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4 Harbingers Of Stock Market Doom That Foreshadowed The 2008 Crash Are Flashing Red Again
4 Harbingers Of Stock Market Doom That Foreshadowed The 2008 Crash Are Flashing Red Again So many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed just before the stock market crash of 2008 are playing out once again right before our eyes. Most of the time, a stock market crash doesn’t just come out of […]
Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: ‘Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing’
Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: ‘Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing’ Some of the world’s biggest investors have been taking significant positions in the commodity resource sector as of late, most notably in gold. With geopolitical tension and fear of economic breakdown reaching a near boiling point, it’s not difficult to see why. […]
Everything’s Deflating And Nobody Seems To Notice
Everything’s Deflating And Nobody Seems To Notice Whenever we at the Automatic Earth explain, as we must have done at least a hundred times in our existence, that, and why, we refuse to define inflation and deflation as rising or falling prices (only), we always get a lot of comments and reactions implying that people […]
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part II)
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part II) A Lehman Moment for Commodities? LONDON – Today, we continue our philosophical look at what you should do if you are running out of time and money. (You can catch up on Part I here.) Where do we begin? With how to add wealth? Or how to lose it? The […]
Demographics and Major Financial and Economic Trends
Demographics and Major Financial and Economic Trends Demographics Driving Declines in Oil Consumption, Mounting Debt, & Central Bank Mismanagement Sometimes, the simplest answer really is best. I contend the primary and simplest factor that need be watched to gauge present and future economic activity are the changes in core populations (15-64 year old segment of the larger population) for any nation or grouping. […]
Crude Oil – a “Ray of Hope”
Crude Oil – a “Ray of Hope” Why Technical Developments Shouldn’t be Ignored This is a little addendum to our recent comments on the crude oil market (which you can see here, here andhere, in chronological order). Apparently Goldman Sachs just published a research report calling for $20 oil – which strikes us as a bookend to their infamous $200 […]
From Miracle to Cataclysm – why the commodity bust will last for years
From Miracle to Cataclysm – why the commodity bust will last for years The Chinese Jīngjì qíjī, wirtschaftswunder, keizai no kiseki, milagro económico or whatever you want to call is neither a miracle nor distinctly Chinese. A basket case like Argentine managed to pull off a similar feat, albeit with more volatility, over a 42 year timespan beginning […]
Did The Fed Intentionally Spark A Commodity Sell-off?
Did The Fed Intentionally Spark A Commodity Sell-off? The intention here is the bring facts to light so the public can decide. I’m not quite sure what to believe on how and why oil prices remain more than 50 percent below free cash flow break even for most independent E&P companies. I know for sure […]
New Vehicle Sales Collapse in Canada’s Oil Patch
New Vehicle Sales Collapse in Canada’s Oil Patch Oil spills into the broader economy. Canada’s economy has split in two. The resource producing economy is deteriorating at a breath-taking pace, broadsided by collapsing commodity prices. For Canada, the most important commodity is crude oil. West Texas Intermediate has plunged below $39 a barrel, not seen […]
Deflationary Collapse Ahead?
Deflationary Collapse Ahead? Both the stock market and oil prices have been plunging. Is this “just another cycle,” or is it something much worse? I think it is something much worse. Back in January, I wrote a post called Oil and the Economy: Where are We Headed in 2015-16? In it, I said that persistent very low prices […]
China’s market woes could be chance to ‘reset’ Canadian economy
China’s market woes could be chance to ‘reset’ Canadian economy Canada should ‘rely less on commodity growth and put the emphasis on other sectors,’ analyst says China’s staggering economic growth has been, in many ways, a boon for Canada. Put simply, China need lots of the things we have to offer like wood, metals, and […]
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down As much as the financiers on Wall Street and the officials at the Fed would like the party to keep going, it looks it’s finally about to stop. Years of bailouts and monetary expansion have created one of the most inflated and artificial economic booms in history, and […]
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets Benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is down 38 per cent from its June 12 peak World stock markets plunged on Monday after China’s main index sank 8.5 per cent — its biggest drop since the early days of the global financial crisis — amid deepening fears over […]
Commodity Markets In Distress As Oil Rout Continues
Commodity Markets In Distress As Oil Rout Continues One hundred and eleven years after the birth of Count Basie, and the ongoing rout in the crude complex is in full swing today. Downhill one-way traffic continues amid headlines such as ‘No End in Sight for Oil Glut‘ and ‘Oil Poised for Longest Weekly Losing Streak Since 1986 […]
