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US National Debt Spiked by $1.5 trillion in 6 Weeks, to $25 trillion. Fed Monetized 90%
US National Debt Spiked by $1.5 trillion in 6 Weeks, to $25 trillion. Fed Monetized 90% I’d never imagined I’d ever see this sort of spike, though in recent years I added an upward arrow with “Debt out the wazoo” to my charts, not realizing just how factually accurate this technical term would become. The […]
U.S. Public Debt Increases More In April Than During Entire 2019
U.S. Public Debt Increases More In April Than During Entire 2019 The U.S. public debt increased at the fastest rate ever during April. Due to the negative economic impacts stemming from the global contagion, the U.S. Treasury increased the federal debt by a whopping $1.3 trillion in a single month. The additional $1.3 trillion of […]
Game Over For Oil, The Economy is Next
GAME OVER FOR OIL, THE ECONOMY IS NEXT It’s game-over for most of the U.S. oil industry. Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers is to shut in their wells. That means no income. Most have considerable debt so bankruptcy is next. Peggy Noonan wrote in her column recently that […]
Powell: “Now Is Not The Time To Be Concerned About Debt”
Powell: “Now Is Not The Time To Be Concerned About Debt” In what was perhaps the most illuminating soundbite from the Powell press conference, in response to a question about the sustainability of the US fiscal trajectory in general, and the soaring debt and deficit in particular – both of which the Fed is now […]
FIRST SHALE OIL DOMINO TO FALL: More to Follow
FIRST SHALE OIL DOMINO TO FALL: More to Follow In a stunning news release, Continental Resources, the largest shale producer in the Bakken, is shutting in most of its production in the region. That is one hell of a lot of output to shut-in as Continental Resources was producing over 200,000 barrels per day in […]
Rabobank: It Is Understandable Why Some Are Wondering When We Get Hyper-inflation And Currency Collapse
Rabobank: It Is Understandable Why Some Are Wondering When We Get Hyper-inflation And Currency Collapse With so much liquidity being thrown into so many markets by so many so fast, it is perhaps understandable that some are wondering when we get inflation, hyper-inflation, and/or currency collapse. However, given we are riddled with World War Two […]
COMING COLLAPSE OF U.S. FINANCIAL PONZI SCHEME: Leading To Exploding Gold & Silver Prices
COMING COLLAPSE OF U.S. FINANCIAL PONZI SCHEME: Leading To Exploding Gold & Silver Prices Americans are totally unprepared for the coming collapse in the U.S. Financial Ponzi Scheme and Economy. While the highly-leveraged debt-based U.S. financial system and economy were going to implode on their own in due time, the global contagion has sped up […]
Banks Will Not Bail Out The Economy
Banks Will Not Bail Out The Economy These days, we hear a lot that banks were the problem in the 2008 crisis and now they are the part of the solution. Banking was not the main problem of the 2008 crisis, but one of the symptoms that indicated a more serious disease, the excess risk taken by […]
What Happens When The Pandemic Ends?
What Happens When The Pandemic Ends? Let’s assume that by the end of this year a combination of social distancing and some new and effective treatments convert covid-19 from existential threat to chronic nuisance and the economy starts to assume an air of normalcy. Which is to say that people go back to traveling and […]
#MacroView: Is The “Debt Chasm” Too Big For The Fed To Fill?
#MacroView: Is The “Debt Chasm” Too Big For The Fed To Fill? Over the last month, the Federal Reserve, and the Government, have unleashed a torrent of liquidity into the U.S. markets to offset a credit crisis of historic proportions. Here is a list of programs already implemented which have already surpassed all programs during […]
The Liquidity Crisis Is Quickly Becoming A Global Solvency Crisis As FRA/OIS, Euribor Soar
The Liquidity Crisis Is Quickly Becoming A Global Solvency Crisis As FRA/OIS, Euribor Soar One month after turmoil was unleashed on capital markets, when the combination of the Saudi oil price war and the sweeping impact of the coronavirus pandemic finally hit developed nations, what was until now mostly a liquidity crisis is starting to […]
Gold Futures Extend Gains To 8 Year Highs After Pelosi’s Trillion-Dollar Promise
Gold Futures Extend Gains To 8 Year Highs After Pelosi’s Trillion-Dollar Promise COVID-19 appears to have impacted the deep fiscally-conservative regions of the brains of politicians more than many suspected possible as left, right, and center seem to be coalescing around the fact that moar spending is better, moar helicopter money is even better-er, and […]
When It’s Over, Will We Be the Same America?
When It’s Over, Will We Be the Same America? If March shocked this nation as severely as 9/11, what is coming may be even more sobering. “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” said Samuel Johnson. And as it is with […]
Don’t Wait For the Storm to Pass–Learn to Dance in the Rain!
DON’T WAIT FOR THE STORM TO PASS – LEARN TO DANCE IN THE RAIN! Whoever doesn’t learn to dance in the rain will struggle to survive the virtually non-stop storms that the world will experience in the next few years. The abrupt downturn in the global economy, triggered but not caused by coronavirus, came as […]
