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The Greatest Fear Today: The Lack of Fear
The Greatest Fear Today: The Lack of Fear Market crashes often happen not when everyone is worried about them, but when no one is worried about them. Complacency and overconfidence are good leading indicators of an overvalued market set for a correction or worse. Prominent magazine covers are notorious for declaring a boundless bull market […]
Prepare for a Chinese Maxi-devaluation
Prepare for a Chinese Maxi-devaluation China is a relatively open economy; therefore it is subject to the impossible trinity. China has also been attempting to do the impossible in recent years with predictable results. Beginning in 2008 China pegged its exchange rate to the U.S. dollar. China also had an open capital account to allow […]
Rickards On “The Fragility Of The North Korean Nuclear Showdown”
Rickards On “The Fragility Of The North Korean Nuclear Showdown” Amid today’s contradictory statements from President Trump that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson “is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man… Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!” and The State Department’s statement that “The White House is […]
Cracks in Dollar Are Getting Larger
Cracks in Dollar Are Getting Larger Many Daily Reckoning readers are familiar with the original petrodollar deal the U.S made with Saudi Arabia. It was set up by Henry Kissinger and Saudi princes in 1974 to prop up the U.S. dollar. At the time, confidence in the dollar was on shaky ground because President Nixon […]
QT1 Will Lead to QE4
QT1 Will Lead to QE4 There are only three members of the Board of Governors who matter: Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer and Lael Brainard. There is only one Regional Reserve Bank President who matters: Bill Dudley of New York. Yellen, Fischer, Brainard and Dudley are the “Big Four.” They are the only ones worth listening […]
The Golden Solution to America’s Debt Crisis
The Golden Solution to America’s Debt Crisis Right now, the United States is officially $20 trillion in debt. Over half of that $20 trillion was added over the past decade. And it looks like annual deficits will be at the trillion dollar level sooner than later when projected spending is factored in. Basically, the United […]
The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for Cryptocurrencies
The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for Cryptocurrencies Interest in Bitcoin is red hot at the moment. It’s impossible to open a website, listen to a podcast, or watch a video in the financial space without hearing about the meteoric rise in the price of Bitcoin. Maybe you know a “Bitcoin millionaire” who bought five hundred […]
China Battles “Impossible Trinity”
China Battles “Impossible Trinity” Just because something is inevitable does not mean it cannot be postponed. The popular name for this is “kicking the can down the road,” which is a perfectly good description. I prefer more technical terms such as dynamic systems in “subcritical” and “supercritical” state space, but it amounts to the same […]
Rickards: “There Are Three Things Going On With Gold Right Now”
Rickards: “There Are Three Things Going On With Gold Right Now” Jim Rickards joined Kitco News and Daniela Cambone to discuss the latest news and analysis from gold markets, geopolitics and even bitcoin. The Wall Street veteran took on the bigger picture facing metals investors and what could be just around the corner in a […]
Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards
Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards – Trump could be planning a radical “reboot” of the U.S. dollar – Currency reboot will see leading nations devalue their currencies against gold – New gold price would be nearly 8 times higher at $10,000/oz – Price based on mass exit of foreign governments […]
The Logic of War
The Logic of War This was the week that the logic of war collided with the illogic of bubbles. So far, the bubble is winning, but that’s about to change. The “logic of war” is an English translation of a French phrase, la logique de la guerre, which refers to the dynamic of how wars […]
Now, a Trade War — Is a Shooting War Next?
Now, a Trade War — Is a Shooting War Next? A popular thesis since the 1930s is that a natural progression exists from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars. Both history and analysis support this thesis. Currency wars do not exist all the time; they arise under certain conditions and persist until there […]
Russia’s Real Endgame
Russia’s Real Endgame Russia’s Putin has never taken his eye off the ball. His ambition is not global hegemony or European conquest. Putin seeks what Russia has always sought: regional hegemony and a set of buffer states in eastern Europe and central Asia that can add to Russia’s strategic depth. It is strategic depth — […]
Why Quantitative Tightening Will Fail
Why Quantitative Tightening Will Fail After nine years of unconventional quantitative easing (QE) policy the Federal Reserve is now setting out on a new path for quantitative tightening (QT). QE was a policy of money printing. The Fed did this by buying bonds from the big banks. The banks would then deliver bonds to the […]
Why the Fed Will Fail Once Again
Why the Fed Will Fail Once Again [Ed. Note: Jim Rickards’ latest New York Times bestseller, The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis, is out now. Learn how to get your free copy – HERE. This vital book transcends rhetoric from the Federal Reserve to prepare you for what […]
