= Centrally Directed Melt-Up. The demographic situation the world faces is unprecedented and unparalleled in modern history.
....of the New York Fed in 2008 & it was exposed that the Fed had secretly created $29 trillion in electronic money to bail out...
One of the historic indicators signaling the end of a business cycle (and an impending recession) is US corporate margin squeeze. Note the red line which is plunging towards recession.
“I think what’s going to hold them back from over-heating is that prices have risen so fast relative to incomes,”
...If that wasn’t enough, Powell also voiced concern about inflation expectations not rising.
Oil prices rose and global equity markets rallied on Thursday after China said it has agreed with the United States to cancel tariffs in phases, a key consideration in reaching an initial deal to end a trade war that has crimped economic growth.
One place that’s become measurably worse over the last year is Venezuela. The Venezuelan economy has almost entirely collapsed, destroying an untold amount of wealth.
Paul Krugman claims that the national debt doesn’t matter because “we owe it to ourselves.” This “zombie idea” is dead wrong.
“Once inflation expectations start sliding down, inflation moves down,” Powell said at a press conference last week after the Fed lowered interest rates for the third time this year.
Gold & silver are plunging. Hard and fast...
China will face another potential financial crisis in 2020 when local governments must pay-off over $283 billion in maturing municipal debt.
The strains on US corporate defined benefit pension plans are likely to intensify, due in part to the steep decline in long-term interest rates...
Stock markets made new highs on Wednesday, but as Peter Schiff explained in his latest podcast, there are a lot of cracks under the surface. The markets are surging forward even as they overlook bad economic data and chilly political winds.
Predatory governments serve themselves, not the community as a whole, and perverse governments impoverish the community instead of enriching it.
That sound you might be hearing is the air seeping out of the bond bubble.
This year’s flood of monetary easing is slowing to a trickle as the world’s central banks judge they’ve done enough to avoid a recession, giving investors cause to...
Grant Williams explains why the distortion of today's excessive asset prices will require a systemic reset to fix. Listen to this podcast to understand why.
“We need to prepare ourselves for the worst situation to come...military conflict.”
The US is the global leader in Green New Deal nuttiness both on the number of advocates and the cost of the proposals.
In less than a year, we have witnessed an unprecedented monetary policy rollercoaster by the Federal Reserve, which began with a momentous U-turn in the central bank’s guidance in January, and has …