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The Next Financial Crisis Won’t be Like the Last One
The Next Financial Crisis Won’t be Like the Last One It seems increasingly likely the next Global Financial Meltdown will arise in the FX/currency markets. Central banks are like generals: they tend to fight the last war. The Great Financial meltdown of 2008 was centered in too big to fail, too big to jailtransnational banks and other […]
Cash Withdrawal Limits and “Bank Holidays” Coming
Cash Withdrawal Limits and “Bank Holidays” Coming Concerns that next crisis may be imminent Bail-ins, withdrawal limits and negative interest rates may be imposed FT proposes a ban on “barbarous relic” cash Central banks would have people “completely under their control” – Bonner Gold in safe jurisdictions will again protect wealth Collapsing commodities prices, erratic […]
Today Is the Last Day of Trading on Wall Street Before Shemitah Ends… What Will Happen This Time?
Today Is the Last Day of Trading on Wall Street Before Shemitah Ends… What Will Happen This Time? This isn’t meant to be another one of those scary September 2015 stories, but we can’t just completely ignore history either. Today isn’t just the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It also happens to […]
Is the Justice Department Finally Ready to Jail Corporate Criminals?
Is the Justice Department Finally Ready to Jail Corporate Criminals? The single greatest travesty to afflict American society in the 21st century has been the abandonment of the rule of law and accountability. It’s worse than the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent loss of privacy and civil liberties. It’s even worse than the economic devastation unleashed by […]
Global Economy Nearing a “Structural Recession”
Global Economy Nearing a “Structural Recession” And monetary policies will be “ineffective” To the never-ending astonishment of our economists, global growth has been much weaker since the Financial Crisis than before it, despite enormous global stimulus from years of extreme central-bank monetary policies and record amounts of government deficit spending. This should not have happened, according […]
This Is EXACTLY What The Early Phases Of A Market Meltdown Look Like
This Is EXACTLY What The Early Phases Of A Market Meltdown Look Like There is so much confusion out there. On the days when the Dow goes down by several hundred points, lots of people pat me on the back and tell me that I “nailed” my call for the second half of this year. […]
“Liars Loans” are Back…but with a Twist
“Liars Loans” are Back…but with a Twist Most of you will be intimately familiar with the roll “liars loans” played in last decade’s financial crisis. In a nutshell, these were loans in which the borrower was encouraged to lie about his or her income in order to qualify for a mortgage they couldn’t actually handle. […]
Globalized Crisis
Globalized Crisis If there is a bright side to the turmoil that has roiled the global economy since 2008, it is that not every part of the world has erupted simultaneously. The first blow was the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, to which Europeans responded with self-satisfied reflections on the superior resilience of […]
Inflation, the Fed, and the Big Picture
Inflation, the Fed, and the Big Picture CAMBRIDGE – Inflation – its causes and its connection to monetary policy and financial crises – was the theme of this year’s international conference of central bankers and academics in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. But, while policymakers’ desire to be prepared for potential future risks to price stability is understandable, they […]
September 2015 Sure Started Off With Quite A Bang, Eh?
September 2015 Sure Started Off With Quite A Bang, Eh? After enduring their worst August in 17 years, U.S. stocks are off to their worst start to a September in 13 years. Just yesterday, I declared that we would be entering the “danger zone” this month, and it didn’t take long for the action to begin. Historically, […]
Why we need to lie to ourselves about the state of the economy
Why we need to lie to ourselves about the state of the economy Since 2007, global debt has grown by US$57 trillion, or 17 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product. Photo: Louie Douvis Like the characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the world awaits the return of wealth and prosperity. But the global economy […]
Lies You Will Hear As The Economic Collapse Progresses
Lies You Will Hear As The Economic Collapse Progresses It is undeniable; the final collapse triggers are upon us, triggers alternative economists have been warning about since the initial implosion of 2008. In the years since the derivatives disaster, there has been no end to the absurd and ludicrous propaganda coming out of mainstream financial […]
The Real Long Term Threat To The Oil & Gas Industry
The Real Long Term Threat To The Oil & Gas Industry As oil prices continue their downward slide, most investors and firms are understandably eyeing prices, revenues, and exploration costs nervously. All that makes sense, as there is a good chance some oil firms will face liquidity crunches and restructuring over the next year. In […]
