bank interest rates purely in terms of their effect on macroeconomic benchmarks such as inflation, output and unemployment. The Federal Reserve’s dual mandate, for instance, directs it to seek stable prices and maximum employment. Mainstream macroeconomic …
via euronews: FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank pushed out the timing of its first post-crisis rate hike until 2020 at the earliest and offered banks new rounds of multi-year loans in a bid to revive the currency bloc’s …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “The monetary authorities running the paper-money schemes of the present are anxious to forestall significant rises in the paper price of gold, because such rises would diminish confidence in the lasting value of the paper money …
by John Coumarianos Are technology stocks cheap? It seems like a strange question to ask as the market drops on news that Apple has indicated weaker future sales. I also doubted whether Facebook’s price reflected its business value in the middle of this past …
The discovery will significantly reduce the use of rare, expensive metals in factories, said the authors. Professor Sun Jian and colleagues at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning, shot a copper target …
by Simon Black Last year, when Argentina offered a 100-year bond, I argued it was plain insanity. Argentina sold $2.75 billion of the debt… but the issue was nearly four timesoversubscribed. How could investors place so much faith in a country that spent …
By Nick Cunningham Canadian oil prices briefly plunged as low as $15 per barrel last week, after a U.S. federal judge blocked the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Canada’s oil industry has lurched from pipeline crisis to pipeline crisis, with projects blocked …
By MC01, a frequent commenter on WOLF STREET: In 1967, Icelandic airline Loftleiðir started offering cheap tickets on Transatlantic flights. Loftleiðir used a lot of what today would be called “funny business practices” to offer such low fares, such as flying …
by TraderStef of CrushTheStreet (connect with TraderStef via Twitter or at TraderStef’s website) There is a great divide on how much student loan debt is out there in the U.S. The mainstream media (MSM) is quoting an annual outstanding average of approximately $1.5 trillion ($1,465.3373 billion). If you wander over to …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Peso collapses despite the $50-billion IMF bailout and the central bank’s 45% interest rate. Just when you think Argentina’s financial crisis can’t get worse, it gets a whole lot worse. In order to halt the peso …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Grand Collapse in Turkey; to avoid the same fate, Argentina hikes rate to 45%. On Monday, Argentina’s central bank responded to the currency chaos in Turkey and other sections of the Emerging Markets, including the ongoing …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Printing / borrowing money to generate the unsustainable illusion of “growth” sets up the collapse of the entire Keynesian edifice. Of the many delusions of modern economics, perhaps the greatest is that the dominant Keynesian model reflects …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Employment expands in the Protected cartel-dominated sectors, and declines in every sector exposed to globalization, domestic competition and cheap capital. If you want to understand why the global economy is failing the many while enriching the few, …
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via Mauldin Economics: Asking that corporations not take on too much debt, when that debt costs them almost nothing in interest, is unrealistic. Asking that the Fed not leave interest rates at emergency-condition levels for 10 years is not. In the …
A new report by the Igarapé Institute, a Brazil-based think tank focused on security and development issues says that “The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking.” The publication, released on Thursday, paints a bleak portrait of what it calls …
Today is going to be an insane day. — Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) April 23, 2018 $SPX does not like UST10Y 2.991 pic.twitter.com/bwg45AxfGv — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 23, 2018 Why insane? Smart money knows what to do : pic.twitter.com/S5gCwC3eEc — GregTheAnalyst …
by stockboardasset While Chicago continues to hemorrhage residents for a third consecutive year, a small community 25-miles outside city limits has unleashed an innovative marketing campaign, using comic strips to lure in city dwelling millennials. In a new comic-strip ad campaign, …
From CNBC: Calling someone cheap is not often a term of endearment, but it has become exactly that in the investment industry. According to Morningstar, more than 95 percent of all U.S. retail investments made since 2005 were in the cheapest …
by jessefelder After an incredible run higher over the past couple of years and an especially remarkable ramp to kick off 2018, the FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet, aka Google) stocks have recently come under some selling pressure leaving many investors …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Nothing stays the same in dynamic systems, and it’s inevitable that the current glut of low costs / cheap stuff will give way to scarcities that cannot be filled at current low prices. One of the books …
Security camera video of two people police say put card skimmers into gas station ATMs around Albuquerque, NM to steal bank information. Part 1- Part 2- ABQ PD show how suspects tampered with gas station ATM machines by installing parts …
by Ruby Henley It seems Hillary Clinton has lost all dignity by shaming the President of the United States on a live TV event like the Grammys. The Grammys are known to be sleezy and risqué at its best. Now …
by Umar Farooq Personal contract plans has made the borrowing to buy a vehicle easy, fast and free from penalties. Is that really true under the current circumstances? A huge increase in the amounts borrowed by already indebted households in …