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Central Banks Are About To Leave Fiat Addicted Stock Markets In Agony
Central Banks Are About To Leave Fiat Addicted Stock Markets In Agony Many investors today are not very familiar with market history and tend to live only in the day-to-day mainstream narrative while watching little red and green graphs move up and down. This is not so much an issue in a relatively stable economic […]
A Blended Fundamental and Technical Perspective on Where We Go From Here
A Blended Fundamental and Technical Perspective on Where We Go From Here So I’m currently teaching applied financial modelling at Marquette University in the beautiful blue collar town of Milwaukee, WI; home of the Harley, the (Miller) High-Life and SummerFest. It’s a great town and a great school. A few years ago the business college […]
The World Is Hoarding Gold: “This Was Just A Taste Of What’s To Come”
The World Is Hoarding Gold: “This Was Just A Taste Of What’s To Come” Earlier this month, as retail investors lost confidence in the global economy and broader stock markets, an air of panic began to set in. Reports indicate the lines were literally forming around the block at gold stores throughout London and elsewhere. It was, by […]
The World is Red
The World is Red With a Gloomy Start to 2016, a Bust Seems just Around the Corner Markets have corrected substantially since the beginning of the year as most of the gains of the past two years have been erased. According to Bloomberg, 40 out of the largest 63 markets have dropped over 20%. The image […]
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted corporate executives and shareholders, because lower labor and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital […]
“Stimulus Hopes” – a Dog that Ain’t Hunting no More
“Stimulus Hopes” – a Dog that Ain’t Hunting no More A Rebound in Stocks Begins Given that a very sharp downturn in so-called “risk assets” is well underway globally, but not yet fully confirmed by US big cap indexes, we are keeping an eye out for confirmation. This is to say, we are looking for events, market […]
Global Stocks Continue To Crash As Oil Plummets And Gold Skyrockets
Global Stocks Continue To Crash As Oil Plummets And Gold Skyrockets Stock markets around the world continue to collapse as this new global financial crisis picks up more steam. In the U.S., the Dow lost 254 more points on Thursday, and it has now fallen for five days in a row. European stocks continued to get […]
Why Markets Are Crashing: “Faith In Central Banks Fails”
Why Markets Are Crashing: “Faith In Central Banks Fails” While Citigroup’s Eric Lee thinks its “ridiculous” to talk fo a US recession, it appears the macro data and markets would strongly disagree: as Bloomberg reports: Signals by central banks from Europe to Japan that additional stimulus is at the ready are failing to ease investor […]
A 918 Point Stock Market Crash In Japan And Deutsche Bank Denies That It Is About To Collapse
A 918 Point Stock Market Crash In Japan And Deutsche Bank Denies That It Is About To Collapse On Tuesday junk bonds continued to crash, the price of oil briefly dipped below 28 dollars a barrel, Deutsche Bank was forced to deny that it is on the verge of collapse, but the biggest news was what […]
Central Bank Soap Opera Hides Financial Globalization
Central Bank Soap Opera Hides Financial Globalization Stock markets suspect Federal Reserve has interest rate jitters … Hints that the Fed won’t raise interest rates in March are proving to be good news for miners and oil producers’ share prices The Federal Reserve’s William Dudley said further strengthening in the dollar could have ‘significant consequences’ […]
Weekly Commentary: Draghi Ready to Fight
Weekly Commentary: Draghi Ready to Fight A few Friday Bloomberg headlines: “Asian Stocks Jump by Most in Four Months on Stimulus Speculation;” “Japanese Stocks Surge by Most in Four Months as Bears Retreat;” “Hong Kong Dollar Jumps Most in 12 Years as Global Stocks Rally.” It was quite a week. Back in early December I […]
Bear Necessities
BEAR NECESSITIES “At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on. Then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.” – Jarod Kintz. In a crisis, it helps to have good counsel. Investment strategist Mike Tyson is pretty good at summing up the problem: “Everyone […]
Consensual Hallucination Fades, Global Stocks Crushed
Consensual Hallucination Fades, Global Stocks Crushed Something big has changed. Stock markets around the world are getting crushed. Some markets are down 20%, 30%, 40%, or more, even those where central banks are pursuing a scorched-earth wealth-effect strategy of mega-QE and negative-interest-rate policies. Something big has changed. Early Thursday morning, I posted an article [When “Story […]
Mid-East Massacre: Qatar Crashes, Saudi Stocks Plunge Most Since Black Monday
Mid-East Massacre: Qatar Crashes, Saudi Stocks Plunge Most Since Black Monday Broad middle-east and african stock markets crashed over 5%, erasing any gains back to November 2008 as the carnage from last week continues. From Kuwait (-4.3%) to Qatar (-8%) it was a bloodbath as Saudi Arabia Tadawul Index plunged 5.4% – the most since Black Monday (now down […]
The China Syndrome: The Coming Global Financial Meltdown
The China Syndrome: The Coming Global Financial Meltdown All the phantom wealth piled up in China’s boost phase is now melting down, and the China Syndrome will trigger a meltdown in global phantom assets. The 1979 film The China Syndrome took its name from the darkly humorous notion that a nuclear reactor meltdown in the […]
