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Oil To Hit $100? Half Of Saudi Oil Output Shut After Drone Strikes Cripple World’s Largest Oil Processing Facility
Oil To Hit $100? Half Of Saudi Oil Output Shut After Drone Strikes Cripple World’s Largest Oil Processing Facility Update: The WSJ is out with an update hinting at just how much the price of oil is set to soar when trading reopens late on Sunday after the Saudi Houthi false-flag drone attack on the largest Saudi oil processing plant: Saudi Arabia is […]
A globalised solar-powered future is wholly unrealistic – and our economy is the reason why
A globalised solar-powered future is wholly unrealistic – and our economy is the reason why Over the past two centuries, millions of dedicated people – revolutionaries, activists, politicians, and theorists – have been unable to curb the disastrous and increasingly globalised trajectory of economic polarisation and ecological degradation. This is perhaps because we are utterly trapped in flawed […]
What a Relief that the U.S. and Global Economies Are Booming
What a Relief that the U.S. and Global Economies Are Booming Doing more of what’s failed for ten years will finally fail spectacularly..It was a huge relief to see the charts of the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and the U.S. retail sector ETF (RTH): both have soared to the moon, signaling that both the U.S. […]
Why a Liquidity Crisis Is Heading to a Market Near You
Why a Liquidity Crisis Is Heading to a Market Near You Trading Secrets Capital market theory posits that price always balances supply and demand, more or less guaranteeing deep and continuous markets for securities. In other words, if capital markets were a machine, prices would rapidly adjust to reflect any newly disclosed information, and ready […]
How Is Negative Interest Possible?
HOW IS NEGATIVE INTEREST POSSIBLE? Germany has recently joined Switzerland in the dubious All Negative Club. The interest rate on every government bond, from short to 30 years, is now negative. Many would say “congratulations”, in the belief that this proves their credit risk is … well … umm … negative(?) And anyways, it will […]
Weekly Commentary: $150 Billion Global Corporate Bond Binge
Weekly Commentary: $150 Billion Global Corporate Bond Binge After an extraordinary August, markets are showing no inclination for stability to begin September. Jumping 1.3% Thursday on news of an October restart of trade talks, the S&P500 gained 1.8% for the week. The S&P500 ended the week less than 2% from all-time highs. The Semiconductors surged […]
David Stockman on the Coming Financial Panic and the 2020 Election
David Stockman on the Coming Financial Panic and the 2020 Election Doug Casey’s Note: David Stockman is a former congressman and director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan. Now, anyone with connections to the government should elevate your suspicion level. But as you’ll see, David is a genuine opponent of government […]
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In If it was Powell’s intention to have the S&P trade at an all time when he cuts rates by another 25bps next Wednesday, he achieved it. S&P futures rose alongside Asian and European stocks as shares globally headed for a third weekly […]
Banks Seek Lower Credit Score Requirements, Targeting Over 50 Million New Subprime Borrowers
Banks Seek Lower Credit Score Requirements, Targeting Over 50 Million New Subprime Borrowers When the next bubble bursts – and it will – be sure to take a look back at this article. It might help explain some things. Lenders, seemingly unhappy with the vast avalanche of debt they’ve issued over the last decade, are […]
Our Energy and Debt Predicament in 2019
Our Energy and Debt Predicament in 2019 Many people are concerned that we have an oil problem. Or they are concerned about recession and the need to lower interest rates. As I see the situation, we have a problem of a networked economy that is not functioning well. A big part of this problem is energy-related. […]
The Silver Series: The Start of A New Gold-Silver Cycle (Part 1 of 3)
The Silver Series: The Start of A New Gold-Silver Cycle (Part 1 of 3) The world has experienced a decade of growth fueled by record-low interest rates, a burgeoning money supply, and historic debt levels – but the good times only last so long. As the global economy slows and eventually begins to retract, can […]
Assange, Varoufakis, Brexit
Assange, Varoufakis, Brexit A friend of mine here in Athens, Greece, named Wayne Hall, who’s of Australian descent but moved here at about the time Napoleon headed for St. Petersburg, and works as a translator and language teacher, sent me a mail a few days ago that I thought was interesting. In particular, Wayne referred […]
Can Government Prevent a Major Debt Crisis?
Can Government Prevent a Major Debt Crisis? QUESTION: Hi MartinI recently stumped upon a documentary on Netflix about you and your model.I then went on and watched some YouTube videos.To me it makes totally sense that taxation does not work, but how can we change it. Do we need to become politicians?We have a very high […]
Household Leverage Ratios By Wealth Distribution
Household Leverage Ratios By Wealth Distribution We are just starting play with the wealth distribution data and will have much more coming your way. What we have seen so far is shocking. The distribution of wealth has deteriorated significantly over the past 20 years and is now so skewed toward the top that average U.S. household […]
Trump Praises ECB For “Depreciating The Euro”, Slams The Fed For Doing Nothing
Trump Praises ECB For “Depreciating The Euro”, Slams The Fed For Doing Nothing When discussing the barrage of easing unleashed by the ECB moments ago, we said that as “we prepare for the ECB press conference in 30 minutes, that will be nothing compared to the angry twitter tirade we expect by president Trump who will […]
