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Low interest rates prompt savers to borrow to invest
Low interest rates prompt savers to borrow to invest Kevin Stone plans to borrow $20K this year to invest in various stocks Kevin Stone is 28 years old and already has over half a million dollars of debt, including a mortgage and a loan to purchase farmland. But he’s not concerned, because that apparent burden is actually helping fuel his […]
China’s 1929 moment
China’s 1929 moment Anyone with a nose for markets will tell you that the Chinese government’s attempt to rescue the country’s stock markets from collapse is far from succeeding. Bubbles collapse, period; and government interventions don’t stop them. Furthermore, we are beginning to see a crack widen in the foundations of China’s capital markets that […]
Now Is The Time – Fear Rises As Financial Markets All Over The Planet Start To Crash
Now Is The Time – Fear Rises As Financial Markets All Over The Planet Start To Crash Can you feel the panic in the air? CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index measures the amount of fear in the financial world on a scale from 0 to 100. The closer it is to zero, the higher the level […]
The Stock Market Will Start To Fall In July? The Dow Plummeted More Than 500 Points Last Week
The Stock Market Will Start To Fall In July? The Dow Plummeted More Than 500 Points Last Week Was last week a preview of things to come? There are quite a few people out there that believe that the stock market would begin to decline in July, and that appears to be precisely what is […]
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% […]
Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Crack-Up Boom on its Way to Outer Space
Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Crack-Up Boom on its Way to Outer Space Why Stock Markets Are Not an Indicator of the Economy In a free unhampered market economy based on a sound monetary system – this is to say a market-chosen monetary system with a free banking industry and no central planning institution that is manipulating interest rates and […]
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now? If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months ahead […]
The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome Getting Ugly I am sure that you have all been watching the meltdown in the Chinese stock markets. I posted a blog (in the China Ad Nauseam section) on May 6 about the Chinese stock market, finishing up with the statement that “this is going to get really ugly.” It looks like the ugliness is here. I claim […]
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash The problem with these policy extremes is that they are so painfully visibly acts of central-planning desperation. It is perhaps fitting that I am posting a call for a financial crisis that fails to respond to the usual central-planning manipulations on Bastille Day. There are two main lessons […]
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece There is democratic capitalism, and there is fascist capitalism. What we have today is fascist capitalism; and the following will explain how it works, using as an example the case of Greece. Mark Whitehouse at Bloomberg headlined on 27 June 2015, “If Greece Defaults, Europe’s Taxpayers Lose,” and presented […]
What In The World Just Happened To The New York Stock Exchange?
What In The World Just Happened To The New York Stock Exchange? Do you believe that the New York Stock Exchange shut down because of a “technical glitch” on Wednesday? At 11:32 AM on Wednesday morning, trading on the New York Stock Exchange was halted due to “internal technical issues”, and it did not resume […]
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Chinese Stock Market Crashed Like This?
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Chinese Stock Market Crashed Like This? The second largest stock market in the entire world is collapsing right in front of our eyes. Since hitting a peak in June, the most important Chinese stock market index has plummeted by well over 20 percent, and more than 3 trillion […]
And So It Begins – Greek Banks Get Shut Down For A Week And A ‘Grexit’ Is Now Probable
And So It Begins – Greek Banks Get Shut Down For A Week And A ‘Grexit’ Is Now Probable Is this the beginning of the end for the eurozone? For years, European officials have been trying to “fix Greece”, but nothing has worked. Now a worst case scenario is rapidly unfolding, and a “Grexit” has […]
Volatility and Sleep-Walking Markets
Volatility and Sleep-Walking Markets A recent Business Insider chart of the day feature was particularly interesting. Called The stock market is asleep, it observed that the US market has been in a period of very low volatility: Market technician Ryan Detrick noted that it’s been 8 weeks since we’ve seen a weekly move of at least […]
Recession time bomb ticking faster, louder
Recession time bomb ticking faster, louder Americans are unprepared for the trillions they will lose again America is its own enemy, trapped in new irrational exuberance What’s even more disturbing than the near certainty of Grantham, Cook and the Economist in the dark predictions is what’s driving them, America’s self-delusional narcissism, overoptimism and irrational exuberance […]
