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Every Bubble Is In Search Of A Pin
Every Bubble Is In Search Of A Pin The ‘Everything Bubble’ has popped Now that the world’s central banking cartel is taking a long-overdue pause from printing money and handing it to the wealthy elite, the collection of asset price bubbles nested within the Everything Bubble are starting to burst. The cartel (especially the ECB […]
The Primacy Of Income
The Primacy Of Income The Era Of Gains is over Ever since the central banks became serial bubble blowers twenty years ago, household wealth has mostly been driven by asset price inflation: But this has been a quixotic pursuit. Created by pulling tomorrow’s prosperity into today, these asset price bubbles are unsustainable, and invariably suffer […]
Steen Jakobsen: The Four Horsemen Portend A Painful Reckoning
Steen Jakobsen: The Four Horsemen Portend A Painful Reckoning Even the US is now ‘swimming naked’ Steen Jacobsen, Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank sees economic slowdown ahead. Specifically, his “Four Horseman” indicators: the drivers of economic growth, are all flashing red. Jacobsen believes that the central banks will continue their liquidity […]
The Fourth Turning & War of the Worlds
THE FOURTH TURNING & WAR OF THE WORLDS “In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a […]
Wolf Richter: Making Sense Of The Recent Market Gyrations
PODCAST Wolf Richter: Making Sense Of The Recent Market Gyrations Which triggers are driving the action? What’s next? Every week at PeakProsperity.com, we record a podcast exclusive for our premium subscribers titled Off The Cuff, where Chris and a weekly expert discuss the notable developments of the week. Every once in a while, we’ll share one […]
Has “It” Finally Arrived?
Shutterstock Has “It” Finally Arrived? Is this week’s 6% market drop the start of the Big One? With the recent plunge in the S&P 500 of over 5%, has the long-anticipated (and long-overdue) market correction finally begun? It’s hard to say for certain. But the systemic cracks we’ve been closely monitoring definitely got an awful […]
Trump Is Right: The Federal Reserve Is Crazy And Here Are 101 Reasons Why It Should Be Shut Down
Trump Is Right: The Federal Reserve Is Crazy And Here Are 101 Reasons Why It Should Be Shut Down Donald Trump just made one of the most brilliant moves of his entire presidency. By accusing the Federal Reserve of “going loco”, he is placing the blame for the coming stock market crash and horrifying economic […]
Bad Money
Dreamstime Bad Money Our debt-based fiat money system poses an existential threat We’re all going to have to be a lot more resilient in the future. The “long emergency“, as James Howard Kunstler puts it, is now upon us. If ever there was a wake-up call from Mother Nature, it’s been the weather events over […]
The End Of Cheap Debt: The Fall & Rise Of Interest Rates
Creativa Images/Shutterstock The End Of Cheap Debt: The Fall & Rise Of Interest Rates Perhaps the greatest single trend impacting the next decade Total debt (public + private) in America is currently at a staggering $67 trillion. That number has been rising fast over the past 47 years, following the US dollar’s transformation into a […]
Michael Pento: When The Yield Curve Inverts Soon, The Next Recession Will Start
Michael Pento: When The Yield Curve Inverts Soon, The Next Recession Will Start Expected timing: this Fall Collectively, the world’s major central banks have pumped $1.1 trillion into the markets over the past year. The result of all this money printing is now well known: massively inflated real estate, stock and bond asset price bubbles, […]
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall The prospects for the rest of the year are awful Après moi, le déluge ~ King Louis XV of France A hard rain’s a-gonna fall ~ Bob Dylan (the first) As the Federal Reserve kicked off its second round of quantitative easing in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, hedge fund […]
Making Sense of The Federal Reserve
Making Sense of The Federal Reserve I was given a lecture in Toronto to our institutional clients years ago and the central bank of Canada came with ten people. It was an interesting session because the audience began to ask me questions about what the central banks were looking at to make their decisions. I […]
Beware of the Coming Economic Debt Bomb
Beware of the Coming Economic Debt Bomb Investors should start paying attention to the nation’s growing debt. Here’s why. “There is a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every American. Sadly, it is about to drop.” Sorry for the drama, but I need to get your attention. We know that the Fed has […]
Nomi Prins: Collusion!
Nomi Prins: Collusion! How central bankers rigged the world Nomi Prins, Wall Street veteran turned financial industry reformist returns to the podcast this week to explain the findings within her new book Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged The World. Nomi has put together a timeline of exactly when and how the central banks have plundered the wealth […]
