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Stock Market Crash of 1987
Stock Market Crash of 1987 The first contemporary global financial crisis unfolded on October 19, 1987, a day known as “Black Monday” when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 22.6 percent. Composite of newspaper headlines reporting the Stock Market Crash of 1987 (Associated Press) The first contemporary global financial crisis unfolded in the autumn of […]
The Stock Market Just Crashed In Italy, And Argentina Has Panic-Raised Interest Rates To 65 Percent
The Stock Market Just Crashed In Italy, And Argentina Has Panic-Raised Interest Rates To 65 Percent In the 9th largest economy in the world, the financial markets are crashing, and in the 21st largest economy in the world the central bank just raised interest rates to 65 percent to support a currency that is completely […]
Albert Edwards: Why We Are Destined To Repeat The Mistakes Of The Past
Albert Edwards: Why We Are Destined To Repeat The Mistakes Of The Past With everyone and their grandmother opining on the 10 year anniversary of the start of the global financial crisis, it was inevitable that the strategist who predicted the great crash (and according to some has been doing the same for the past […]
James Grant Responds To The Bernanke-Paulson-Geithner Op-Ed
James Grant Responds To The Bernanke-Paulson-Geithner Op-Ed Authored by James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Wealth defect Over the weekend, Global Financial Crisis-era policymakers Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Henry Paulson brought the band back together to pen a New York Times opinion piece. After sharing their self-exonerating analysis of the events of 2007-2009 […]
Oil Prices Have Been Rising And $4 A Gallon Gasoline Would Put Enormous Stress On The U.S. Economy
Oil Prices Have Been Rising And $4 A Gallon Gasoline Would Put Enormous Stress On The U.S. Economy Thanks to increasing demand and upcoming U.S. sanctions against Iran, oil prices have been rising and some analysts are forecasting that they will surge even higher in the months ahead. Unfortunately, that would be very bad news […]
The “Next” Financial Crisis
The “Next” Financial Crisis Photo source Financial Crisis | CC BY 2.0 In this episode of The Hudson Report, we speak with Michael Hudson about the implications of the flattening yield curve, the possibility of another global financial crisis, and public banking as an alternative to the current system. ‘The Hudson Report’ is a Left […]
Carmot Capital: “The Next Crisis Won’t Be A Flash Crash; It Will Be A Flash Flood”
Carmot Capital: “The Next Crisis Won’t Be A Flash Crash; It Will Be A Flash Flood” THE STRAIGHT FLUSH CRASH AN ILLUSION OF SIMPLICITY, AN ENTANGLEMENT OF COMPLEXITY Lately, there has been talk of so-called “elevated” markets. Equity markets, real estate markets and bond markets are indeed reaching new highs regularly. But how long will […]
The Coming Market Crash Will Set Off The Biggest Gold Panic Buying In History
The Coming Market Crash Will Set Off The Biggest Gold Panic Buying In History The leverage in the economic system has become so extreme; investors have no idea of the disaster that is going to take place during the next stock market crash. The collapse of the U.S. Housing and Investment Banking Industry in 2008 […]
Ken Rogoff Warns “China Will Be At The Center Of The Next Global Financial Crisis”
Ken Rogoff Warns “China Will Be At The Center Of The Next Global Financial Crisis” Having warned in Davos today that: “If interest rates go up even modestly, halfway to their normal level, you will see a collapse in the stock market,” “I don’t know how everything from art and bitcoin to stock prices will […]
The Inescapable Reason Why the Financial System Will Fail
girardatlarge.com The Inescapable Reason Why the Financial System Will Fail Credit cannot expand faster than fundamentals forever Modern finance has many complex moving parts, and this complexity masks its inner simplicity. Let’s break down the core dynamics of the current financial system. The Core Dynamic of the “Recovery” and Asset Bubbles: Credit Credit is the […]
Bean counters: Lost in Paradise
Bean counters: Lost in Paradise Long before the Paradise Papers, or the Panama Papers, the Enron scandal, Savings and Loan crisis, WorldCom, and the Global Financial Crisis, governments in the US, UK and Australia were colluding with the world’s biggest banks and their clients using aggressions dynamics not to defeat but to suborn the controls […]
Weekly Commentary: “Not Clear What That Means”
Weekly Commentary: “Not Clear What That Means” November 15 – Bloomberg (Nishant Kumar and Suzy Waite): “Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn said the problems that caused the global financial crisis a decade ago still haven’t been resolved. ‘Have we learned our lesson? It depends what the lesson was…’ Einhorn said he identified several issues at the […]
Today the music stops
Today the music stops Today’s the day. After months of preparing financial markets for this news, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce that it will finally begin shrinking its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. I know, that probably sound reeeeally boring. A bunch of central bankers talking about their balance sheet. But it’s phenomenally […]
Does Government Spending Create More Economic Growth?
Does Government Spending Create More Economic Growth? After the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, fears of ballooning public debt and worries about the drag on economic growth pushed authorities in some countries to lower government spending, a tactic that economists now think may have slowed recovery. Note that in the United States the total debt to […]
Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis
Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis NEW HAVEN – What do people mean when they criticize generals for “fighting the last war”? It’s not that generals ever think they will face the same weapon systems and the same battlefields. They certainly know better. The error, to the extent that the generals make it, must operate […]
