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Is This Debt’s Last Rattle?
Is This Debt’s Last Rattle? Crowd outside Wall Street Stock Exchange on BlackThursday Oct 24 1929 What we see happening today is why we called our news overview the “Debt Rattle” 8 years ago. The last gasps of a broken system ravished by the very much cancer-like progress of debt. Yes, it took longer than it […]
Goldman Pays Fine For Causing 2008 Crisis As “The Rest of the World Faced Financial Armageddon”
Goldman Pays Fine For Causing 2008 Crisis As “The Rest of the World Faced Financial Armageddon” Editor’s Comment: It’s funny how some criminals – whose actions affect perhaps a handful of people at the most – get the book thrown at them. In fact, so do speeders and code violators and other low level offenders. […]
Why This Slump Has Legs
Why This Slump Has Legs We’ve only really been in two weeks of trading in the new year, things are looking pretty bad to say the least, so predictably the press are asking -and often answering- questions about when the slump will be over. Rebound, recovery, the usual terminology. When will we get back to […]
The Deflation Monster Has Arrived
Lukiyanova Natalia / frenta/Shutterstock The Deflation Monster Has Arrived And it sure looks angry As we’ve been warning for quite a while (too long for my taste): the world’s grand experiment with debt has come to an end. And it’s now unraveling. Just in the two weeks since the start of 2016, the US equity markets are […]
Can We See a Bubble If We’re Inside the Bubble?
Can We See a Bubble If We’re Inside the Bubble? We want this time to be different so badly, we can almost taste it. If you visit San Francisco, you will find it difficult to walk more than a few blocks in central S.F. without encountering a major construction project. It seems that every decrepit low-rise […]
Markets Are Correcting Hard
Markets Are Correcting Hard An assessment of the risks of things getting worse from here The long-awaited global financial market correction has arrived. We are seeing collapses in all major markets and across all major categories. As usual, the pain has started at the edges, in the weaker elements (emerging markets, junk bonds, weak companies, etc.) […]
China Has A “Colossal Credit Bubble” And No One Knows How It Will Unwind, Marc Faber Warns
China Has A “Colossal Credit Bubble” And No One Knows How It Will Unwind, Marc Faber Warns A little over a week ago, Marc Faber dialed in from Thailand to chat with Bloomberg TV about the outlook for US equities, the American economy, and USTs in the new year. The US is “already in a recession,” the […]
This Time Isn’t Different
THIS TIME ISN’T DIFFERENT Last year ended with a whimper on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was down 1% for the year, down 4% from its all-time high in May, and no higher than it was 13 months ago at the end of QE3. The Wall Street shysters and their mainstream media mouthpieces declare 2016 […]
Deja Vu All Over Again
Deja Vu All Over Again Janet Yellen will increase interest rates for the first time in nine years on Wednesday. She isn’t raising them because the economy is strengthening. The economy just happens to be weakening rapidly, as global recession takes hold. The stock market is 3% lower than it was in December 2014, and […]
Weekly Commentary: Risk Off?
Weekly Commentary: Risk Off? The “Granddaddy of All Bubbles” thesis rests upon the view that the world is in the midst of the precarious grand finale of a multi-decade global Credit and financial Bubble. When a Bubble bursts, system reflation requires an even larger fresh new Bubble. This has repeatedly been the case going back […]
The Four-Wheeled Bubble
The Four-Wheeled Bubble Bubbles are always obvious … in retrospect. Here’s one you might not see coming. The Car Bubble. People are taking out eight-year car loans. This is – or ought to be – alarming. The automotive equivalent of the zero-down, no-doc, adjustable rate mortgage on a $500,000 McMansion circa 2004. You know – just before the […]
How the easy money boom ends
How the easy money boom ends Through the door there came familiar laughter I saw your face and heard you call my name Oh, my friend we’re older but no wiser For in our hearts the dreams are still the same Those were the days – “Those Were the Days” by Gene Raskin POITOU, France […]
How China Broke the World’s “Bubble Machine”
How China Broke the World’s “Bubble Machine” Magical Money System U.S. stocks still going up. What does Mr. Market know that we don’t know? Plenty. He knows everything. Millions of facts. Millions of opinions. Millions of guesses. A damned know-it-all. Mr. Market is always right; there is no higher authority except God Himself So, if […]
Weekly Commentary: Developing or Developed?
Weekly Commentary: Developing or Developed? BloombergView (By Matthew A. Winkler): “Ignore China’s Bears: There’s a bull running right past China bears, and it’s leading the world’s second-largest economy in a transition from resource-based manufacturing to domestic-driven services such as health care, insurance and technology. Just when the stock market began its summer-long swoon, investors showed […]
Marc Faber Fears No Soft-Landing Of China’s “Credit Bubble Of Epic Proportions”
Marc Faber Fears No Soft-Landing Of China’s “Credit Bubble Of Epic Proportions” “Investors should (and most don’t) realize China is a credit bubble of epic proportions,” warns an anxious Marc Faber during a brief Bloomberg TV interview. “China is not just a country, it’s an empire,” Faber adds, and warns that while some sectors may […]
