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Do Canadians Want To Stay In The Oil Business?
Do Canadians Want To Stay In The Oil Business? The Canadian oilpatch is facing unprecedented challenges from uncontrollable forces outside our borders where oil prices and the vast majority of supply and demand are determined. There are a variety of variables. A light tight oil boom in the U.S. adding production in volumes not so […]
Mining Industry in Collapse
Mining Industry in Collapse The mining industry is in collapse. Everyone expanded dramatically expecting China to never stop buying. The loading up of debt is still likely to see many companies get in trouble. It is likely to see the entire industry be downgraded on a wholesale basis. Those looking at the miner stocks, […]
F(r)actions Of Gold
F(r)actions Of Gold The simple fact of the matter is that gold is no longer money and hasn’t been treated that way in decades. It is a frustrating and often woeful outcome, but deference isn’t a reason to color judgement. As an investment, which is more like what gold has become, it isn’t all that […]
Red Ponzi Ticking
Red Ponzi Ticking There is something rotten in the state of Denmark. And we are not talking just about the hapless socialist utopia on the Jutland Peninsula——even if it does strip assets from homeless refugees, charge savers 75 basis points for the deposit privilege and allocate nearly 60% of its GDP to the Welfare State and its untoward ministrations. In fact, the […]
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard Back in September 2012 we first presented “the world’s biggest hedge fund nobody had ever heard of”: a small, previously unknown company called Braeburn Capital which, however, managed more cash than even Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund. How had the little firm operating out […]
Is China About To Drop A Devaluation Bomb?
Is China About To Drop A Devaluation Bomb? Though she had no intention of being funny, we laughed out loud, as undoubtedly many did with us, when incumbent and wannabe IMF head Christine Lagarde said last week in Davos that China has a communication issue. Of course, Lagarde knows full well that Beijing has much […]
Clueless in Davos
Clueless in Davos Making their annual pilgrimage to the exclusive Swiss ski sanctuary of Davos last week, the world’s political and financial elite once again gathered without having had the slightest idea of what was going on in the outside world. It appears that few of the attendees, if any, had any advance warning that […]
“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests
“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests One glance at The Baltic Dry Index’s collapse is all that most need to see the painful state of the global shipping industry. However, as gCaptain reports, reality is even worse as the boom in so-called “zombie ships” suggests there is no recovery in […]
The Fed Passes the Buck: Blame Oil and China
The Fed Passes the Buck: Blame Oil and China There are a handful of themes out there on recent market action that are either totally wrong or otherwise highly misleading. For instance, regarding the recent calamity in the capital markets, one especially apparent dichotomy has presented itself as offering two choices as to what, exactly, […]
China Warns “Social Stability Threatened” As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs
China Warns “Social Stability Threatened” As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs In late September, we were stunned to read (and report) that in the first mega-layoff in recent Chinese history, the Harbin-based Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, or Longmay Group for short, the biggest met coal miner in northeast China had […]
Presidential Crimes Then And Now — Paul Craig Roberts
Presidential Crimes Then And Now — Paul Craig Roberts Reprinted from Paul Craig Roberts, The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (Clarity Press, 2015) Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s? Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants there is such […]
For US and Russia, All Roads Lead to China
For US and Russia, All Roads Lead to China Recently I attended an event where the speaker referred to the interplay between economics and security in Asia as being that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll represents the positive economic growth and interaction within the region, while Mr. Hyde represents the increasing security […]
Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy
Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy Deflation Threatens to Swallow the World Many high-powered people and institutions say that deflation is threatening much of the world’s economy … China may export deflation to the rest of the world. Japan is mired in […]
Square Holes and Currency Pegs
Square Holes and Currency Pegs When David Bowie died, everybody, in what they wrote and said, seemed to feel they owned him, and owned his death, even if they hadn’t thought about him, or listened to him, for years. In the same vein, though the Automatic Earth has been talking about deflation (for 8 years, […]
