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Not All Forms Of Gold Ownership Are Equal
Not All Forms Of Gold Ownership Are Equal Ultimately, the value of gold is based on its tangibility. So, why do so many investors assume they’re getting the same protection from investments like gold futures that they’re getting from physical gold: while gold futures and ETFs will fill most of the needs of owning gold […]
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets The new Fed Chair may break from his predecessors The recent gut-wrenching drop in asset prices began on the first day of the job for new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. How is Mr. Powell likely to react to a suddenly sick-looking market? […]
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now…
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now… Did today’s market plunge mark the start of the next crash? Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008. Remember back then? Everything was going great. Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful. The great cultural marketing machine was busy proclaiming that a […]
Greenspan Warns: “We Have A Stock Market Bubble”
Greenspan Warns: “We Have A Stock Market Bubble” US equity markets stumbled notably as former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan told Bloomberg TV that “we have a stock market bubble.” Greenspan stuck to his usual discussion topics of low productivity and fiscal doomsday inevitability… “Productivity has been dead in the water for the past 10 years… […]
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 2
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 2 During the 40 months after Alan Greenspan’s infamous “irrational exuberance” speech in December 1996, the NASDAQ 100 index rose from 830 to 4585 or by 450%. But the perma-bulls said not to worry: This time is different—-it’s a new age of technology miracles that will change the laws […]
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 1
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 1 During the 40 months after Alan Greenspan’s infamous “irrational exuberance” speech in December 1996, the NASDAQ 100 index rose from 830 to 4585 or by 450%. But the perma-bulls said not to worry: This time is different—-it’s a new age of technology miracles that will change the laws […]
Doug Noland: There Will Be No Way Out When This Market Bubble Bursts
Doug Noland: There Will Be No Way Out When This Market Bubble Bursts Financial assets will become toxic to hold This week Doug Noland joins the podcast to discuss what he refers to as the “granddaddy of all bubbles”. Noland, a 30-year market analyst and specialist in credit cycles, currently works at McAlvany Wealth Management and […]
China’s Minsky Moment
CHINA’S MINSKY MOMENT Sometimes you have to love the naivety of the markets. At this week’s Communist Party Congress meeting in Beijing, the governor of the PBoC (People’s Bank of China) said the following; “If we are too optimistic when things go smoothly, tensions build up, which could lead to a sharp correction, what we […]
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles The week left me with an uneasy feeling. There were a number of articles noting the 30-year anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. I spent “Black Monday” staring at a Telerate monitor as a treasury analyst at Toyota’s US headquarters in Southern California. If I wasn’t completely in […]
World’s Biggest Ever Junk Bond Bubble in Pictures: What Hath Draghi Wrought?
World’s Biggest Ever Junk Bond Bubble in Pictures: What Hath Draghi Wrought? In regards to ECB QE bond purchases, inquiring minds may be asking: What hath ECB president Mario Draghi wrought? I can explain in one picture. The answer in words: The world’s biggest junk bond bubble. I prefer gold. On August 4, I commented on […]
Why The Markets Are Overdue For A Gigantic Bust
r.classen/Shutterstock Why The Markets Are Overdue For A Gigantic Bust It’s just not possible to print our way to prosperity Let me begin with a caveat: confirmation bias is an ever-present risk for an analyst such as myself. If you’re not familiar with the term, ‘confirmation bias’ suggests that once we’ve invested time and emotional […]
The Coming Great Wealth Transfer
WakingTimes.com The Coming Great Wealth Transfer Spoiler alert! It’s already here. In the past, I’ve warned about the coming Great Wealth Transfer. But now we need to talk about it in the present tense, because it’s here. And it will only accelerate from here on out. The Rich will get richer at the expense of everybody else. This […]
Alan Greenspan: Ron Paul Was Right About The Gold Standard
Alan Greenspan: Ron Paul Was Right About The Gold Standard As John Rubino eloquently puts it, “when the history of these times is written, former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan will be one of the major villains, but also one of the greatest mysteries. This is so because he has, in effect, been three different people.” Greenspan started […]
The Coming Of Depression Economics
The Coming Of Depression Economics Like it or not, this is where we have been all along and a great many people are just now catching up. No matter what Janet Yellen says about the economy, she is talking out the side of her mouth. Internally, the recovery is gone, and it is never coming […]
This is How Consumers Turn into Debt Slaves
This is How Consumers Turn into Debt Slaves The Fed likes the word “credit.” Sounds less onerous than “debt.” Consumer debt rose by $19.3 billion in September to $3.71 trillion, another record in a five-year series of records, the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors reported on Monday. Consumer debt is up 6% from a year ago, […]
