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US Recession Imminent – World Trade Slumps By Most Since Financial Crisis
US Recession Imminent – World Trade Slumps By Most Since Financial Crisis As goes the world, so goes America (according to 30 years of historical data), and so when world trade volumes drop over 2% (the biggest drop since 2009) in the last six months to the weakest since June 2014, the “US recession imminent” […]
New York Times Reports – “Fannie and Freddie are Back, Bigger and Badder Than Ever”
New York Times Reports – “Fannie and Freddie are Back, Bigger and Badder Than Ever” Just in case you still harbored any doubt that absolutely zero lessons were learned from the cataclysmic financial collapse of 2008/09. We learn from the New York Times that: AFTER the financial crisis of 2008, there was one thing that almost everyone agreed […]
World Trade Drops Most Since Financial Crisis
World Trade Drops Most Since Financial Crisis Maybe we shouldn’t take our daily corporate samples too seriously. Maybe they don’t adequately represent the global economy. So IBM’s revenues last quarter plunged 13% from a year ago. It blamed China and the dollar, among other culprits. But IBM’s revenues have dropped for 13 quarters in a […]
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now? If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months ahead […]
12 Ways The Economy Is Already In Worse Shape Than It Was During The Depths Of The Last Recession
12 Ways The Economy Is Already In Worse Shape Than It Was During The Depths Of The Last Recession Did you know that the percentage of children in the United States that are living in poverty is actually significantly higher than it was back in 2008? When I write about an “economic collapse”, most people […]
4 Things That Are Happening Today That Indicate That A Deflationary Financial Collapse Is Imminent
4 Things That Are Happening Today That Indicate That A Deflationary Financial Collapse Is Imminent When financial markets crash, they do not do so in a vacuum. There are always patterns, signs and indicators that tell us that something is about to happen. In this article, I am going to share with you four patterns […]
Calgary Office Market Gets Crushed. Oil, China Blamed
Calgary Office Market Gets Crushed. Oil, China Blamed The office vacancy rate in downtown Calgary, the epicenter of the Canadian oil bust, could hit the vertigo-inducing level of 17.5% by the end of 2018, a new report by commercial real-estate firm Colliers International warned – and added some ominous clouds: “Given the current global macro […]
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next? A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocksare crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we are watching […]
Asia depends on Middle East for 66 % of its oil imports
Asia depends on Middle East for 66 % of its oil imports This post uses data from the inter area oil movement section of the BP Statistical Review published in June 2015. It is a continuation of an earlier post on Asian oil consumption and production Global trade and Asia’s share Total global oil trade […]
Systemic Turmoil, Structural Reform
Systemic Turmoil, Structural Reform “The problem with the post-2007 world is that we are not in a cyclical recovery; we are in a structural depression defined as a sustained period of below-trend growth with no end in sight. The U.S. has caught the Japanese disease. Structural depressions are not amenable to monetary solutions, they […]
16 Facts About The Tremendous Financial Devastation That We Are Seeing All Over The World
16 Facts About The Tremendous Financial Devastation That We Are Seeing All Over The World As we enter the second half of 2015, financial panic has gripped most of the globe. Stock prices are crashing in China, in Europe and in the United States. Greece is on the verge of a historic default, and now Puerto Rico […]
The Liquidity Crisis Intensifies: ‘Prepare For A Bear Market In Bonds’
The Liquidity Crisis Intensifies: ‘Prepare For A Bear Market In Bonds’ Are we about to witness trillions of dollars of “paper wealth” vaporize into thin air? During the next financial crisis, a lot of “wealthy” investors are going to be in for a very rude awakening. The truth is that securities are only worth what […]
Bank of England Could ‘Trigger the Next Financial Crisis’
Bank of England Could ‘Trigger the Next Financial Crisis’ It’s not some wayward doom-and-gloomer who said it, but the Economic Research arm of Natixis, the investment bank of France’s second largest megabank, Groupe BPCE. The analysis was talking about the Bank of England. But the Fed and other central banks, with their ingenious monetary policies, […]
Hidden In Fannie and Freddie
Hidden In Fannie and Freddie With another financial crisis fast approaching the cause of the ‘08 crash hasn’t been settled. Austrians generally line up on the side of the all-powerful Fed having lowering interest rates below what the market would produce, sending capital into malinvestments: In this case, too many subdivisions of houses and other […]
Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Totally Collapses, Top Carriers Wage Price War to Form Global Shipping Oligopoly
Shanghai Containerized Freight Index Totally Collapses, Top Carriers Wage Price War to Form Global Shipping Oligopoly This is what two unnamed container shipping executives, one from an Asian carrier, the other from a European carrier, told the Wall Street Journal about the containerized-freight fiasco on the China-Europe route: “We are now shipping at an absolute loss. With […]
