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Albert Edwards: “It’s Starting To Feel A Bit Like July 2008”
Albert Edwards: “It’s Starting To Feel A Bit Like July 2008” One of the theories seeking to explain the Lehman collapse and the ensuing financial crisis points to the record surge in oil prices which rose as high as $150 in the summer of 2008, and which combined with tight monetary conditions, precipitated a giant […]
The Market Crash Nobody Thinks Is Possible Is Coming
The Market Crash Nobody Thinks Is Possible Is Coming The banquet of consequences is being served, and risk-off crashes are, like revenge, best served cold. The ideal setup for a crash is a consensus that a crash is impossible–in other words, just like the present: sure, there are carefully measured murmurings about a “correction” but nobody […]
The Threat Board is Looking Busy
The Threat Board is Looking Busy Markets are never as bad as you fear, but never as good as you hope. The Threat Board has seldom looked so complex: we can try to predict outcomes, but its notoriously difficult. The list of potential ignition points seems to be expanding exponentially: Energy Prices, Oil, Inflation, Stagflation, […]
Charles Hugh Smith: The System Will Fall Apart
Charles Hugh Smith: The System Will Fall Apart
Is Evergrande a symptom of deeper malaise?
Is Evergrande a symptom of deeper malaise? Evergrande’s imminent default is rocking markets – but few believe the collapse of a Chinese property developer could trigger a global financial crisis. What if Evergrande is just a symptom of a deeper malaise within the Chinese economy and its political/business structures? Maybe there is more at stake […]
China’s Crackdown on Debt, Tech & Evergrande Sends Frazzled Wall Street Titans to China
China’s Crackdown on Debt, Tech & Evergrande Sends Frazzled Wall Street Titans to China The property sector and its debts are possibly the biggest financial mess in China’s history. The crackdowns by Chinese authorities on some of the biggest hype-and-hoopla industries have sent investors heading for the exits. There is a crackdown on debt to […]
Will the Gov’t Close all Markets?
Will the Gov’t Close all Markets? QUESTION: Marty, the government closed the New York Stock exchange in 1914 due to World War I. Do you think they will do that again? Looking forward to Orlando WH ANSWER: The closure of 1914 was not the only time they shut down markets. Even the London market was shut down […]
Seven Possible Causes of the Next Financial Crisis
Seven Possible Causes of the Next Financial Crisis The great financial historian, Charles Kindleberger, pointed out in the 1970s that over several centuries, history showed there was a financial crisis about once every ten years. His observation still holds. In every decade since his classic Manias, Panics and Crashes of 1978, such crises have indeed continued to […]
The Banality of (Financial) Evil
The Banality of (Financial) Evil The financialized American economy and State are now totally dependent on a steady flow of lies and propaganda for their very survival. Were the truth told, the status quo would collapse in a putrid heap. Go ahead and be evil, because everyone else is evil, too, because being evil serves […]
These Dangers Loom Over the Fragile U.S. Economy in the Next 12 Months
These Dangers Loom Over the Fragile U.S. Economy in the Next 12 Months Photo by Connor Daylenko The U.S. and most of the world is at the threshold of what I would call a nexus point in history. There are establishment forces at play that seek to impose a permanent authoritarian presence within our nation in […]
Desperate Money Printing Leads to Depression – Dr. Marc Faber
Desperate Money Printing Leads to Depression – Dr. Marc Faber Legendary investor, economist and market forecaster Dr. Marc Faber thinks central banks (CB) are not going to cut back the money printing. Just the opposite. He predicts CBs are going to print even more money at a faster pace to hold the failing economic system […]
Is Anyone Willing to Call the Top of the Everything Bubble?
Is Anyone Willing to Call the Top of the Everything Bubble? Can extremes become too extreme to continue higher? We’re about to find out. Is anyone willing to call the top of the Everything bubble? The short answer is no. Anyone earning money managing other people’s money cannot afford to be wrong, and so everyone in […]
Fed Prints Money or the Whole Thing Blows Up-Craig Hemke
Fed Prints Money or the Whole Thing Blows Up-Craig Hemke By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post) Financial writer, market analyst and precious metals expert Craig Hemke says the Fed has all but said it was going to delay the so-called “taper” of easy money policies–forever. This is why gold and silver spiked as the dollar tanked […]
COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID
COVID Bailouts Have Nothing to Do With COVID Below, we ask a simple question: Is the war on COVID the needed pretext for even more centralized market “performance?” After all, who needs free markets when central bank liquidity determines price forces via endless COVID bailouts? The trend toward centralized controls and centralized markets was in play long […]
Rabobank: The Market Has Become “Springtime For Hitler”
Rabobank: The Market Has Become “Springtime For Hitler” Buy-all-the-stocks and Boom? Readers will know my view that we are living in a black comedy. There is plenty of evidence of this, but US President Biden saying it is the Taliban who are in the midst of “an existential crisis” takes the biscuit today given the US is charging […]
