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Weekly Commentary: Italian Drama
Weekly Commentary: Italian Drama As I see it, cracks are opening in the greatest Bubble of all time. Serious fissures have developed in EM, Europe and China. Meanwhile, the stimulus-driven U.S. economic boom runs unabated. Global fragilities place downward pressure on U.S. market yields, while faltering Bubbles elsewhere stoke (self-reinforcing) outperformance – and speculative excess […]
Market Plummets if Global Central Banks Pull Plug – Nomi Prins
Market Plummets if Global Central Banks Pull Plug – Nomi Prins Two time best-selling book author Nomi Prins says the rescue policies of the 2008 financial crisis are still with us today. Prins is out with a brand new book called “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.” The enormity of our current global debt […]
Hot War and Cold Markets
Hot War and Cold Markets This is turning into a comedy. A black comedy, for sure, but still. As both the Skripal novichok ‘poisoning’ case in Britain and the ‘chemical attack’ in Douma, Syria fall flat on their faces on a total and absolute lack of evidence, it’s becoming clear that western ‘authorities’ are not […]
The Limits of Free Markets, Both Economic and Intellectual
The Limits of Free Markets, Both Economic and Intellectual Both in economics and speech, the market is a powerful metaphor. Free economic markets are efficient, and produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people by the fair interplay of sellers and buyers. The marketplace of ideas is supposed to produce truth, and maximize […]
Fourth Turning’s Neil Howe: “Today’s Demographics Defy Conventional Wisdom”
Fourth Turning’s Neil Howe: “Today’s Demographics Defy Conventional Wisdom” John Mauldin interviewed Fourth Turning best-selling author and demographics expert, Neil Howe about generational changes and their effect on the markets, during a session at the Strategic Investment Conference 2018. Howe said that demographics and generational factors have a huge impact on equity prices in the […]
The End of (Artificial) Stability
The End of (Artificial) Stability The central banks’/states’ power to maintain a permanent bull market in stocks and bonds is eroding. There is nothing natural about the stability of the past 9 years. The bullish trends in risk assets are artificial constructs of central bank/state policies. As these policies are reduced or lose their effectiveness, the […]
Do Financial Markets Still Exist?
Do Financial Markets Still Exist? For many decades the Federal Reserve has rigged the bond market by its purchases. And for about a century, central banks have set interest rates (mainly to stabilize their currency’s exchange rate) with collateral effects on securities prices. It appears that in May 2010, August 2015, January/February 2016, and currently […]
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 1: Last Week Wasn’t An Error
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 1: Last Week Wasn’t An Error Last week’s twin 1,000 point plunges on the Dow were not errors. Instead, these close-coupled massacres, which wiped out $4 trillion of global market cap in two days, marked the beginning of a bear market that will be generational, not a temporary cyclical downleg. What hit […]
Blain: “Here’s Why This Gets Worse Before It Gets Better”
Blain: “Here’s Why This Gets Worse Before It Gets Better” Wobble continues. Does a Correction morph into a Crash? “They would never evolve. They shouldn’t have survived.…. Evolution was something that happened to other species..” Not looking like a positive morning out there. Stocks are down 10% – so officially it’s a correction! Markets are […]
Steve Keen: “Why Did It Take So Long For This Crash To Happen?”
Steve Keen: “Why Did It Take So Long For This Crash To Happen?” As originally written at RT, outspoken Aussie economist Steve Keen points out that everyone who’s asking “why did the stock market crash Monday?” is asking the wrong question; the real question, Keen exclaims, is “why did it take so long for this […]
Is the 9-Year Long Dead Cat Bounce Finally Ending?
Is the 9-Year Long Dead Cat Bounce Finally Ending? Ignoring or downplaying these fundamental forces has greatly increased the fragility of the status quo. The term dead cat bounce is market lingo for a “recovery” after markets decline due to fundamental reversals. Markets tend to bounce back after sharp declines as participants (human and digital) […]
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now…
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now… Did today’s market plunge mark the start of the next crash? Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008. Remember back then? Everything was going great. Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful. The great cultural marketing machine was busy proclaiming that a […]
The Nature of Panics
The Nature of Panics I have been asked my “opinion” with respect to the existence of a Collective unconscious in terms of the Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), who disagreed with Freud and believed his personal development was influenced by factors he felt were unrelated to sexuality. Nevertheless, Jung’s work has led to many considering it to […]
WARNING: Markets Reaching Extreme Leverage
WARNING: Markets Reaching Extreme Leverage As investors’ bullish sentiment moves up to euphoric levels, the markets are reaching extreme leverage. This is terrible news because a lot of people are going to lose one heck of a lot of money. According to CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index, the market is now at the “extreme […]
The day I found out it was all rigged
The day I found out it was all rigged May 6, 2010 started off as a pretty boring day. The most exciting stories from the morning’s newspapers were reviews of the upcoming Iron Man 2 film. But all that changed at around 2:45pm when, without warning, the stock market crashed, and the Dow Jones Industrial […]
