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Watch Japan – For All Is Not Well In The Land Of The Rising Sun
Watch Japan – For All Is Not Well In The Land Of The Rising Sun One of the epicenters of the global financial crisis that started during the second half of last year is Japan, and it looks like the markets in the land of the rising sun are entering yet another period of great […]
2016, The Year Of The Red Monkey: Expect Wild, Unending Volatility
2016, The Year Of The Red Monkey: Expect Wild, Unending Volatility The past 25 years of “growth” and brief recessions may not be a good guide to the next few years. In the lunar calendar that started February 8, this is the Year of the Red Monkey. I found this description of the Red Monkey […]
Your Do-It-Yourself Page Financial Armageddon Story
YOUR DO-IT-YOURSELF FRONT PAGE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON STORY “The media select, they interpret, they emotionalize and they create facts.. The media not only reduce reality by lowering information density. They focus reality by accumulating information where “actually” none exists.. A typical stock market report looks like this: Stock X increased because.. Index Y crashed due to.. […]
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, […]
2016 Market Meltdown: We Have Never Seen A Year Start Quite Like This…
2016 Market Meltdown: We Have Never Seen A Year Start Quite Like This… We are about three weeks into 2016, and we are witnessing things that we have never seen before. There were two emergency market shutdowns in China within the first four trading days of this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has never […]
The Precipice
The Precipice Global markets have found themselves again at the precipice. My sense is that everyone’s numb – literally dazed and confused from prolonged Monetary Disorder and the resulting perverted market backdrop. Repeatedly, “The Precipice” has signaled easy-money buying and trading opportunities. Again and again, selling, shorting and hedging at “The Precipice” guaranteed you were […]
“We’ve Seen this Before” – in 1999, then Stocks Crashed
“We’ve Seen this Before” – in 1999, then Stocks Crashed “A lot of deterioration and decay under the hood” The fourth quarter is normally a very strong quarter, and December exceptionaly strong in the global markets, says Christine Hughes, Chief Investment Strategist at OtterWood Capital. This quarter too, global markets are in the green after a powerful rally in October. But […]
Hobson’s Choice
Hobson’s Choice More than two months have passed since the August “flash crash.” Fragilities illuminated during that bout of market turmoil still reverberate. Sure, global markets have rallied back strongly. Bullish news, analysis and sentiment have followed suit, as they do. The poor bears have again been bullied into submission, as the punchy bulls have […]
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us Global markets are puking at the prospect of higher yields in the U.S. There are many reasons for global markets to melt down, but one that doesn’t get enough attention is the strong dollar. In effect, global markets are telling the Federal Reserve: don’t […]
Central Banks Have Become A Corrupting Force
Central Banks Have Become A Corrupting Force Are we witnessing the corruption of central banks? Are we observing the money-creating powers of central banks being used to drive up prices in the stock market for the benefit of the mega-rich? These questions came to mind when we learned that the central bank of Switzerland, the […]
What the Heck is Going on in the Global Markets?
What the Heck is Going on in the Global Markets? This wasn’t supposed to happen. The week was already on a crummy downhill path globally, and emerging-market currencies were blowing up, when on Friday in China the Caixin’s Purchasing Manager’s Index hit the worst level since March 2009; manufacturing is sinking deeper into the mire. So the […]
What the Heck Just Happened in the Global Markets?
What the Heck Just Happened in the Global Markets? It was the kind of day that shouldn’t have happened. Somebody dropped the ball at CNBC, or something. Thursday evening, after three morose days in US stock markets, Amazon came out and said it made a profit! OK, a teeny-weeny profit of $92 million, a barely perceptible 0.4% […]
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next? A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocksare crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we are watching […]
The IMF and Austrian Theory – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada
The IMF and Austrian Theory – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada. Back in the early 1960s, financial journalist Henry Hazlitt warned against efforts to create an international system to help facilitate the smooth transfer of currencies. Representatives from the world’s leading governments were attempting to increase liquidity in global markets. They wanted to make sure the […]
