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What Happens If Oil Prices Go Negative?
What Happens If Oil Prices Go Negative? Various reports hit the news feeds today quoting a deliberately headline-grabbing statement by Paul Sankey, managing director at Mizuho Securities, in which he is reported as saying, “Oil prices can go negative.” That is, they could as a combination of Saudi Arabia (and Russia) flooding the market with increased […]
Damage Done To Market Signals End Of Buy The Dip Era
Damage Done To Market Signals End Of Buy The Dip Era The damage done to markets will act as a barrier to higher stock prices in the future. This should force investors to return to reality. We have crossed the tipping point with the destruction of small businesses by the government in the name of the […]
“Rolling Natural Disaster” – COVID-19 Supply Chain Shock Could Trigger Global Depression
“Rolling Natural Disaster” – COVID-19 Supply Chain Shock Could Trigger Global Depression Evidence of creaking global supply chains is fast emerging, at risk of triggering the next global depression amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A supply chain crisis that began earlier this year, one that we warned from the very start, has now spread across Asia to the Middle […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – March 20 March 20 20! Missed than one!
Blain’s Morning Porridge – March 20 March 20 20! Missed than one! “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in it..” This is a very strange world we find ourselves in. There is literally too much to write about in terms of how the Global Financial System is being roiled […]
The Crash Of 2020 Is Now Worse Than The Great Depression
The Crash Of 2020 Is Now Worse Than The Great Depression Back in December, someone in China made bat soup (at least according to the officially accepted narrative that doesn’t get you banned on Facebook, Twitter, etc), and the rest is history: in the next three months, the global equity market has lost $24 trillion […]
The Covid-19 Economic Crisis Will Change Everything: Short Term and Long Term Effects
The Covid-19 Economic Crisis Will Change Everything: Short Term and Long Term Effects Whether you think the global pandemic is “just the flu” or you realize it’s the real deal, one thing is difficult to debate – many Americans are already feeling the economic pain being caused by the outbreak and the measures taken to […]
Stocks Suffer Worst Week Since Lehman Despite Biggest Fed Bailout Ever
Stocks Suffer Worst Week Since Lehman Despite Biggest Fed Bailout Ever This has been the sharpest market selloff in history… This was the worst week since Lehman (and worst 4 weeks since Nov 1929) for The Dow Jones Industrial Average…(Dow was down 18% during the Lehman week and 17.35% this week) Despite The Fed gushing a […]
Hong Kong Reports Largest Surge In Infections Yet As Experts Warn ” We’re On The Edge Of All-Out War” With COVID-19: Live Updates
Hong Kong Reports Largest Surge In Infections Yet As Experts Warn ” We’re On The Edge Of All-Out War” With COVID-19: Live Updates When historians look back at this time, we suspect that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s landmark decision to order more than 40 million Californians to remain at home on Thursday night will be […]
Margin Call: You Were Warned Of The Risk
Margin Call: You Were Warned Of The Risk I have been slammed with emails over the last couple of days asking the following questions: “What just happened to my bonds?” “What happened to my gold position, shouldn’t it be going up?” “Why are all my stocks being flushed at the same time?” As noted by Zerohedge: […]
The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped
The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped All bubbles pop, period. The financial elites are pushing a narrative that asset prices, sales and profits will all return to January 2020 levels as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic fades. Get real, baby. Nothing is going back to January 2020 levels. Rather than the “V-shaped recovery” expected […]
European Coronavirus Deaths Pass China As Leaders Weigh Orders To Lock Down London & New York
European Coronavirus Deaths Pass China As Leaders Weigh Orders To Lock Down London & New York Summary: US deaths hit 114 Senate to vote on 2nd economic rescue bill Iran reports another 147 deaths Hong Kong reported 14 new confirmed cases Brazil Senate Chief tests postiive France case total nears 2,000, death toll passes 250 […]
Banks are going to drown in an ocean of defaults
Banks are going to drown in an ocean of defaults On November 6, 2000, then US presidential candidate George W. Bush told a crowd of cheering supporters, “they misunderestimated me.” Now, if English is not your native language, allow me to clear the air: ‘misunderestimate’ is not a word. But then again, George W. Bush […]
Peter Schiff: These Markets Are Rigged
Peter Schiff: These Markets Are Rigged US stock markets enjoyed another Tuesday rebound with the announcement of even more monetary stimulus from the Fed and the hope of government fiscal stimulus and bailouts. In his podcast, Peter Schiff said this should make it crystal clear that the government and central bank are rigging the markets. […]
The House that Ben Built
The House that Ben Built Yes, this collapse does portend to be far worse than the last and it’s a very different type of financial collapse too. After credit markets froze in the subprime crash of 2008-2009 Ben Bernanke and the Fed conjured up a number of monetary tricks to keep the system afloat. POMO, […]
Italian Debt Crashes Prompting ECB Intervention
Italian Debt Crashes Prompting ECB Intervention Welcome to the brave new world of a helicopter money, aka the Magic Money Tree (MMT), where everything is crashing and nowhere more so than in Europe, which having made a dramatic U-turn on its historic fiscal stinginess, and where a flood of debt is now expected, bond yields […]
