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Beware the Debt Ceiling
Beware the Debt Ceiling Euphoria has been pervasive in the stock market since the election. But investors seem to be overlooking the risk of a U.S. government default resulting from a failure by Congress to raise the debt ceiling. The possibility is greater than anyone seems to realize, even with a supposedly unified government. In particular, […]
Water Wars Coming To California? Is The Drought Really Over?
Water Wars Coming To California? Is The Drought Really Over? Authored by Capt. William E. Simpson II – USMM Ret., In California, the poor growth and development policies that have resulted from a lack of vision have led-to and are continuing to lead Californians down a path of unsustainable growth and a widening gap between the […]
Eric Peters: “If China And The World Bank Are Right, We’re Headed For A Depression”
Eric Peters: “If China And The World Bank Are Right, We’re Headed For A Depression” “Some people blindly invested offshore and were in a rush to do so,” explained China’s central bank chief, justifying his recent capital controls. “Some of this outbound investment was not in line with our own policies and had no real […]
2016 Debt Binge Produces (Surprise!) 2017 Inflation. Guess What That Means For 2018?
2016 Debt Binge Produces (Surprise!) 2017 Inflation. Guess What That Means For 2018? Just as everyone was finally accepting the idea of deflation and negative interest rates, inflation decides to pay a return visit. In the past day, articles with the following headlines appeared in major publications around the world: Swiss inflation rises at highest […]
China Central Bank Admits It Has A Debt Problem, Warns No Easy Solution
China Central Bank Admits It Has A Debt Problem, Warns No Easy Solution It’s a well-known risk, perhaps the biggest to the global financial system: China’s debt is too high, with estimates ranging from 250% to 300% of GDP per the IIF: And while China has largely ignored, or avoided, discussing the troubling implications of […]
Bill Gross: “Our Financial System Is A Truckload Of Nitroglycerin On A Bumpy Road”
Bill Gross: “Our Financial System Is A Truckload Of Nitroglycerin On A Bumpy Road” Courtesy of Bill Gross’ latest monthly letter “Show Me The Money“, here are some perspectives on the only thing that has kept the global economy going since the financial crisis: debt, and lost of it. in 2017, the global economy has […]
Great Expectations (Not)
Great Expectations (Not) Halloween’s coming super-early this year and it will be a shocking surprise to those currently busy looking for Russians behind every potted plant in Washington DC. First, accept the premise that your country has lost its mind. This is what happens when societies (and individuals) can’t face the true quandaries of a […]
Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth
Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth [ Since 2008 people have been struggling to pay back increasing amounts of debt. China is the worst of all, with $5 to $6.6 trillion dollars of bad debt and $30 trillion overall debt, up from $9 trillion just 7 years ago, a staggering amount of money, […]
March 2017: The End Of A 100 Year Global Debt Super Cycle Is Way Overdue
March 2017: The End Of A 100 Year Global Debt Super Cycle Is Way Overdue March 2017: The End Of A 100 Year Global Debt Super Cycle Is Way OverdueFor more than 100 years global debt levels have been rising, and now we are potentially facing the greatest debt crisis in all of human history. […]
Contemplations for a Sunday (unless you can’t get around to it til Monday)
Contemplations for a Sunday (unless you can’t get around to it til Monday) Some simple themes today… Population growth, economic growth, and resultant energy consumption are inexorably slowing. The Federal Reserve knows it can not stop this and is simply slowing the inevitable with interest rate cuts to incent greater consumption via skyrocketing credit/debt (particularly government debt….debt that is undertaken with […]
China Accounts For Half Of All Global Debt Created Since 2005: Here Are The Implications
China Accounts For Half Of All Global Debt Created Since 2005: Here Are The Implications Over three years ago, in November 2013, when the world’s attention was still largely focused on what the “Big 4” central banks would do with QE and/or interest rates, we wrote an article showing in one simple chart “How In Five Short […]
Australia Central Bank Warns “High Debt Levels Are Affecting Household Spending”
Australia Central Bank Warns “High Debt Levels Are Affecting Household Spending” For those wondering why despite global markets trading at all time highs, consumer spending has yet to show a substantial pick up, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has some ideas. Speaking at the Asutralia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum, in which he provided various comaprisons […]
Sovereign Debt Crisis – Cycle Due 2017
Sovereign Debt Crisis – Cycle Due 2017 QUESTION: Hi Martin It’s been 30 years since I first saw you speak and this year I’m taking my son to Orlando to see you for the first time. How time flies. That said why have you not talked about the 86 year Sovereign Debt cycle that is forecasting […]
Alan Greenspan: Ron Paul Was Right About The Gold Standard
Alan Greenspan: Ron Paul Was Right About The Gold Standard As John Rubino eloquently puts it, “when the history of these times is written, former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan will be one of the major villains, but also one of the greatest mysteries. This is so because he has, in effect, been three different people.” Greenspan started […]
