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Carnage in US Natural Gas as Price Falls off the Chart
Carnage in US Natural Gas as Price Falls off the Chart All eyes are on Chesapeake. The price of natural gas in the US has gotten completely destroyed. The process started in July 2008, at over $13 per million Btu and continues through today, at $1.77 per million Btu. In between, natural gas traded at […]
Canadian dollar on track for 2nd-worst year ever
Canadian dollar on track for 2nd-worst year ever Currency is down 17% year-to-date against the U.S. currency The Canadian dollar hasn’t been at par with the U.S. dollar for three years. This year, the loonie’s slide against the American dollar was one of the biggest ever. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) The word “beleaguered” — often used to describe […]
Epocalypse Soon: The Great Economic Collapse is Happening
Epocalypse Soon: The Great Economic Collapse is Happening I use the term “epocalypse” to name the last days of the global economy as we know it — a global economic collapse of biblical proportion. It is economic, epochal, an apocalypse that will change the world and a collapse … all in one word that sounds the right size for what I’m talking about. […]
The End of the Bubble Finance Era
The End of the Bubble Finance Era We are nearing a crucial inflection point in the worldwide bubble finance cycle that has been underway for more than two decades. To wit, the world’s central banks have finally run out of dry powder. They will be unable to stop the credit implosion which must inexorably follow […]
Bank of Canada Crushes Loonie, Creates Mother of All Shorts
Bank of Canada Crushes Loonie, Creates Mother of All Shorts Clear winners: rich Chinese who buy homes in Canada. The Canadian dollar swooned 1% against the US dollar on Friday, to US$0.7270, after having gotten hammered for the past six of seven trading days. It’s down 5% in November so far, 15.5% year-to-date, and 31% from its […]
Plunging Commodities Interfere With The New World Order
Plunging Commodities Interfere With The New World Order Anglo American, a British company, and one of the world’s biggest miners, and a ‘producer’ (actually just a miner, how did those two terms ever get mixed up?!) of platinum (world no. 1), diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore and coal, said today it would scrap dividends AND […]
Looney Plunges As Canadian GDP Collapses Most Since 2009
Looney Plunges As Canadian GDP Collapses Most Since 2009 Who could have seen that coming? It appears, for America’s northern brethren, low oil proces are unequivocally terrible. Against expectations of a flat 0.0% unchanged September, Canadian GDP plunged 0.5% – its largest MoM drop since March 2009 and the biggest miss since Dec 2008. With Canada’s housing […]
“One Big Shock Away from a Global Downturn…”
“One Big Shock Away from a Global Downturn…” Zombies vs. Cronies DUBLIN – Most elections these days are contests between cronies and zombies. The left favors the zombies. The right favors the cronies. In yesterday’s presidential elections in Argentina the zombies lost. It’s time for the cronies to take over. New Argentine president Mauricio Macri […]
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse
The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse The 7th largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying recession, as has much of the rest of South America. But it isn’t just South America that is experiencing a very […]
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead Not Immune Cold winds of deflation gust across the autumn economic landscape. Global trade languishes and commodities rust away like abandoned scrap metal with a visible dusting of frost. The economic optimism that embellished markets heading into 2015 have cooled as the year moves through its final stretch. Photo credit: David […]
The Commodity Roller Coaster
The Commodity Roller Coaster CAMBRIDGE – The global commodity super-cycle is hardly a new phenomenon. Though the details vary, primary commodity exporters tend to act out the same story, and economic outcomes tend to follow recognizable patterns. But the element of predictability in the path of the commodity-price cycle, like that in the course of […]
The Great Fall Of China Started At Least 4 Years Ago
The Great Fall Of China Started At Least 4 Years Ago Looking through a bunch of numbers and graphs dealing with China recently, it occurred to us that perhaps we, and most others with us, may need to recalibrate our focus on what to emphasize amongst everything we read and hear, if we’re looking to […]
Junk Bonds Under Pressure
Junk Bonds Under Pressure While the Stock Market is Partying … There are seemingly always “good reasons” why troubles in a sector of the credit markets are supposed to be ignored – or so people are telling us, every single time. Readers may recall how the developing problems in the sub-prime sector of the mortgage […]
Weekly Commentary: Risk Off?
Weekly Commentary: Risk Off? The “Granddaddy of All Bubbles” thesis rests upon the view that the world is in the midst of the precarious grand finale of a multi-decade global Credit and financial Bubble. When a Bubble bursts, system reflation requires an even larger fresh new Bubble. This has repeatedly been the case going back […]
4 Harbingers Of Stock Market Doom That Foreshadowed The 2008 Crash Are Flashing Red Again
4 Harbingers Of Stock Market Doom That Foreshadowed The 2008 Crash Are Flashing Red Again So many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed just before the stock market crash of 2008 are playing out once again right before our eyes. Most of the time, a stock market crash doesn’t just come out of […]
