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Money and Spheres
Money and Spheres In a tiny subsection of the analytical world, analysis is becoming more pointed and poignant. I appreciate Bill Gross’s August commentary, where he concluded: “Say a little prayer that the BIS, yours truly, and a growing cast of contrarians, such as Jim Bianco and CNBC’s Rick Santelli, can convince the establishment that […]
Ron Paul: “All Wars Paid For Through Debasing the Currency”
Ron Paul: “All Wars Paid For Through Debasing the Currency” And at some point, all empires crumble on their own excess, stretched to the breaking point by over-extending a military industrial complex with sophisticated equipment, hundreds of bases in as many countries, and never-ending wars that wrack up mind boggling levels of debt. This cost […]
Gold and the Grave Dancers
Gold and the Grave Dancers The Asset They Love to Hate … Back in the 1960s, Alan Greenspan wrote a well-known essay that to this day is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the present-day monetary and economic system (which is a kind of “fascism lite” type of statism, masquerading as capitalism) […]
What U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen doesn’t know: Don Pittis
What U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen doesn’t know: Don Pittis Continued risks to a U.S. and Canadian economic recovery keep us guessing about interest rates If everyone is so confident interest rates are going to go up in the autumn, why doesn’t U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen just say they are going to go up in […]
Fed Is Not Just Behind The Curve, It’s Driving The Bus Over The Cliff
Fed Is Not Just Behind The Curve, It’s Driving The Bus Over The Cliff So the Fed didn’t raise rates again. And the timing of the rate increase will be data dependent. Ho hum. There’s just one little problem. The inflation measures the Fed watches really don’t measure inflation. The Fed won’t see what its cronies in the government […]
Blame the Fed for the Commodities Slump
Blame the Fed for the Commodities Slump When we left you at the end of last week the world was falling apart. As you know, the economy functions on electronic credit… not cold, hard cash. Without the banks pumping more credit into the system – by way of loans – it sags. The Dow fell […]
One Economic Datapoint, Two Vastly Different Interpretations
One Economic Datapoint, Two Vastly Different Interpretations Earlier today, Case-Shiller reported that in May, housing prices dropped by 0.18%, the biggest decline since July 2014. Hardly a euphoric validation of the Fed’s rate hike intentions. So what was the mainstream media’s take on the topic? It all depends on who you ask. Reuters: or the WSJ. […]
The Big Bad Bear Case
The Big Bad Bear Case My aim with this article is to outline, with facts, large global structural issues that I believe everyone, bulls and bears alike, should be fully aware of. While some of this discussion may rattle the cage a bit you will hopefully find this article well researched and informative. Recently I’ve outlined […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics The government released their monthly CPI report this week. Even though it came in at an annualized rate of 3.6%, they and their mouthpieces in the corporate mainstream media dutifully downplayed the uptrend. They can’t let the plebs know the truth. That might upend their economic recovery storyline and put […]
Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents for first time since 2009
Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents for first time since 2009 As strong U.S. dollar helps push loonie to 6-year low, analyst sees possible drop to 73 cents The Canadian dollar fell below 77 cents against the U.S. dollar on July 17, 2015. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) The Canadian dollar dropped to below 77 cents against the U.S. […]
When a Black Swan Flies Over Wall Street’s House of Cards
When a Black Swan Flies Over Wall Street’s House of Cards A black swan is Wall Street lexicon for an unpredicted event. The author of that concept, Nassim Taleb, opines that most of the major moves in stock market history originated as black swan events coming out of nowhere, with a random, stochastic disorderliness that […]
The Big Picture
The Big Picture The past four years or so have been extremely frustrating for investors like me who have structured their portfolios around the belief that the current experiments in central bank stimulus, the anti-business drift in Washington, and America’s mediocre economy and unresolved debt issues would push down the value of the dollar, push up […]
SoT #41 – Wolf Richter: How Will The Global Asset Bubbles Unfold?
SoT #41 – Wolf Richter: How Will The Global Asset Bubbles Unfold? Stock bubble, credit market bubbles and housing market bubbles. Unfettered money printing by Central Banks globally have created massive bubbles of unprecedented proportions across all asset classes. Once Government and the Central Banks lose the power to stop markets from going down, you’ll […]
Who Enables the Man?
Who Enables the Man? “The Man” is Playing with Fire Photo credit: Keystone What is “the man” doing? 1 Printing money… literally. Paused… for now. Still reinvesting principal/proceeds from maturing securities to maintain $4.5 trn. balance sheet size. 2 With that freshly printed money [of which there were never any quantitative limits] “The […]
