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This Market Is a “Wheelbarrow of Dynamite” Waiting to Blow
This Market Is a “Wheelbarrow of Dynamite” Waiting to Blow But in come the cronies to tell us not to worry about it. DELRAY BEACH, Florida – It’s hot in Florida. Steamy hot. Hair curls and bodies go limp. The “relief rally” continued yesterday. All over the world, stocks gained. So did oil and commodities. […]
The Most Astounding Credit Binge in History
The Most Astounding Credit Binge in History Stripped Gears DELRAY BEACH, Florida – “The Donald” breathed a sigh of relief yesterday. He and other rich people got a break from the beating they’ve been taking: Stocks bounced, with the Dow ending yesterday’s session up more than 600 points. The gears have been stripped, and they […]
Weekend Reading: Just A Correction, Or Something Else
Weekend Reading: Just A Correction, Or Something Else Earlier this week I posted two pieces of analysis with respect to the recent dive in the markets. The first discussed the possibility that this is just a correction within an ongoing bull market. The second delved into the possibility that a new cyclical bear market has begun. Only […]
Where is Neo When We Need Him
Where is Neo When We Need Him In The Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault. For example, the current decline in the US stock market is not because years of excessive liquidity supplied by the Federal Reserve have created a bubble so overblown that a mere six stocks, some of which […]
Jackson Hole – Meeting of the Physics Envy Brigade
Jackson Hole – Meeting of the Physics Envy Brigade Planners Meet to Discuss the Impossible The Jackson Hole pow-wow takes place this weekend. A more revolting get-together of actual and armchair central planners (i.e., the advisors to the planners, many of whom see themselves as planners-in-waiting) could hardly be imagined. One has to wonder how […]
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 […]
The Federal Reserve is Not Your Friend
The Federal Reserve is Not Your Friend Fed policies disproportionately favor wealth. Imagine that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was a corporation, with its shares owned by the nation’s major pharmaceutical companies. How would you feel about the regulation of medications? Whose interests would this corporation be serving? Or suppose that major oil companies […]
The Fed Is Bluffing
The Fed Is Bluffing Interest Rates Won’t Rise in 2015 The Janet Yellen Fed will not raise interest rates in any meaningful way anytime soon. Instead, she will announce new QE programs. On Wednesday, red was showing up just about everywhere – U.S. stocks, European stocks, Asian stocks, emerging markets stocks, crude oil… but it […]
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 […]
The Federal Reserve – Which CREATED Quantitative Easing – Admits QE Doesn’t Work
The Federal Reserve – Which CREATED Quantitative Easing – Admits QE Doesn’t Work Even the Fed Admits QE Doesn’t Work The Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (Stephen Williamson) writes in a new Fed white paper (as explained by Zero Hedge): The theory behind Quantitative Easing (QE) is “not well-developed” The evidence in support […]
Can Kickers United—–Why It’s Getting Downright Hazardous Out There
Can Kickers United—–Why It’s Getting Downright Hazardous Out There It’s getting downright hazardous out there, and not just because the robo-machines were slamming the “sell” key today. The real danger comes from the loose assemblage of official institutions which claim to be running the world. They might better be referred to as “can kickers united.” It is now blindly obvious that they have lapsed into […]
It Starts: Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War
It Starts: Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War The biggest global “tail risk” is China’s deteriorating economy and an emerging market debt crisis, according to BofA Merrill Lynch’s monthly poll of fund managers. And 48% of them were expecting the Fed to raise rates, despite languid growth and low inflation expectations. Hot money is already fleeing emerging […]
An Almost Perfect Predictor of GDP Growth and Bernie Lays the Boots…
An Almost Perfect Predictor of GDP Growth and Bernie Lays the Boots… I recently watched a video clip of Bernie Sanders laying the boots to Alan Greenspan back in 2003, for Greenspan’s seemingly out of touch perspective of the average American. Now while we do have a repentant banker in Greenspan, a rare phenomenon for sure, I found […]
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” — Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on Meet the Press, August 2011 In a post on “Sovereign Man” dated August 14th, Simon Black […]
