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How to Survive a Stock Market Crash
How to Survive a Stock Market Crash Last week, our stock market began to freefall. By Friday, August 21, the market was down more than 1300 points. Over the course of two days, it dropped further than any single-day crash in American history. But it wasn’t just the US stock market that had a bad week. According to […]
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down As much as the financiers on Wall Street and the officials at the Fed would like the party to keep going, it looks it’s finally about to stop. Years of bailouts and monetary expansion have created one of the most inflated and artificial economic booms in history, and […]
The Federal Reserve is Not Your Friend
The Federal Reserve is Not Your Friend Fed policies disproportionately favor wealth. Imagine that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was a corporation, with its shares owned by the nation’s major pharmaceutical companies. How would you feel about the regulation of medications? Whose interests would this corporation be serving? Or suppose that major oil companies […]
The Fed Is Bluffing
The Fed Is Bluffing Interest Rates Won’t Rise in 2015 The Janet Yellen Fed will not raise interest rates in any meaningful way anytime soon. Instead, she will announce new QE programs. On Wednesday, red was showing up just about everywhere – U.S. stocks, European stocks, Asian stocks, emerging markets stocks, crude oil… but it […]
Yes, We Have No Bananas–or Rate Hikes
Yes, We Have No Bananas–or Rate Hikes The world’s most powerful central bank is relying on a novelty tune to maintain the hyper-speculative status quo. Back in the Roaring 1920s, a novelty song entitled Yes! We Have No Bananas (1923) was a major hit. The song made fun of a fruit vendor who answered “yes” to every query–even […]
The Federal Reserve – Which CREATED Quantitative Easing – Admits QE Doesn’t Work
The Federal Reserve – Which CREATED Quantitative Easing – Admits QE Doesn’t Work Even the Fed Admits QE Doesn’t Work The Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (Stephen Williamson) writes in a new Fed white paper (as explained by Zero Hedge): The theory behind Quantitative Easing (QE) is “not well-developed” The evidence in support […]
Can Kickers United—–Why It’s Getting Downright Hazardous Out There
Can Kickers United—–Why It’s Getting Downright Hazardous Out There It’s getting downright hazardous out there, and not just because the robo-machines were slamming the “sell” key today. The real danger comes from the loose assemblage of official institutions which claim to be running the world. They might better be referred to as “can kickers united.” It is now blindly obvious that they have lapsed into […]
It Starts: Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War
It Starts: Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War The biggest global “tail risk” is China’s deteriorating economy and an emerging market debt crisis, according to BofA Merrill Lynch’s monthly poll of fund managers. And 48% of them were expecting the Fed to raise rates, despite languid growth and low inflation expectations. Hot money is already fleeing emerging […]
An Almost Perfect Predictor of GDP Growth and Bernie Lays the Boots…
An Almost Perfect Predictor of GDP Growth and Bernie Lays the Boots… I recently watched a video clip of Bernie Sanders laying the boots to Alan Greenspan back in 2003, for Greenspan’s seemingly out of touch perspective of the average American. Now while we do have a repentant banker in Greenspan, a rare phenomenon for sure, I found […]
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” — Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on Meet the Press, August 2011 In a post on “Sovereign Man” dated August 14th, Simon Black […]
Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair
Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, the policy failure whose tenure at the Federal Reserve helped create the conditions for the largest financial crisis in nearly a century, was inexplicably given a major newspaper platform on Monday to opine about regulation, which he ideologically abhors. So it […]
Will the Fed Hesitate? “Everything is Too Vulnerable” for Rate Change, Says Ron Paul
Will the Fed Hesitate? “Everything is Too Vulnerable” for Rate Change, Says Ron Paul The system is teetering on edge, and nearly everyone in the financial sector is waiting for one decision – will the Fed finally raise rates? Ron Paul has made a bold prediction that the Federal Reserve likely will NOT raise interest […]
Gretchen Morgenson: Wall Street Really Does Enjoy a Different Set of Rules Than the Rest of Us
Gretchen Morgenson: Wall Street Really Does Enjoy a Different Set of Rules Than the Rest of Us What type of system might work better for our interests? Gretchen Morgenson has earned a Pulitzer-winning career from exposing abuse and conflicts of interest on Wall Street. In this interview, she confirms that there is indeed a second […]
Riskiest End of the Junk Bond Market Just Blew Up
Riskiest End of the Junk Bond Market Just Blew Up You wouldn’t know by looking at the US Treasury market, which remained relatively sanguine this week, with only a little panic buying on Tuesday. So 10-year Treasuries ended the week near where they’d started it. But at the other end of the spectrum, the riskiest […]
The Shot Not Heard Around the World
The Shot Not Heard Around the World China’s recent move to devalue the yuan has sent shock waves through the global financial markets and has convinced most observers that a new front in the global currency wars has begun. The move has caused many observes to envision a new round of competitive devaluations around the globe […]
