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The Perfect Crash Indicator Is Flashing Red
The Perfect Crash Indicator Is Flashing Red What’s the last big toy you buy when things have been good for a really long time and you already have all the other toys? An RV, of course. A dubious thing to own if you already have a house, but when the good times seem likely to […]
Maybe The Recovery Wasn’t Real After All
Maybe The Recovery Wasn’t Real After All For a while there it looked like the US and its main trading partners had finally achieved escape velocity. Growth was up, inflation was poking through the Fed’s 2% target, and most measures of consumer sentiment were bordering on euphoric. Then it all started to evaporate. Lackluster manufacturing […]
2016 Debt Binge Produces (Surprise!) 2017 Inflation. Guess What That Means For 2018?
2016 Debt Binge Produces (Surprise!) 2017 Inflation. Guess What That Means For 2018? Just as everyone was finally accepting the idea of deflation and negative interest rates, inflation decides to pay a return visit. In the past day, articles with the following headlines appeared in major publications around the world: Swiss inflation rises at highest […]
2017’s Real Milestone (Or Why Interest Rates Can Never Go Back To Normal)
2017’s Real Milestone (Or Why Interest Rates Can Never Go Back To Normal) Forget about NAFTA or OPEC or TPP or crowd size or hand size or any other acronym or stat or concept that obsesses the financial press these days. Only two numbers actually matter. The first is $20 trillion, which is the level […]
Can We Grow Out Of Our Problems If We’re Not Actually Growing?
Can We Grow Out Of Our Problems If We’re Not Actually Growing? The rationale for today’s easy money policies is pretty straightforward: Falling interest rates and rising government deficits will counteract the drag of excessive debts taken on in previous stimulus programs and asset bubbles, enabling the developed world to create wealth faster than it […]
This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition
This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition Along with the currencies of most other commodity-exporting countries, the Canadian dollar has been in near-freefall lately. Gold, meanwhile, has been sucked down with the rest of the commodities complex, falling hard since 2013. But only in US dollars. For Canadians, with their weak domestic currency, […]
Preppernomics: How to Survive While the Dollar Dies
Preppernomics: How to Survive While the Dollar Dies I really don’t like to make predictions. I’m not Zoltan, the fortune-telling dude in the machine – you know, the one with the turban who waves his mechanical hands dramatically over a crystal ball and tells you of your future in a heavily accented voice. But, […]
Replacing the Dollar | Armstrong Economics
Replacing the Dollar | Armstrong Economics. The conspiracy crowd keep swearing the dollar has to collapse and remain clueless that the world is in serious trouble. The impact of debt is far worse outside the USA than inside yet their myopic vision blinds them to the truth. Taxes are so high in Europe and […]
