by Martin Armstrong We have to come to the reality that from 2019 onward, we are headed into a Pension Crisis that will be serious. Many are starting to yell about the debt crisis. They lump on private debt and …
via @OccupyWisdom: https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595330131861504 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595336045826048 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595342790250496 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595349417271296 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595368841093120 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1046595385865785345 Bonus: Your Central Bank Can’t Save You Next Time Bloomberg–7 hours ago Unless there can be an adult conversation in America over negative interest rates — the counterintuitive idea of borrowers getting paid and savers …
Macro Voices, Released on 9/28/18 (recorded on 9/27/18) Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Keith Dicker back to MacroVoices. Erik and Keith discuss the government bond bubble, artificially suppressed interest rates and rethinking bonds for portfolio allocations. They discuss what …
by Jesse Colombo As seen on Forbes by RIA’s Jesse Colombo: “How Interest Rate Hikes Will Trigger The Next Financial Crisis“: On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to 2% – 2.25%, which …
via watchdog.org: Florida lawmakers are using an accounting tweak to defer payments on $20 billion in pension debt, a maneuver that not only hides the “true cost of government” from voters but “passes this expense on to future taxpayers,” Truth in …
Q: What’s surprised you as an investor over the past decade? A: I think what surprised me most about the markets was how quickly they recovered and how quickly people forgot what happened. Q: Why do you think that happened? …
via RT The collapse of banking giant Lehman Brothers was the catalyst for a financial crisis in 2008. What could cause a new great recession a decade later? The Boom Bust show investigates. Professor Ronald Filler, who was a top …
by Martin Armstrong There is a serious economic crisis brewing that few seem to be paying attention. According to a new survey from Zillow Group Inc. (ZG – Get Report), approximately 22.5% of millennials ages 24 through 36 are living at home with their moms …
by LV Yesterday, at an event sponsored by the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said that “it’s going to be 25 years before banks are forgiven” for the bailouts our government doled out to the nation’s …
From Birch Gold Group It’s been 10 years since Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, and other financial institutions went bust. When that happened, thousands lost their jobs. The real estate market dried up, and the mortgage industry’s exotic loan products put subprime …
by GoldCore – “History is due to repeat itself” warns Ray Dalio on Bloomberg – “I think it will be more of a dollar crisis than a debt crisis” says Bridgewater Founder – “It will be more of a political …
by Lance Roberts Fox Business recently discussed a new study showing that more Americans doubted they would be able to save enough for retirement than those confident of reaching their goals. There were some interesting stats from the study: 37% are …
by Dr. Eowyn Mark Taylor, the Florida fireman who predicted the presidency of Donald John Trump on April 28, 2011, wrote in “All Roads Lead to Rome,” January 25, 2018: The Spirit of God says, “The Pope and the Vatican…are not furthering …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The soothingly low mortgage delinquency rate is a deceptive indicator: the New York Fed weighs in. Mortgage delinquencies at all commercial banks in the US inched down to 3.14% in the second quarter, the lowest since …
by Jim Willie CB A preface is required to explain that the US Federal Reserve is responsible for every grand financial crisis in the last 30 years, dating back to the Great Depression and its supposed spurious resolution to Black …
Economists who predicted the 2008 global meltdown tell Sky News the world economy is in danger once again. The beginnings of another financial crisis are already in motion – and it will be worse than the global meltdown of 2008. …
by Simon Black “Holy Crap– turn on your TV! This is crazy!” It was Sunday, September 14, 2008. Exactly 10 years ago to the day. My friend Jeff called me and told me to turn on the television—where I saw dozens …
Ten years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers signaled that the U.S. was hurtling toward a financial crisis. In the years that followed, consumers faced difficulty managing debt as the economy contracted, unemployment accelerated and incomes stagnated. The Federal Reserve …
From Birch Gold Group A commonly used cliché in investing is “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” If most (or worse, all) of your retirement “eggs” are relying on a pension plan, now would be the time to …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Neither small business nor the bottom 90% of households can afford this “best economy ever.” After 10 years of unprecedented goosing, some of the real economy is finally overheating: costs are heating up, unemployment is at historic lows, …
The next financial crisis ‘will be more severe’ socially and politically, says billionaire investor Dalio Investors should be playing some defense, says Bridgewater founder ‘I think it will be more severe in terms of the social, political problems. And I …
An interesting documentary about the week of October 6th 2008, it is premiering on Wednesday at 10pm
A fresh piece of Citi research lands on bond market liquidity, which evokes a reminder of those days in late 2015 when a lot of attention was focused on how easy it was to buy and (more importantly) sell corporate debt. Back …
by Jesse This NY Times Op-Ed quoted below is for the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis, written by three of the men who helped to create it, and intensify its after effects. With a little help from the like …
by Simon Black If your retirement plans consist entirely of that pension you’ve been promised, it’s time to start looking elsewhere. As you probably know, pensions are giant pools of capital responsible for paying out retirement benefits to workers. And …
by John Rubino This is the last emerging market crisis story for a while, promise. But one angle – exactly how a plunging currency in a far-off place affects supposedly stable markets like the US – is worth exploring because …
The Fed is not your friend. The Fed will not save you. The Fed has only one purpose and it has nothing to do with you. Every crisis is not an accident. It is manufactured to some degree since they …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent warnings by JP Morgan’s top quant (quantitative analyst) Marko Kolanovic who claims we will soon see flash crashes and a great liquidity crisis. Kolanovic claims that this …
by Thinker If the mainstream media had been reporting what has been happening in Africa over the years, Obama would have never been able to bomb Libya. As long as the new world order c can keep the majority glued …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Hello Martin … I follow emerging markets closely and one thing I note is that the size of the sovereign forex-denominated debt burdens are quite small relative to GDP except in the case of Argentina (48%). …