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We Just Witnessed The Worst Week For Global Financial Markets In 3 Years
We Just Witnessed The Worst Week For Global Financial Markets In 3 Years. Is this the start of the next major financial crisis? The nightmarish collapse of the price of oil is creating panic in financial markets all over the planet. On June 16th, U.S. oil was trading at a price of $107.52. Since then, […]
Why a Moscow meltdown could spread around the globe | World news | The Observer
Why a Moscow meltdown could spread around the globe | World news | The Observer. Russia matters. It mattered in 1998 when the shock waves from its debt default reverberated around the world. And it would matter again should the plunging oil price lead to economic collapse. That’s despite the fact that Russia is a […]
Plummeting Oil Prices Could Destroy The Banks That Are Holding Trillions In Commodity Derivatives
Plummeting Oil Prices Could Destroy The Banks That Are Holding Trillions In Commodity Derivatives. Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market? The big Wall Street banks did not expect plunging home prices to cause a mortgage-backed securities implosion back in 2008, and their models did not anticipate a […]
Oil And The Global Slowdown | Peak Prosperity
Oil And The Global Slowdown | Peak Prosperity. The world economy is slowing down and the authorities are fretting. Japan, Italy, and Greece are all in recession. China is slowing down according to official statistics, and even more according to whispered accounts. Germany, France and the Netherlands are all at stall speed. According to the […]
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…. There has only been one other time in history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 40 dollars in less than 6 months. The last time this happened was during the second half of 2008, and the beginning of that […]
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?. Are you waiting for the next major wave of the global economic collapse to strike? Well, you might want to start paying attention again. Three of the ten largest economies on the planet have already fallen […]
If Everything Is Just Fine, Why Are So Many Really Smart People Forecasting Economic Disaster?
If Everything Is Just Fine, Why Are So Many Really Smart People Forecasting Economic Disaster?. The parallels between the false prosperity of 2007 and the false prosperity of 2014 are rather striking. If we go back and look at the numbers in the fall of 2007, we find that the Dow set an all-time high […]
The Coming Stock Market Crash and The Death of Money with Jim Rickards – YouTube
The Coming Stock Market Crash and The Death of Money with Jim Rickards – YouTube. …click on the above link to view the video…
The Economy Of The Largest Superpower On The Planet Is Collapsing Right Now
The Economy Of The Largest Superpower On The Planet Is Collapsing Right Now. How do you fix a superpower with exploding levels of debt, that has a rapidly aging population, that consumes far more wealth than it produces, and that has scores of zombie banks that could collapse at any moment. You might think that […]
What Does Societal Collapse and Martial Law Look Like? | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show
What Does Societal Collapse and Martial Law Look Like? | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show. According to a survey conducted by the Adelphi University Center for Health Innovation, 55 percent of Americans believe that the government will come to their rescue when the proverbial poop hits the fan because your big brother really cares. Literally, every […]
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The End of the Market Economy
The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The End of the Market Economy One of the factors that makes it difficult to think through the economic consequences of the end of the industrial age is that we’ve all grown up in a world where every form of economic activity has been channeled through certain familiar forms […]
A Signal of Coming Collapse | Monetary Metals
A Signal of Coming Collapse | Monetary Metals. I proposed seven drivers of financial implosion in my dissertation. My recent writing has focused on two of them. One is the falling rate of interest on the 10-year government bond. As interest falls, theburden of debt rises. Since the falling rate incentivized more and more people to borrow, […]
We Have Just Witnessed The Last Gasp Of The Global Economy
We Have Just Witnessed The Last Gasp Of The Global Economy. It is difficult to find the motivation to write about the state of the global economy these days, if only because there is not much left to say. I feel like I am composing multiple obituaries for the same long dead corpse. Most of […]
Japan’s The Tinder That Set The World’s Bad News On Fire – The Automatic Earth
Japan’s The Tinder That Set The World’s Bad News On Fire – The Automatic Earth. I can do this in just about random order, the idea should still shine through, and crystal clear at that. We’re on the verge not of a market correction, but of something much bigger. All it takes to know that […]
