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%). …
via stuff.co.nz: OPINION: London in 2007 and 2008 was a wonderful time and place to be a Kiwi journalist. Everyone knows the term “global financial crisis”, but what defined the crisis was the incredible boom which came before it. As informative as …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Our government here in Argentina has told us we should expect more poverty and there is no hope for the future. Socrates has been amazing on its forecasts on our currency. There are enough of …
via Mark Gongloff Financial crises are sort of like snowflakes: No two may be exactly the same, but they sure look enough alike that you can tell what they are. Emerging-market currencies and stocks tumbled again today, part of a long …
by stockboardasset J.P. Morgan’s top quant, Marko Kolanovic, predicts a “Great Liquidity Crisis” will hit financial markets, marked by flash crashes in stock prices and social unrest. The trillion-dollar shift to passive investments, computerized trading strategies and electronic trading desks will …
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by Martin Armstrong Most small businesses do not offer retirement plans because the excessive regulation which drives the costs significantly higher. Trump’s new Executive Order is primarily designed to reduce those costs by streamlining the excessive regulation. The order further makes …
via @OccupyWisdom : 1 #FinancialCrisis 2 500% increase in #money supply (#inflation), drop #InterestRates negative for ten yrs 3 Keep wages stagnant for ten yrs, get everyone (corps, households & govt) in #debt 4 As inflation leads to price increases, normalize rates. …
Do you think that people have taken on too much mortgage debt? Or will they eventually pay it back? We knew that it was bad but certainly not this bad. Despite excessively low interest rates, Australians have bit off more …
In the Pacific, the Ring of Fire is very active. The earth is rumbling. In the financial system, it’s really no different. Deep beneath what is visible lies an impending crisis. We could dig into where it’s coming from. But …
China’s stock market is down over 20% GSIB banks are in a bear market Argentina and Turkey’s currencies are down 40%+ this year Venezuela is destroyed South Africa, India, and others have suffered big time against the US dollar this …
by GuacMember4 Canada will face many headwinds over the coming years. Debt, immigration, pension funding, and deficits are all areas that economists can see the cracks. Here we will investigate the Debt issue more closely. Debt: Economists say that ‘Canada …
by stockboardasset Earlier this summer, Argentine President Mauricio Macri faced severe criticism as the country’s currency plunged, economic growth collapsed, and inflation surged. It would actually be an understatement to assume all is not well for the Latin American nation. Despite …
by Martin Armstrong The Pension Crisis is starting to be noticed in Europe. The German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is arguing that the federal government has to guarantee the pension level until 2040. He is arguing that the government MUST come …
by Michael Snyder America is facing a health nightmare unlike anything that we have ever experienced before. According to the CDC, rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have all skyrocketed to the highest levels on record, and top health professionals …
A crisis could be much closer than we think. EU floats headline of Turkey bailout then denies it one hour later. We call this a trial ballon by officials pic.twitter.com/9OBrwgt7Q0 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 28, 2018 regional indices starting to …
via qz: First Argentina. Now Turkey. The next country to face a financial crisis could be any one of a slew of emerging-market economies that have grown dangerously dependent on borrowing in dollars and other foreign currencies. As of the end of …
pic.twitter.com/PDSiYUEB2X — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) August 23, 2018 via Bloomberg: “Since March 2009, corporate America has bought back $4 trillion of its own shares and doled out $3 trillion to shareholders in dividends. That’s equivalent to about a third of the …
by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning All the talk about Russian tampering with the 2016 presidential election, which is vastly overstated by the way, diverts attention from the more fundamental problem: The vulnerability of America’s critical infrastructure to cyberattack by hostile actors. When …
While Greece was allowed to delay payment to avoid its inevitable financial demise until 2032, few think it will last that long. “The Greek crisis has not been solved, it has just been postponed. One way or another it will …
via qz: Most retellings of the 2008 financial crisis, which began in the US and swiftly spread across the world, hinge on the understanding that the crisis came to an end—and that, in the US, it ended quite quickly. Crashed: How a …
by Keith Weiner of Monetary-Metals Last week, we discussed the tension between forces pushing the dollar up and down (measured in gold—you cannot measure the dollar in terms of its derivatives such as euro, pound, yen, and yuan). And we gave short shrift …
via OLI SMITH The Turkish lira crisis has continued to spiral out of control, after a rating agencies predicted a recession within a year – prompting European allies to look at giving support to Recap Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish lira crisis will push …
by Brian Maher of Daily Reckoning The Dow Jones was up nearly 400 points today, led by blue chips Walmart and Boeing. Walmart soared after posting its best sales in over a decade. Boeing jumped on hopeful reports that U.S.-Chinese trade …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkuGH03cKqk The crisis between the US and Turkey is worsening. Washington is threatening to impose further rounds of sanctions if Ankara does not release an American evangelical pastor held on suspicions of partaking in a failed 2016 coup attempt. But …
We've had an "All tech, all the time" market, one that got (quite frankly) ridiculous. Now the overloved, overhyped, overowned #FAANG stocks are falling, and "Safe Money" style stocks that I've been a huge fan of since Jan/Feb are outperforming …
by Martin Armstrong The key to understanding Turkey is really simple – Erdogan has lost the confidence of his people and the world. The free-fall in the Turkish lira should be no surprise. After years of rampant dollar borrowing, running large current account deficits …