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11 Signs That We Are Entering The Next Phase Of The Global Economic Crisis
11 Signs That We Are Entering The Next Phase Of The Global Economic Crisis Well, the Nasdaq finally did it. It has climbed all the way back to where it was at the peak of the dotcom bubble. Back in March 2000, the Nasdaq set an all-time record high of 5,048.62. On Thursday, after all […]
Meet The New Recession Cycle——Its Triggered By Bursting Bubbles, Not Surging Inflation
Meet The New Recession Cycle——Its Triggered By Bursting Bubbles, Not Surging Inflation We are now in the month of April—–so the Wall Street Keynesians are back on their spring “escape velocity” offensive. Normally they accept the government’s seasonal adjustments in stride, but since Q1 is again hugging the flat line or worse, it seems that “bad seasonals” owing to an incrementally winterish […]
Did The Fed. Just Whisper “Fire” In A Crowded Market?
Did The Fed. Just Whisper “Fire” In A Crowded Market? This past Friday saw what many like myself can only describe as a blatant example of just what’s wrong with both the economy – as well as the markets. At precisely 15 minutes before the closing bell on Wall Street the now Chair of the Federal […]
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds Companies are selling bonds like madmen. This year through Tuesday, investment-grade and junk-rated companies have sold $438 billion in new bonds, up 14% from the prior record for this time of the year, set in 2013, according to Dealogic. This quarter is already in […]
DANGER WILL ROBINSON
DANGER WILL ROBINSON It’s funny how the truth sometimes leaks out from the government. I’m guessing that Mr. Ted Berg will not be working for the Office of Financial Research much longer. This new agency was created by the Dodd Frank Law and is supposed to protect consumers from the evil Wall Street banks. But […]
Some Folks At The Fed Are Lost——No Juice To The Macros, Part 1
Some Folks At The Fed Are Lost——No Juice To The Macros, Part 1 Yesterday we demonstrated that stock market valuations are not merely “on the high side” as Janet Yellen averred last week. Instead, they are positively in the nose-bleed section of history. You don’t get the Russell 2000 trading at 90X honest-to-goodness GAAP earnings […]
Wall Street Losing Millions From Bad Energy Loans
Wall Street Losing Millions From Bad Energy Loans Oil companies continue to get burned by low oil prices, but the pain is bleeding over into the financial industry. Major banks are suffering huge losses from both directly backing some struggling oil companies, but also from buying high-yield debt that is now going sour. The Wall […]
Wall Street Banks Hit by Oil & Gas Defaults, Bankruptcies
Wall Street Banks Hit by Oil & Gas Defaults, Bankruptcies The fracking boom has been cash-flow negative for oil and gas drillers from the very beginning. The steep decline rates of fracked wells force producers to drill more wells just to keep production and revenues flat, even at high oil prices. They fund this drilling […]
Lenin Was Right …
Lenin Was Right … Bear Markets Do Happen Today… the second of the speech about the end of the world we recently gave at Doug Casey’s La Estancia de Cafayate. (You can catch up on the first part here.) As Yogi Berra would say, America is going to come to a fork in the road… and […]
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters Contra Corner is not about investment advice, but its unstinting critique of the current malignant monetary regime does not merely imply that the Wall Street casino is a dangerous place for your money. No, it screams get out of harms’ way. Now! Yet I am […]
Michael Lewis Reflects on His Book Flash Boys, a Year After It Shook Wall Street to Its Core
Michael Lewis Reflects on His Book Flash Boys, a Year After It Shook Wall Street to Its Core When I sat down to write Flash Boys, in 2013, I didn’t intend to see just how angry I could make the richest people on Wall Street. I was far more interested in the characters and the situation in which […]
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE THREE
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE THREE In Part One of this three part article I laid out the groundwork of how the Federal Reserve is responsible for the excessive level of debt in our society and how it has warped the thinking of the American people, while creating a tremendous level of mal-investment. In Part Two I focused on […]
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE TWO
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE TWO ‘If you’re committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it’ – Saul Goodman – Breaking Bad “As calamitous as the sub-prime blowup seems, it is only the beginning. The credit bubble spawned abuses throughout the system. […]
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE ONE
BREAKING BAD (DEBT) – EPISODE ONE “At this juncture, the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained.” – Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, Congressional testimony, March, 2007 “Capitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.” –James Grant, […]
Kick-The-Can Has Morphed Into A Blatant Farce
Kick-The-Can Has Morphed Into A Blatant Farce Kick-the-can has morphed into a blatant farce. Everywhere in the world central banks and financial officialdom are engaging in desperate, juvenile maneuvers to buy time—–amounting to hardly a few weeks at a go. Never before has the debt-saturated, speculation-ridden global casino rested upon such a precarious foundation. This week, for instance, Janet Yellen […]
