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China’s Losing Control Of Its Crushing Debt Load As Defaults And Missed Payments Skyrocket
China’s Losing Control Of Its Crushing Debt Load As Defaults And Missed Payments Skyrocket China’s economic slowdown and heavy debt load is affecting everybody in the country – even it’s “jewelry queen”, Zhou Xiaoguang, according to the Wall Street Journal. Zhou, who went from selling trinkets on city streets to taking a seat in China’s parliament and becoming […]
Greyerz – The Road To $18,160 Gold And The Wisdom Of Jesse Livermore
Greyerz – The Road To $18,160 Gold And The Wisdom Of Jesse Livermore As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies spoke with King World News about $18,160 gold and the wisdom of Jesse Livermore. The Wisdom […]
Powell’s Verschlimmbessern Fed
Powell’s Verschlimmbessern Fed According to wiki, verschlimmbessern is to make something worse in an honest but failed attempt to make it better. Other working titles for today’s T-Report included So Much Communication, So Little Information The Over-Engineered and Micro-Managed Market The Catch-22 of Fed Policy Why do Today what you Can do Next Meeting? I’ll Gladly Cut […]
Lagarde, the ECB and the next crisis
Lagarde, the ECB and the next crisis The appointment of Christine Lagarde as president of the ECB has been greeted with euphoria by financial markets. That reaction in itself should be a warning signal. When risky assets soar in the middle of a huge bubble due to a central bank appointment, the supervising entity should be concerned.Lagarde is […]
Gold Will Rise Even If The Fed Doesn’t Cut Interest Rates
Gold Will Rise Even If The Fed Doesn’t Cut Interest Rates There has been much speculation lately on the Federal Reserve and its ongoing tightening policy. If you were to only read mainstream economic news you would think the Fed had already reversed course and “capitulated”, but this is not the case. The Fed continues […]
Persian Gulf Conflict Could Send Oil Beyond $325
Persian Gulf Conflict Could Send Oil Beyond $325+ The possibility of Iran attempting to close the Strait of Hormuz to tanker traffic has increased significantly in recent weeks, as has the possibility of a Persian Gulf War, especially with the Islamic Republics’ intentional destruction of a U.S. surveillance drone on June 20. This act provides weight to […]
Challenging the Notion that the Fed will Support Markets to Prevent a Crisis
Challenging the Notion that the Fed will Support Markets to Prevent a Crisis A pervasive belief throughout both the mainstream and independent media is that when faced with the threat of an economic downturn, central banks will act unconditionally to lower interest rates and inject fresh stimulus into markets by way of quantitative easing. One theory […]
Bizarro World: The Herd Has Truly Gone MadYou’re not crazy. The world we now live in is
Bizarro World: The Herd Has Truly Gone MadYou’re not crazy. The world we now live in is Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. ~ Charles Mackay (1841) Like me, you may often […]
Meet the New European Union, Same as the Old One
Meet the New European Union, Same as the Old One The European Union chose new leadership this week. It was, for once, a fraught affair. No rubber stamps were anywhere to be seen. In the end all four of the new European Union leadership were not the frontrunners as put forth by German Chancellor Angela […]
For Those Who Don’t Understand Inflation
FOR THOSE WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND INFLATION This article is a wake-up call for those who do not understand the true purpose of monetary inflation, and do not realise they are the suckers being robbed by monetary policy. With the world facing a deepening recession, monetary inflation will accelerate again. It is time for everyone to […]
Weekly Commentary: Abject Monetary Disorder
Weekly Commentary: Abject Monetary Disorder A market week that began with a U.S./China trade “truce” ended with much stronger-than-expected (224k) June non-farm payrolls data. There were new intraweek record highs in equities and no let up in the global yield collapse. Lacking was increased clarity as to prospects for trade negotiations, economic growth and central […]
State of the Globe: 13 Facts: why the next crisis is inevitable
State of the Globe: 13 Facts: why the next crisis is inevitable The order of the current problems laid down below is random. Hard to say which factor will be the next catalyst. Maybe all or several at the same time? Decide for yourself. 1. Unresolved political conflicts. Ask yourself: which conflicts have been finally […]
Distortion
Distortion This week we entered the Sell Zone as I called it last weekend. Overnight today $ES hit nearly 3004 and is currently 23 handles lower on the news that the latest NFP report beat while unemployment ticked slightly higher. Whether the sell is now in full swing or more highs are still to come is an […]
How Iran Will Determine If The US Dollar Remains The World’s Reserve Currency
How Iran Will Determine If The US Dollar Remains The World’s Reserve Currency For almost two centuries, Sterling reigned supreme as the world’s reserve currency, propping up the vast British Empire which was the world’s superpower during the 19th century and the early 20th. Then, in the span of just a few months, everything changed […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – 4th July 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – 4th July 2019 “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” In the headlines this morning: https://morningporridge.com/stuff-im-watching Subscribe to podcast via: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blains-financial-porridge/id1469567347 Happy birthday America! This morning’s intro-quote is over 170 years old – and I could only use it […]
