by Charles Hugh-Smith There would be some deliciously karmic justice in the “dumb money” driving a rally that forced the “smart money” to cover their shorts and chase the rally that shouldn’t even be happening. Being cursed with contrarianism, as …
by confoundedinterest17 Zoltan! Credit Suisse’s Zoltan Pozsar thinks The Federal Reserve needs to spark a market crash. Really Zoltan?? If The Fed does its expected “shock and awe” (or shock and awful), it will be more than the stock markets will …
by Michael Snyder I am going to try to make as much noise about this crisis as I can, because we have never faced anything like this in modern times. Global fertilizer prices have tripled, and we are being warned …
by Michael Snyder What if the Russians aren’t bluffing? Western leaders seem to think that they can just keep provoking the Russians over and over again without any consequences. It was pretty obvious that western hands were behind the recent …
Howe Street, Released on 8/31/21 Sector rotation the big theme so far this year… Chris Vermeulen has been involved in the markets since 1997 and is the founder of Technical Traders Ltd. He is an internationally recognized technical analyst, trader, and …
Once again, panic buyers are wiping out grocery shelves all across China after authorities announced new movement restrictions, lockdowns, and mass testing in several major cities as infection rates spiked to the highest level in over a year. Local reports …
by Michael Snyder Things have been getting more tense in Jerusalem for weeks, and Monday was the day when tensions really started to boil over. The violence that we witnessed in the streets of Jerusalem shocked the entire globe, and it …
Markets are expecting increasing inflation coming. More money moving into the stock market. Value stocks have seen more inflows and tech stocks and other growth stocks are also performing well. More money is being pumped in from all sides, creating …
Apparently nobody learned any lessons from 2008. Derivative products are dangerous. Investors have are purchasing less of the same types of derivatives that caused the Financial Crisis. But do not be deceived. They’re still putting massive amounts of money into …
David Stockman on Real Vision (Feb. 25, 2019)
Mind experiment; as you have seen French very upset about rising fuel prices when there is still available supply what do you think will happen when food triples in price and there is limited supply. Climatologists coming out stating Water …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUZ_EUljj8 On this week’s Stansberry Investors Marketcast, John Gillin and Greg Diamond discuss last week’s “brutal” markets. All the major indices suffered big losses, and bear markets are popping up everywhere. As John explains, 40% of S&P 500 companies are …
via BBG Global bonds are hitting fresh milestones of misery. Strong U.S. data, a tighter-than-expected monetary trajectory, rising commodity prices and brewing wage pressures are conspiring to push Treasury yields to cycle-highs, hitting money managers of all stripes. The value …
GERMANY’S Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is battling with Chancellor Angela Merkel to CLOSE Germany’s border with Austria – a seismic move which threatens the very existence of the EU. The call to close the German border would not only demolish …
Will people ever get out of debt? What do you think? The financial system is weak. It needs more and more debt in order to survive. There was a brief moment in history about a decade ago where the debt …
Read about the Comey memos here: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-r…
Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, That didn’t take long. The $20 trillion national debt marker was crossed on September 8th, but it only took another 186 days to vault over the $21 trillion level last Thursday. Then again, you haven’t seen nothin’ …
Newly uncovered texts between alleged anti-Trump FBI agents raise more questions about the bureau’s integrity and the Hillary Clinton email investigation Fox News Exclusive: Rep. Trey Gowdy suggests Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal leaked info to the author of the Trump-Russia …
Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The 1987 stock market crash, better known as Black Monday, is frequently deemed a historical anomaly.Unlike the crashes of 1929, 2000, 2008 and other smaller ones, many investors are under the false premise that …
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 …
From Bloomberg: Mark Mobius is sensing danger in the explosive growth of cryptocurrencies. Governments will begin clamping down on digital currencies because of their use in illicit financing, with terrorist groups to drug dealers contributing to their rise, Mobius, executive …
From Jim Rickards, Editor, Rickards’ Gold Speculator: Investors are giddy now that the Dow’s broken through the mythical 20,000 mark. Many anticipate Trump’s economic agenda will spur the economy. But the most decisive factor in the implementation of the Trump …
