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The Total Collapse in Confidence of Government on Every Level
The Total Collapse in Confidence of Government on Every Level QUESTION: Greetings! You have said “they” want the economy to turn down, this is their goal with all the lockdowns. So now you say that if the economy has a low after March it will mean a decline into 2023. Does this mean “they” are […]
When Confidence in Our Institutions Collapses
When Confidence in Our Institutions Collapses Sometimes, stories that appear unrelated share common foundations and have cumulative effects, far more serious than any one does individually. Highlighting these common features tells us something profound about our society and its troubles. That’s the case with four stories over the past few days. The first two involve […]
Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles
Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles? Once confidence and certainty are lost, the willingness to expand debt and leverage collapses. Even though the first-order effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are still impossible to predict, it’s already possible to ask: did the pandemic pop all the global financial bubbles? The reason we can ask […]
Bill Fleckenstein: Coronavirus Will Cause A “Confidence Crisis” In The Fed
Bill Fleckenstein: Coronavirus Will Cause A “Confidence Crisis” In The Fed Money manager and metals specialist Bill Fleckenstein appeared on the Quoth the Raven Podcast on Sunday to give his thoughts about gold, the market’s reaction to coronavirus and the Fed’s coming “confidence crisis”. Gold First, talking about last week’s move in gold, Fleckenstein says he doesn’t […]
The World Is Awash in Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking and Complacency as Global Demand Careens Toward a Cliff
The World Is Awash in Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking and Complacency as Global Demand Careens Toward a Cliff This collapse of price will manifest in all sorts of markets that are based on debt-funded purchases of desires rather than a warily prudent priority on needs. Since markets are supposed to discover the price of excesses and scarcities, […]
Goodbye to the Dollar
Goodbye to the Dollar The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around the globe, especially in Europe, have lost confidence in the United States to act rationally, much less lead, in issues of international […]
Here’s What We’ve Lost in the Past Decade
Here’s What We’ve Lost in the Past Decade The confidence and hubris of those directing the rest of us to race off the cliff while they watch from a safe distance is off the charts. The past decade of “recovery” and “growth” has actually been a decade of catastrophic losses for our society and nation. […]
Things Work Until They Don’t
Things Work Until They Don’t As the world begins its next adventure in financial chaos and rolls over to expose its soft underbelly of lies and deceit that have been perpetrated on the public, those that see the truth have been warning the people once again. You can give people the truth but you cannot make […]
The Central Bank Crisis on the Immediate Horizon
The Central Bank Crisis on the Immediate Horizon While the majority keep bashing the Federal Reserve, other central banks seem to escape any criticism. The European Central Bank under Mario Draghi has engaged in what history will call the Great Monetary Experiment of the 21st Century – the daring experiment of negative interest rates. A look […]
Swedish Central Bank Voice Alarm
Swedish Central Bank Voice Alarm QUESTION: Hi Martin, Yesterday the Swedish Riksbank Chairman Stefan Ingves went on prime time TV expressing fear that public authorities are losing control over the Swedish currency! He also on prime time TV asked rhetorically -We have asked our self what is money?! Can you believe that!? What the heck […]
Goldman Shows What A Market Crash Will Do To The Economy
Goldman Shows What A Market Crash Will Do To The Economy There is a simple reason why for the past decade, despite all the rhetoric central bankers have been focusing on just one thing – reflating risk assets in general and the stock market in particular – because if you get stocks higher, everything else […]
Depression vs. “Helicopter Money”
Depression vs. “Helicopter Money” QUESTION: You wrote the Socrates site on 3/23/2016: “Once the “confidence” in government cracks for the BULK OF THE SILENT MAJORITY who do not listen to money supply and conspiracy theories, then we move into game over. That is when we will see assets rise as confidence shifts from a corrupt […]
Rising Systemic Risk for all Markets
Rising Systemic Risk for all Markets We are on the precipice of what can only be described as rising systemic risk for all markets. The Fed is now hinting that banks should prepare for NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES and this insanity of following the crowd is undermining the entire world economy. The increasingly unstable footing that we find ourselves […]
Gold – No Time Left for Conspiracy Theories
Gold – No Time Left for Conspiracy Theories To some, this is a religious battle. To others, it is just a time to rip off a lot of people by selling fantasies and sophistry. I have stated this many times, so here it goes again: Gold rises when people lose confidence in government. It has nothing to do […]
