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Real Estate & Understanding The Role of Debt
Real Estate & Understanding The Role of Debt QUESTION: Dear Sir/Madam Thank you so much for what you all do. I was just reading today’s Blog 17-08-2018 – ‘ Real Estate – Leverage – Transition to the Reset ‘. The bit I did not understand was where it was written ‘ Keep in mind that […]
We Are All Lab Rats In The Largest-Ever Monetary Experiment In Human History
We Are All Lab Rats In The Largest-Ever Monetary Experiment In Human History And how do things usually work out for the rat? There are ample warning signs that another serious financial crisis is on the way. These warning signs are being soundly ignored by the majority, though. Perhaps understandably so. After 10 years of […]
David Stockman: The World Economy Is At An Epochal Pivot
Shutterstock David Stockman: The World Economy Is At An Epochal Pivot A ‘Great Reset’ approaches David Stockman warns that the global economy has reached an “epochal pivot”, a moment when the false prosperity created from $trillions in printed money by the world’s central banks lurches violently into reverse. There are few people alive who understand […]
Global Housing Bubble Is Popping. Here Comes The “Reverse Wealth Effect”
Global Housing Bubble Is Popping. Here Comes The “Reverse Wealth Effect” Just a few months ago, real estate was on fire. Prices were blowing past records set during the previous decade’s housing bubble as desperate buyers bought whatever was available at above the asking price while homeowners, confident that prices would keep rising, held out […]
Canada’s Real Estate Sector Faces Difficult Transition
Canada’s Real Estate Sector Faces Difficult Transition The great Canadian real estate bull market has pushed home prices to dizzying heights over the past two decades. And with ever-rising prices it has sucked in more capital and resources creating an almost self enforcing feedback loop, where an entire economy has become dependent on rising house […]
Neoliberalism, Pipelines, and Canadian Political Economy
Neoliberalism, Pipelines, and Canadian Political Economy Photo by Luke Jones | CC BY 2.0 The national debate about how to get diluted bitumen to trans-oceanic markets by means of a twinning of the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline route between Alberta and British Columbia – known as the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project – illustrates the […]
A Warning Knell From the Housing Market–Inciting a Riot
A WARNING KNELL FROM THE HOUSING MARKET – INCITING A RIOT? Global residential real estate prices continue to rise but momentum is slowing Prices in Russia continue to fall but Australian house prices look set to follow After a decade of QE, real estate will be more sensitive to interest rate increases As anyone who […]
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 […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
The Great Oil Swindle
silentera.com The Great Oil Swindle Is leading us to destruction When it comes to the story we’re being told about America’s rosy oil prospects, we’re being swindled. At its core, the swindle is this: The shale industry’s oil production forecasts are vastly overstated. Swindle: Noun – A fraudulent scheme or action. And the swindle is not […]
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin Shall we compare the damage that will be done when all these bubbles pop? Regardless of one’s own views about bitcoin/cryptocurrency, what is truly remarkable is the asymmetry that is applied to questioning the status quo and bitcoin. As I noted yesterday, everyone seems just fine […]
Sweden: The World’s Biggest Housing Bubble Cracks
Sweden: The World’s Biggest Housing Bubble Cracks Sweden’s property bubble is probably the world’s biggest, despite which it gets relatively little coverage in the mainstream financial media – although that might be about to change. Warnings about this bubble are not new. In March 2016, Moody’s issued a very explicit warning that Sweden’s negative interest […]
PBOC’s Zhou Warns Of “Sudden, Complex, Hidden, Contagious, Hazardous” Risks In Global Markets
PBOC’s Zhou Warns Of “Sudden, Complex, Hidden, Contagious, Hazardous” Risks In Global Markets Just two weeks after warning of the potential for an imminent ‘Minsky Moment’, Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan has penned a lengthy article on The PBOC’s website that warns ominously of latent risks accumulating, including some that are “hidden, complex, sudden, […]
One River CIO “We’re Willing Participants In Our Own Demise”
One River CIO “We’re Willing Participants In Our Own Demise” With the world’s focus falling on Beijing this week, where president Xi Jinping give a glowing account of China’s future during the 19th Party Congress, boasting that “the banner of scientific socialism with Chinese characteristics is now flying high and proud for all to see,” […]
