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Peak Debt, Peak Doubt, & Peak Double-Down
Peak Debt, Peak Doubt, & Peak Double-Down Time to Hike Rates It makes little sense to me why the market is only pricing a 6% probability of a rate hike at the October meeting, 30% for December, and only a near 50/50 probability all the way out to March 2016. The statutory mandates of the […]
The Deterioration of America’s Corporate Balance Sheet
The Deterioration of America’s Corporate Balance Sheet I don’t comment frequently on the state of financial markets these days, but the following article from Bloomberg really grabbed my attention. It relates to interest coverage ratios across corporate America, and quite frankly, I was stunned to see how badly balance sheets have deteriorated during the recent pitiful cyclical economic […]
Ignore the Media Bullsh*t–Retail Implosion Proves We Are In Recession
Ignore the Media Bullsh*t–Retail Implosion Proves We Are In Recession Here we go again. The dying legacy media will continue to support the status quo, who provide their dwindling advertising revenue, by papering over the truth with platitudes, lies, and misinformation. I have been detailing the long slow death of retail in America for the […]
Here’s Why Housing Must be Propped Up
Here’s Why Housing Must be Propped Up If housing tanks, the last prop under the veneer of middle class wealth collapses. The Powers That Be have gone to extraordinary lengths to prop up housing by whatever means are necessary since the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008: the Federal Reserve has pushed mortgages rates down […]
Wal-Mart’s Worst Stock Crash In 27 Years Is Another Sign That The Economy Is Rapidly Falling Apart
Wal-Mart’s Worst Stock Crash In 27 Years Is Another Sign That The Economy Is Rapidly Falling Apart Now that a major global recession has begun, you would expect major retailers like Wal-Mart to run into trouble as consumer spending dries up, and that is precisely what is happening. On Wednesday, shares of Wal-Mart experienced their largest […]
Game-changing 19-minute video: Fed transcript proves open criminal admission of fraud worth trillions
Game-changing 19-minute video: Fed transcript proves open criminal admission of fraud worth trillions John Titus, engineer and lawyer, writer and producer of Bailout, with YouTube channel of BestEvidence,read the latest Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting transcript (always delayed for five years), and discovered full admittance of financial fraud by the Fed in trillions of dollars. John explains: BestEvidence’s newest […]
The Paradox of Risk: Central Planning Is Linear, Reality Is Non-Linear
The Paradox of Risk: Central Planning Is Linear, Reality Is Non-Linear You thought it was safe to drive 90 miles an hour on a rain-slicked narrow road while you were tipsy because the airbag would save you, but it still hurts when you crash. I first discussed the Paradox of Risk in August, 2008, just before the […]
Bubbles and Backlashes
Bubbles and Backlashes Image: trialsanderrors/Flickr CC. Financial markets have been turbulent as of late with no end in sight. A sagging global economy could overwhelm America’s recovery efforts with toxic effects on key climate change and clean energy initiatives now underway. The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to postpone an interest rate hike is but one reflection […]
Where Is the First Helicopter Drop of Money Likely to Land?
Where Is the First Helicopter Drop of Money Likely to Land? So what’s left in the toolbag of central banks and states to stimulate recessionary economies if QE has been discredited? The answer: Helicopter Money. We all know helicopter money of some kind is coming as the global economy spirals into recession. Quantitative Easing (QE)–the monetary stimulus of […]
Bishop: Ben Carson Upsets Washington Post for Questioning Fiat Money
Bishop: Ben Carson Upsets Washington Post for Questioning Fiat Money Tho Bishop writes: Neurosurgeon-turned-Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been under attack this week by our PC-enforcers in the media. While most of the media scorn has been directed at Carson’s defense of gun ownership following last week’s shooting in Oregon – Matt O’Brien of the Washington Post slapped at Carson […]
The G-30 Group Of Central Bankers Warn They Can “No Longer Save The World”
The G-30 Group Of Central Bankers Warn They Can “No Longer Save The World” In a detailed report by the Group of Thirty, central bankers warned that ZIRP and money printing were not sufficient to revive economic growth and risked becoming semi-permanent measures. As Reuters reports, the flow of easy money has inflated asset prices like stocks and […]
IMF: $3 trillion in “Over-Borrowing Now Threatens To Unleash a Wave of Defaults”
IMF: $3 trillion in “Over-Borrowing Now Threatens To Unleash a Wave of Defaults” The next great financial crisis may be only a short time away. As readers know, SHTF has routinely covered the bleak warnings and predictions of market insiders and critics of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. Now, there is yet another indication […]
The Hidden Debt Burden of Emerging Markets
The Hidden Debt Burden of Emerging Markets As central bankers and finance ministers from around the globe gather for the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings here in Peru, the emerging world is rife with symptoms of increasing economic vulnerability. Gone are the days when IMF meetings were monopolized by the problems of the advanced economies […]
Time to End Monetary Central Planning
Time to End Monetary Central Planning There is no way to describe current Federal Reserve policy other than as monetary confusion and misdirection. In a nutshell, Janet Yellen and the other members of the Fed’s Board of Governors have no idea what to do. Do they raise certain interest rates over which they have some […]
