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Peter Schiff: There’s A BIG Problem With The Economy, ‘Americans Are BROKE’
Peter Schiff: There’s A BIG Problem With The Economy, ‘Americans Are BROKE’ Financial analyst Peter Schiff says there’s a big problem with the economy even though the mainstream media is reporting that rising interest rates are a good thing. The problem, however, is that Americans are broke, and those interest rates could have a major […]
John Mauldin: Trade Wars Could Trigger “The Next Great Depression”
John Mauldin: Trade Wars Could Trigger “The Next Great Depression” Last week on Erik Townsend’s Macrovoices podcast, Jim Grant, storied credit investor and founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, explained the reasoning behind his call that the great secular bond bear market actually began in the aftermath of the UK’s Brexit vote during the summer […]
The Real Engine of the Business Cycle
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images The Real Engine of the Business Cycle A valuable lesson from the Great Recession is that credit-supply expansions play a key role in subsequent recessions. When lenders make credit more available or more affordable, households respond by taking on debt, which drives up aggregate demand – that is, until the music stops. […]
Peter Schiff: ‘We Will Live Through Another Great Depression Which Will Be MUCH MUCH WORSE’
Peter Schiff: ‘We Will Live Through Another Great Depression Which Will Be MUCH MUCH WORSE’ Financial guru Peter Schiff, who accurately predicted the recession of 2008, says the problems we face now are even bigger. We will live through another Great Depression if Schiff is correct. And one of the main concerns is something very few […]
Could An Oil Surplus Be A Sign Of Things To Come?
Could An Oil Surplus Be A Sign Of Things To Come? Today, we have a surplus of oil, which we are trying to use up. That has never happened before, or did it? Well, actually, it did, back around 1930. As most of us remember, that was not a pleasant time. It was during the […]
Gail Tverberg: The Coming Energy Depression
Gail Tverberg: The Coming Energy Depression The math is straightforward, but cruel As most PeakProsperity.com readers know, we fully agree with the statement: Energy is THE master resource. Without it, nothing can get done. Energy analyst and professional actuary Gail Tverberg returns to the podcast this week to revisit the global energy outlook. And fair warning, Gail warns […]
The Sermon On The Mount[ain Of Debt]
The Sermon On The Mount[ain Of Debt] “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” – President Herbert Hoover The Hoover administration thought there was no room and was ideologically opposed to fiscal expansion to stimulate aggregate demand. Furthermore, Keynesian theory was not even developed at the time. The General Theory of Employment, […]
Graphic Anatomy of a Stock Market Crash: 1929 stock market crash, dot-com, and Great Recession
Graphic Anatomy of a Stock Market Crash: 1929 stock market crash, dot-com, and Great Recession The 1929 stock market crash became the benchmark to which all other market crashes have been compared. The following graphs of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed, the dot-com crash, and the stock market crash during […]
The Coming Of Depression Economics
The Coming Of Depression Economics Like it or not, this is where we have been all along and a great many people are just now catching up. No matter what Janet Yellen says about the economy, she is talking out the side of her mouth. Internally, the recovery is gone, and it is never coming […]
Policy Makers, like Generals, Are Busy Fighting The Last War
Policy Makers, like Generals, Are Busy Fighting The Last War The Maginot Line formed France’s main line of defense on its German facing border from Belgium in the North to Switzerland in the South. It was constructed during the 1930s, with the trench-based warfare of World War One still firmly in the minds of the […]
Private Capital Allocation Matching Only the Great Depression for Inefficiency
Private Capital Allocation Matching Only the Great Depression for Inefficiency The Summary: Economic policy objectives (monetary and fiscal) are meant to incentivize domestic private business investment, which drives incomes and the money multiplier effect, i.e. the engine of the economy. Economic policy objectives have failed because CEO’s, the private capital allocators, simply cannot accommodate business […]
The Noose Is Tightening Quickly On The Global Economy
The Noose Is Tightening Quickly On The Global Economy The investment world has an embarrassingly short attention span. But frankly, it is a necessity. If daytraders, hedge funds and other horses in the carousel actually had to look beyond the next week of market activity or study back on market history in comparison to today, […]
What to Do to Prepare for Financial Collapse: “Get Out of Debt. Store. Prep. Cash. Gold.”
What to Do to Prepare for Financial Collapse: “Get Out of Debt. Store. Prep. Cash. Gold.” Prepare by balancing debt. Before you max out your credit cards on top notch gear, make sure you can survive the economic conditions that are coming. Mass unemployment. Loss of income. Heavy dependence on assistance. And the biggest strain […]
