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Warren Buffett Explains Bubbles: But He Doesn’t Know We Are In One
Warren Buffett Explains Bubbles: But He Doesn’t Know We Are In One Buffet explains bubbles: “People see neighbors ‘dumber than they are’ getting rich.” Warren Buffett explains Why Bubbles Happen Buffett was asked by CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin if he is worried another crisis will happen again. “Well there will be one sometime,” Buffett said […]
Gold Should be Viewed as Money — Not as an Investment Instrument
Gold Should be Viewed as Money — Not as an Investment Instrument On May 4 and 5, 2018, Warren E. Buffett (born 1930) and Charles T. Munger (born 1924), both already legends during their lifetime, held the annual shareholders’ meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Approximately 42,000 visitors gathered in Omaha, Nebraska, to attend the star […]
A Quarter Century Of Monetary Voodoo
A Quarter Century Of Monetary Voodoo A Witless Tool of the Deep State? Finance or politics? We don’t know which is jollier. The Republican presidential primary and Fed monetary policies seem to compete for headlines. Which can be most absurd? Which can be most outrageous? Which can get more page views? Politics, led by Donald J. […]
Worst Case Scenario = 73% Down From Here
WORST CASE SCENARIO = 73% DOWN FROM HERE As the stock market gyrates higher and lower in a fairly narrow range, the spokesmodels and talking heads on CNBC breathlessly regurgitate the standard bullish mantra designed to keep the muppets in the market. They are employees of a massive corporation whose bottom line and stock price […]
Greenspan Explains The Fed’s Miserable Track Record: “We Didn’t Forecast Better Because We Can’t”
Greenspan Explains The Fed’s Miserable Track Record: “We Didn’t Forecast Better Because We Can’t” On March 11, the National Archives announced its first opening of Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) records, along with a detailed 1,400-page online finding aid (yes, just the index is 1,400 pages). The records which are available via DropBox, seek to identify the […]
China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program
China Goes Full “Minority Report”, Creates “Pre-Crime” Program By now, the world is largely familiar with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s fabled “Tigers and Flies” campaign. Since taking office in 2013, Xi has embarked on an ambitious effort to root out party corruption and ensure that the directives passed down from on high in the Politburo […]
Warren Buffett’s Quieter Quest to Kill Solar in the West
Warren Buffett’s Quieter Quest to Kill Solar in the West There are solar battles blazing all across the west right now, as utilities anchored to fossil fuel power plants strain to avoid the inevitable spread of solar across their areas of operation. Not a month goes by without a story of some assault on solar-friendly […]
Canadian Pacific Warns Of “Tremendous Pressure”, “Strong Headwinds” For Economy
Canadian Pacific Warns Of “Tremendous Pressure”, “Strong Headwinds” For Economy One week ago, when we explained why “Things Just Went From Bad To Worse For U.S. Railroads,” we said that “the rail industry is about to be slammed with a dramatic repricing, one which is only the start and the longer oil prices remain at […]
Exclusive: Dallas Fed Quietly Suspends Energy Mark-To-Market On Default Contagion Fears
Exclusive: Dallas Fed Quietly Suspends Energy Mark-To-Market On Default Contagion Fears Earlier this week, before first JPM and then Wells Fargo revealed that not all is well when it comes to bank energy loan exposure, a small Tulsa-based lender, BOK Financial, said that its fourth-quarter earnings would miss analysts’ expectations because its loan-loss provisions would be higher […]
History Repeats
HISTORY REPEATS “The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” – P.J. O’Rourke. On May 29th 1969, Warren Buffett wrote to his partners at the Buffett Partnership, informing them of his intention […]
“The Cost Is Very High”: Portugal Taxpayers Face €3 Billion Loss After Second Bank Bailout In 2 Years
“The Cost Is Very High”: Portugal Taxpayers Face €3 Billion Loss After Second Bank Bailout In 2 Years Back in August of 2014, Portugal had an idea. Lisbon would use some €5 billion from the country’s Resolution Fund to shore up (read: bailout) Portugal’s second largest bank by assets, Banco Espirito Santo. The idea, basically, […]
Warren Buffett: Derivatives Are Still Weapons Of Mass Destruction And ‘Are Likely To Cause Big Trouble’
Warren Buffett: Derivatives Are Still Weapons Of Mass Destruction And ‘Are Likely To Cause Big Trouble’ After all these years, the most famous investor in the world still believes that derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. And you know what? He is exactly right. The next great global financial collapse that so many are warning […]
Experts Are Warning That The 76 Trillion Dollar Global Bond Bubble Is About To Explode
Experts Are Warning That The 76 Trillion Dollar Global Bond Bubble Is About To Explode Warren Buffett believes “that bonds are very overvalued“, and a recent survey of fund managers found that 80 percent of them are convinced that bonds have become “badly overvalued“. The most famous bond expert on the planet, Bill Gross, recently […]
DANGER WILL ROBINSON
DANGER WILL ROBINSON It’s funny how the truth sometimes leaks out from the government. I’m guessing that Mr. Ted Berg will not be working for the Office of Financial Research much longer. This new agency was created by the Dodd Frank Law and is supposed to protect consumers from the evil Wall Street banks. But […]
