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Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points And Wal-Mart Closes 269 Stores
Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points And Wal-Mart Closes 269 Stores Did you know that 15 trillion dollars of global stock market wealth has been wiped out since last June? The worldwide financial crisis that began in the middle of last year is starting to spin wildly out of control. On Friday, […]
Markets Are Correcting Hard
Markets Are Correcting Hard An assessment of the risks of things getting worse from here The long-awaited global financial market correction has arrived. We are seeing collapses in all major markets and across all major categories. As usual, the pain has started at the edges, in the weaker elements (emerging markets, junk bonds, weak companies, etc.) […]
This Time Isn’t Different
THIS TIME ISN’T DIFFERENT Last year ended with a whimper on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was down 1% for the year, down 4% from its all-time high in May, and no higher than it was 13 months ago at the end of QE3. The Wall Street shysters and their mainstream media mouthpieces declare 2016 […]
Deja Vu All Over Again
Deja Vu All Over Again Janet Yellen will increase interest rates for the first time in nine years on Wednesday. She isn’t raising them because the economy is strengthening. The economy just happens to be weakening rapidly, as global recession takes hold. The stock market is 3% lower than it was in December 2014, and […]
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street On October 2 the BLS reported absolutely atrocious employment data, with virtually no job growth other than the phantom jobs added by the fantastically wrong Birth/Death adjustment for all those new businesses springing up around the country. The MSM couldn’t even spin […]
Is This Black Monday Crash The BIG ONE? It Doesn’t Matter
Is This Black Monday Crash The BIG ONE? It Doesn’t Matter After losing 11% last week, Shanghai this morning was down almost -9% at one point, after lunch went back up to -6.5%, and ended its day at -8.49%. A Black Monday for sure, but is this the BIG ONE? It really doesn’t matter one […]
FED LUNACY IS TO BLAME FOR THE COMING CRASH
FED LUNACY IS TO BLAME FOR THE COMING CRASH This week John Hussman’s pondering about the state of our markets is as clear and concise as it’s ever been. He starts off by describing the difference between an economy operating at a low level versus a high level. He’s essentially describing a 2% GDP economy […]
8 Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Great Financial Crisis Is Imminent
8 Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Great Financial Crisis Is Imminent Will there be a financial collapse in the United States before the end of 2015? An increasing number of respected financial experts are now warning that we are right on the verge of another great economic crisis. Of course that doesn’t mean […]
We Need a Crash to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff
We Need a Crash to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff Once the phantom collateral vanishes, there’s no foundation to support additional debt and leverage. When a speculator bought a new particle-board-and-paint McMansion in the middle of nowhere in 2007 with nothing down and a $500,000 mortgage, the lender and the buyer both considered the […]
Who Will Be the Last to Crash?
Who Will Be the Last to Crash? This is the question that astute investors are forced to ask themselves these days. No reasonable person believes that a system of ever-expanding debt can resolve painlessly. It simply cannot happen… not, at least, until 2+2 stops equaling four. But the international money system, while deeply interconnected, can […]
Jim Rogers: Turmoil Is Coming
Jim Rogers: Turmoil Is Coming Predictions on the markets, gold, Greece & more Two years since his last interview with us, investor Jim Rogers returns and notes that the risks he warned of last time have only gotten worse. In this week’s podcast, Jim shares his rational for predicting: increased wealth confiscation by the central […]
Peak oil, ten or so years on
Peak oil, ten or so years on This blog began seven years and almost a thousand posts ago, and I thought it a good time to take stock. Since the blog itself was inspired by the “peak oil” movement, and since it’s been ten years, by some measures, since the peak, I wanted to assess […]
A Camp Amid the Ruins
A Camp Amid the Ruins Well, the Fates were apparently listening last week. As I write this, stock markets around the world are lurching through what might just be the opening moves of the Crash of 2015, whipsawed by further plunges in the price of oil and a range of other bad economic news; amid […]
US Federal Reserve sowed the seeds of the next crash with quantitative easing – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
US Federal Reserve sowed the seeds of the next crash with quantitative easing – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets again this week, and is widely expected to announce the end of its third round of money printing, dubbed “QE3”. Over nearly six years, the Fed has injected […]
Hussman Funds – Weekly Market Comment: On the Tendency of Large Market Losses to Occur in Succession – October 20, 2014
Hussman Funds – Weekly Market Comment: On the Tendency of Large Market Losses to Occur in Succession – October 20, 2014. Abrupt market losses typically reflect compressed risk premiums that are then joined by a shift toward increased risk aversion by investors. In market cycles across history, we find that the distinction between an overvalued […]
