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“The Fed Suspended The Laws Of The Market In Order To Save It” – What Happens Next
“The Fed Suspended The Laws Of The Market In Order To Save It” – What Happens Next That the Fed has been boxed in by unleashing destructive monetary policies to “fix” decades of prior policy mistakes, is something we have been warning about since our first day. And, with every passing day that the Fed […]
How The Masses Deal With Risk (And Why They Remain Poor)
How The Masses Deal With Risk (And Why They Remain Poor) Last week I discussed how humans are wired to pay attention to scary things.In financial speak: risk. Darwinism has chastised those who ignore risk by rewarding them with an early grave, and by process of elimination rewarded those who stay out of the cross hairs. […]
What If There Is No “Fed Put” – Paul Brodsky Thinks Yellen Will Not Bailout Markets This Time
What If There Is No “Fed Put” – Paul Brodsky Thinks Yellen Will Not Bailout Markets This Time Earlier today, Art Cashin summarized most (very desperate) traders’ thoughts when he said that as a result of today’s market crash, “the Fed will try anything” to prop up the wealth effect it had so carefully engineered with seven […]
Albert Edwards Hits Peak Pessimism: “S&P Will Fall 75%”, Global Recession Looms
Albert Edwards Hits Peak Pessimism: “S&P Will Fall 75%”, Global Recession Looms 2016 has thus far been a year characterized by remarkable bouts of harrowing volatility as the ongoing devaluation of the yuan, plunging crude prices, and geopolitical uncertainty wreak havoc on fragile, inflated markets. With asset prices still sitting near nosebleed levels after seven […]
For Commodities, This Is The Next Great Depression
For Commodities, This Is The Next Great Depression While the “sell in 1973, and go away” plan had worked out for some in the commodity space, the destruction of the last decade has only one historical comparison… the middle of The Great Depression. The 10-year rolling annualized return for commodities is -5.1% – the lowest since 1938… During the same period […]
A Disturbing Warning From UBS: “Buy Gold” Because A 30% Bear Market Is Coming
A Disturbing Warning From UBS: “Buy Gold” Because A 30% Bear Market Is Coming As Wall Street axioms (Santa rally, January effect, as goes January etc.) are rapidly falling by the wayside at the start of 2016, following a chaotic but return-less 2015, the UBS analysts who correctly forecast last year’s volatility are out with […]
My Financial Road Map For 2016
My Financial Road Map For 2016 Happy New Year to All! May 2016 bring peace to you and your loved ones. Over the holidays, I had the opportunity to stay away from airports and hike Runyon Canyon with my dogs. For those of you that have never traversed Runyon’s peaks and dips, they are nature’s respite […]
“We Frontloaded A Tremendous Market Rally” Former Fed President Admits, Warns “No Ammo Left”
“We Frontloaded A Tremendous Market Rally” Former Fed President Admits, Warns “No Ammo Left” In perhaps the most shocking of mea culpas seen in modern financial history, former Dallas Fed head Richard Fisher unleashed some seriously uncomfortable truthiness during a 5-minute confessional interview on CNBC. While talking heads attempt to blame China for recent US […]
Bank of America Explains How Central Banks Rigged And Manipulated The Market
Bank of America Explains How Central Banks Rigged And Manipulated The Market It used to be the provenance of “conspiracy theorists” – alleging that central banks have manipulated, rigged or otherwise broken the “efficient market.” That is no longer the case. As we previously showed, now even the big banks admit it. However, since for some […]
Even The Big Banks Now Admit It: “This Is How The Fed’s ‘Massive Manipulation’ Broke The Market”
Even The Big Banks Now Admit It: “This Is How The Fed’s ‘Massive Manipulation’ Broke The Market” Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: markets are calm, things are stable, stocks are levitating on virtually no volume… and suddenly there is a price ‘air pocket’ as one or more assets unexpectedly plunge in what has become […]
Azerbaijan Currency Crashes 50% As Crude Contagion Spreads
Azerbaijan Currency Crashes 50% As Crude Contagion Spreads OPEC blowback continues to ripple around the world. With Russia’s Ruble pushing back towards record lows against the USD, and Kazakhstan’s Tenge having tumbled to record lows, the writing was on the wall for Azerbaijan. As Bloomberg reports, the third-biggest oil producer in the former Soviet Union moved to a free […]
Worries Build Among Investors Over Oil and Gas Industry’s Exposure to Water and Climate Risks
Worries Build Among Investors Over Oil and Gas Industry’s Exposure to Water and Climate Risks When it comes to financial risks surrounding water, there is one industry that, according to a new report, is both among the most exposed to these risks and the least transparent to investors about them: the oil and gas industry. This […]
The World Hits Its Credit Limit, And The Debt Market Is Starting To Realize That
The World Hits Its Credit Limit, And The Debt Market Is Starting To Realize That One month ago, when looking at the dramatic change in the market landscape when the first cracks in the central planning facade became evident and it appeared that central banks are in the process of rapidly losing credibility, and the […]
Waiting to be SKEWered?
Waiting to be SKEWered? SKEW Goes Pear-Shaped Back in 1998, at the height of the Russian crisis, the CBOE SKEW Index reached its all time high of 146.88. Previously very high values were seen on the eve of the 1990 recession, and in March 2006 it spiked again when sudden worries about the housing bubble […]



