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Bitcoin isn’t the bubble — the global financial system is
Bitcoin isn’t the bubble — the global financial system is © Getty Images Pretty much every article you read about bitcoin in the mainstream press ends up in the same place. You may not hear it until the seventh or eighth paragraph, but eventually you’ll be told that the whole thing is nothing more than […]
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 2
The Greatest Bubble Ever: Why You Better Believe It, Part 2 During the 40 months after Alan Greenspan’s infamous “irrational exuberance” speech in December 1996, the NASDAQ 100 index rose from 830 to 4585 or by 450%. But the perma-bulls said not to worry: This time is different—-it’s a new age of technology miracles that will change the laws […]
The Inescapable Reason Why the Financial System Will Fail
girardatlarge.com The Inescapable Reason Why the Financial System Will Fail Credit cannot expand faster than fundamentals forever Modern finance has many complex moving parts, and this complexity masks its inner simplicity. Let’s break down the core dynamics of the current financial system. The Core Dynamic of the “Recovery” and Asset Bubbles: Credit Credit is the […]
The Great Oil Swindle
silentera.com The Great Oil Swindle Is leading us to destruction When it comes to the story we’re being told about America’s rosy oil prospects, we’re being swindled. At its core, the swindle is this: The shale industry’s oil production forecasts are vastly overstated. Swindle: Noun – A fraudulent scheme or action. And the swindle is not […]
What Causes Asset Bubbles?
What Causes Asset Bubbles? As we showed yesterday, the price of bitcoin has finally surpassed “Tulips” in the global bubble race. Overnight the former Bridgewater analysts Howard Wang and Robert Wu, who make up Convoy Investments, released their thoughts on what happens next… and most importantly, what causes asset bubbles… When we see a dramatic […]
Three Bubbles/Strikes and You’re Out
Three Bubbles/Strikes and You’re Out Those betting on a fourth bubble of even greater extremes will find their time at bat has come to an end. The conventional investment wisdom holds that central banks will never let markets decline. This is an interesting belief, given that two previous asset bubbles based on central bank “easy […]
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin Shall we compare the damage that will be done when all these bubbles pop? Regardless of one’s own views about bitcoin/cryptocurrency, what is truly remarkable is the asymmetry that is applied to questioning the status quo and bitcoin. As I noted yesterday, everyone seems just fine […]
What Could Go Wrong?
What Could Go Wrong? Everybody and his uncle, and his uncle’s mother’s uncle, believes that the stock markets will be zooming to new record highs this week, and probably so, because it is the time of year to fatten up, just as the Thanksgiving turkeys are happily fattening up — prior to their mass slaughter. […]
What Could Pop The Everything Bubble?
What Could Pop The Everything Bubble? A crisis that can’t be solved by just printing more dollars I’ve long held that if a problem can be solved by creating $1 trillion out of thin air and buying a raft of assets with that $1 trillion, then central banks will solve the problem by creating the […]
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles The week left me with an uneasy feeling. There were a number of articles noting the 30-year anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. I spent “Black Monday” staring at a Telerate monitor as a treasury analyst at Toyota’s US headquarters in Southern California. If I wasn’t completely in […]
Bubble-nomics
Bubble-nomics Question: What is a bubble? Answer: A bubble is trade in an asset at a price range that strongly exceeds the asset’s intrinsic value. Or it could also be described as a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future. Question: How do you know […]
Too Good For Too Long
Shutterstock Too Good For Too Long Over-extended systems contract quickly & violently I’m writing this from my home in Sonoma County at the end of an intense week of witnessing firsthand the devastation caused by the many current fires burning in northern California. While it’s hard to focus on anything other than the moment-to-moment developments […]
Schäuble Warns of Coming Economic Crisis
Schäuble Warns of Coming Economic Crisis In his farewell interview for the Financial Times, Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble warned of a new global financial crisis predicated upon the Quantity of Money theory that the central banks had pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system that is creating a risk of “new bubbles”. […]
The 5 Biggest Bubbles In Markets Today
The 5 Biggest Bubbles In Markets Today Bubbles aren’t new—they’ve been around since Dutch tulips—but it’s only recently that they’ve worked their way into the average investor’s lexicon. That’s probably because bubbles happen much more frequently these days. We never used to get a giant speculative bubble every 7–8 years. But that has been the […]
Schäuble: Another Financial Crisis Is Coming Due To Spiraling Global Debt, “New Bubbles”
Schäuble: Another Financial Crisis Is Coming Due To Spiraling Global Debt, “New Bubbles” Following the disappointing for Angela Merkel and her CDU German election results, which propelled the populist AfD into Germany’s political establishment with 92 members of parliament, the first casualty was Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, who in a few days will relinquish […]
