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Coming Market Madness Could Take 70 Years to Recover
COMING MARKET MADNESS COULD TAKE 70 YEARS TO RECOVER Cervantes famous classic novel Don Quixote can in simple terms be described as a fight for liberty and freedom against oppression and against the state. This book is from 1605 and considered to be one of the best books ever written. In the midst of market […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: American Debt Slaves in the Weirdest Economy Ever
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: American Debt Slaves in the Weirdest Economy Ever During the Financial Crisis, consumers deleveraged by walking away from their debts. And now, with 20 million people still claiming unemployment insurance? (You can also download THE WOLF STREET REPORT wherever you get your podcasts).
Market Update: The Fed’s Big Lie
Market Update: The Fed’s Big Lie Ignore Powell’s happy talk. The Fed is desperate and merely playing for time. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced on Thursday that the Fed will now shift its focus from hitting inflation targets and instead […]
The Bottom’s Falling Out
The Bottom’s Falling Out Imagine you’re standing across the street from a house that’s on the verge of falling apart, a condemned building, an edifice devoured by rot from bottom to top. Now imagine you see a construction crew arriving to repair it, and they start to fix the roof. You would think that’s not […]
Eurozone Collapse: V-Shaped Recovery Mirage Is Gone
Eurozone Collapse: V-Shaped Recovery Mirage Is Gone Eurozone Economy Collapses 3.8% in the first quarter, the worst on record. Spain (-5.2%) and France (-5.6%) GDP were much worse than Italy (-4.7%). Economist Daniel Lacalle offers his thoughts on the European economy in a YouTube video. Daniel Lacalle✔@dlacalle_IA EUROZONE COLLAPSE The V-Shaped Recovery Mirage Is Gone. […]
Houston: The Banks Have A Huge Problem
Houston: The Banks Have A Huge Problem For many years after the financial crisis, US commercial banks were mocked when instead of generating earnings the old-fashioned way, by collecting the interest arb on loans they had made, or even by frontrunning the Fed with their prop (and flow) trading desks, they would “earn” their way […]
Long Pitchforks And Water Cannons
Long Pitchforks And Water Cannons The juxtaposition of the following two tweets is absolutely stunning and just freaking… WOW! Potential Major Political Blowback Can you imagine the political blowback that is coming if the economy doesn’t snap back soon as the levered bad actor oil companies (just to name one sector) have been bailed out while […]
The UNFAIRNESS Economy
The UNFAIRNESS Economy Bailouts for the rich. Barely anything for you. Award-winning investigative journalist Matt Taibbi penned perhaps the most iconic condemnation of the bankers who created (and subsequently got bailed out during) the Great Financial Crisis: The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful […]
Markets and Black Swans
Markets and Black Swans I began studying complexity theory as a consequence of my involvement with Long-Term Capital Management, LTCM, the hedge fund that collapsed in 1998 after derivatives trading strategies went catastrophically wrong. After the collapse and subsequent rescue, I chatted with one of the LTCM partners who ran the firm about what went […]
Understanding The Keys To Power
Understanding The Keys To Power Will be a survival requirement for the coming decade The past decade was undoubtedly shaped by the policy adopted by the global central banking cartel to flood the world with massive amounts of liquidity (over $15 trillion) to “rescue” markets following the Great Financial Crisis. It’s becoming increasingly clear who […]
Living On Borrowed Time
Living On Borrowed Time How soon until the consequences of our excesses catch up with us? The laws of physics are governed by cause and effect. But there can exist a time lag between the two. For instance: Note how the speed of both the bullet and the retracting latex far exceed that of the […]
The Great Switch: The Geo-Politics of Looming Recession
The Great Switch: The Geo-Politics of Looming Recession Is the prospect of looming global recession merely an economic matter, to be discussed within the framework of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 – which is to say, whether or not, the Central Bankers have wasted their available tools to manage it? Or, is there a […]
Save The World By First Saving Yourself
Save The World By First Saving Yourself We each have a role to play in how the world recovers from the coming crisis Ripped from today’s headlines: Negative Interest Rates Are Coming And They Are Downright Terrifying (Yahoo! Finance) Earth’s Lungs Are Burning: Amazon Rainforest Which Contributes 20% Of Planet’s Oxygen Is On Fire What’s […]
$1,400,000,000,000 Gone In Less Than A Week – Stock Market In Turmoil As The Trade War Dramatically Escalates
$1,400,000,000,000 Gone In Less Than A Week – Stock Market In Turmoil As The Trade War Dramatically Escalates Our trade war with China has begun to spiral out of control, and as a result global financial markets have been thrown into a state of turmoil. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 767 points, […]
The Coming Credit Meltdown Will Be As Bad As The Great Depression And The Financial Crisis: Deutsche
The Coming Credit Meltdown Will Be As Bad As The Great Depression And The Financial Crisis: Deutsche With investor attention increasingly focusing on what most believe will be the catalyst for the next financial crisis, namely a tsunami in corporate defaults as a result of the disastrous combination of record leverage, higher rates and an […]
