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South Korea President Threatens To Destroy North “Beyond Recovery”, Warns Of Accidental War
South Korea President Threatens To Destroy North “Beyond Recovery”, Warns Of Accidental War Following the latest ballistic missile launch from North Korea, South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in warned that further provocations could result in the complete destruction “beyond recovery” of the northern neighbor. He also repeated tjat the possibility of opening a dialogue with the […]
Gold Jumps After Mnuchin Says “Less Concerned About Inflation Than Economic Growth”
Gold Jumps After Mnuchin Says “Less Concerned About Inflation Than Economic Growth” In a potentially revealing glimpse of what is to come from the next Fed head, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, speaking during a Politico forum, told the audience: “Although we respect the Fed’s independence, we are concerned about economic growth. We’re doing everything we […]
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Which Passes Over Japan
North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Which Passes Over Japan Update 1: According to Fox News, the U.S. has now confirmed the latest North Korean missile launch. U.S. OFFICIAL CONFIRMS #NORTHKOREA FIRED BALLISTIC MISSILE: FOX NEWS * * * All the diplomatic posturing, the jawboning, the UN sanctions, and threats over the past three weeks has […]
Could Market Complexity Trigger The Next Crash?
Could Market Complexity Trigger The Next Crash? Complex systems are all around us. By one definition, a complex system is any system that features a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.) whose aggregate activity is nonlinear (not derivable from the summations of the activity of individual components) and typically exhibits hierarchical self-organization under […]
North Korea Preparing For ICBM Launch: Japan Press
North Korea Preparing For ICBM Launch: Japan Press Gold spiked and USDJPY tumbled as headlines from Japan’s Nikkei newspaper confirmed US military officials’ observations last night that North Korea is said to show signs of missile launch preparation. As the Nikkei adds, citing an unidentified Japanese government official, the missile is being prepared for launch […]
August Consumer Prices Jump Most Since January Due To Soaring Energy, Shelter Costs
August Consumer Prices Jump Most Since January Due To Soaring Energy, Shelter Costs After disappointing (for The Fed’s inflationistas) producer prices growth yesterday, consumer prices jumped 0.4% MoM in August – the biggest spike since January. Gains were driven by soaring energy costs (offset by a big decline in vehicle prices). Year over Year, CPI […]
North Korea Threatens To “Sink” Japan With Nuclear Weapons, “Reduce The US To Ashes”
North Korea Threatens To “Sink” Japan With Nuclear Weapons, “Reduce The US To Ashes” Less than a day after US officials observed North Korea moving mobile missile launchers and engaging in preparations for what appears to be another missile test, a North Korean state committee has stepped up its belligerent rhetoric, threatening to use nuclear […]
Bill Blain Crawls Back Into His Pit: “There Is Apparently Nothing To Worry About”
Bill Blain Crawls Back Into His Pit: “There Is Apparently Nothing To Worry About” What do we know different this morning? There is apparently nothing to worry about. Everything is coming up roses. These are not the droids you are looking for – says my market guru Steve Previs. All the old market bears, like […]
Fathom Consulting: “There Is A Bubble In Everything Except Housing”
Fathom Consulting: “There Is A Bubble In Everything Except Housing” Presented with minimal comments, the following ‘picture’ from Fathom Consulting paints a thousand words of unsustainability and delusion… h/t @Schuldensuehner While we agree with most of the chart above’s content, we note that the call on the ‘housing’ non-bubble all depends on which market you […]
De-Dollarization Spikes – Venezuela Stops Accepting Dollars For Oil Payments
De-Dollarization Spikes – Venezuela Stops Accepting Dollars For Oil Payments Did the doomsday clock on the petrodollar (and implicitly US hegemony) just tick one more minute closer to midnight? Source: The Burning Platform Apparently confirming what President Maduro had warned following the recent US sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reports that Venezuela has officially stopped […]
“What Did They Expect?” Turkey Pivots From NATO, Signs Russia Missile Deal
“What Did They Expect?” Turkey Pivots From NATO, Signs Russia Missile Deal Confirming, and sending the clearest sign of his previously discussed pivot toward Russia and away from NATO and the West, on Tuesday President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey had signed a deal to purchase a Russian surface-to-air missile system, and paid the […]
Offshore Drilling Giant Seadrill Files For Bankruptcy
Offshore Drilling Giant Seadrill Files For Bankruptcy Seadrill Ltd., the London-based offshore driller controlled by billionaire Norwegian shipping magnate John Fredriksen, filed bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of Texas after working out a deal with most of its senior lenders to inject $1 billion of new money into the company pursuant to a pre-arranged […]
Bank of America Stumbles On A $51 Trillion Problem
Bank of America Stumbles On A $51 Trillion Problem At the end of June, the Institute of International Finance delivered a troubling verdict: in a period of so-called “coordinated growth”, total global debt (including financial) hit a new all time high of $217 trillion in 2017, over 327% of global GDP, and up $50 trillion […]
WTI/RBOB Sink After Big Crude Build, Production Jump Offsets Greatest Gasoline Inventory Draw In History
WTI/RBOB Sink After Big Crude Build, Production Jump Offsets Greatest Gasoline Inventory Draw In History WTI and RBOB prices are higher this morning following API’s reported the biggest gasoline draw in history (compared to EIA data). Of course, disruptions (Florida demand and Texas supply) remain dominant but DOE reports a massive 8.4mm draw in Gasoline […]
Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels
Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels A new bombshell joint report issued by two international weapons monitoring groups Tuesday confirms that the Pentagon continues to ship record breaking amounts of weaponry into Syria and that the Department of Defense is scrubbing its own paper trail. On Tuesday the Organized […]
