Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter There are a lot of them. It’s called “crisis” for a reason. What is the most severely unaffordable housing market in North America as measured by local household incomes in relationship to local home prices? By …
ONE OF THE MOST OVERBOUGHT MARKETS IN HISTORY Out of 30,914 trading days, that’s good for top 10 all-time. http://stockboardasset.com/insights-and-research/one-overbought-markets-history/ https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/921446299492409346 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/921836615483514880 Americans have more debt than ever — and it’s creating an economic trap An International Monetary Fund report …
BY SRSROCCO As the Dow Jones Index hits another all-time high today, smart money is rushing to the exits. You see, smart money knows when something is too good to be true. Unfortunately for the retail investor who is suffering from …
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/918389272301973504 The $VIX’s corollary, the inverse $XIV, embarked on an explosive near one way journey since the US election coinciding with over $2 trillion central bank intervention in just the first 9 months of 2017… Tech rally stall? @TgMacro sees …
Investor Gordon Long says the stock market hitting one all-time high after another, despite all the economic headwinds, shows the public is in a “delusional phase.” The latest nuclear war threat from North Korea shows the extreme delusion going on, …
Jim Rickards is predicting that we could see a massive crisis in the next eight months. In this excellent video presentation, Jim Rickards tell’s us that It is inevitable the next financial crises is six to eight months away and …
Last Wednesday was another good day to make money on Wall Street: Stocks pushed up, interest rates were at rock bottom and the VIX gauge of investor unease was again trending downward. But as investors celebrated yet another bounce-back from …
BY SRSROCCO It’s about time that I share with you all a little secret. The situation in the markets is much worse than you realize. While that may sound like someone who has been crying “wolf” for the past several years, …
by Ruby Henley We woke up this morning, August 29, 2017, to hear the UN Security Council is meeting on North Korea. Russia surprisingly said “sanctions do not work.” President Trump has also spoken about putting new sanctions on China. …
Economist John Williams says, “A big factor in the dollar’s value is political stability or the perceived political stability. Right now, you have a circumstance in Washington where there is tremendous political discord. I can’t remember seeing anything like this …
by FS Financial Sense recently spoke with Caroline Miller, Senior Vice President and Global Strategist at BCA Research, one of the world’s leading providers of investment analysis and forecasts, to discuss the details of her recent webcast, Global Reflation: Where Next for …
Trader/analyst Gregory Mannarino says, “I’ll tell you what concerns me. Despite the fact we have a stock market at a record high, housing near record high, interest rates near record lows, tax receipts are down, money velocity is near historic …
Precious metals expert Mike Maloney points to what large foreign countries are buying and it gold–lots of it. Maloney explains, says, “Between Russia, China and India, their purchases meet or exceed all worldwide production of gold. Whenever they exceed mining …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How big is margin debt really, and how much of a threat is it to the stock market and to “financial stability,” as central banks like to call their concerns about crashes? Turns out, no one …
by Umar Farooq Writer, Rob Marstrand analyzed a 2012 paper by Robert J. Gordon for the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He’s a professor at Northwestern University in the USA. The paper, called “Is US economic growth over?” Gordon’s …
From Jim Rickards, Editor, Rickards’ Gold Speculator: I guess we can all use a break now and then, and this seems like one of those weeks when not much is happening. We had a tumultuous 10-day period from March 14–24, …
by Umar Farooq We are in a season of time when economic conditions have appeared to be getting a little bit better in the United States, and this has blinded so many people to the truth of what is …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Commercial Property Bust to hit Multifamily Rentals in San Francisco & New York, the Most Expensive Markets in the World Two reports – one on the most expensive rental markets in the world, and the other …
by Umar Farooq Chart 1: Record high level of uncertainty in the markets The number of news stories that contain the word “uncertainty” has reached a record, according to Bloomberg data, which include stories published from multiple sources. Chart …
by SRSrocco The world doesn’t realize it yet, but the implosion of the global markets has started and can’t be stopped. While the financial networks continue to focus on the rising U.S. stock market and Dollar, this represents a mindset …
There are a wide variety of factors that can affect your online trading experience and the results thereof. It is an almost unsaid consideration that much of a currency’s value is determined by the economic strength of a country and …
BY JOHN WARD “Oh shit, you mean I’m Janet Yellen?” PART TWO OF THE SLOG’S TRIPLE-HEADER ON WHY MARKETS ARE RIGHT & MONETARISTS ARE WRONG Watching the live coverage yesterday, I found Janet Yellen’s experience of ‘testifying’ to Congress about …
In this exclusive interview with Ann Barnhardt, founder of the former Barnhard Capital Management, Barnhardt exposes the blatant fraud in US financial markets, the IRS scandal, the financial enslavement of the American people, and whether Obama is conspiring to collapse …