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“Euphoria Turns To Terror”: Dow To Open 750 Points Lower As VIX Eruption Accelerates
“Euphoria Turns To Terror”: Dow To Open 750 Points Lower As VIX Eruption Accelerates Update: VIX SURGES ABOVE 50 FOR FIRST TIME SINCE AUGUST 2015 * * * It’s a bloodbath, with the Dow set to open 750 points lower “thanks” to the +377 fair value… … but it could have been much worse, with […]
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 […]
Is It Just A Coincidence That The Dow Has Hit 20,000 At The Same Time The National Debt Is Reaching $20 Trillion?
Is It Just A Coincidence That The Dow Has Hit 20,000 At The Same Time The National Debt Is Reaching $20 Trillion? The Dow Jones Industrial Average provides us with some pretty strong evidence that our “stock market boom” has been fueled by debt. On Wednesday, the Dow crossed the 20,000 mark for the first […]
Janet Yellen’s $200-Trillion Debt Problem
Janet Yellen’s $200-Trillion Debt Problem Blame “Brexit” BALTIMORE – The U.S. stock market broke its losing streak on Thursday [and even more so on Monday, ed.]. After five straight losing sessions, the Dow eked out a 92-point gain. The financial media didn’t know what to say about it. So, we ended up with the typical […]
When the Game Changes
WHEN THE GAME CHANGES “In a free market, the price and quantity of an item are determined by the supply and demand for that item.” ‘The function and nature of markets’ on boundless.com. In their efforts to jam the square peg of financial theory into the round hole of human nature, economists have perpetrated some pretty stupid […]
A Fatal Flaw in the System
A Fatal Flaw in the System The Hard Rocks of Real Life BALTIMORE – The Dow dropped 174 points on Thursday, the biggest fall in six weeks. Not the end of the world. Maybe not even the end of this year’s bounce-back bull run. As you’ll recall, stocks sold off at the beginning of the […]
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Everything Is Nonsense If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see? – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland A public […]
What Markets Are Telling Us
What Markets Are Telling Us Last week US stock markets tumbled yet again, leaving the Dow Jones index down almost 1500 points for the year. In fact, most major world markets are in negative territory this year. There are many Wall Street cheerleaders who are trying to say that this is just a technical correction, […]
Convenient Beliefs
Convenient Beliefs “Massive Deterioration” – Worse Than 2008 BALTMORE – “Stocks still not finding bottom” warned a headline at Investor’s Business Daily. On Thursday, the Dow ended down 255 points – or 1.6%. The index is down by almost 9% since the start of the year. “These developments, if they prove persistent, could weigh on the […]
Here Come the Money Helicopters!
Here Come the Money Helicopters! The Negative Wealth Effect Since the start of the year, the Dow is down about 7%. But certain stock market sectors have undergone a much harder pruning. First, energy… then the tech… and now banks. Shares in too-big-to-fail bank Citigroup are down almost 28% so far this year. And shares in Europe’s […]
A 918 Point Stock Market Crash In Japan And Deutsche Bank Denies That It Is About To Collapse
A 918 Point Stock Market Crash In Japan And Deutsche Bank Denies That It Is About To Collapse On Tuesday junk bonds continued to crash, the price of oil briefly dipped below 28 dollars a barrel, Deutsche Bank was forced to deny that it is on the verge of collapse, but the biggest news was what […]
How Corporations are Being Removed From the Food Supply
HOW THE CORPORATIONS ARE BEING REMOVED FROM THE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN “Industrial agriculture has created a complex system of interlocking oligopolies that spans seeds, agrochemicals, biotechnology, trading, and retailing and consumer goods companies.” The Poverty of Capitalism The above quote is made by John Hilary, director of the NGO War on Want sums it all […]
The FOMC Decision: The Boxed in Fed
The FOMC Decision: The Boxed in Fed An Imaginary Bogeyman What’s a Keynesian monetary quack to do when the economy and markets fail to remain “on message” within a few weeks of grandiose declarations that this time, printing truckloads of money has somehow “worked”, in defiance of centuries of experience, and in blatant violation of sound theory? […]
Stock Market Suffers Worst Start to the Year Ever – What Does it Mean?
Stock Market Suffers Worst Start to the Year Ever – What Does it Mean? A Dismal Beginning From December 30 to the end of the first week trading week of January, the DJIA has declined by roughly 7.7% (approx. 1,370 points) and the SPX by roughly 7.6% (approx. 160 points). This was nothing compared to […]
Stock Market Crash 2016: This Is The Worst Start To A Year For Stocks Ever
Stock Market Crash 2016: This Is The Worst Start To A Year For Stocks Ever We have never had a year start the way that 2016 has started. In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 have both posted their worst four-day starts to a year ever. Canadian stocks are now […]
