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Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization In 2019, US population growth fell to +1.55m or +0.5%…this was due to a trifecta of declining births, lower immigration, and higher deaths than anticipated. However, as with everything “2020”, all three trends are only intensifying to blow away 2019. Births are falling faster and […]
CHART OF THE WEEK: Primary Silver Miners REAL COST Higher Than Published All-In-Sustaining Cost
CHART OF THE WEEK: Primary Silver Miners REAL COST Higher Than Published All-In-Sustaining Cost The chart of the week shows that some of the leading primary silver miners total REAL COSTS are higher than their published All-In Sustaining Cost. My analysis suggests that the companies’ All-In Sustaining Costs (AISC), are not really “All-In.” So, I […]
Third Mega-Crisis in 12 Years: Eurozone Economy Plunges at Fastest Rate on Record
Third Mega-Crisis in 12 Years: Eurozone Economy Plunges at Fastest Rate on Record First the Global Financial Crisis, then the Euro Debt Crisis, now the Big One. In its 21 years of official existence, the Eurozone has already been through two brutal crises — the Global Financial Crisis and one of its own doing, the […]
Overpriced Stocks May Be Bubble Ready to Pop
Overpriced Stocks May Be Bubble Ready to Pop Even if local and state governments hadn’t shut down businesses in attempts to mitigate the coronavirus, the U.S. economy was still set up to take on a number of economic challenges. But now, there’s one additional challenge being considered by billionaire David Tepper: over-inflated stock prices: Billionaire hedge fund investor David Tepper told […]
How to Prepare For the Coming Wealth Grab
How to Prepare For the Coming Wealth Grab And here comes the next round of stimulus. As long as large portions of the economy remain on lockdown, the government will be forced to perform massive stimulus programs/ social spending. As I write this Friday morning, the House is preparing to vote on a $3 trillion […]
Weekly Commentary: Global Bubbles are Deflating
Weekly Commentary: Global Bubbles are Deflating “Bubble” is commonly understood to describe a divergence between overvalued market prices and underlying asset values. And while price anomalies are a typical consequence, they are generally not among the critical aspects of Bubbles. I’ll start with my basic definition: A Bubble is a self-reinforcing but inevitably unsustainable inflation. […]
Here’s What Would Happen If The Fed Launched Negative Rates
Here’s What Would Happen If The Fed Launched Negative Rates On Thursday, May 7, an unprecedented event took place: after a violent repricing in Eurodollar contracts as near as November 2020, for the first time ever the market was pricing in that negative interest rates are not only coming to the US, but would arrive […]
Globalization and Financialization Are Dead, and so Is Everything That Depended on Them
Globalization and Financialization Are Dead, and so Is Everything That Depended on Them Financialization was never sustainable, and neither was the destructive globalization it enabled. All the happy-story analogies to past pandemics being mere bumps in the road miss the mark. A popular claim is that the 1918-1919 flu pandemic killed millions but no biggie, the […]
Industrial Production Declines Most in 101 Years
Industrial Production Declines Most in 101 Years On the heels of miserable retail sales numbers comes the worst ever industrial production numbers. The Fed’s Industrial Production report provides another grim look at the Covid-19 wrecked economy. Total industrial production fell 11.2 percent in April for its largest monthly drop in the 101-year history of the index, as […]
Petrobras Expects Permanent Damage to Oil Demand as It Writes Off Billions In As
Petrobras Expects Permanent Damage to Oil Demand as It Writes Off Billions In As Petrobras has warned its shareholders that the coronavirus pandemic could leave a permanent mark on the global economy, including on consumer behaviors, as it reported a first-quarter loss and massive writeoffs on assets that have stopped being economical. The company booked a $9.7 […]
How to Maintain a Bull Market After Coronavirus
HOW TO MAINTAIN A BULL MARKET AFTER CORONAVIRUS Everyone thinks they know the cause and effect of the Federal Reserve’s response to crises such as 2008 and 2020. The Fed prints money to buy assets. This increases the quantity of money. And this causes prices to rise. The Fed wants this, because it thinks that inflation eases the burden on […]
It’s Time to Investigate the Players to Prove the Public Has Been Manipulated for Personal Gain
It’s Time to Investigate the Players to Prove the Public Has Been Manipulated for Personal Gain COMMENT: Marty; it seems you write and other do listen. I remember when you posted that China should stop buying bond from the bankers at inform the Treasury they will only buy directly. The US never did that. They did […]
The Fed’s Visible Hand: Powell Buys $305 Million In ETFs In Two Days
The Fed’s Visible Hand: Powell Buys $305 Million In ETFs In Two Days On Tuesday, the US officially crossed over into some bizarro version of a crony, centrally-planned mandated pricing model that is anything but a market when the Fed started buying corporate bond ETFs for the first time ever. Then, moments ago in its […]
No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb
No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb The White House budget office doesn’t know if the $2.2 Trillion-dollar stimulus package and Trump’s $1,200 stimulus checks might cause an inflationary spiral. But many economists have no doubt it will. The consequences of the $2.2 trillion stimulus package are […]
No to the ECB madness
No to the ECB madness The latest ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court is a drop of bitterness in the idyll of the ECB’s excessive money printing. What Super Mario (Draghi) did and what the IMF-imported Christine Lagarde mercilessly continues – 2.6 trillion euros (since 2015), invested in government, corporate and other securities to boost […]
