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Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over
Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over It now wants lower asset prices (just not too fast) To all those investors expecting the Fed to step in to backstop the recent weakness seen in the stock market, Wolf Richter warns: The cavalry isn’t coming. After years of force-feeding too much liquidity into […]
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
© Rangizzz | Dreamstime.com The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be Looks like we’re in for a much rockier ride than many expect This marks our our 10th year of doing this. And by “this”, we mean using data, logic and reason to support the very basic conclusion that infinite growth on a finite […]
John Butman: New World, Inc.
Photos.com/Jupiter Images John Butman: New World, Inc. From its start, resources have driven America’s fortunes We all learned in grade school that the Pilgrims sailed to North America to escape religious persecution. That’s wasn’t necessarily the case, explains author John Butman. At least, it certainly isn’t the whole story. In fact, the Pilgrim’s voyage to the […]
Steen Jakobsen: Now Is The Time To Be In Capital-Preservation Mode
Steen Jakobsen: Now Is The Time To Be In Capital-Preservation Mode Saxo Bank’s CIO predicts a 15%+ market correction soon Steen Jakobsen, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Economist of Saxo Bank, is sounding a clear warning of an arriving market correction. Over-inflated asset prices, over-crowded trades, anemic market liquidity, and a continued decline in the […]
Russia Did It!
Russia Did It! Or maybe not… This past week saw an enormous outpouring of respect and admiration for Stephen Hawking upon his passing. In contrast to his frail health in life, his contributions to our understanding of the universe were prodigious and robust. Hawking’s elevation of rational and intellectual truth above all else, even his […]
James Howard Kunstler: The Coming Economy Of “Less”
perfectlab/Shutterstock James Howard Kunstler: The Coming Economy Of “Less” Society is approaching a breaking point. Author and commentator James Howard Kunstler returns as our podcast guest this week for an update on where we are in The Long Emergency timeline. In this wide-raging discussion ranging from the pervasiveness of propaganda in today’s media to the […]
Inventory your stored food
Inventory your stored food One of the chores you can do in the winter season is to inventory your stored food. Whether it’s dehydrated, canned or frozen, it all has an expiration date. I always start my inventory with frozen things, since they have the shortest shelf life. I don’t have a lot of this sort […]
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics It’s all about Energy Retun On Energy Invested (EROEI) Dr. Charles Hall may not be a name you instantly recognize, but it should be. Now a Professor Emeritus of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Dr. Hall is a rigorous researcher of energy, oil, biophysical […]
Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight
Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight It’s time to make the decision. Choose wisely. Most experienced investors know the four most dangerous words are: This time is different. It never is. And yet one of my key predictions here at Peak Prosperity is that The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last […]
Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers
Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers It’s time we stop trusting the ‘experts’ Economists are supposed to monitor and analyze the economy, warn us if risks are getting out of hand, and advise us on how to make things runs more effectively — right? Well, even though that’s what most people expect from economists, it’s […]
Fred Hickey: Why A Lifelong Technology Expert Favors Owning Gold
Fred Hickey: Why A Lifelong Technology Expert Favors Owning Gold It’s the safest & most undervalued asset today Fred Hickey, frequent cited expert on Bloomberg News and Barron’s Roundtable, has been publishing his author extremely well-respected investment newsletter, The High-Tech Strategist, for 31 years. And he is more worried about the state of the financial markets […]
The Worst Threat We Face Is Right Here At Home
The Worst Threat We Face Is Right Here At Home The Federal Reserve is ruining us Last week, volatility made a long-overdue return to the US and global equity markets. It began with a 2-day back-to-back violent drop. Day 3 saw a big rebound, swiftly followed by two more days of gut-wrentching losses. And then […]
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets The new Fed Chair may break from his predecessors The recent gut-wrenching drop in asset prices began on the first day of the job for new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. How is Mr. Powell likely to react to a suddenly sick-looking market? […]
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now…
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now… Did today’s market plunge mark the start of the next crash? Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008. Remember back then? Everything was going great. Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful. The great cultural marketing machine was busy proclaiming that a […]
