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The Fed’s Impossible Choice, In Three Charts
The Fed’s Impossible Choice, In Three Charts Critics of “New Age” monetary policy have been predicting that central banks would eventually run out of ways to trick people into borrowing money. There are at least three reasons to wonder if that time has finally come: Wage inflation is accelerating Normally, towards the end of a […]
Central Banks Put a Safety Net Under Financial Markets
CENTRAL BANKS PUT A SAFETY NET UNDER FINANCIAL MARKETS Most early business cycle indicators suggest that the global economy is pretty much roaring ahead. Production and employment are rising. Firms keep investing and show decent profits. International trade is expanding. Credit is easy to obtain. Stock prices keep moving up to ever higher levels. All […]
Central Banks Put a Safety Net Under Financial Markets
Central Banks Put a Safety Net Under Financial Markets Most early business cycle indicators suggest that the global economy is pretty much roaring ahead. Production and employment are rising. Firms keep investing and show decent profits. International trade is expanding. Credit is easy to obtain. Stock prices keep moving up to ever higher levels. All […]
Why Financial Markets Underestimate Risk
Frank Rumpenhorst/Getty Images Why Financial Markets Underestimate Risk Today’s economy is in a “risk-on” period, when investors exchange safe-haven assets like US Treasury Bills for riskier ones, from real estate to carry-trade currencies. But when such behavior assumes that economic conditions are more stable than they are, as seems to be the case today, trouble […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin
Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive.” – Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and […]
“Dark Money” Runs the World
“Dark Money” Runs the World Few people know financial markets’ biggest secret… For the last 40 years, most people believed the stock market always goes up. Simply buy and hold long enough, the theory went, and you could sit back and watch the money accumulate in your account. No thought or hard work needed. It […]
You’re Just Not Prepared For What’s Coming
You’re Just Not Prepared For What’s Coming Not even close I hate to break it to you, but chances are you’re just not prepared for what’s coming. Not even close. Don’t take it personally. I’m simply playing the odds. After spending more than a decade warning people all over the world about the futility of […]
Why Financial Markets Underestimate Risk
Why Financial Markets Underestimate Risk Today’s economy is in a “risk-on” period, when investors exchange safe-haven assets like US Treasury Bills for riskier ones, from real estate to carry-trade currencies. But when such behavior assumes that economic conditions are more stable than they are, as seems to be the case today, trouble inevitably follows. CAMBRIDGE […]
The Importance Of Knowing
The Importance Of Knowing Without insight, action is useless At Peak Prosperity, we strive to help people advance in three key areas: Knowing, Doing and Being. Doing and Being are the resilience-building steps we recommend. Helping folks develop their own personal action plans in these areas is the main focus of the seminars we run. […]
Are You Infuriated Yet?
Are You Infuriated Yet? You should be. I certainly am… More and more, I’m encountering people who are simply infuriated with how our “leaders” are running (or to put it more accurately, ruining) things right now. And I share that fury. It’s perfectly normal human response to be infuriated when an outside agent hurts you, […]
This is What it Looks Like When Credit Markets Go Nuts
This is What it Looks Like When Credit Markets Go Nuts Pricing of risk kicks bucket in record central-bank absurdity. As the days pass, the perverse effects of central bank policies on the financial markets are getting more and more amazing. This includes the record-setting nuttiness now reigning in the European bond market, compared to […]
