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“Champs Elysees Burning”: French Police Fire Tear Gas, Water Cannon As Massive Fuel Protests Turn Violent
“Champs Elysees Burning”: French Police Fire Tear Gas, Water Cannon As Massive Fuel Protests Turn Violent French police used tear gas and a water cannon against protesters in the Champs Elysées, in the center of Paris, as “yellow vest” activists flooded the streets. Originally formed to protest rising fuel prices, the “yellow vest” protesters have evolved into […]
No! Falling Crude Oil Prices Are Not Good For Emerging Markets Like India
No! Falling Crude Oil Prices Are Not Good For Emerging Markets Like India Indian media and Portfolio managers always like to spin a bullish story and the current bullishness stems from the collapse in oil price. After all, rising oil prices for a country which imports almost all of its oil requirement is bad for […]
The Big Bet Against Italian Banks
The Big Bet Against Italian Banks The eurozone’s third-largest economy, Italy, is marooned in a deep political and economic crisis, with seeming endless problems: an economy that has barely grown in decades, sky-high unemployment rates, ballooning national debt, an inability to form a stable coalition government and, lately, a looming showdown with the EU over […]
QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next, ECB Warns
QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next, ECB Warns “Who will purchase the €275 billion of government debt Italy is to issue in 2019?” The ECB, through its army of official mouthpieces, has begun warning of the potentially calamitous consequences for Italian bonds when its QE program comes to an end, which is […]
Australia’s Economy Is A House Of Cards, Set For Sharp Downturn In 2019
Australia’s Economy Is A House Of Cards, Set For Sharp Downturn In 2019 Damien Boey, a research analyst at Credit Suisse, has warned that economic growth in Australia could slow quite sharply next year, raising the prospect that a slowdown could be immient. Boey expects the recent growth spurt driven by strong infrastructure investment, could fade in the first […]
Take Heed Italy, Brussels Doesn’t Care One Whit About You
Take Heed Italy, Brussels Doesn’t Care One Whit About You Watching the complete betrayal of Brexit by British Prime Minister Theresa “The Gypsum Lady” May is proving to be a wake up call for Italians. The latest polling results coming out of Italy show that while the populist coalition in Italy is unpopular in Brussels […]
Rates on Their Way to 10-Year High After Hawkish Fed’s Recent Meeting
Rates on Their Way to 10-Year High After Hawkish Fed’s Recent Meeting Round and round we go, where the hawkish Fed stops, nobody knows… There was a bit of tension in the markets last week. This tension stemmed from a prediction that the federal funds rate would be well on its way to a decade […]
IMF Reveals That Cryptocurrency Is The New World Order End Game
IMF Reveals That Cryptocurrency Is The New World Order End Game There are two kinds of globalist schemes: First, there are the schemes they spring on the public out of nowhere haphazardly in the hopes that the speed of the event along with some shock and awe will confuse the masses and make them psychologically […]
Stock-Market Margin Debt Plunges Most Since Lehman Moment
Stock-Market Margin Debt Plunges Most Since Lehman Moment It gets serious. Margin calls? No one knows what the total leverage in the stock market is. But we know it’s huge and has surged in past years, based on the limited data we have, and from reports by various brokers about their “securities-based loans” (SBLs), and […]
Economic Turmoil Could Send Oil Even Lower
Economic Turmoil Could Send Oil Even Lower Global financial markets are once again throwing up some warning signs, as the selloff in equities entirely erased the gains made in U.S. stock markets for 2018. The economic and financial turmoil could bleed over into a broader slowdown, which raises pitfalls for oil prices. The risks to […]
Coffee Sellers Are Not Fundamentally Different From Banks
COFFEE SELLERS ARE NOT FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM BANKS With the 2007-8 financial crisis came a splendid alphabetical soup of central bank interventions to stimulate financial markets, lower interest rates, provide astonishing amounts of liquidity to banks and, allegedly, prevent another Great Depression. Likening the failure of big banks to falling elephants crushing even the smallest grass, […]
Stock Market Crash: The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 2,500 Points And FAANG Stocks Have Lost A TRILLION Dollars In Value
Stock Market Crash: The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 2,500 Points And FAANG Stocks Have Lost A TRILLION Dollars In Value Thanksgiving week was not supposed to be like this. Normally things are slow in the days leading up to Thanksgiving as investors prepare to gorge themselves with turkey and stuffing as they gather with family […]
Scott Tinker: Can The World Energy Supply Become Fully Sustainable?
Scott Tinker: Can The World Energy Supply Become Fully Sustainable? Just possibly, but we’ll have to make HUGE changes As we claim often here at PeakProsperity.com: Energy is everything. Will our global society be able to transtiton off of its extreme dependence on fossil fuels? And if so, can we do so without too much […]
