By Michael Snyder We haven’t seen this kind of a bloodbath on Wall Street since the great financial crisis of 2008. Prior to this week, the largest single day decline for the Dow Jones industrial average that we had ever …
Local tenants vs. global capital in search of assets. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Spain has become a difficult country for many tenants. In the most populous provinces rents are rising ten times faster than salaries. …
The conditions for a crisis are already here. Regulation tends to be backward looking anyway. For example what chance would they have of preventing the buildup of the recent short VIX trade phenomenon that blew up? Approximate zero. There are …
Financial expert Peter Schiff predicts, “Now, the crash in the dollar that I envisioned (years ago) and the crash in the U.S. economy is going to be much bigger than 2008 and much more dramatic and devastating to the average …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8_H7x0KwA On Friday, February 2nd, 2018, Janet Yellen served her last day as Chair of the United States Federal Reserve, with Jerome Powell set to be sworn in as her replacement on Monday, February 5th, 2017. Under Yellen’s leadership, the …
by Martin Armstrong Around the globe, we are approaching a monumental awakening as municipal governments see their borrowing costs rise dramatically with rising interest rates. This is unfolding in Europe, the USA, Canada, South America, Middle East, and Asia. In fact, S&P …
by Kimble Charting Banks started showing cracks back in 2007 and before long they started breaking support and fell hard. The current bank trend remains UP at this time. The trend finds itself back at 2007 highs, where bulls would NOT want to …
by Simon Black Earlier this month, General Electric took a $6.2 billion charge to its insurance unit for the fourth quarter. And the company said it will set aside another $15 billion over seven years to bolster reserves at GE Capital. …
by Lance Roberts There seems to be a very large consensus the markets have entered into a “permanently high plateau,” or an era in which price corrections in asset prices have been effectively eliminated through fiscal and monetary policy. Partnering with this …
by DCG The city of Seattle has a major homelessness problem. It’s so bad that the former disgraced homosexual mayor, Ed Murray, declared a State of Emergency on November 2, 2015. From my blog post in April 2017: “In 2016, the King County …
by Brandon Smith While the mainstream media and general public tend to assume that every new day is bringing us closer to a better future, many alternative analysts focus on the underlying weirdness of our world and all of the crisis …
by Martin Armstrong I have previously reported that about 50% of German municipalities are insolvent. This is a global trend and we are witnessing it in the United States as well. The North Rhine-Westphalian Association of Cities has called for help …
I think this interview Casey could be talking about now. Very interesting guys. Chronic record cold temperatures, double the normal high magnitude earthquakes, and massive volcanic eruptions. While government sponsored scientists are not making the connection, top scientist John L. …
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 …
BY SRSROCCO The U.S. economy continues towards an epic crisis while the overwhelming majority of analysts are completely in the dark. Even though some alternative media analysts understand that our highly leveraged fiat monetary system and markets will crash, they fail …
by Lance Roberts It is always refreshing to step away from the keyboard for a few days and hit the “reset button,” which is exactly what I did last week. My wife and I took a quick trip to Mexico to get …
#VIX #XIV #VXX #volatility In 1992, the CBOE hired Robert Whaley to develop a tradeable volatility product on equity index option prices. A year later, in 1993, the VIX was born when the CBOE started publishing real-time quotes on the implied …
Merkel is obliviously out of touch with the native German people. I hope she’s forced to resign sometime soon, so the German people can move on without her. AC
Greenlight’s Einhorn Says Issues That Caused the Crisis Are Not Solved Greenlight founder cites too-big-to-fail, few rating agencies At Oxford Union, Einhorn stands behind struggling short bets Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn said the problems that caused the global financial crisis a …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIk_CbbxaUo Right now, the global financial system seems to be light years away from the awful scare that occurred between 2007 and 2009. But, another “credit crisis” may be just around the corner. Learn how credit availability in this major …
by olesentv There’s a housing crisis in the United States. Even though it’s been almost 10 years since the housing meltdown that happened in 2008,, there is still massive distortion in the market as a consequence of that crisis. Economics at …
Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, This is something I’ve been pondering for some time. I think the next crisis will reveal how little liquidity there is in the credit markets, especially in the high-yield, lower-rated space. Dodd–Frank has greatly limited …
Is Silicon Valley in trouble? @GlobalProTrader @jessefelder @MarkYusko @HayekAndKeynes @jtepper2 @StockBoardAsset @zerohedge pic.twitter.com/1ctf0ls5Kd — Greg (@GS_CapSF) October 20, 2017 ICYMI: Equity crowd: Yay! More all-time highs!!Fixed inc crowd: I’m scared! The 2s/10s curve is at post-crisis lows!!KCN pic.twitter.com/FdnFn3cWZC — …
by ReadMurrayBookchin The Great Recession of 2008 has never really ended – it has just been postponed. Since 2008, the world’s major central banks – the Fed, ECB, and BoJ – have massively intervened in the global economy in an unprecedented …
I don’t care how many people disagree with this information. It’s the truth. And the truth hurts sometimes. Get over it. Canadian real estate has allowed Canadians to make incredible profit by extracting the value of the home in the …
In the past, the occurrence of financial crises has led to a widespread devastation. While most people dread the thought of an economic meltdown, it’s important to understand how it affects your personal finances and take the necessary precautions. Without …
There’s a new sub-prime crisis, but it’s not what you think The struggles of Provident Financial have fuelled concerns about a new sub-prime crisis Buyers of Provident’s car loans are up to their eyeballs in debt Regulation has discouraged big …
By Michael Snyder Are we on the verge of a nuclear war with North Korea? It has now been confirmed that North Korea has successfully created a miniaturized nuclear warhead, and last month they tested a missile that can reach …
by Jesse Apparently the Banks have been lobbying heavily, and expending significant amounts of money again, leaning on their Congressmen and pressuring regulators, saying that their capital standards need to be relaxed so that they can make more loans to …