Maybe inflation is not dead; many companies are raising prices … Fed “resigned to blowing biggest bubble ever just to extend expansion” … “Urgent bailout” for crisis-hit Rome? … Gold and silver down on speculator shorting; “A huge relief rally is imminent” … Best Of The Web Technically speaking: running on empty – Real […]
We Give Up! Part 6: Federal Reserve “Resigned” To Blowing Bubbles
After raising interest rates and getting slapped around by the markets last year, the Fed now appears to accept that future monetary policy can only be easy, even at the cost of ever larger and more destabilizing financial bubbles. On one hand this is a truly epochal change. On the other hand it’s just a […]
Gold: Seasonality Bearish, Futures Turning Bullish
Early 2019 looked like a great set-up for gold, but failed to live up to its billing. A nice December-through-March run took the price back to the $1,350 resistance that had repelled it four times in the past five years. And that was that. No penetration and fast spike into the $1,500s. Just another failed […]
Top Ten Videos — April 21
Rick Rule: “We’ll inflate away our obligations to the benefit of gold” … Mike Maloney on the “death of the dollar standard” … Max Keiser: Fiat currencies are “global toxic waste” … Gerald Celente – Trump will win in 2020 … Danielle Park: Luxury housing “is a bust” … […]
China’s Fake Numbers And The Risk They Pose For The Rest Of The World
Not so long ago, London Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard was one of the handful of must-read financial journalists. He probably still is, but since he disappeared behind the Telegraph’s pay wall his work is invisible to non-subscribers, only emerging when a free outlet runs one of his stories. That happened this morning when the Sydney Morning […]
Central Banks Soften Us Up For Higher Inflation
There was a time when “price stability” – that is, money that buys the same amount of stuff every year – was considered a good thing. But as debts began to pile up around the world, it became clear to policymakers that managing that debt required money that got a little less valuable over time, […]
Things That Seem Normal But Definitely Aren’t, Part 1: Soaring Chinese Debt
The era of fiat currencies and central bank printing presses has desensitized us to massive leverage and its implications. So when it is reported, for instance, that China‘s private sector borrowing has risen to levels that are unprecedented in financial history, this is greeted with a collective yawn. It shouldn’t be, though, because no society […]
Stuff We Can’t Afford, Part 1: Paying People To Live On Flood Plains
Everyone has been there: Times are good for a while and it starts to seem reasonable to buy – or agree to – things you want but don’t need. Later on, when money gets a little tighter, you start prioritizing and realize you really didn’t need the leased Mercedes or the McMansion with all those […]
What Went Wrong With Pensions — And Why The Whole World Should Be Worried
The past decade was a uniquely smooth stretch of financial highway. Pretty much every major asset class – stocks, bonds, real estate, fine art, you name it – did well, making it hard for conventional investors to lose money and easy for them to earn outsized returns. So why then are US public sector pensions […]
The End Of The Bull Market, In Three Charts
Stocks have completely recovered from their flash bear market of late 2018. But now they face a hard question: Can already record high prices continue to rise in the face of falling corporate profits? Let’s start with the “falling corporate profits” part: A business generates improving profits when the things it sells rise in price […]
Maybe Politics Matters After All
Looking strictly at the numbers it’s hard to work up much interest in whether Republicans or Democrats are in charge after 2020. Either way, trillion-dollar deficits and extremely easy money are guaranteed, which means the US – along with most of the rest of the world – will fall off a financial cliff shortly. After […]
If You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse For Chicago …
This is the second post in a week on Chicago’s epic financial train wreck. That’s a lot of attention and it probably won’t happen again, given the target-rich world we live in. But jeeze, talk about not learning from past mistakes. This latest chapter begins with the Chicago mayoral race and the two candidates’ stances […]
Who In Their Right Mind Would Lend Money To Chicago?
When you see that Italy’s debt is rising, the logical question is, who the hell is dumping good money after bad into such an obviously failed state? The answer is that by lending money to Italy (or Greece, Portugal, Spain, or France) you’re really lending money to Germany, since the latter will have to bail […]
Welcome To The Third World, Part 28: Medieval Diseases “Flare”
A driving trip down the Pacific Coast normally involves prioritizing a long list of great views and spectacular hiking/biking trails to fit the allotted (never sufficient) time. But now there’s a new element to consider: Homelessness. Go to, say, Trip Advisor, and read the reviews of California attractions and you’ll find a disturbing number along […]
Interesting Junior Gold Miner Tidbit
It’s been a boring few years for gold miners in general and junior gold miners in particular. The metal has been in a trading range, capital has been relatively scarce, and major deals even scarcer. But under the surface things are bubbling, as a handful of emerging players put up good numbers and make their […]
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