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Prelude to Crisis
Prelude to Crisis “The Federal Reserve is running the risk of fomenting an eventual financial crisis by easing banking regulations at the same time that it’s cut interest rates…say some former Fed officials, including ex-Vice Chairman Alan Blinder and financial stability experts Daniel Tarullo and Nellie Liang.”– Bloomberg article on December 17th, 2019 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION […]
Crisis-O-Rama
Crisis-O-Rama All of a sudden, events are looking a bit fluxy out there, as though the world is shuddering through some spooky ch-ch-ch-changes, like a monster waiting to be born, with strange convergences of ecology, politics and economy, and there’s only so much you can do to prepare, really. Criticality is in the air! The horses […]
Brace for Impact: Global Pandemic Already Baked In
Brace for Impact: Global Pandemic Already Baked In If we accept what is known about the virus, then logic, science and probabilities all suggest we brace for impact. Here’s a summary of what is known or credibly estimated about the 2019-nCoV virus as of January 31, 2019:1. A statistical study from highly credentialed Chinese academics […]
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan Locals say Enbridge’s aging Line 5 is a disaster waiting to happen and Alberta’s premier should butt out. Locals urging the aging pipeline be closed down fear it could imperil drinking water for tens of millions of people. Some wonder why Kenney, who has claimed Alberta is […]
Hitting Zero: 700 Years of Declining Global Real Interest Rates
Hitting Zero: 700 Years of Declining Global Real Interest Rates Are negative interests here to stay? A recent study by Yale economist Paul Schmelzing suggests that global real interest rates “could soon enter permanently negative territory.” In Mesopotamia around the third millennium B.C. there were two types of money circulating: barley and silver. The interest rate on […]
How Xi Jinping will Save the World from Coronavirus
How Xi Jinping will Save the World from Coronavirus In 1349, when Black Death was ravaging Europe, many of the day’s best and brightest banded together in pursuit of a common cure. They had little choice. Black Death was rapidly spreading across the continent. Nothing could stop it. Boils were lanced with precision. Blood was […]
China Bans Selling, Plans Massive Liquidity Injection To Prevent Market Crash
China Bans Selling, Plans Massive Liquidity Injection To Prevent Market Crash Judging by the collapse in Chinese futures and the Offshore Yuan over the past week, China’s key cash equity index – The Shanghai Composite – is set to plunge around 6-8% as the market re-opens for the first time since Lunar New Year (and the coronavorus […]
The Global Supply & Demand Shock Of The Coronavirus
The Global Supply & Demand Shock Of The Coronavirus Our analysis of the impact of the Coronavirus is a work in progress and nobody knows the endgame. It is still the early days of the epidemic, and its dynamics will take time to understand. The scale of the impact will depend on how contagious and lethal […]
What if
What if What if bears were right all along? What if it’s not different this time? What if this Fed liquidity inspired rally produced precisely the kind of exuberant final thrust we often see at the end of business cycles? After all, people were really bullish in 2007, people were really bullish in 2000, both final […]
China Outraged As World Cancels Flights And Shuts Borders Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
China Outraged As World Cancels Flights And Shuts Borders Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Countries that surround China have closed their border crossings and halted trade this week, air carriers across the world have also suspended flights to and from the country because of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Beijing has responded with outrage, by saying the measures enacted by the […]
Doug Casey on What the International Ruling Class Have Planned for You
Doug Casey on What the International Ruling Class Have Planned for You International Man: No matter the problem, the prescription of the Davos crowd is always more welfare, more warfare, more money printing, more taxes, and of course, more centralization of power into global institutions. What’s your take? Doug Casey: The people who attend Davos […]
How the Fed Created a QE “Monster” for the Markets
How the Fed Created a QE “Monster” for the Markets Like Victor Frankenstein, the Fed may have created its own monster. It’s been called many things, such as Quantitative Easing (QE), QE Lite, QE/Not QE, “Organic” Balance Sheet Growth, and more. But no matter what you choose to call it, the bottom line is this: The Fed […]
The Era of Boom and Bust Isn’t Over
The Era of Boom and Bust Isn’t Over At the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Bob Prince, co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, attracted attention when he suggested in a news interview that the boom and bust cycle as we have come to know it in the last decades may have ended. This viewpoint […]
