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Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island The control of the commercials and the COMEX manipulators have is very depressing for the gold market investor. As soon as gold and the miners are about to get on another bullish leg, that the moving averages are positively aligned and re-crossing the 200-day MA, that the traders are standing […]
If You Listen Carefully, The Bankers Are Actually Telling Us What Is Going To Happen Next
If You Listen Carefully, The Bankers Are Actually Telling Us What Is Going To Happen Next Are we on the verge of a major worldwide economic downturn? Well, if recent warnings from prominent bankers all over the world are to be believed, that may be precisely what we are facing in the months ahead. As […]
Australian dollar plunges as rate cut bets rise, commodity prices sink
Australian dollar plunges as rate cut bets rise, commodity prices sink The Australian dollar plunged again overnight, as falling commodity prices dragged it to a fresh five-and-a-half-year low. The local currency fell as low as 77.17 US cents, as a combination of strong US data boosting the greenback and falling commodity prices hurting resources exporters, […]
Loonie Plunges Through 80 Cents U.S. In Currency’s Biggest 2-Year Drop Ever
Loonie Plunges Through 80 Cents U.S. In Currency’s Biggest 2-Year Drop Ever The Canadian dollar fell through a psychologically important barrier Wednesday, trading for the first time in five years below 80 cents U.S. The loonie was hovering at 79.8 cents U.S. as of Wednesday afternoon, having followed oil prices downward for yet another day. […]
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again?
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again? That Grand Narratives based on short-term trends are often wrong should not surprise us. Two of the most durable and least-questioned narratives of the past 15 years are: 1. The world is becoming multipolar, meaning that rising power centers such as the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India […]
Hounded by Evil Dollar & Collapsed Commodity Prices, Corporate America Clamors for Total Currency War
Hounded by Evil Dollar & Collapsed Commodity Prices, Corporate America Clamors for Total Currency War Consumers are feeling practically euphoric. The Conference Board index jumped almost ten points to 102.9, the highest since August 2007, just before the whole construct came apart. Not that reality has suddenly improved that much. But hey, we’re born survivors. […]
Iran Drops Dollar As Congress Threatens More Sanctions
Iran Drops Dollar As Congress Threatens More Sanctions The clock is ticking on the Iranian nuclear deal, but it may all be for naught. A meddling Congress aside, Iran appears to lack faith in US President Barack Obama’s ability to ease long-standing sanctions and is cutting what ties it can.According to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, Iran […]
From Keynesian Shangri-La To Outright War
From Keynesian Shangri-La To Outright War Over the last few weeks drum beats could be heard signalling the coming of troops from abroad to lay waste to any foe ahead of them. However, unlike what we first conjure up as troops from an opposing force made up of men and weapons. This battlefield is being waged […]
Get Ready For Negative Interest Rates In The US
Get Ready For Negative Interest Rates In The US With Fed mouthpiece Jon Hilsenrath warning – in no lesser status-quo narrative-deliverer than The Wall Street Journal – that The ECB’s actions (and pre-emptive collapse in the EUR) means the U.S. economy must deal with a rapidly strengthening dollar that will make American goods more expensive abroad, potentially slowing […]
The Currency Illusion
The Currency Illusion QUESTION: I want to share a true story with you. My father as a young boy in Greece saw what gold did for his family. My grandfather in Greece in the late 30′s and 40′s saw the rapid devaluation happening to the drachma. English sovereigns were plentiful there at the time as a […]
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, […]
This Week In Energy: Why Anything Can Happen in 2015
This Week In Energy: Why Anything Can Happen in 2015. The New Year is upon us but oil prices are carrying on the trend from the second half of 2014 and continuing to drop, with the thirteenth negative week from the last 14 and lows not seen since 2009. With early morning volatility seeing rises of 3.5% […]
The Year in 5 Narratives – The Automatic Earth
The Year in 5 Narratives – The Automatic Earth. Let’s see, how do we close this year in a proper manner? I already wrote that 2014 for me has been The Year Propaganda Came Of Age. Likewise, looking forward, I said that The Biggest Economic Story Going Into 2015 Is Not Oil. Moreover, I talked about things […]
The US Dollar and the Cone of Uncertainty | Thoughts from the Frontline Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics
The US Dollar and the Cone of Uncertainty | Thoughts from the Frontline Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics. Currently we have an international monetary non-system. Nobody has to follow any rules. Everybody does what they consider is in their own short-term best interest. The real difficulty is: What is in their short-term interest – for […]
A Funny Thing Happened To Oil Prices When Nixon Killed The Gold Standard | Zero Hedge
A Funny Thing Happened To Oil Prices When Nixon Killed The Gold Standard | Zero Hedge. For the past 150 years, crude oil prices have varied between around $10 per barrel and around $120 per barrel. For many decades, oil prices were relatively “stable” but a funny thing happened in the early 70s and everything changed – […]
