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Bad Money
Dreamstime Bad Money Our debt-based fiat money system poses an existential threat We’re all going to have to be a lot more resilient in the future. The “long emergency“, as James Howard Kunstler puts it, is now upon us. If ever there was a wake-up call from Mother Nature, it’s been the weather events over […]
Yellen Wants Fed to Commit to Future Booms to Make Up for Busts
Yellen Wants Fed to Commit to Future Booms to Make Up for Busts Former Fed Chair Yellen promotes “Lower for Longer”, a policy in which the Fed knowingly keeps interest rates too low. Here’s the asinine policy proposal of the day: Fed Should Commit to Future ‘Booms’ to Make Up for Major Busts. The U.S. […]
Corporate Credit – A Chasm Between Risk Perceptions and Actual Risk
Corporate Credit – A Chasm Between Risk Perceptions and Actual Risk Shifts in Credit-Land: Repatriation Hurts Small Corporate Borrowers A recent Bloomberg article informs us that US companies with large cash hoards (such as AAPL and ORCL) were sizable players in corporate debt markets, supplying plenty of funds to borrowers in need of US dollars. […]
America’s Oil Boom Is a Fraud
America’s Oil Boom Is a Fraud PARIS – We promised to end the week with a bang! You’ll recall that Fed policy always consists of the same three mistakes… 1) Keeping interest rates too low for too long, resulting in too much debt; 2) Raising interest rates to try to gently deflate the debt bubble; […]
Global Economic Warning: “A Day Of Reckoning Is Coming”
Global Economic Warning: “A Day Of Reckoning Is Coming” The world is awash in debt – some $233 Trillion is currently outstanding on a global scale. And though stock markets have seen unprecedented growth in recent years, cracks have started to appear. Just this week analysts at Goldman Sachs warned that a crash is coming, […]
How Things Fall Apart: Extremes Aren’t Stable
How Things Fall Apart: Extremes Aren’t Stable A funny thing happens on the way to stabilizing things by doing more of what’s failed: the system becomes even more unstable, brittle and fragile. A peculiar faith in pushing extremes to new heights has taken hold in official circles over the past decade: when past extremes push […]
The 11th Hour: 8 Examples Of Mainstream Media Sources Warning Us Of Imminent Economic Disaster
The 11th Hour: 8 Examples Of Mainstream Media Sources Warning Us Of Imminent Economic Disaster Are we on the verge of another great financial crisis, a devastating recession and a horrific implosion of the global debt bubble? On my website I have been relentlessly warning my readers about the inevitable consequences of our very foolish […]
The End Of Cheap Debt: The Fall & Rise Of Interest Rates
Creativa Images/Shutterstock The End Of Cheap Debt: The Fall & Rise Of Interest Rates Perhaps the greatest single trend impacting the next decade Total debt (public + private) in America is currently at a staggering $67 trillion. That number has been rising fast over the past 47 years, following the US dollar’s transformation into a […]
The 11th Hour: 8 Examples Of Mainstream Media Sources Warning Us Of Imminent Economic Disaster
The 11th Hour: 8 Examples Of Mainstream Media Sources Warning Us Of Imminent Economic Disaster Are we on the verge of another great financial crisis, a devastating recession and a horrific implosion of the global debt bubble? On my website I have been relentlessly warning my readers about the inevitable consequences of our very foolish […]
Emerging Market Debt Crisis – A Reality Check
Emerging Market Debt Crisis – A Reality Check QUESTION: Hello Martin … I follow emerging markets closely and one thing I note is that the size of the sovereign forex-denominated debt burdens are quite small relative to GDP except in the case of Argentina (48%). Everybody else, including Turkey and Indonesia) is 11% or less. […]
Shale Won’t Trigger The Next Financial Crisis
Shale Won’t Trigger The Next Financial Crisis Many think that debt and negative cash flow by U.S. shale companies will crash the global financial system. I believe the opposite is more likely, that a developing financial crisis may crash oil prices and test the survival of shale plays. In The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground, […]
Major Currencies All Over The World Are In “Complete Meltdown” As The $63 Trillion EM Debt Bubble Implodes
Major Currencies All Over The World Are In “Complete Meltdown” As The $63 Trillion EM Debt Bubble Implodes The wait for the next global financial crisis is over. Major currencies all over the planet are in a “death spiral”, many global stock markets are crashing, and economic activity is beginning to decline at a stunning […]
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina – It’s a Global Debt Crisis
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina – It’s a Global Debt Crisis QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Our government here in Argentina has told us we should expect more poverty and there is no hope for the future. Socrates has been amazing on its forecasts on our currency. There are enough of us down here who would sincerely […]
No Fracking Way: Debt-Laden Shale Producers May Unleash The Next Financial Crisis
No Fracking Way: Debt-Laden Shale Producers May Unleash The Next Financial Crisis After nearly two decades of horizontal drilling, fracking – as it is commonly known, has “turned the energy world upside down,” according to Journalist Bethany McLean, a former Goldman Sachs analyst-turned-journalist. And according to a new op-ed in the New York Times, McLean has a warning for […]
Emerging Markets: Nothing New Under the Sun
Emerging Markets: Nothing New Under the Sun “That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 The events overtaking Argentina and Turkey in recent months are textbook cases of an emerging market crisis. […]
