Home » Posts tagged 'markets' (Page 6)
Tag Archives: markets
Hamilton’s Curse (Reprised)
HAMILTON’S CURSE (REPRISED) The following article is (after very light editing) something your author wrote early in October of 2008, when the padlocks on the Lehman office building doors were still swinging. The reader will, he hopes, find that most of the presentiments expressed and the analysis submitted sadly turned out to be more accurate than otherwise. It […]
Without Recovery There Is Every Need To Examine The Worst Case
Without Recovery There Is Every Need To Examine The Worst Case There is a great deal that is wrong with mainstream economic commentary, starting with its unwavering devotion to orthodox economics and unshakable faith in their “stimulus.” No matter how little is actually stimulated there is never any doubt that the media will simultaneously forget […]
Chaos & Volatility On The Rise
Chaos & Volatility On The Rise The systems that support us are breaking down No, that’s not a ‘click bait’ sensationalist title. Things are getting ‘weird’ out there if you’re trying to be polite, and downright ‘chaotic’ if you’re being blunt. Everywhere we look, we see signs that the systems that support us are breaking […]
Why Real Reform Is Now Impossible
Why Real Reform Is Now Impossible The endless bleating of well-paid pundits in the corporate media about “reform” is just more circus. It’s difficult for well-meaning pundits to abandon the fantasy that meaningful reform is possible. Indeed, a critical function of the punditry and corporate media is to foster the fantasy that the status quo could […]
What Have ‘We’ Been Doing All This Time?
What Have ‘We’ Been Doing All This Time? Amidst all the pearls of wisdom unleashed in mainstream economics over the past unbelievable eight years or so, it was one paragraph of common sense that had it been written and appreciated at the start of this period might have saved us all the inordinate and totally […]
Guessing the future without Say’s law
Guessing the future without Say’s law Or some reflections to read over the Easter holidays With Japanese and Eurozone interest rates becoming increasingly negative, and the Fed backing off from at least some of the planned increases in the Fed funds rate this year, economists are reassessing the interest rate outlook. Economists lack consensus, with […]
Plunging Manufacturing Numbers Mean That It Is Time To Hit The Panic Button For The Global Economy
Plunging Manufacturing Numbers Mean That It Is Time To Hit The Panic Button For The Global Economy We haven’t seen numbers like these since the last global recession. I recently wrote about how global trade is imploding all over the planet, and the same thing is true when it comes to manufacturing. We just learned that […]
Donald Trump Is Right – Here Are 100 Reasons Why We Need To Audit The Federal Reserve
Donald Trump Is Right – Here Are 100 Reasons Why We Need To Audit The Federal Reserve When one of our major politicians gets something exactly right, we should applaud them for it. In this case, Donald Trump’s call to audit the Federal Reserve is dead on correct. Most Americans don’t realize this, but the […]
Whatever It Takes?
WHATEVER IT TAKES? In the midst of all the recent uproar, one anonymous Twitterer seized his chance to have his Uber-Warholian, 140-characters-of-fame moment and thundered: ‘Central banks are losing control of this market!’ no doubt eliciting whatever the social media equivalent of a cry of ‘Hear! Hear!’ and an approbatory nodding of the head might be from […]
Markets Ignore Fundamentals And Chase Headlines Because They Are Dying
Markets Ignore Fundamentals And Chase Headlines Because They Are Dying Normalcy bias is a rather horrifying thing. It is so frightening because it is so final; much like death, there is simply no coming back. Rather than a physical death, normalcy bias represents the death of reason and simple observation. It is the death of […]
21 New Numbers That Show That The Global Economy Is Absolutely Imploding
21 New Numbers That Show That The Global Economy Is Absolutely Imploding After a series of stunning declines through the month of January and the first half of February, global financial markets seem to have found a patch of relative stability at least for the moment. But that does not mean that the crisis is […]
Rising Systemic Risk for all Markets
Rising Systemic Risk for all Markets We are on the precipice of what can only be described as rising systemic risk for all markets. The Fed is now hinting that banks should prepare for NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES and this insanity of following the crowd is undermining the entire world economy. The increasingly unstable footing that we find ourselves […]
The Federal Reserve Just Made Another Huge Mistake
The Federal Reserve Just Made Another Huge Mistake As stocks continue to crash, you can blame the Federal Reserve, because the Fed is more responsible for creating the current financial bubble that we are living in than anyone else. When the Federal Reserve pushed interest rates all the way to the floor and injected lots […]
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way Preserving your financial capital Given the brutal start to the markets in the first three weeks of 2016, we thought it a good time to check in with the team at New Harbor Financial. We have had them on our podcast periodically over the past […]
The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud — Paul Craig Roberts
The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud — Paul Craig Roberts In the last years of the 20th century fraud entered US foreign policy in a new way. On false pretenses Washington dismantled Yugoslavia and Serbia in order to advance an undeclared agenda. In the 21st century this fraud multiplied many times. Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, […]
