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Prepare For Interest Rate Rises And Global Debt Bubble Collapse
Prepare For Interest Rate Rises And Global Debt Bubble Collapse – Diversify, rebalance investments and prepare for interest rate rises – UK launches inquiry into household finances as £200bn debt pile looms – Centuries of data forewarn of rapid reversal from ultra low interest rates – 700-year average real interest rate is 4.78% (must see chart) […]
Weekly Commentary: End of an Era
Weekly Commentary: End of an Era Of the diverse strains of inflation, asset inflation is by far the most dangerous. A bout of consumer price inflation would be generally recognized as problematic and rectified through a tightening of monetary conditions. On the other hand, asset price inflation is both celebrated and venerated. There is simply […]
The Biggest Ponzi in Human History
The Biggest Ponzi in Human History Jean-Léon Gérôme Slave market 1866Here’s the story in a nutshell: Ultra low interest rates mark a shift away from people’s wealth residing in their savings and pension plans, and into to so-called wealth residing in their homes, which are bought with ever growing levels of debt. When interest rates […]
What Could Pop The Everything Bubble?
What Could Pop The Everything Bubble? A crisis that can’t be solved by just printing more dollars I’ve long held that if a problem can be solved by creating $1 trillion out of thin air and buying a raft of assets with that $1 trillion, then central banks will solve the problem by creating the […]
China’s mortgage debt bubble raises spectre of 2007 US crisis
China’s mortgage debt bubble raises spectre of 2007 US crisis Many young homeowners in booming cities owe more than they earn, and some even falsify salary details to get bigger mortgages Behind the dream of property ownership they share with many like-minded friends lies an uninterrupted housing price rally in major Chinese cities that dates […]
The Fed’s Massive Bubble Is Leading To Massive Economic Pain
The Fed’s Massive Bubble Is Leading To Massive Economic Pain There shouldn’t be a Federal Reserve, but it exists, and it’s constantly creating a world of economic pain. Each Federal Reserve bubble must turn into a bust. It’s unavoidable. According to the central planners, the “solution” for the bust is more creation of new money […]
Only China Can Restore Stability in The Global Economy
Only China Can Restore Stability in The Global Economy Fan Ho East meets west 1963 For those of you who don’t know Andy Xie, he’s an MIT-educated former IMF economist and was once Morgan Stanley’s chief Asia-Pacific economist. Xie is known for a bearish view of China, and not Beijing’s favorite person. He’s now an […]
The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
BLOG imgflip.com The Waiting Is The Hardest Part Tom Petty’s anthem for today’s investors Man, what an awful stretch of events. When I penned last week’s article on tragedy, little did I expect something as horrible as the Las Vegas massacre would immediately follow. And nearly lost in the headlines was the untimely passing of […]
World’s Biggest Ever Junk Bond Bubble in Pictures: What Hath Draghi Wrought?
World’s Biggest Ever Junk Bond Bubble in Pictures: What Hath Draghi Wrought? In regards to ECB QE bond purchases, inquiring minds may be asking: What hath ECB president Mario Draghi wrought? I can explain in one picture. The answer in words: The world’s biggest junk bond bubble. I prefer gold. On August 4, I commented on […]
Bubble About to Burst?
Bubble About to Burst? (ANTIMEDIA) — Last month, Anti-Media reported that some of the biggest institutions on Wall Street have issued warnings to investors that planet-wide financial markets are nearing a downturn. From an August 22 article by Bloomberg: “HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley see mounting evidence that global markets are in the last stage of their rallies before a […]
Julian Robertson: “There’s A Bubble” And “It’s The Federal Reserve’s Fault”
Julian Robertson: “There’s A Bubble” And “It’s The Federal Reserve’s Fault” Call it the “bearish billionaire” curse. One month ago, MarketWatch penned “7 billionaires who are worried about a stock-market correction” which listed Carl Icahn, David Tepper, Howard Marks, George Soros, Jeff Gundlach, Warren Buffett and Eliot Singer as some of the world’s wealthiest people […]
Spain’s New Big Bubble Begins to Wobble
Spain’s New Big Bubble Begins to Wobble Tourism is now bigger than construction was during the real estate bubble. Since hitting rock bottom in 2013, Spain has been one of the biggest engines of economic growth in Europe, expanding at around 3% per year. But according to a report by the Bank of Spain, most […]
Signs Of Distress
Signs Of Distress The need to change is becoming more obvious than ever The world is edging closer to the final moments after which everything will be forever changed. Grand delusions, perpetuated over decades, will finally hit the limits of reality and collapse in on themselves. We’re over-budget and have eaten deeply into the principal […]
Central Banks ARE The Crisis
Central Banks ARE The Crisis Walter Langley Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break 1894If there’s one myth -and there are many- that we should invalidate in the cross-over world of politics and economics, it‘s that central banks have saved us from a financial crisis. It’s a carefully construed myth, but it’s […]
