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Dan Ariely: Why The Next Market Downturn May Quickly Become A Full-Blown Panic
Dan Ariely: Why The Next Market Downturn May Quickly Become A Full-Blown Panic The human factor has become extremely skittish Behavioral economist and author of Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely returns to explain the science underlying the continued mismanagement and mal-investment within our financial system, despite 7 years of opportunity to learn from and address the causal factors […]
Why Are Exchange-Traded Funds Preparing For A ‘Liquidity Crisis’ And A ‘Market Meltdown’?
Why Are Exchange-Traded Funds Preparing For A ‘Liquidity Crisis’ And A ‘Market Meltdown’? Some really weird things are happening in the financial world right now. If you go back to 2008, there was lots of turmoil bubbling just underneath the surface during the months leading up to the great stock market crash in the second […]
Australia’s Bad Bet on China
Australia’s Bad Bet on China Wolf here: After any bubble, it’s always: “Nobody predicted the crash….” Central bankers don’t see bubbles. They’re not allowed to. At least officially, they don’t see them. And thus they can’t see the implosions coming. They can’t officially see these things because they help create them with their monetary policies. Industry insiders and their financiers don’t […]
Guess What Happened The Last Time Bond Yields Crashed Like This?…
Guess What Happened The Last Time Bond Yields Crashed Like This?… If a major financial crisis was approaching, we would expect to see the “smart money” getting out of stocks and pouring into government bonds that are traditionally considered to be “safe” during a crisis. This is called a “flight to safety” or a “flight […]
Why wobbly world markets are more worrying than oil: Don Pittis
Why wobbly world markets are more worrying than oil: Don Pittis Central bankers are out of bullets if 1929-level markets go bust again Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says the “wobble” in the Canadian economy caused by the shocking fall in the price of oil is just about over. But according to some analysts, a more […]
The Six Too Big To Fail Banks In The U.S. Have 278 TRILLION Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives
The Six Too Big To Fail Banks In The U.S. Have 278 TRILLION Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives The very same people that caused the last economic crisis have created a 278 TRILLION dollar derivatives time bomb that could go off at any moment. When this absolutely colossal bubble does implode, we are going to be faced […]
Market Tops In! Why Buy-The-Dippers Can’t Get It Up
Market Tops In! Why Buy-The-Dippers Can’t Get It Up I am sure some chart reader can explain the S&P 500’s laborious struggle since September 2——the day it crossed the 2000 barrier—-as a classic “wall of worry”. But that event occurred nearly seven months ago and the market has dipped 15 times since then and has actually plunged six times […]
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2 Consumer spending in the U.S. accounts for approximately 70 percent of gross domestic product, though it is important to note that the manner in which “official” GDP is calculated is highly inaccurate. For example, all government money used within the Medicare coverage […]
Get Ready for a “Zero Returns” World…
Get Ready for a “Zero Returns” World… Dear Diary, Where is that old and tattered “Crash Alert” flag? Many times since the start of the rally in US stocks in 2009, we hoisted it. And many times has it failed to give us a useful signal. But we will bring it out again, if a […]
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen”
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen” With the Federal Reserve printing trillions upon trillions of dollars to keep the economic system afloat, many investors and financial pundits have surmised that the fundamental economic problems facing the United States during the crash of […]
And I Didn’t Even Mention Greece, the End of the Euro or Evil Russia!! Yikes!
And I Didn’t Even Mention Greece, the End of the Euro or Evil Russia!! Yikes! This is a screen shot from my iPhone about a week ago. And really this says it all. Breaking news is highlighting the all time highs again while the underlying economic news is negative across the board. No other time […]
The Myth of Black Swan Market Events
The Myth of Black Swan Market Events Mark Spitznagel is the founder and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, and the author of “The Dao of Capital.” As André Gide, the French Nobel laureate in literature, once said, “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything […]
Birth Pangs Of The Coming Great Depression
Birth Pangs Of The Coming Great Depression The signs of the times are everywhere – all you have to do is open up your eyes and look at them. When a pregnant woman first goes into labor, the birth pangs are usually fairly moderate and are not that close together. But as the time for […]
The Real Crisis Will Be North of $100 Trillion | Zero Hedge
The Real Crisis Will Be North of $100 Trillion | Zero Hedge. The 2008 crash was a warm up. Many investors think that the markets could never have a crash again. They think that the 2008 meltdown was a one in 100 years crisis. They are wrong. The 2008 Crisis was a stock and investment […]
Why 1998 Was Different, and Same, to Emerging-Market Crisis Now – Bloomberg
Why 1998 Was Different, and Same, to Emerging-Market Crisis Now – Bloomberg. Oil prices were tanking. Emerging-market currencies were in a freefall. Venezuela was mired in a financial crisis and Russia had sunk into a debt default and devaluation. The year was 1998. Emerging markets today look a lot like they did back then. Yet there have been key […]
