For six years, the world has operated based on faith and hope that Central Banks somehow fixed the issues that caused the 2008 Crisis. All of the arguments supporting this…
The last 12 months has seen a sharp shift in tone regarding criticism of the Fed. Up until 2014, the mainstream financial media’s view of the Fed and its policies…
The financial system is in uncharted waters… and it’s not clear that the Fed has a clue how to navigate them. A number of key data points suggest the US…
The market’s technical damage of the last week has been severe. The stock market began its near-vertical climb in late 2012. Since that time, the 126-day moving average (DMA) and…
ALL of the so called, “economic recovery” that began in 2009 has been based on the Central Banks’ abilities to rein in the collapse. The first round of interventions (2007-early…
Below is an excerpt from our FREE Investment Report Financial Crisis “Round Two” Survival Guide. Many investors believe that the 2008 Crisis was THE Crisis of their lifetimes. They are…
The Fuse on the Global Debt Bomb has been lit. It started in the emerging market space, where over 23 stock markets are crashing. It will be spreading to the…
As we noted last week, one of the biggest problems for the Central Banks is actual physical cash. The financial system is predominantly comprised of digital money. Actual physical Dollars…
As you know, I’ve been calling for a bond market crisis for months now. That crisis has officially begun in Greece, and will be spreading in the coming months. Currently…
The US economy is collapsing at a pace not seen since 2008-2009. Retail sales are showing outright deflation, declining at a pace not seen outside of contractions. The retail sector…
Since 2008, the Keynesians running global Central Banks had always suggested that there was no problem too great for them to handle. They’d promised to do “whatever it takes,” to…
More and more insiders are warning of a potential systemic event. The first sign of real trouble concerned a number of investment legends choosing to close shop and return investors’…
For six years, the world has operated under a complete delusion that Central Banks somehow fixed the 2008 Crisis. All of the arguments claiming this defied common sense. A 5th…
Because of the rampant fraud and money printing in the financial system, the real “bottom” or level of “price discovery” is far lower than anyone expects due to the fact…
Yesterday we assessed how elements of the financial media are either unbelievably lazy or completely complicit in helping to maintain the illusion of success for the Centralized powers (large governments…
Stocks rallied yesterday on the announcement (what is this, the 105th?) that Greece’s problems had finally been solved. The whole charade is tiresome. I say charade because the ECB doesn’t…
The 2008 crash was a warm up. Many investors think that we could never have a crash again. The 2008 melt-down was a one in 100 years episode, they think.…
If you want to see in stark contrast why “top down” Government programs cannot fix the US economy take a look at the recent developments regarding school lunches. In case…
The official data is out and it shows that GDP collapsed 0.7% in the first quarter of 2015. The financial world is shocked by this because: 1) The drop occurred…
Last week was options expiration week (equities and indexes). This is the week for market gaming as usually two things happen: 1) The Fed juices the market to provide additional…
