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Why “This Sucker Is Going Down”
Why “This Sucker Is Going Down” Once the contagion starts spreading, loose money won’t put the fires out. As the nation’s political and economic leaders struggled to contain the 2008 financial meltdown, President George W. Bush famously summed the situation up: “If money doesn’t loosen up, this sucker will go down. “Eleven years into the loose money recovery, this […]
Trade Wars Just Getting Started
Trade Wars Just Getting Started Markets are eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the so-called “phase one” trade deal between the U.S. and China. Both parties are trying to reach a mini-deal involving simple tariff reductions and a truce on new tariffs along with Chinese purchases of pork and soybeans from the U.S. The likely success […]
The Masses Are Being Conditioned to Ignore the Economic Bubble
The Masses Are Being Conditioned to Ignore the Economic Bubble In the second week of October, after the “partial” U.S.-China trade deal was announced to much fanfare, I made this prediction: US and Chinese officials rarely waste an opportunity to use trade talk headlines to head-fake markets with false hope. Rumors of a “partial” or tentative […]
Central Bankers Panic Over Exuberant Financial Market “Fragility”, Warn Risks Are “Underestimated”
Central Bankers Panic Over Exuberant Financial Market “Fragility”, Warn Risks Are “Underestimated” You know it’s bad when… even the central bankers are warning that the monster they’ve created is out of control. As stocks have exploded higher in the face of declining earnings… And collapsing macro-economic data… Policy makers from the world’s central banks are suddenly […]
Rabobank: “Global Central-Bankery Continues To Go Where No-One Has Gone Before”
Rabobank: “Global Central-Bankery Continues To Go Where No-One Has Gone Before” Stocks at new recorder record highs; bonds up (yields down); CNY up; broad USD DXY up; China issuing USD6bn of sovereign debt at a narrow spread over USTs….it’s all up, up, and away. And why not? Trump tells us the US is “in the […]
Peter Schiff: There Are Bubbles Everywhere and They’re All Going to Pop
Peter Schiff: There Are Bubbles Everywhere and They’re All Going to Pop The Dow pushed above 28,000 on Friday. The Nasdaq also closed on a record high above 8,500, and the S&P 500 made a new record high of 3,120. This despite some more gloomy economic data that came out during the day. Industrial production […]
Global Debt To Hit All Time High $255 Trillion, 330% Of World GDP
Global Debt To Hit All Time High $255 Trillion, 330% Of World GDP There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and that global debt will keep rising in perpetuity. Addressing the third, yesterday the Institute of International Finance reported that global debt has now hit $250 trillion and is expected to hit a record $255 trillion […]
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse After a month of constant verbal gymnastics (and diarrhea from financial pundit sycophants who can’t think creatively or originally and merely parrot their echo chamber in hopes of likes/retweets) by the Fed that the recent launch of $60 […]
Guess Who Is Preparing For A Major Stock Market Crash?
Guess Who Is Preparing For A Major Stock Market Crash? Pessimism is spreading like wildfire on Wall Street, and this is particularly true among one very important group of investors. And considering how much money they have, it may be wise to listen to what they are telling us. According to a very alarming survey […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – November 11th 2019
BLAIN’S FINANCIAL PORRIDGE – NOV 11TH 2019 “Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well. He rained us with bullets and showered us with shell. In five minutes flat he’d blown us all to hell. . ” Last week stock markets staged a spectacular rally off the back of the “improved” trade outlook. Bonds […]
Crashing The Financial System For Fun And Profit
Crashing The Financial System For Fun And Profit Huge Fortunes Can Be Made In Falling Markets It would be wise to remember we are in uncharted waters and this market could reverse on a dime. The stories flowing out of companies such as WeWork that are burning through cash screams danger ahead! This means we […]
Three Examples Of How Chaos Theory Affects Financial Markets
Three Examples Of How Chaos Theory Affects Financial Markets Chaos Theory – the idea that a butterfly in Thailand could cause a US hurricane – can actually create positive outcomes as well as mayhem. Consider that European banks, German long-term bunds and the offshore yuan are essentially the butterflies making for pleasant investment conditions just […]
November 4th, 2019… Back in the Real World…
November 4th, 2019… Back in the Real World… Trawling through the market headlines this morning, I’m struck by the number of comments about how much better the investment environment looks. There is less likelihood of a global recession, corporate earnings aren’t as bad as expected, and jobs are growing. I am unconvinced. I see worrying […]
What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends?
What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends? The phenomenon works – until it doesn’t. What’s astonishing is how long it works. This is the transcript from my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT: There is a phenomenon in stock markets, in bond markets, in housing markets, in cryptocurrency markets, and in other markets where […]
The Economic Crisis of 2008 Did Not End, It Has Been in Remission
The Economic Crisis of 2008 Did Not End, It Has Been in Remission There have been many articles appearing in recent months suggesting that the economy might go into a recession within the next year. Many have focused on whether the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates to stop this from happening. There also has been a […]
