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What Are You Going To Do As Our Money Dies?
What Are You Going To Do As Our Money Dies? Central banks are killing our currency to protect the already-rich In our recent article It’s Time To Position For The Endgame, Chris Martenson explained how the US Federal Reserve and its sister central banks around the world have been engaged in the largest and most egregious […]
Is High Inflation Now A Bigger Danger Than A Deflationary Crash?
Is High Inflation Now A Bigger Danger Than A Deflationary Crash? What’s the more likely event at this point: a deflationary crash or runaway inflation? For a long time, Peak Prosperity co-founder Adam Taggart and I have hewed to the “Ka-POOM!” theory, which states that a major deflation will scare the central banks so badly […]
The Zombie Companies Are Coming
The Zombie Companies Are Coming Easy money is a curse for capitalism. Through the first half of August – which is normally a quiet period for the bond market in the US – a total of $56 billion in junk bonds and leveraged loans were issued by junk-rated companies, according to S&P Global. That was […]
Weekly Commentary: Moral Hazard Quagmire
Weekly Commentary: Moral Hazard Quagmire The Nasdaq100 jumped another 3.5% this week, increasing 2020 gains to 32.3%. Amazon gained 4.3% during the week, boosting y-t-d gains to 77.8% – and market capitalization to $1.626 TN. Apple surged 8.2% this week, increasing 2020 gains to 69.4%. Apple’s market capitalization ended the week at a world-beating $2.127 […]
They’ve Done It Again
They’ve Done It Again The stars are back in their courses. The angels are back in the heavens. And the Perfections are back within sight… For merely 148 trading days after bottoming… the S&P returned to record heights today. The index closed the day at 3,389 — eclipsing its February 19 height of 3,386. Thus […]
Gold and Free Banking Versus Central Banks
GOLD AND FREE BANKING VERSUS CENTRAL BANKING In spite of the officially declared “independence” of the Federal Reserve from the immediate political control of either Congress or the White House, America’s central bank is, nonetheless, a branch of the U.S. government that is responsible for setting monetary policy, overseeing a variety of banking regulations, and […]
An unexpected systemic crisis is for sure
An unexpected systemic crisis is for sure Downturns in bank credit expansion always lead to systemic problems. We are on the edge of such a downturn, which thanks to everyone’s focus on the coronavirus, is unexpected. We can now identify 23 March as the date when markets stopped worrying about deflation and realised that monetary […]
False Bizarre Economy Renders GDP Useless (Part 1)
False Bizarre Economy Renders GDP Useless (Part 1) GDP Growth Is Akin To “Magic Illusion 101” We may be getting to the place where more people are beginning to realize the illusion created from printing and pouring trillions of dollar haphazardly into the economy can’t last. Today, consumer confidence hinges on what Washington decides to […]
The Wonders of Free Money in Two Pictures
The Wonders of Free Money in Two Pictures Lesson of the Day If you give away enough free money, spending recovers. Census Report on Advance Retail Sales The Census report on Advance Retail Sales provides half of our “Lesson of the Day“. Adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, July sales […]
Market Update: Overstimulated!
Market Update: Overstimulated! Today’s twin orgy of monetary & fiscal stimulus makes a market reckoning inevitable The melt-up discussed last week remains in full force, with the S&P 500 hitting a new intraday all-time high on Wednesday. Just to make sure we’re all clear on this: stocks are back to their highest prices BEFORE the coronavirus pandemic […]
Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops to Lowest Ever. Inflation Heats Up, as Fed Wants, After Simultaneous Supply & Demand Shocks
Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops to Lowest Ever. Inflation Heats Up, as Fed Wants, After Simultaneous Supply & Demand Shocks “We’re not even thinking about thinking about” slowing the decline of the dollar’s purchasing power — and thereby labor’s purchasing power. A supply shock and a demand shock came together during the Pandemic, and it produced […]
The Dollar Is Dying
The Dollar Is Dying Insulting the Captive Audience This week, while perusing the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet figures, we came across a rather curious note. We don’t know how long the Fed’s had this note posted to its website. But we can’t recall ever seeing it. The note reads as follows: “The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet […]
It’s Time To Position For The Endgame
It’s Time To Position For The Endgame Are you, like us, sensing that things are poised to fall apart? Do you sense an approaching endgame? Like there’s another heavy shoe to drop? Perhaps an entire closet’s worth? Certainly there’s entirely too much confusion surrounding SARS-CoV-2 and how to deal with it. Should people wear masks? […]
The Fed is Determined to Prove the QTM Right
The Fed is Determined to Prove the QTM Right Milton Friedman famously said, “Inflation was always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” But Friedman didn’t live through the QE years here in the U.S. and blatantly ignored the twenty plus years of Japanese deflation despite QE and insane levels of money printing during the latter years […]
