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This Is The Worst Case Scenario If Investors Dump Saudi Arabia
This Is The Worst Case Scenario If Investors Dump Saudi Arabia So many Wall Street CEOs and other titans of investing and industry have pulled out of next week’s “Davos in the Desert” conference that even the Ritz-Carlton, owner of the Riyadh venue hosting the conference (as it did last year), has been slammed by […]
The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 1,500 Points From The Peak Of The Market, And Many Believe This “October Panic” Is Just Beginning…
The Dow Has Fallen Nearly 1,500 Points From The Peak Of The Market, And Many Believe This “October Panic” Is Just Beginning… We haven’t had an October like this in a very long time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down another 327 points on Thursday, and overall the Dow is now down close to […]
Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate
Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate Every crisis is also an opportunity. Don’t worry I’m not about to go all Rahm Emmanuel, Mr. Realpolitik, on you today. The disappearance/death/dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi is both a crisis and an opportunity for the worst people in the world. And all of them are seizing the day, as it were. […]
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things While the oil and gas industry has lauded the new trade deal that may soon replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a provision added by Mexico, along with its new president’s plan to ban fracking, could complicate the industry’s rising ambitions there. The new agreement, […]
The Market Isn’t The Economy: A Snapshot From The Depression
The Market Isn’t The Economy: A Snapshot From The Depression “We gathered on porches; the moon rose; we were poor. And time went by, drawn by slow horses. Somewhere beyond our windows shone the world. The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog.” – Pantoum of the Great Depression – Donald Justice. Wall Street insiders relish […]
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson Photo Source Eli Christman | CC BY 2.0 “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” – President Andrew Jackson, Washington, July 10, 1832 They are three players, all problematic in their […]
Peter Schiff: The Next Economic Crash Will Be “Far More Painful” Than The 2008 Recession
Peter Schiff: The Next Economic Crash Will Be “Far More Painful” Than The 2008 Recession Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff is sounding the alarm after this week’s market selloff, saying Wall Street and the U.S. economy are on the verge of a recession. “I think as Americans lose their jobs, they are going to see the […]
Global Markets Continue To Fall As Bloomberg Warns “The Next Financial Crisis Is Staring Us In The Face”…
Global Markets Continue To Fall As Bloomberg Warns “The Next Financial Crisis Is Staring Us In The Face”… It looks like it could be another tough week for global financial markets. As the week began, markets were down all over the world, and relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia have taken a sudden […]
Fed Inspector Turned Whistleblower Reveals System Rigged For Goldman Sachs
Fed Inspector Turned Whistleblower Reveals System Rigged For Goldman Sachs Five years after we first reported on the “Goldman whistleblower” at the NY Fed, Carmen Segarra, the former bank examiner is out with a new book based on more than 46 hours of secret recordings. “Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street” is a […]
Hammer Time
Hammer Time Looks like somebody threw a dead cat onto Wall Street’s luge run overnight to temporarily halt the rather ugly 2000 point slide in the Dow Jones Industrial Average — and plenty of freefall in other indices, including markets in other countries. A Friday pause in the financial carnage will give the hedge funders […]
Morgan Stanley: “We Have Hit The Tipping Point”
Morgan Stanley: “We Have Hit The Tipping Point” Having been one of the most bearish voices on Wall Street for a good part of 2018, with downgrades of small caps and tech stocks earlier this summer and one month ago going so far as to call the peak of both Treasurys (in September) and Stocks […]
What Really Makes A Bubble
What Really Makes A Bubble Via DataTrekResearch.com, If I could strike one word from Wall Street’s dictionary, it would be “Bubble”. It is too often used in place of actual research and now seems to simply denote any asset that rises quickly in value, gets broader attention, and then rises some more. Even worse, since the […]
These “Gradual” Rate Hikes Start to Add Up: US Treasury Yields up to Three Years Hit 10-Year Highs
These “Gradual” Rate Hikes Start to Add Up: US Treasury Yields up to Three Years Hit 10-Year Highs An entire generation working on Wall Street has never seen Treasury yields this high. The one-month treasury yield rose to 2.0% yesterday at the close and is at about the same level today, the highest since June […]
10 Years Later–No Lessons Learned
10 YEARS LATER – NO LESSONS LEARNED “A variety of investors provided capital to financial companies, with which they made irresponsible loans and took excessive risks. These activities resulted in real losses, which have largely wiped out the shareholder equity of the companies. But behind that shareholder equity is bondholder money, and so much of […]
Weekly Commentary: Unassailable
Weekly Commentary: Unassailable I’ve been here before and, candidly, it’s not much fun. Lodged in my mind this week was the brilliant quote from the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer: “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” It’s fascinating how […]
