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US Stock Market: Conspicuous Similarities with 1929, 1987 and Japan in 1990
US Stock Market: Conspicuous Similarities with 1929, 1987 and Japan in 1990 Stretched to the Limit There are good reasons to suspect that the bull market in US equities has been stretched to the limit. These include inter alia: high fundamental valuation levels, as e.g. illustrated by the Shiller P/E ratio (a.k.a. “CAPE”/ cyclically adjusted […]
Something Unexpected Just Happened In LNG Markets
Something Unexpected Just Happened In LNG Markets In the increasingly topsy-turvy world of liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, the world’s largest LNG importer could soon be exporting the super-cooled fuel to the world’s second largest LNG exporter – a situation unimaginable, even laughable just a few years ago. On Monday, news broke that a Japanese […]
Japan Erects Huge New Roof Above Crippled Fukushima Reactor
Japan Erects Huge New Roof Above Crippled Fukushima Reactor In what the Japanese press heralds as an important step to safely removing all the radioactive material left inside the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant’s ruined reactors, the Japanese utility in charge of cleaning up the site has finished installing a roof over reactor No. 3. The […]
Message from Planet Japan: The good times never last forever
Message from Planet Japan: The good times never last forever After having traveled to more than 120 countries in my life, the only person I know who’s been to more places than I have is Jim Rogers. Jim is a legend– a phenomenal investor, author, and all-around great guy. (His book Adventure Capitalist is a […]
Asia Is About To Be Hit By The “Worst Oil Tanker Spill In Decades”
Asia Is About To Be Hit By The “Worst Oil Tanker Spill In Decades” The Sanchi disaster is even worse than many initially expected, according to a chilling new report published by Britain’s National Oceanography Centre that shows the ship’s cargo – the equivalent of nearly 1 million barrels of ultra-light crude, plus its own […]
Japanese Public Broadcaster NHK Issues False Alarm Over North Korean Missile Launch
Japanese Public Broadcaster NHK Issues False Alarm Over North Korean Missile Launch It’s deja vu, all over again. Just four days after residents of Hawaii lived through 38 minutes of doomsday hell, after a false public broadcast alarm announced that a ballistic missile launch was headed for the island, only to reverse and announce later […]
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously I’m calling 2018 “The Year of Living Dangerously.” That description might seem odd to lot of observers. Major U.S. stock indexes keep hitting new all-time highs. 2017 went down as the first calendar year in which the Dow Jones industrial average was up for all 12 months. Even in […]
‘Pacifist’ Japan Is Building Missile Bases To Counter China And North Korea
‘Pacifist’ Japan Is Building Missile Bases To Counter China And North Korea Yesterday, we published a report about an incident involving South Korea, Japan and China that nearly escalated into a full-blown skirmish, as Japan and South Korea were forced to order intercepts of Chinese military aircraft as a squadron of fighters and bombers flew […]
Chinese Navy Begins Live-Fire Drills Off Korean Peninsula
Chinese Navy Begins Live-Fire Drills Off Korean Peninsula Earlier this week, Seoul asked the US to delay joint military exercises with Japan until after the Winter Olympics, ostensibly to avoid provoking North Korea ahead of the 2018 Winter Games. The timing of the request is suspicious – having coincided with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s […]
Russia Rebukes US For Sowing “Regional Instability” As Military Drills Begin
Russia Rebukes US For Sowing “Regional Instability” As Military Drills Begin The latest round of military drills involving the US, Japan and South Korea began their latest set of tracking drills on Monday, DW reported, citing sources in the South Korean military. The drills – which are meant for “practicing tracking an object and sharing […]
76 Years of Pearl Harbor Lies
76 Years of Pearl Harbor Lies Donald Trump is tweeting about a particular spot in Hawaii. He visited it recently on his way to threaten war in Asia. It’s a big feature this week in lots of U.S. magazines and newspapers. It has a lovely name that sounds like murder and blood because Japanese airplanes […]
We Give Up! Government Spending And Deficits Soar Pretty Much Everywhere – John Rubino
We Give Up! Government Spending And Deficits Soar Pretty Much Everywhere – John Rubino A recurring pattern of the past few decades involves governments promising to limit their borrowing, only to discover that hardly anyone cares. So target dates slip, bonds are issued, and the debts keep rising. This time around the timing is especially […]
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335
“Chernobyl in a Can” – 71 Vulnerable-To-Cracking Radioactive Waste Canisters Set for CA Ocean-Front Burial at San Onofre: Donna Gilmore, NH #335 This Week’s Featured Interview: Donna Gilmore of SanOnofreSafety.org reports on Southern California Edison’s plans to bury 1,800 tons – that’s 3,600,000 pounds <!> of high-level radioactive waste a mere 36 yards from high […]
Whose Private-Sector Debt Will Implode Next: US, Canada, China, Eurozone, Japan?
Whose Private-Sector Debt Will Implode Next: US, Canada, China, Eurozone, Japan? Canadians, fasten your seat-belt. Here are the charts. The Financial Crisis in the US was a consequence of too much debt and too much risk, among numerous other factors, and the whole house of cards came down. Now, after eight years of experimental monetary […]
US to Import Inflation from Japan, China, South Korea
US to Import Inflation from Japan, China, South Korea Even from Japan – whose export producer prices are soaring. The oil price collapse that started in 2014 pushed down input costs that companies – the “producers” – faced. And producer price indices, which measure inflation further up the pipeline, plunged. But this is over. And […]
