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What If The “Crash” Is as Rigged as Everything Else?
What If The “Crash” Is as Rigged as Everything Else? Take your pick–here’s three good reasons to engineer a “crash” that benefits the few at the expense of the many. There is an almost touching faith that markets are rigged when they loft higher, but unrigged when they crash. Who’s to say this crash isn’t […]
Bubbles Don’t Correct, They BURST!
Bubbles Don’t Correct, They BURST! I’m practically drowning in interviews. I had half a dozen yesterday and even more today. But it’s time to put the word out that the second greatest bull march in history is finally coming to an end. It’s done. Wall Street thinks this is a correction – a 10% drop, […]
China Loses All Control: Arrests Journalist, Financial Executive Over Market Crash
China Loses All Control: Arrests Journalist, Financial Executive Over Market Crash For two months, China has been on a quest to control both the stock market itself and the narrative around the stock market. After an unwind in the CNY1 trillion back alley margin lending complex sparked a late June selloff, China cobbled together a […]
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us Global markets are puking at the prospect of higher yields in the U.S. There are many reasons for global markets to melt down, but one that doesn’t get enough attention is the strong dollar. In effect, global markets are telling the Federal Reserve: don’t […]
BLACK MONDAY: The First Time EVER The Dow Has Dropped By More Than 500 Points On Two Consecutive Days
BLACK MONDAY: The First Time EVER The Dow Has Dropped By More Than 500 Points On Two Consecutive Days On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 588 points. It was the 8th worst single day stock market crash in U.S. history, and it was the first time that the Dow has ever fallen by more […]
It’s easy to deny a bubble but impossible to deny its implosion.
It’s easy to deny a bubble but impossible to deny its implosion. We’re having the kind of day when the New York Stock Exchange felt compelled toannounce very encouragingly before markets opened that it would halt trading for 15 minutes if the S&P 500 drops 7% to 1,833 before 3:25 p.m. Once trading restarts and the index plunges 13% […]
Panic!! All Major US Equity Indices Halted
Panic!! All Major US Equity Indices Halted Nasdaq was the first to be halted at 0758ET. The Dow is now down 850 points from Friday’s close and halted… The S&P 500 Futures is halted for the first time in history.
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down As much as the financiers on Wall Street and the officials at the Fed would like the party to keep going, it looks it’s finally about to stop. Years of bailouts and monetary expansion have created one of the most inflated and artificial economic booms in history, and […]
Market Meltdown Means More Pain for Oil Producers
Market Meltdown Means More Pain for Oil Producers Supply-side downward price pressure has been the story of global energy prices over the past year: newfound supply from the Shale Revolution, OPEC’s gambit of market-share grabbing inundation, and new supply coming online from Iraq and soon Iran. The result was a plunge in oil prices from […]
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets Benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is down 38 per cent from its June 12 peak World stock markets plunged on Monday after China’s main index sank 8.5 per cent — its biggest drop since the early days of the global financial crisis — amid deepening fears over […]
Counterintuitive: (Some) volatility is good for you, stability not so much
Counterintuitive: (Some) volatility is good for you, stability not so much With stock markets around the world plunging and commodity prices in free fall, it seems appropriate to return to a theme which I’ve taken up previously: That a certain amount of volatility is good for humans and the systems they build, and that attempts to […]
Gulf Markets Melting Down: Saudi Arabia Plunges 7%, Dubai Sold
Gulf Markets Melting Down: Saudi Arabia Plunges 7%, Dubai Sold Following the end of a horrible week for petroleum importers (not to mention shale producers) despite WTI briefly dipping under $40 (wasn’t this supposed to be great news for the US economy?) we have the start of a just as ugly week for the Persian […]
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge Are you prepared for further turmoil? The global deflationary wave we have been tracking since last fall is picking up steam. This is the natural and unavoidable aftereffect of a global liquidity bubble brought to you courtesy of the world’s main central banks. What goes up must come […]
Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite!
Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite! The herd must be turned away from selling by any means available, and at this point, that means coordinated buying by all the world’s Plunge Protection Teams. Central bankers are watching Marx’s dictum all that is solid melts into air play out in global stock markets with a terror informed […]
