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DiMartino Booth: The Fraying Of The Fed’s Fragile Narrative
DiMartino Booth: The Fraying Of The Fed’s Fragile Narrative Former Dallas Fed official Danielle DiMartino Booth joins the show just as Chairman Jay Powell faces his first major challenge: will he keep raising rates as promised now that autos, housing, employment, and even tech stocks look soft? And if not, will he effectively signal that the US […]
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know
The battle for the future of farming: what you need to know It is widely agreed that today’s global agriculture system is a social and environmental failure. Business as usual is no longer an option: biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution are exceeding planetary limits, and catastrophic risks of climate change demand immediate action. Most concede that […]
Connected and vulnerable: Climate change, trade wars and the networked world
Connected and vulnerable: Climate change, trade wars and the networked world The increasing connectedness of the global economic system has long been touted as the path to greater prosperity and peaceful relations among nations and their peoples. There’s just one hitch: Complex systems have more points of failure and also hidden risks that only surface […]
Preparations for War & Collapse: Gauging Possibility and Probability, and Making Preparations
Preparations for War & Collapse: Gauging Possibility and Probability, and Making Preparations Many times comments have been written about how the site should be tailored more toward subjects entailing preparing and survival. Indeed, all of the Independent Media is “guilty” of reporting news and current events…political matters, politicians, what they said, what they did, ad […]
Nassim Taleb Explains How The Global Economy Is More Fragile Today Than In 2007
Nassim Taleb Explains How The Global Economy Is More Fragile Today Than In 2007 In what was incredibly appropriate timing given the ‘shocktober’ market blowup, Bloomberg News invited “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb to its set on Halloween for a discussion about the increasingly fragile market ecosystem in which we all reside, and the mounting […]
Do Not Waste One More Second
Do Not Waste One More Second Do not waste one more second of your time on this earth, for the insects are all dying, and the ice caps are vanishing, and the oceans are filling with plastic. This could all be gone very soon, so don’t waste it. Don’t take any part of the crackling […]
Risky Business
RISKY BUSINESS “In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber carrying two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs accidentally crashed in rural North Carolina. A low technology voltage switch was the only thing that prevented a 4-megaton nuclear bomb with 250 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima from detonating on […]
Tectonic Plate Splits in Two Raising Risks for West Coast
Tectonic Plate Splits in Two Raising Risks for West Coast San Andreas Fault in California Can Be Observed from the Sky Recent studies have revealed that the massive earthquake which stuck Mexico actually split a tectonic plate in two. This has done more than just shaken the ground. It has also shaken up the geologist […]
UBS Warns Trump’s Trade Fights Are ‘Reversing 15-Years Of Global Progress’
UBS Warns Trump’s Trade Fights Are ‘Reversing 15-Years Of Global Progress’ Protectionism has cross-party support in the U.S., and nationalist parties continue to gain traction in Europe. Where there is inequality, there is a surge in protectionism; a risk that could trigger the next global economic crisis sometime around 2020. The Trump administration’s trade war and […]
The Market Is “Pulling Forward End-Of-Cycle Timing” – Nomura Warns of Shift To “Risk-Negative Mindset”
The Market Is “Pulling Forward End-Of-Cycle Timing” – Nomura Warns of Shift To “Risk-Negative Mindset” With global investors desperately searching for a narrative to explain “what changed” as the calendar flipped a page to exuberant September to awful October, we suspect the realization of the fact that global central bank balance sheets are contracting and […]
Backlash Against War on Cash Reaches the Bank of Canada
Backlash Against War on Cash Reaches the Bank of Canada A cashless society could have “adverse collective outcomes.” In recent months, a slew of political and financial institutions have raised concerns about the march toward a cashless economy. They include: The ECB warned that a phase-out of cash could pose a serious risk to the financial system. […]
A New Era Of Geopolitical Risk In Global Oil Markets
A New Era Of Geopolitical Risk In Global Oil Markets Amid never ending talk and speculation over how many more barrels of Iranian oil will be removed from global markets once sanctions slated to hit Iran’s oil production on November 6 take effect, some are claiming that geopolitical factors have driven the market just as […]
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks The International Monetary Fund can be criticized for many things, but its analysis of countries’ debt risk tends to be worth a read. In this case, the International Monetary Fund has once again warned Spain of the risk of reversing reforms and increasing imbalances. It asks to deepen in the labor reform […]
World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF
World economy at risk of another financial crash, says IMF Debt is above 2008 level and failure to reform banking system could trigger crisis The floor of the New York stock exchange in September 2008. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP The world economy is at risk of another financial meltdown, following the failure of governments and regulators […]
This ‘Deflationary’ Bull Markets Ending – And Here’s What’s Coming Next For Investors
This ‘Deflationary’ Bull Markets Ending – And Here’s What’s Coming Next For Investors After many years of cheap money and asset bubbles – it looks like the upside is finally over. That is – the potential upside against the amount of risk taken on – is over. I often write about investors needing to find […]
