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Stock Markets All Over The World Crash As We Begin 2016
Stock Markets All Over The World Crash As We Begin 2016 The first trading day of 2016 was full of chaos and panic. It started in Asia where the Nikkei was down 582 points, Hong Kong was down 587 points, and Chinese markets experienced an emergency shutdown after the CSI 300 tumbled 7 percent. When European […]
“Fed Policy Is Toxic,” Michael Burry Warns “The Little Guy Will Pay” For The Next Crisis
“Fed Policy Is Toxic,” Michael Burry Warns “The Little Guy Will Pay” For The Next Crisis We are sure, just as many of the so-called “smartest men in the room” ignored him last time, so every status-quo-maintaining, asset-gathering, commission-taker will be quick to dissonantly shrug off Michael Burry’s (the economic soothsayer from Michael Lewis’ book […]
58 Facts About The U.S. Economy From 2015 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
58 Facts About The U.S. Economy From 2015 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe The world didn’t completely fall apart in 2015, but it is undeniable that an immense amount of damage was done to the U.S. economy. This year the middle class continued to deteriorate, more Americans than ever found themselves living in […]
The Political Consequences of Financial Crises
The Political Consequences of Financial Crises LONDON – I may not be the only finance professor who, when setting essay topics for his or her students, has resorted to a question along the following lines: “In your view, was the global financial crisis caused primarily by too much government intervention in financial markets, or by […]
Interview Willem Middelkoop About The Big Reset
Interview Willem Middelkoop About The Big Reset The very reason I became interested in gold after the financial crisis in 2008 was because of Dutch gold guru, author, journalist, entrepreneur, and fund manager Willem Middelkoop. When I started reading his books I was immediately obsessed with economics and the gold market – along with thousands of others across the world. […]
The Global Commodity Crash Tells Us That A Major Deflationary Financial Crisis Is Imminent
The Global Commodity Crash Tells Us That A Major Deflationary Financial Crisis Is Imminent If we really are plunging into a deflationary global financial crisis, we would expect to see commodity prices crash hard. That happened just before the great stock market crash of 2008, and that is precisely what is happening once again right […]
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Plunged Below 38 Dollars A Barrel?
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Plunged Below 38 Dollars A Barrel? On Monday, the price of U.S. oil dropped below 38 dollars a barrel for the first time in six years. The last time the price of oil was this low, the global financial system was melting down and the […]
Peter Schiff Warns: “The Whole Economy Has Imploded… Collapse Is Coming”
Peter Schiff Warns: “The Whole Economy Has Imploded… Collapse Is Coming” Back before 2008 Peter Schiff was harshly criticized and laughed at for his predictions about a coming economic collapse. Among other things Schiff warned that consumer spending had hit a wall, stocks were overpriced and lax credit lending practices would lead to a detonation of the […]
Review of Mirowski’s Never Let a Serious Crisis Go To Waste
REVIEW OF MIROWSKIS NEVER LET A SERIOUS CRISIS GO TO WASTE INTRODUCTION Philip Mirowski, known for his book More heat than light – economics as social physics, physics as nature’s economics in which he criticizes neoclassical economics for adopting methods from the natural sciences, recently published a book on neoliberalism and the economic profession during the financial […]
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse The 7th largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying recession, as has much of the rest of South America. But it isn’t just South America that is experiencing a very […]
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse The 7th largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying recession, as has much of the rest of South America. But it isn’t just South America that is experiencing a very […]
The $4.6 Trillion Leveraged Loan Market—–Next Crisis In The Making
The $4.6 Trillion Leveraged Loan Market—–Next Crisis In The Making Financial crises take about a decade to be born. Having lived through four of them, I see the raw materials for a fifth one — flowing from the collapse of so-called leveraged loans — debt piled on top of companies with weak credit ratings. Before examining […]
Advice to the Prime Minister/President
Advice to the Prime Minister/President Your country faces a stagnating economy. Let us assume your Prime Minister (or President if that is who holds the executive power) seeks advice from two imaginary economists. PM: You two economists have different views on what our economic policy should be. What is your advice? FIRST ECONOMIST (Austrian school): Prime Minister, the […]
50 Ways to Leave the Euro: Greece and the Global Crisis
50 Ways to Leave the Euro: Greece and the Global Crisis A sticker reads “No” on the palm of a protester during a demonstration calling for a ‘No’ vote in the upcoming referendum in Athens on Jul 3, 2015. (Photo: AFP/Aris Messinis) The problem is all inside your head, I told the Greeks The answer is […]
4 Harbingers Of Stock Market Doom That Foreshadowed The 2008 Crash Are Flashing Red Again
4 Harbingers Of Stock Market Doom That Foreshadowed The 2008 Crash Are Flashing Red Again So many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed just before the stock market crash of 2008 are playing out once again right before our eyes. Most of the time, a stock market crash doesn’t just come out of […]
