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Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines
Solar Energy on the Frontlines and Old-Fashioned Clotheslines Solar energy comes to Earthlings in many ways. Ancient Persians used passive solar architecture. East Africans about the same time funneled cool ocean wind through tunnels to cool themselves. Now at long last, solar energy is outpacing new fossil fuel and nuclear facilities on price, environmental safety, […]
One Ring to Rule Us All: A Global Digital Fiat Currency
One Ring to Rule Us All: A Global Digital Fiat Currency We’ve written extensively about the “war on cash.” In a nutshell, governments would love to do away with cash in order to better track and control their citizens. There have been numerous moves closer to a cashless society in recent years, from capping ATM withdrawals to doing […]
Here’s Why the Housing Market Has Gone from Overheated to Raging Inferno
Here’s Why the Housing Market Has Gone from Overheated to Raging Inferno Image credit: Creative Commons (CC0) The housing market is on the verge of spinning out of control. Just about everything that could be going wrong is going wrong. The only holdout for the moment is home prices, which are up an astonishing 22.5% just this year. For many […]
The Current Supply Chain Crisis Could Throw The Global Economy Off Course!
The Current Supply Chain Crisis Could Throw The Global Economy Off Course! Be ready! The current supply chain crisis is becoming noticeable to most at this point and it could toss the entire global economy off course. With just the right problem, we could all be facing shortages that would make the toilet paper incident […]
Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days
Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days On Saturday the entirety of Lebanon was plunged into darkness, with the electricity grid shut down completely after the small Mediterranean country’s two main power stations reportedly ran out of fuel. “The al Zahrani and the Deir Ammar power stations stopped working after supplies […]
“Catastrophic” Property Sales Mean China’s Worst Case Scenario Is Now In Play
“Catastrophic” Property Sales Mean China’s Worst Case Scenario Is Now In Play No matter how the Evergrande drama plays out – whether it culminates with an uncontrolled, chaotic default and/or distressed asset sale liquidation, a controlled restructuring where bondholders get some compensation, or with Beijing blinking and bailing out the core pillar of China’s housing […]
Money, Bad Policies, Inflation & You
Money, Bad Policies, Inflation & You How to weather the inflationary and energy storms The global financial system and economy are a house or cards. Built on an unsustainable underpinning to ever-increasing debt the financial system is, as far as I am concerned, irretrievably insolvent. To truly grasp this you need to understand the basics […]
Life’s a Beach Until the Tsunami Hits: Four Waves Nobody Cares About–Yet
Life’s a Beach Until the Tsunami Hits: Four Waves Nobody Cares About–Yet Four monster waves are about to crash onto the Fed’s beach party and sweep away the unwary revelers. Hey, is the water in the bay receding? Never mind, free drinks are on the Federal Reserve, so party on, life’s a beach, asset bubbles […]
Albert Edwards: “It’s Starting To Feel A Bit Like July 2008”
Albert Edwards: “It’s Starting To Feel A Bit Like July 2008” One of the theories seeking to explain the Lehman collapse and the ensuing financial crisis points to the record surge in oil prices which rose as high as $150 in the summer of 2008, and which combined with tight monetary conditions, precipitated a giant […]
Economic Theory and Long-Wave Cycles
ECONOMIC THEORY AND LONG-WAVE CYCLES Investors and others are confused by the early stages of accelerating price inflation. One misleading belief is in cycles of industrial production, such as Kondratieff’s waves. The Kondratieff cycle began to emerge in financial commentaries during the inflationary 1970s, along with other wacky theories. We should reject them as an […]
Rabo: Global Supply Chains Simply Will Not Be Able To Cope With Even More Stimulus
Rabo: Global Supply Chains Simply Will Not Be Able To Cope With Even More Stimulus The Story is the Story Today is a US payrolls Friday. I have covered 277 of these releases. A handful were of any lasting interest, signalling something the market didn’t already know beforehand, and a few dozen more were higher/lower […]
Is The Small Business Sector Being Deliberately Targeted for Destruction?
Is The Small Business Sector Being Deliberately Targeted for Destruction? Photo by Stephen Paris The past 18 months have not been kind to small businesses. If you were unfortunate enough to live in a blue state during the onset of the covid lockdowns and you own a brick-and-mortar business then you have probably spent a large […]
One Of Wall Street’s Biggest Oil Bears Sees Higher Crude Prices On The Horizon
One Of Wall Street’s Biggest Oil Bears Sees Higher Crude Prices On The Horizon Standard Chartered Global Research has maintained its somewhat bearish oil price outlook during the last couple of months, but last week, the investment bank suddenly turned bullish Standard Chartered raised its 2021 average Brent price forecast by USD 6/bbl to USD […]
The Real Con
The Real Con COMMENT: Hi Mr. Armstrong, Been reading you for a very long time. You are very insightful. One thing I have to admit is that the Powers That Be (WEF, etc.) did not keep it in the dark of what they were planning. Definitely out there for anyone to find and read. But if you […]
Like The Dance Band On The Titanic, The Band Plays On
Like The Dance Band On The Titanic, The Band Plays On As The Ship Goes Down The Band Plays On It is said the dance band on the Titanic played on as the ship went down. This was all done as a grand effort to reassure the passengers and ease the panic in their hearts. Consider […]
