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Arguing The Un-Consensus On Today’s Macro & Inflation
Arguing The Un-Consensus On Today’s Macro & Inflation In a YouTube video Mike Green, Chief Strategist at Simplify Asset Management, attacks the idea of hyperinflation and inflation. He is not alone in pushing back on the idea inflation is about to run rampant. Despite the price rises we have been seeing, many economists claim that while […]
Ten Events That Could Trigger a Stock Market Crash in 2022
Ten Events That Could Trigger a Stock Market Crash in 2022 Surprises aren’t surprises if you’re prepared Image credit It is unlikely that the American stock market will crash in 2022. Consumer spending is ramping back up, inflation is soaring, credit’s cheap and easy, and politicians are so desperate to keep this hot potato from […]
Gas Prices In Europe Are Soaring Again Amid New Cold Snap
Gas Prices In Europe Are Soaring Again Amid New Cold Snap European benchmark natural gas prices rose on Wednesday for the third day in a row, as gas deliveries from Russia via Ukraine and Poland continue to be low while another cold snap is headed to Europe. On Wednesday, natural gas prices at the Dutch […]
Entropy intensifies (E1797)
Entropy intensifies (E1797) In this special first episode of 2022 of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat to author, philosopher, and blogger Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about the acceleration in entropy of the economic, monetary, and cultural systems around us. Smith focuses on the positives of what’s to come after the collapse in terms of a […]
Tomorrowland Has Fallen!
Tomorrowland Has Fallen! Has anyone else noticed just how odd it is that so many people on the progressive end of our cultural landscape are frantically trying to convince everyone that the Omicron variant, the latest mutation of the Covid-19 cold virus, really is the end of the world? I freely grant that a lot […]
The Imbecile King who put his foot on the pedal
The Imbecile King who put his foot on the pedal Charles II was only three years old when he became the supreme ruler of the Spanish Empire in 1665. But anyone who took just one look at the child knew they were all doomed. Charles had come from a long line of prominent European nobles […]
Covid is dead. Energy is the new crisis.
Covid is dead. Energy is the new crisis. Markets are welcoming victory versus COVID, but the next crisis is upon us: Energy instability. The consequences could be dramatic.. “Trying to fire-up the induction hob by rubbing two sticks together proved a waste of time..” This morning: Markets are welcoming victory versus COVID, but the next crisis […]
Peak Gold
Peak Gold Preface. Both articles below offer the usual techno-optimism of more gold supplies from Man’s Cleverness: robots, AI, and Big and Smart Data Mining. But both are energy blind. Ores are decreasing in gold concentrations, and found in deeper and more remote places, requiring more energy to process. Where will this energy come from? […]
Pakistan Textile Exports Hit by Gas Crunch, Industry Body Says
Pakistan Textile Exports Hit by Gas Crunch, Industry Body Says $250 million of textile exports were lost in Dec., group says Energy minister rejects claims low gas supplies are to blame Pakistan’s natural gas shortage is hurting its crucial textile exports, according to an industry trade organization, putting even more stress on the nation’s struggling […]
What Will Surprise Us in 2022
What Will Surprise Us in 2022 What seemed so permanent for 13 long years will be revealed as shifting sand and what seemed so real for 13 long years will be revealed as illusion. Magical thinking isn’t optimism, it is folly. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but let’s look at what we already […]
CPM GROUP Drops The Ball On Silver Mining Industry’s Falling Ore Grades
CPM GROUP Drops The Ball On Silver Mining Industry’s Falling Ore Grades On this Happy New Year’s Eve, I decided to post a short YouTube video update on my response to CPM Group’s stance on the Primary Silver Mining Industry’s falling ore grades. The CPM Group posted on Twitter that silver ore grades fall when […]
What I See for 2022: Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Stocks & Other Assets as Central Banks Face Raging Inflation
What I See for 2022: Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Stocks & Other Assets as Central Banks Face Raging Inflation An extra-special cocktail of three powerful ingredients with no cherry on top awaits us in 2022. Super-inflated asset prices such as housing, stocks, and bonds; massive inflation; and central banks that have started to […]
Everything bubble’s end game
Everything bubble’s end game The S&P 500 closed 2021 at a new all-time high, indicating that the ongoing central bank monetary experiment is nowhere near winding down: We got used to this… but it’s actually a staggering image! For years now, we’ve seen many compelling analyses, usually based on valuation issues or macroeconomic risks, predicting […]
Bitcoin, 2022 and the Real Story Behind COVID-9/11
Bitcoin, 2022 and the Real Story Behind COVID-9/11 I don’t necessarily like to do so-called ‘annual prediction’ posts. Having written a ton of them for the newsletters I’ve written over the years, looking back on them is always a bit cringe-inducing. But 2021 was a crazy year and one where so much happened that changed […]
The Economy May Be Finally Peaking, and the Fed Won’t Help Matters
THE ECONOMY MAY BE FINALLY PEAKING, AND THE FED WON’T HELP MATTERS Here we go again it may seem to many. The Fed is preparing us for a policy tightening just when a powerful growth cycle upturn is faltering. Or is it in fact an example of another well-known type of error from Fed history—getting […]
