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Three Reasons to Be Worried About the Economy
Three Reasons to Be Worried About the Economy On January 12, America’s central planner-in-chief gave his State of the Union address. The president promised nothing less than to feed the hungry, create jobs, shape the earth’s climate, and make everyone a college graduate. There’s nothing new here, though. We’ve heard variations of this silly song […]
The War On Savers And The 200 Rulers Of Global Finance
The War On Savers And The 200 Rulers Of Global Finance There has been an economic coup d’état in America and most of the world. We are now ruled by about 200 unelected central bankers, monetary apparatchiks and their minions and megaphones on Wall Street and other financial centers. Unlike Senator Joseph McCarthy, I actually do have a list of their names. […]
The Global Economy’s New Abnormal
The Global Economy’s New Abnormal NEW YORK – Since the beginning of the year, the world economy has faced a new bout of severe financial market volatility, marked by sharply falling prices for equities and other risky assets. A variety of factors are at work: concerns about a hard landing for the Chinese economy; worries that growth […]
Modern Finance: I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone
Modern Finance: I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone In his book Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance, author John Kay quotes Lord Keynes’s idiom, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are generally distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” The men and women with authority over […]
Gerald Celente: Get Prepped For Global Systemic Collapse
Gerald Celente: Get Prepped For Global Systemic Collapse More ridiculous predictable market action today. The worse things become in the real world the more frantic the stupidity becomes. The American authorities are clearly terrified that their world role as hegemon is being threatened and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that your fears […]
Rewardless Risk
Rewardless Risk Faramir: Then farewell! But if I should return, think better of me. Denethor: That depends on the manner of your return. – J.R.R. Tolkien “The Lord of the Rings” (1954) I’m going full-nerd with the “Lord of the Rings” introduction to today’s Epsilon Theory note, but I think this scene — where Denethor, the […]
Negative Interest Rates Already in Fed’s Official Scenario
Negative Interest Rates Already in Fed’s Official Scenario But forget QE-4. The Germans, with Teutonic precision, call them “Punishment Interest.” Negative interest rates are spreading from the ECB’s negative deposit rate across the bond market and to some savings accounts in the Eurozone. The idea is to enrich existing bond holders and flog savers until […]
“The Fed Suspended The Laws Of The Market In Order To Save It” – What Happens Next
“The Fed Suspended The Laws Of The Market In Order To Save It” – What Happens Next That the Fed has been boxed in by unleashing destructive monetary policies to “fix” decades of prior policy mistakes, is something we have been warning about since our first day. And, with every passing day that the Fed […]
Death Throes Of The Bull
Death Throes Of The Bull The fast money and robo-machines keep trying to ignite stock rallies, but they all fizzle because bad karma is beginning to infect the casino. That is, apprehension is growing among whatever adults are left on Wall Street that 84 months of ZIRP and $3.5 trillion of Fed balance sheet expansion, aka money printing, […]
The FOMC Decision: The Boxed in Fed
The FOMC Decision: The Boxed in Fed An Imaginary Bogeyman What’s a Keynesian monetary quack to do when the economy and markets fail to remain “on message” within a few weeks of grandiose declarations that this time, printing truckloads of money has somehow “worked”, in defiance of centuries of experience, and in blatant violation of sound theory? […]
Only Recession Can Prevent An Oil Price Spike
Only Recession Can Prevent An Oil Price Spike The biggest result from the collapse in oil prices could be a future price spike. Oil prices at $30 per barrel have put most producers under water. That has led to austere budgets and severe cuts to spending. Wood Mackenzie recently estimated that $380 billion in major […]
Elastic Money
Elastic Money QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I have not read anywhere else how the money created by the Fed you call elastic will evaporate when the bonds they bought mature. You seem to do much more in-depth research than anyone else who just spins conspiracy theories leaving one question what is real or not. Can you elaborate […]
Economic Activity Is Slowing Down Much Faster Than The Experts Anticipated
Economic Activity Is Slowing Down Much Faster Than The Experts Anticipated We have not seen global economic activity fall off this rapidly since the great recession of 2008. Manufacturing activity is imploding all over the planet, global trade is slowing down at a pace that is extremely alarming, and the Baltic Dry Index just hit another […]
Why Dip Buyers Will Get Clobbered: The US Economy Isn’t Doing “Just Fine”
Why Dip Buyers Will Get Clobbered: The US Economy Isn’t Doing “Just Fine” As of June 2008 no Wall Street banking house was predicting a recession, yet by then the Great Recession—–the worst economic downturn since the 1930s—– was already six months old, as per the NBER’s subsequent official reckoning. Actually, it was already several years old if you concede that […]
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, […]
