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2019 Headwinds Are Getting Stronger
2019 Headwinds Are Getting Stronger In 2017, every prominent economic forecasting entity was shouting from the rooftops about “synchronized global growth.” This was a reference to the fact that not only were certain economies growing, but they were all growing at the same time. Chinese GDP growth had come down but was still substantial at […]
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp In Canada, armed forces raided native Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia Monday, with at least 14 arrests being reported. Land defenders faced off with Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the police breached two checkpoints set up to keep pipeline workers out […]
Macron May Trigger Debt Crisis with Yellow Vest Crackdown
Macron May Trigger Debt Crisis with Yellow Vest Crackdown The Yellow Vests have reached critical mass. And the movement has now created the perfect storm for President Emmanuel Macron. He can no longer ignore it, even though he tried to do so. And his lack of understanding of the situation as well as his open […]
Power Trendlines
Power Trendlines Market action is heavily dominated by algorithmic trading and programs. Nothing new about that and it’s a reality of the market environment. In December algos were blamed for the steep sell-off, nobody is blaming them during the massive bounce off of the December lows. Funny that. Irony aside knowing where these algos live […]
Time is Money, Money is Time
TIME IS MONEY, MONEY IS TIME Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. -Macbeth Our limited time, our brief candle as Shakespeare’s Macbeth had it earlier in the soliloquy quoted from above, may count for very little in the […]
Kass: Follow The Money
Kass: Follow The Money The Tremor Before the Quake and the Fed’s $450 Billion Balance Sheet Reduction “The combination of rate hikes and balance sheet reductions from the Federal Reserve in 2018 sucked up global U.S. dollar liquidity and put emerging markets under immense pressure in 2018. Emerging market equities were 20-30% lower from February […]
Jay Taylor: Gold Is The Go-To Safe Haven Of 2019
Jay Taylor: Gold Is The Go-To Safe Haven Of 2019 2019 is looking like one of those either/or years, where growing financial instability leads to either a 2008-style financial crash or another round of asset inflation. In Jay Taylor’s latest newsletter, he concludes that both scenarios are good for gold: Which Safe Haven Markets Will […]
World Bank Urges ‘Leave Central Banks Alone’ As Global Economic Outlook Darkens
World Bank Urges ‘Leave Central Banks Alone’ As Global Economic Outlook Darkens If we were a cynical thinking group, we could be persuaded that the World Bank just wrote a politically-charged ‘mini-project-fear’ report aimed directly at President Trump. But that would be paranoid so we won’t consider that. However, see if you can spot their […]
2019: Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric, Opaque
2019: Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric, Opaque Add up Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric and Opaque and you get a world spinning out of centralized control. Here are the key dynamics of 2019: fragmented, unevenly distributed, asymmetric, opaque. Want to know what’s happening with inflation, deflation, recession, populism, etc.? It depends on what you own, when you […]
A Farewell to “Bargain Shopping”
A Farewell to “Bargain Shopping” “May God save the country for it is evident the people will not.” —Millard Fillmore, 13th POTUS, born this day, 1800 France has its Yellow Vests. Here in USA, we have a few poor shlubs hoisting the “Going Out of Business” signs on the highway in front of the K-Mart. […]
How The Federal Reserve Quietly Bankrupted The US Pension System
How The Federal Reserve Quietly Bankrupted The US Pension System Actions have consequences. Even for the Fed. That’s not a reference to the market’s grumpy reaction to the central bank’s continued rate hikes and quantitative tightening. No. The impact of both on financial assets were as obvious as they were inexorable. To be sure, Wall […]
The $1.2 Trillion College Debt Crisis Is CRIPPLING The Economy
The $1.2 Trillion College Debt Crisis Is CRIPPLING The Economy A whopping two-thirds of American college students graduate school already deeply in debt. But the decision to go into debt to pay for a college degree is a $1.2 trillion crisis that’s crippling the economy. According to The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) Project […]
