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Huge Debt Payments Come At Worst Time Possible For Canadian Drillers
Huge Debt Payments Come At Worst Time Possible For Canadian Drillers The collapse in oil prices has significantly deteriorated Canada’s oil companies’ finances and has made repaying their debt more challenging. Over the past decade, Canadian firms have borrowed money to survive the previous oil crisis of 2015-2016 and boost production post-crisis. But now the second […]
Chesapeake Files For Bankruptcy, Wiping Out $7 Billion In Debt And Any Existing Equity Value
Chesapeake Files For Bankruptcy, Wiping Out $7 Billion In Debt And Any Existing Equity Value After years of melting, the Chesapeake icecube is finally history: at exactly 350pm on Sunday afternoon, the company that launched the US shale boom, finally gave up and filed for a pre-packaged bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas. In […]
Can Too Big For Fed & ECB
CAN TOO BIG FOR FED & ECB There are lies, damned lies, and economists. Whether these economists work for the government or a bank, they spend all their time on the computer extrapolating current trends with minor adjustments. If you want to understand the future, don’t spend your life preparing and constantly revising an Excel […]
U.S. Debt Has No Meaning Anymore (Until It Eventually Does)
U.S. Debt Has No Meaning Anymore (Until It Eventually Does) Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped The national debt currently looks like a runaway freight train. Not only is it clocking in at $26.1 trillion at the moment, but it has made the jump of the last few trillion dollars fast. Really fast. Wolf Richter summarizes the frenzied ascent in […]
Canadian Banks Hit Hard By Low Oil Prices
Canadian Banks Hit Hard By Low Oil Prices Canada’s government has been perhaps surprisingly ready to help the country’s ailing oil industry. Interest-only loans, backstopping loans that troubled companies can’t pay have been among the steps taken so far. But they may not be enough. Canada’s oil industry has arguably suffered more than its peers across its […]
Weekly Commentary: Extraordinary Q1 2020 Z.1 Flow of Funds
Weekly Commentary: Extraordinary Q1 2020 Z.1 Flow of Funds Financial crisis erupted in March. The Fed slashed rates at a March 3rd emergency meeting – and then began aggressively expanding its holdings/balance sheet (creating market liquidity). Even from a “flow of funds” perspective, it was one extraordinary quarter. Total Non-Financial Debt (NFD) surged a nominal […]
U.S. Total Public Debt Increases a Stunning $25 Billion A Day In 2020
U.S. Total Public Debt Increases a Stunning $25 Billion A Day In 2020 Americans better become reacquainted with Gold and Silver. With the Federal Government adding $25 billion of new debt every day so far this year, at some point, investors are going to lose faith in the U.S. Dollar and U.S. Treasuries. Just think […]
Increased Violence Reflects an Energy Problem
Increased Violence Reflects an Energy Problem Why are we seeing so much violence recently? One explanation is that people are sympathizing with those in the Minneapolis area who are upset at the death of George Floyd. They believe that a white cop used excessive force in subduing Floyd, leading to his death. I believe that there […]
First the Deflationary Deluge of Assets Crashing, Then the Tsunami of Inflation
First the Deflationary Deluge of Assets Crashing, Then the Tsunami of Inflation Once the pool of greater fools dries up, stocks crash regardless of what the Fed does or bleats. The conventional view is the Federal Reserve creating trillions of dollars out of thin air will trigger inflation. Not so fast. Yes, creating trillions of dollars out of […]
Global Debt Default
Global Debt Default QUESTION: Dear Martin,I do not speculate on whether the current situation has been orchestrated intentionally or not. This to me sounds more like the case for 9/11 you often described. They knew in advance that a “pandemic” could come any time, and they took advantage of the very first virus spreading around […]
California Just Put Washington in this Economic “Catch-22”
California Just Put Washington in this Economic “Catch-22” Government bailouts are being revived, and this time, unlike during the 2008 recession, it appears large financial companies won’t be the only ones asking for help. The problem is, the government may not be able to help this time. In response to a bloated state budget and […]
No to the ECB madness
No to the ECB madness The latest ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court is a drop of bitterness in the idyll of the ECB’s excessive money printing. What Super Mario (Draghi) did and what the IMF-imported Christine Lagarde mercilessly continues – 2.6 trillion euros (since 2015), invested in government, corporate and other securities to boost […]
Pandemic, Lockdowns, Fake and Manipulated Markets – Gold and Silver Outlook
Pandemic, Lockdowns, Fake and Manipulated Markets – Gold and Silver Outlook Watch Video Update (Live 12/05/2020 ◆ The massive global debt driven “Everything Bubble” is bursting due to the pandemic and more specifically the governments draconian economic lockdowns◆ A dollar crisis is inevitable with U.S. government debt surging by some $2 trillion in a matter of weeks […]
Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards Climax
FOURTH TURNING ACCELERATING TOWARDS CLIMAX “At some point, America’s short-term Crisis psychology will catch up to the long-term post-Unraveling fundamentals. This might result in a Great Devaluation, a severe drop in the market price of most financial and real assets. This devaluation could be a short but horrific panic, a free-falling price in a market […]
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q1 2020
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q1 2020 How are consumers positioned going into the crisis? Most of the first quarter was still the Good Times, but in later February and early March it hit the fan, as markets were crashing. In mid-March lockdowns started to roll across the country, and the layoffs by […]
