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Deflation Warning: The Next Wave
Deflation Warning: The Next Wave The global economic slump is accelerating The signs of deflation are now flashing all over the globe. In our estimation, the possibility of an associated financial crisis is now dangerously high over the next few months. As we’ve been saying for a while, our preferred model for how things are […]
Charles Eisenstein: What Is Wealth?
Charles Eisenstein: What Is Wealth? It’s about so much more than just money Recently, author and “de-growth activist” Charles Eisenstein stopped by the Martenson homestead while traveling on business. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Chris sat him down to record an impromptu discussion on the nature of wealth. As should come as little surprise to Peak […]
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources Disproving the fatal assumption central planners make Author Kurt Cobb writes frequently on energy and the environment and warns that our current economic policy suffers from a fatal degree of magical thinking: sufficient new resources will emerge if the price is high enough. As any fourth grader will tell you, […]
Jeffrey Brown: To Understand The Oil Story, You Need To Understand Exports
Jeffrey Brown: To Understand The Oil Story, You Need To Understand Exports Peak Oil is very much alive Despite the attention-grabbing economic volatility that is grabbing headlines, it’s important to keep our eye on the energy story firmly in focus. This is especially true as the headlines we regularly read about Peak Oil being dead […]
The Margin Debt Time-Bomb
The Margin Debt Time-Bomb A terrible threat created by terrible decision-making What is perhaps the greatest risk to individual investors these days? Is it the potential for a decline in corporate earnings based on a slowing global economy? Is it that current valuation levels in both equities and fixed income instruments are much nearer historic […]
Here’s Why The Markets Have Suddenly Become So Turbulent
Here’s Why The Markets Have Suddenly Become So Turbulent A perfect storm of failing trends When stock markets are free-falling 10+% in a matter of days, it’s natural to seek some answers to the question “why now?” Some are saying it was all the result of high-frequency trading (HFT), while others point to China’s modest […]
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge Are you prepared for further turmoil? The global deflationary wave we have been tracking since last fall is picking up steam. This is the natural and unavoidable aftereffect of a global liquidity bubble brought to you courtesy of the world’s main central banks. What goes up must come […]
Gretchen Morgenson: Wall Street Really Does Enjoy a Different Set of Rules Than the Rest of Us
Gretchen Morgenson: Wall Street Really Does Enjoy a Different Set of Rules Than the Rest of Us What type of system might work better for our interests? Gretchen Morgenson has earned a Pulitzer-winning career from exposing abuse and conflicts of interest on Wall Street. In this interview, she confirms that there is indeed a second […]
Is China’s “Black Box” Economy About to Come Apart?
Is China’s “Black Box” Economy About to Come Apart? A China crisis will de-stabilize the world After 30 years of torrid expansion, perhaps the single most consequential factor in China’s economy is how much of it is a “black box”: a system with visible inputs and outputs whose internal workings are opaque. There are number […]
Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb
Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb The master predicament that remains unaddressed In 1968, Paul Ehrlich released his ground-breaking book The Population Bomb, which awoke the national consciousness to the collision-course world population growth is on with our planet’s finite resources. His work was reinforced several years later by the Limits To Growth report issued by the Club of […]
Deflation Is Winning – Beware!
Deflation Is Winning – Beware! Expect the ride to get even rougher Deflation is back on the front burner and it’s going to destroy all of the careful central planning and related market manipulation of the past 6 years. Clear signs from the periphery indicate that a destructive deflationary pulse has been unleashed. Tanking commodity […]
All Hail Our Banking Overlords!
All Hail Our Banking Overlords! We work for them, plain & simple You really have to be paying attention to see what’s truly going on these days. The keepers of the system, that is the banking elites, now openly control everything — though you’d never know that by listening to the media. Consider this: Eurozone backs […]
Why Greece Is The Precursor To The Next Global Debt Crisis
Why Greece Is The Precursor To The Next Global Debt Crisis The Eurozone fantasy will be one of the early casualties The one undeniable truth about the debt drama in Greece is that each of the conventional narratives—financial, political and historical—has some claim of legitimacy. For example, spendthrift Greeks shunned fiscal discipline: here’s an account […]
