Harvard Trained Economist: Peak Debt, Worse Than The Housing Bubble
The last debt bubble was caused by speculators playing the housing game, but we’re at peak debt again, but it’s worse. Harry Dent explains…
Continue readingHeadlines
THE AMERICAN CONSUMER CANNOT PROP UP THE ECONOMY: “SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE”
While consumer confidence can boost the economy and spending can drive growth, the consumer cannot prop up the economy forever…
Continue reading300,000 Students Without School As Chicago Teachers Strike: 13 Things That Matter
The simple fact is Chicagoans can’t afford the union’s demands, or Mayor Lightfoot’s offer…
Continue readingEgon von Greyerz: Markets On Cusp Of Crashing, Very Few People Prepared For Dramatic Change
Once bubbles burst, events can unfold very rapidly, and very few people are prepared for it. Egon explains a likely scenario…
Continue readingMore Signs That The US Shale Oil Boom Is Fizzling Out & OIl Bear Market Getting Worse?
This surprise amount of oil inventory increase in the US will not help oil prices rally. Here’s a robust update on the oil market…
Continue readingThey Must Go To INFINITE QE Or The System BREAKS — Jim Willie
The smoke is coming from the REPO market because it’s concealing infinite QE. They have to go to infinite QE or the system breaks…
Continue readingEconomic Decay Leads To Social And Political Decay
If we want to make real progress, we have to properly diagnose the structural sources of the rot that is spreading…
Continue readingPeter Schiff: We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This…Not Even Under Obama!
Peter discusses where the economy is heading, and how is prediction is likely to pass in the near future…
Continue reading69 Percent Of U.S. Households “Are Preparing For A Possible Recession”
Do you believe that a recession is coming? If so, you certainly have a lot of company…
Continue readingCaught In Trade War Crosshairs? 2 Americans In English-Teaching Business In China Arrested On “Bogus” Charges
The arrests come on what appears to be a broader crackdown on foreign teachers working in China…
Continue readingRick Rule: Surviving The Troubled Waters That Lie Ahead
What are we to make of the existing political and market environment?
Continue readingPaul Craig Roberts: Controlled Explanations Rule The Western World
Americans have no reliable information, and if Impeach-gate fails, it’s on to China-gate. Paul Craig Roberts explains…
Continue readingDanielle DiMartino Booth: Negative Interest Rates Are ‘Un-American’ And Kills Credit Markets
The Federal Reserve wading into negative interest rate territory would be totally ‘un-American’…
Continue readingThe IRS Admits It Is Targeting The Poor Because It Is “Easier And Cheaper” Than Auditing The Wealthy
The IRS has announced that it’s “too expensive” to audit the rich. Affluent taxpayers, the 1%, are too well protected from government intrusion…
Continue readingBANK BAILOUTS, HERE WE GO AGAIN!
Nobody seemed to be paying much attention to the recent Fed bailouts in the US banking system over the past two weeks…
Continue readingIMF Fears The World’s Financial System Is Even More Destructive Than In 2008
Past emergency monetary policy’s left us at risk of an even bigger crisis, and now the IMF says urgent action is needed to solve financial vulnerabilities…
Continue readingFed Injects $104.2BN Via Overnight, Term Repos One Day After Start Of “Not A QE”
The repo rate was still abnormally above Fed funds as repo market remains broken and banks refuse to lend to each other…
Continue readingThe Cash Raising Binge Signals Investors Losing Confidence w/ John Rubino
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSS
John Rubin, author of the Dollar Collapse blog, sits down with Mike Manwell to share his thoughts on the financial markets and global economy. During the discussion John mentions that […]
Continue readingSay What? Trump’s NEC Director Kudlow Says The Deep State Hasn’t Been Helpful To US Economy
Just yesterday Trump said “we now have the greatest Economy in history”, which begs the question…
Continue readingElijah Cummings, Trump Nemesis And House Democrat From “Rat Infested” Baltimore, Dies
As Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, he was deeply involved in investigating President Trump…
Continue reading