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Real Canadian Mortgage Credit Growth Is Pointing To An Early 80s Style Meltdown
Real Canadian Mortgage Credit Growth Is Pointing To An Early 80s Style Meltdown Canadian mortgage credit growth is falling, but how bad is it in real terms? People are comparing today’s low growth numbers to the mid-1990s. While there are some parallels, it more accurately resembles the early 1980s. Mortgage credit growth, when adjusted for […]
Oil Slumps Below $60 To 8-Month Lows – Set For Record Losing Streak
Oil Slumps Below $60 To 8-Month Lows – Set For Record Losing Streak WTI Crude is trading back below $60 for the first time since March (and Brent below $70) as Washington’s decision to allow eight countries to continue importing from Iran, which it slapped with sanctions earlier this week; as well as pledges by Saudi Arabia […]
Venezuela’s Glaring Gasoline Crisis
Venezuela’s Glaring Gasoline Crisis Iran has dominated the headlines over the last few weeks, but Venezuela’s oil sector continues to meltdown. Venezuela’s oil production fell to just 1.197 million barrels per day in September, down 42,000 bpd from a month earlier. However, because things are moving so quickly, that figure is now woefully out of […]
Here are all the ways inflation is happening today
Here are all the ways inflation is happening today Something strange happened in the markets last month that signals trouble ahead… When stocks fell from their September highs, you would have expected investors to run for cover in the world’s safe-haven asset – US Treasurys. But that’s not what happened. While stocks were plunging, Treasurys […]
Mike Maloney: “One Hell Of A Crisis”
Mike Maloney: “One Hell Of A Crisis” Crashing stocks, bonds, real estate & currency all at once? Mike Maloney, monetary historian and founder of GoldSilver.com, has just released two new chapters of his excellent Hidden Secrets Of Money video series. In producing the series, Maloney has reviewed several thousand years of monetary history and has […]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Inflation Is About to Increase the Prices of EVERYTHING
According to the Wall Street Journal, Inflation Is About to Increase the Prices of EVERYTHING We’ve been pretty lucky over the last ten years in terms of inflation, which has remained at about 2%. However, if the Wall Street Journal is correct, our luck is about to run out. The price of just about everything […]
The Fed’s Mandate To Pick Your Pocket – The Real Price Of Inflation
The Fed’s Mandate To Pick Your Pocket – The Real Price Of Inflation “Inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon.” – Milton Friedman This oft-cited quote from the renowned American economist Milton Friedman suggests something important about inflation. What he implies is that inflation is a function of money, but what exactly does that […]
Not Waving But Drowning–Stocks, Debt and Inflation?
NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING – STOCKS, DEBT AND INFLATION? The US stock market is close to being in a corrective phase -10% off its highs Global debt has passed $63trln – well above the levels on 2007 Interest rates are still historically low, especially given the point in the economic cycle Predictions of a bear-market […]
The Coming Inflation Threat
The Coming Inflation Threat Falling asset inflation plus rising cost inflation equals stagflation. Inflation is a funny thing: we feel it virtually every day, but we’re told it doesn’t exist—the official inflation rate is around 2.5% over the past few years, a little higher when energy prices are going up and a little lower when […]
The Coming Inflation Threat: The Worst Of Both Worlds
Sandusky Register The Coming Inflation Threat: The Worst Of Both Worlds Expect falling asset inflation, but rising cost inflation Inflation is a funny thing: we feel it virtually every day, but we’re told it doesn’t exist—the official inflation rate is around 2.5% over the past few years, a little higher when energy prices are going […]
Loonie Tumbles To 6-Week Lows After Inflation, Retail Sales Slump
Loonie Tumbles To 6-Week Lows After Inflation, Retail Sales Slump The loonie has tumbled to six-week lows (above 1.31/USD) following dismal prints for retail sales and inflation this morning. Against expectations of a 0.1% rise MoM, Canadian core retail sales slumped 0.4% MoM in August. This is the first drop in retail sales since 2017… […]
Hedge Fund CIO: “Some See Parallels Between Today And The Late-1930s, Which Led To World War II”
Hedge Fund CIO: “Some See Parallels Between Today And The Late-1930s, Which Led To World War II” The future is unknowable. Yet never has capital been so concentrated in strategies that depend on the future closely resembling the past. The most dominant of these strategies requires bonds to rally when stocks fall. For decades, both […]
The “VaR Shock” Is Back: Global Bonds Lose $880 Billion In One Week
The “VaR Shock” Is Back: Global Bonds Lose $880 Billion In One Week Markets were in turmoil, S&P futures were locked limit down as traders panicked, the establishment political system was in chaos and global bond portfolios were about to suffer a near record $1.2 trillion in losses in just a few days. All this […]
Loans Sour in Turkey, Inflation Hits 25%, Interest Rates Spike, Fears of Contagion Rise
Loans Sour in Turkey, Inflation Hits 25%, Interest Rates Spike, Fears of Contagion Rise The economic miracle fueled by foreign-currency debt. The Bank of Turkey’s decision mid-September to hike its policy rate from 17.75% to 24% may have temporarily stemmed the rout in the Turkish lira, but the hiatus is now over. This week, the […]
