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New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way Preserving your financial capital Given the brutal start to the markets in the first three weeks of 2016, we thought it a good time to check in with the team at New Harbor Financial. We have had them on our podcast periodically over the past […]
The Dow Falls Another 364 Points And We Are Now Down 2200 Points From The Peak Of The Market
The Dow Falls Another 364 Points And We Are Now Down 2200 Points From The Peak Of The Market It was another day of utter carnage on Wall Street. The Dow was down another 364 points, the S&P 500 broke below 1900, and the Nasdaq had a much larger percentage loss than either of them. […]
2016 Will Be A ‘Cataclysmic Year’ And ‘Investors Should Be Afraid’
2016 Will Be A ‘Cataclysmic Year’ And ‘Investors Should Be Afraid’ The Royal Bank of Scotland is telling clients that 2016 is going to be a “cataclysmic year” and that they should “sell everything”. This sounds like something that you might hear from The Economic Collapse Blog, but up until just recently you would have never […]
Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent
Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent The stock market is in far worse shape than we are being told. As you will see in this article, the average U.S. stock is already down more than 20 percent from the peak of the market. But of course the major […]
“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 […]
The Fed Induced Farce
The Fed Induced Farce The minutes from the last Fed meeting were released on Wednesday afternoon. The minutes, along with a squadron of jabbering Fed heads lying about the economy doing great, pretty much locked in the most talked about .25% interest rate increase in world history. Evidently the Wall Street titans of greed have […]
This Time Is The Same——And Worse!
This Time Is The Same——And Worse! The current stock market melt-up hardly qualifies as limp. Even the robo-machines and hyper-ventilating day traders apparently recognize that their job is to tag the May 2015 highs and then get out of the way. So when and as they complete their pointless mission, the question recurs as to why the posse […]
Within Or Without The Stock Bubble Matters A Great Deal
Within Or Without The Stock Bubble Matters A Great Deal As doubts surrounding QE have grown, there has been a somewhat detectable if still small trend in central banker repentance. Alan Greenspan to an extent has embraced a more decentralized and market framework in his public comments even though he has yet, to my knowledge, […]
What Happens After A Crash?
What Happens After A Crash? Our posts this week have dealt with analyzing the aftermath of the recent historic events that have unfolded in the stock market. However, of all the worthy topics that we have addressed, we have not directly addressed the most important one: the “post-crash” environment. Seeing as though the dramatic market […]
11 Red Flag Events That Just Happened As We Enter The Pivotal Month Of August 2015
11 Red Flag Events That Just Happened As We Enter The Pivotal Month Of August 2015 Are you ready for what is coming in August? All over America, economic, political and social tensions are building, and the next 30 days could turn out to be pivotal. In July, we saw things start to turn. As […]
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% […]
Peak Financial Engineering? Trends Spiral South
Peak Financial Engineering? Trends Spiral South Our corporate heroes hit a snag. We have long grinned painfully at the ways in which Corporate America and analysts collude to present the quarterly earnings charade in the rosiest light possible. But now, it seems they have reached the end of their magic tricks, and reality is showing […]
The Global Credit Market Is Now A Lit Powderkeg
The Global Credit Market Is Now A Lit Powderkeg And markets are totally unprepared The financial markets have had a bit of a tough time going anywhere this year. The S&P 500 has been caught in a 6% trading band all year, capped on the upside by a 3% gain and on the downside by […]
Wedges and Triangles: Big Move Ahead?
Wedges and Triangles: Big Move Ahead? The central bank high is euphoric, the crash and burn equally epic. Just out of curiosity, I called up a few charts of key markets: stocks (the S&P 500), volatility (VIX), gold and the U.S. dollar (UUP, an exchange-traded fund for the dollar). Interestingly, all of these charts displayed some […]
charles hugh smith-The Only Two Charts You Need to Understand the S&P 500
charles hugh smith-The Only Two Charts You Need to Understand the S&P 500. As long as corporations continue borrowing money to buy back their own stocks and the yen keeps dropping, the SPX will continue lofting higher. Why is the S&P 500 rising, even as valuations are getting stretched, profit growth is declining and sales […]
