by Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, and Michael Hudson via PaulCraigRoberts.org For many decades the Federal Reserve has rigged the bond market by its purchases. And for about a century, central banks have set interest rates (mainly to stabilize their currency’s exchange rate) …
As dollar & yields trend higher, this has forced $SPX & Oil lower pic.twitter.com/9uFtUpfhD8 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 9, 2018 Chinese stocks are tumbling led by big-caps, sending #SSE50 index which tracks the 50 biggest stocks on Shanghai Stock Ex …
by Doug Kass * Friday was likely the day the short volatility trade died * A massive regulatory overhaul is needed to counter the destabilizing influence of strategies and exchange traded products that have overwhelmed our markets For years I …
by John Ward If you’re wondering what on Earth really happened in the stock markets earlier this week, the bad news is that nobody else knows either. Whether the answer be cynical milking of a dying Bull market, Alt State testing …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter With all this wailing in the media about stocks, you’d think there’s at least some blood in the streets. But no. Not a drop. The Dow fell 4.6% today to 24,345. This 1,175-point drop, as it …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99V7SnozPA BREAKING: White House says it’s ‘concerned’ about stock market drop Bitcoin has dropped from $19,000 to $7,300 -252.88 (-0.99%) Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in …
by David Haggith The sweet grande dame of the central bankster world sees nothing but the brightest future to the furthest horizons for the markets she has been nurturing with her benevolent “wealth effect,” as one of her close colleagues called it. While …
Day 1 All 3 breakers go off and by noon the markets are closed. The brokers call in their margin calls. The higher the drop the bigger the margin calls. The result is when the market crashes high leveraged investors …
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 …
euphoria English Noun (en-noun) An excited state of joy, a good feeling, a state of intense happiness. mania English (wikipedia) Noun (en-noun) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism. …
by DCG From Washington Times: SCOTTeVEST founder Scott Jordan was rebuked by his own clothing company after he posted on Facebook last weekend that Fox News viewers are “f–ing idiots.” Mr. Jordan co-founded SCOTTeVEST with his wife in 2000, selling a line of multi-pocketed “eVests” designed for consumers …
Finally we have high level technocrats agreeing with me. At least it’s coming out in the public! That doesn’t mean the stock market will crash tomorrow. That just acknowledges the reality of the situation. What do you think will happen …
by GoldCore Government Shutdown Ends – Markets Ignore Looming Debt and Bond Market Threat For Now – U.S. Senate pass a temporary spending plan through Feb. 8 to end shutdown – Markets shrug off both government shutdown and re-opening – …
BY SRSROCCO As investors’ bullish sentiment moves up to euphoric levels, the markets are reaching extreme leverage. This is terrible news because a lot of people are going to lose one heck of a lot of money. According to CNN Money’s …
by Lance Roberts Government Shuts Down What Does This Have To Do With The Markets Sector & Market Analysis 401k Plan Manager Follow Us On: Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, Sound Cloud, Seeking Alpha It’s A Shutdown…. I am traveling this weekend but wanted to put …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWD6FtGhPyY Our entire, debt based central banking model, is a lie. Debt that can never be repaid, only expanded upon to default. The model depends on constant military enforcement, or it collapses. Many nations do not want our stinking debt, …
Will the Biggest Bubble Ever See the Biggest Crash Ever?
Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, gold fund manager of the Old Mutual Gold & Silver Fund, Ned Naylor-Leyland http://www.omglobalinvestors.com/swit… Ned is a well-known figure in the world of gold and silver investing, with …
by Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver You undoubtedly know that 2017 was a record-setting year for the broad stock markets. And while gold was up last year despite numerous headwinds, most mainstream investors aren’t paying much attention to gold since …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Marty, John Templeton has said “Bull markets are born in pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of …
The holiday-shortened first week of 2018 was the best start to a year for Nasdaq since 2004 with all major indices up every trading day of the year so far. Between the last week of December and the first week in January, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But rents tank in the most expensive metros. Even Seattle cools off, awash in new supply. In New York City, the second most expensive major rental market in the US, the median asking rent for one-bedroom …
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 …
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 …
Does this mean that you should sell everything and go to “cash?” Of course not. However, it does mean that as an investor you should critically analyze your past personal behavior during market advances AND declines. If you are like MOST investors, it is likely …
by Thinker Wars for land, power, and slaves and nothing more and the U.S. is at the command opening every door. What happened to the word called Peace? War has taken its place for an agenda for a new world …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the massively overheated housing bubbles throughout the United States. From Las Vegas to Washington, DC, the markets are becoming incredibly overheated and we can thank central banks, banks and …
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 …