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A Brief History on How the Federal Reserve Became the Undemocratic, Corrupt and Destructive Force it is Today
A Brief History on How the Federal Reserve Became the Undemocratic, Corrupt and Destructive Force it is Today Perhaps the most famous, and prescient, financial cartoon in American history is the depiction of the Federal Reserve Bank as a giant octopus that would come to parasitically suck the life out of all U.S. institutions as well […]
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street On October 2 the BLS reported absolutely atrocious employment data, with virtually no job growth other than the phantom jobs added by the fantastically wrong Birth/Death adjustment for all those new businesses springing up around the country. The MSM couldn’t even spin […]
Professor Bernanke’s Bogus Contra-factual, Part 1: The Myth Of Great Depression 2.0
Professor Bernanke’s Bogus Contra-factual, Part 1: The Myth Of Great Depression 2.0 It took no “courage” whatsoever to inflate the Fed’s balance sheet from $900 billion to $2.3 trillion during just 17 weeks in September-December 2008. What it actually took was an epochal con job by a naïve Keynesian academic whose single idea about economics was primitive, self-serving, borrowed and […]
Ignore the Media Bullsh*t–Retail Implosion Proves We Are In Recession
Ignore the Media Bullsh*t–Retail Implosion Proves We Are In Recession Here we go again. The dying legacy media will continue to support the status quo, who provide their dwindling advertising revenue, by papering over the truth with platitudes, lies, and misinformation. I have been detailing the long slow death of retail in America for the […]
The Death Of Hopium
The Death Of Hopium Tech Bubble 3.0 is in the process of bursting As many readers know, I spent 13 years living and working in Silicon Valley before partnering up with Chris to start Peak Prosperity. I got my MBA at Stanford in 1999 when the dot-com bubble was at its zenith, and worked for […]
IMF: $3 trillion in “Over-Borrowing Now Threatens To Unleash a Wave of Defaults”
IMF: $3 trillion in “Over-Borrowing Now Threatens To Unleash a Wave of Defaults” The next great financial crisis may be only a short time away. As readers know, SHTF has routinely covered the bleak warnings and predictions of market insiders and critics of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. Now, there is yet another indication […]
Hillary, Bernie, and the Banks
Hillary, Bernie, and the Banks Giant Wall Street banks continue to threaten the wellbeing of millions of Americans, but what to do? Bernie Sanders says break them up and resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act that once separated investment from commercial banking. Hillary Clinton says charge them a bit more and oversee them more carefully. Most Republicans […]
When it Really Mattered, Ben Bernanke Coddled, Protected & Bailed Out Financial Criminals
When it Really Mattered, Ben Bernanke Coddled, Protected & Bailed Out Financial Criminals Most of you will have seen Ben Bernanke’s recent crocodile tears regarding how he wished more individuals were held responsible, for you know, destroying the American middle class and handing over the nation to a handful of criminal oligarchs. As David Dayen notes, he […]
Global Financial Meltdown Coming? Clear Signs That The Great Derivatives Crisis Has Now Begun
Global Financial Meltdown Coming? Clear Signs That The Great Derivatives Crisis Has Now Begun Warren Buffett once referred to derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction“, and it was inevitable that they would begin to wreak havoc on our financial system at some point. While things may seem somewhat calm on Wall Street at the […]
US Economy Flies into “Coffin Corner,” But We Don’t Mind!
US Economy Flies into “Coffin Corner,” But We Don’t Mind! Every year, Wall Street economists see a spike in a few indicators and announce an imminent boom. This slowly fades away, leaving another year of slow growth — preventing full recovery from the crash. Readers of the FM website have seen this accurately reported since […]
What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
What’s The Worst That Could Happen? Via ConvergEx’s Nicholas Colas, The 30 stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average currently trade for an average of 14.8x next year’s consensus earnings. But… Everyone knows Wall Street analysts are always too optimistic, so what if we just look at the lowest estimate for each company? That “Worst Case […]
