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China: Doomed If You Do, Doomed If You Don’t
China: Doomed If You Do, Doomed If You Don’t Whichever option China chooses, it loses. Many commentators have ably explained the double-bind the central banks of the world find themselves in. Doing more of what’s failed is, well, failing to generate the desired results, but doing nothing also presents risks. China’s double-bind is especially instructive. While there an […]
Manipulation = Fragility
Manipulation = Fragility In markets distorted by permanent manipulation the most powerful incentive is to borrow as much money as you can and leverage it as much as you can to maximize your gains in risk-on asset bubbles. A core dynamic is laying waste to global financial markets: the greater the level of central bank/government manipulation, […]
Here’s Why The Markets Have Suddenly Become So Turbulent
Here’s Why The Markets Have Suddenly Become So Turbulent A perfect storm of failing trends When stock markets are free-falling 10+% in a matter of days, it’s natural to seek some answers to the question “why now?” Some are saying it was all the result of high-frequency trading (HFT), while others point to China’s modest […]
What If The “Crash” Is as Rigged as Everything Else?
What If The “Crash” Is as Rigged as Everything Else? Take your pick–here’s three good reasons to engineer a “crash” that benefits the few at the expense of the many. There is an almost touching faith that markets are rigged when they loft higher, but unrigged when they crash. Who’s to say this crash isn’t […]
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us Global markets are puking at the prospect of higher yields in the U.S. There are many reasons for global markets to melt down, but one that doesn’t get enough attention is the strong dollar. In effect, global markets are telling the Federal Reserve: don’t […]
Why the Bear of 2015 Is Different from the Bear of 2008
Why the Bear of 2015 Is Different from the Bear of 2008 Are there any conditions now that are actually better than those of 2008? It’s tempting to see similarities in last week’s global stock market mini-crash and the monumental meltdown that almost took down the Global Financial System in 2008-2009. The dizzying drop invites comparison […]
Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite!
Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite! The herd must be turned away from selling by any means available, and at this point, that means coordinated buying by all the world’s Plunge Protection Teams. Central bankers are watching Marx’s dictum all that is solid melts into air play out in global stock markets with a terror informed […]
Yes, We Have No Bananas–or Rate Hikes
Yes, We Have No Bananas–or Rate Hikes The world’s most powerful central bank is relying on a novelty tune to maintain the hyper-speculative status quo. Back in the Roaring 1920s, a novelty song entitled Yes! We Have No Bananas (1923) was a major hit. The song made fun of a fruit vendor who answered “yes” to every query–even […]
Self-Reliance: Control What You Can (Food/Fitness)
Self-Reliance: Control What You Can (Food/Fitness) Self-reliance boils down to taking control of what we can control and depending as little as possible on what we can’t control. Self-reliance is a grand-sounding phrase, but what does it mean in real life?Does it mean total self-sufficiency? To my way of thinking, even the most self-sufficient still […]
Voting With Your Feet
Voting With Your Feet When do we finally accept the hopelessness of reforming a self-serving machine bent on destruction? My recent conversation with Max Keiser on Summer Solutions (25:45) included three bits of advice: 1. Stop financializing the human experience 2. Acquire skills, not credentials 3. Vote with your feet Today’s topic is Vote with your feet. The […]
Stop Financializing the Human Experience
Stop Financializing the Human Experience In this financialized hall of mirrors, narcissism replaces identity and the authentic self is rendered incoherent. Correspondent Dani A.M. (of Removing the Shackles) was kind enough to identify three bits of advice from my recent conversation with Max Keiser onSummer Solutions (25:45): (9:20 min: “We’ve been brainwashed into financializing the human experience.”) 1. […]
Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes
Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes Since the status quo has no workable Plan B to “growth” in an economy in which household incomes have declined 8.5% in a supposedly expanding economy, real solutions must arise outside the status quo. It’s a lot easier to talk about what’s wrong with the status quo and […]
Is China’s “Black Box” Economy About to Come Apart?
Is China’s “Black Box” Economy About to Come Apart? A China crisis will de-stabilize the world After 30 years of torrid expansion, perhaps the single most consequential factor in China’s economy is how much of it is a “black box”: a system with visible inputs and outputs whose internal workings are opaque. There are number […]
Here’s the Next Crisis “Nobody Saw Coming”
Here’s the Next Crisis “Nobody Saw Coming” When borrowing become prohibitive (or impossible) and raising taxes no longer generates more revenues, state and local governments will have to cut expenditures. Strangely enough, every easily foreseeable financial crisis is presented in the mainstream media as one that “nobody saw coming.” No doubt the crisis visible in these […]
I Sure Am Glad There’s No Inflation
I Sure Am Glad There’s No Inflation I sure am glad there’s no inflation, because these “stable prices” the Federal Reserve keeps jaw-jacking about are putting us in a world of hurt. We are constantly bombarded with two messages about inflation: 1. Inflation is near-zero 2. This worries the Federal Reserve terribly, because stable prices […]
