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Volatility and Sleep-Walking Markets
Volatility and Sleep-Walking Markets A recent Business Insider chart of the day feature was particularly interesting. Called The stock market is asleep, it observed that the US market has been in a period of very low volatility: Market technician Ryan Detrick noted that it’s been 8 weeks since we’ve seen a weekly move of at least […]
Jim Rogers: Turmoil Is Coming
Jim Rogers: Turmoil Is Coming Predictions on the markets, gold, Greece & more Two years since his last interview with us, investor Jim Rogers returns and notes that the risks he warned of last time have only gotten worse. In this week’s podcast, Jim shares his rational for predicting: increased wealth confiscation by the central […]
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets Every great con game eventually comes to an end. For years, global central banks have been manipulating the financial marketplace with their monetary voodoo. Somehow, they have convinced investors around the world to invest tens of trillions of dollars into bonds that provide a return that […]
How Much More Extreme Can Markets Get?
How Much More Extreme Can Markets Get? These charts help us understand that a top is not just price, but a reversal in extremes of margin debt, valuation and sentiment. In blow-off tops, extremes of valuation, complacency and margin debt can always shoot beyond previous extremes to new extremes. This is why guessing when the blow-off […]
The Financial Markets Now Control Everything
The Financial Markets Now Control Everything The entire economic and political structure is now dependent in one way or another on the continued expansion of financial markets. The financial markets don’t just dominate the economy–they now control everything. In 1999, the BBC broadcast a 4-part documentary by Adam Curtis, The Mayfair Set ( Episode 1: “Who Pays Wins” 58 minutes), […]
Why Markets Are Manic—-The Fed Is Addicted To The ‘Easy Button’
Why Markets Are Manic—-The Fed Is Addicted To The ‘Easy Button’ Later this week another Fed meeting will pass with the policy rate still pinned to the zero bound. The month of May will make the 77th consecutive month of ZIRP—–an outcome that would have been utterly unimaginable even a decade ago; and most especially not with the […]
Paul Tudor Jones Warns This “Disastrous Market Mania” Will End “By Revolution, Taxes, Or War”
Paul Tudor Jones Warns This “Disastrous Market Mania” Will End “By Revolution, Taxes, Or War” “This gap between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist,” warns renowned trader Paul Tudor Jones during his recent TED Talks speech, as he addressed the question […]
Former SEC Director Admits The Truth: The Market Is Rigged
Former SEC Director Admits The Truth: The Market Is Rigged For more than a decade, John Ramsay kept his mouth shut about how rigged the US equity market was. As SEC Director of Trading & Markets, Ramsay tells Bloomberg her “had red tape over his mouth,” but now he is “uncorked.” “I’ve been able to find my […]
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 […]
The Incredible Lies We Are Told About Wall Street
The Incredible Lies We Are Told About Wall Street The corporation has become a financial asset to be manipulated by CEOs and institutional shareholders. Fewer than half of the US population owns a single share of stock and even fewer Americans are in a position to start their own businesses. Nonetheless, at least in rhetoric […]
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 Only Road Out Of Davos
The Only Road Out Of Davos After 6+ (BIG +) years of deepening poverty and rising stock markets, of creative accounting, of QE and ultralow interest rates, of extend and pretend and outright propaganda and of what have you, all of which have led us to where we are today, facing yet more rounds of […]
Right or Wrong – The Dark Side of Human Nature
Right or Wrong – The Dark Side of Human Nature I greatly appreciate the confidence saying I am never wrong. But on an individual level,NOBODY can possibly be right all the time. This is why I try to emphasize that the numbers are the numbers and that all we can do is watch how everything unfolds. […]
Market Turmoil Will Test the Post-Crisis Financial System – NYTimes.com
Market Turmoil Will Test the Post-Crisis Financial System – NYTimes.com. Washington has been trying to bolster the financial system for the last five years so it can deal with mayhem in the markets. The turmoil this week will test those rebuilding efforts. Investors, after months of piling into risky markets in search of returns, are […]
