By Michael Snyder It isn’t going to be a surprise when U.S. stock prices fall 50, 60 or 70 percent from where they are today. The only real surprise is that it took this long for it to happen. Even …
The Evidence for the Greatest Top in History Over the last year US stocks have been rallying with greater and greater persistence and historic low volatility. This has been from already extremely high valuations. US stocks may be making a …
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 …
The finance and technology industries are both big industries in today’s markets, so is it any wonder that they’ve been joining forces as of late? The financial technology or ‘FinTech’ industry is an emerging market within finance that has the …
Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, Growth isn’t about how many, but about how many more. So, no argument that the world population of 7.4 billion is huge…but if we check under the hood we will find the much vaunted growth …
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 …
via Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The world financial system is as dangerously stretched today as it was at the peak of the last bubblebut this time the authorities are caught in a “policy trap” with few defences left, a veteran central banker has warned. …
by David Haggith via The Great Recession Blog My 2018 economic predictions follow through on the accurate predictions I made in 2017. In my last article, I stated that I had bet my blog the stock market would crash by January …
Guest Post from Mike Gleason with Money Metals Exchange Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click Here https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-180119-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 Mike Gleason: It is my great privilege now to be joined by James Rickards. Mr. Rickards is Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a monthly newsletter and Director of …
A private club for central bankers, regulators, and bankers. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. On Wednesday, ECB President Mario Draghi suffered the rare ignominy of being criticized in public by the EU’s Ombudsman, Emily O‘Reilly, whose …
Two time, best-selling author Nomi Prins says global debt levels are at record highs. Prins contends, “These are levels that they have never been, and they are all at their historic highs. That’s why debt will ultimately be the destructor …
by Sven Carlin Summary Getting to money is extremely easy! This leads to bubbles everywhere! Some bubbles are innocuous or even funny, some are extremely dangerous and will lead to painful events and environments. Another funny thing: Most talk about the …
From Birch Gold Group Last year we saw some important trends in the economy: a decline in the dollar index, the market breaking records, and an increase in the price of oil. Not to mention, the Fed finally began its quantitative tightening plans. …
by justanta I wanted to discuss the powerful, ridiculous, and rampant economic absurdities and financial insanities we are now observing in the world as BAU draws to a close and the noose gets tighter. A quick note on sources: I have …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Central banks are now trapped. In a nutshell, central banks are promising to “normalize” their monetary policy extremes in 2018. Nice, but there’s a problem: you can’t “normalize” markets that are now entirely dependent on extremes of monetary …
The digital revolution has brought about fundamental changes in our personal and professional lives, ones that would make today’s world look like something from another planet to anyone visiting from just 40 or 50 years ago. The finance and investment …
by Anthony B Sanders Yes, we live in a “Do Ho” economy where bubbles (and not tiny ones) are pervasive. Look at the YoY growth in the all-transactions index from FHFA for US house prices compared to the St Louis Fed …
Ian Bremmer: 2018 will bring a disastrous geopolitical event from CNBC. The global order is unraveling and 2018 could produce the “geopolitical equivalent of the 2008 financial meltdown,” Eurasia Group warns. The presidency of Donald Trump has left the world …
by Charles Hugh Smith girardatlarge.com Modern finance has many complex moving parts, and this complexity masks its inner simplicity. Let’s break down the core dynamics of the current financial system. The Core Dynamic of the “Recovery” and Asset Bubbles: Credit Credit …
Four Years of Cryptocurrency ICO Sales, Visualized in One Graphic This graphic shows the full history of token sales (aka initial coin offerings), from the early days of 2014 to their meteoric rise in 2017. https://elementus.io/blog/token-sales-visualization/ We’re headed towards another …
Fed is in trouble It wants to cool financial markets and the economy but can’t control financial conditions – @ Johnny Bo Jakobsen? ECB warns of possible global market correction after excessive risk-taking The European Central Bank (ECB) warned Wednesday that …
People fall into the same patterns in their daily lives. Habits form very easily. As habitual creatures, we look for patterns which we can align with and feel comfortable. In the stock market, investors, and algorithms, trading on investors behalf, …
By Michael Snyder Why have stock prices risen so dramatically since the last financial crisis? There are certainly many factors involved, but the primary one is the fact that the Federal Reserve has been creating trillions of dollars out of …
WB Concerned Over Global Debt Overhang The World Bank has warned that unless countries across the globe address issues relating to borrowing, the world could be heading for another financial crisis. In its World Economic Outlook report for October 2017, …
by AMY S. Here is the scenario. “Government agencies are having difficulty making their payments. State governments are issuing vouchers to pay their bills. US Social Security is late in issuing its payments to retirees and the disabled. Many banks are issuing …
Has anyone even stopped to think about the financial impact on the US and its Banking Mortgage Industries, in addition the Insurance Industries? Well let’s talk about it, it could be the thing that financially causes the whole house of …
by John Rubino The late stages of financial bubbles are always tough for rational analysts. Focused as they are on the numbers, such analysts are relatively immune to the emotion that drives the action at market extremes, so they find …
Radio host, patriot and retired orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dave Janda brings up the human trafficking issue and our leaders because of one simple reason. Dr. Janda says, “The reason why I bring this up is because each and every one …
from Financial Survival Network Peter Schiff joined us to discuss the latest developments in the economic landscape. Contrary to MSM opinion, the crash of 2008 was only a precursor to what’s coming next. And unlike Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, there’s no hiding …