Why Gold, and Why Now
For thousands of years gold is the ultimate store of value. Currently, gold is undervalued as there are massive bubbles in asset markets, and central banks…
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Even if COVID-19 Goes Away, the Economy Isn’t Going Back to “Normal”
Optimists say this time is different because of the extent to which the Fed and Uncle Sam are bailing out “the whole system.” There is much fiction…
Continue readingThe Fed’s Grand Bargain Has Finally Imploded
The Fed has backed itself not into a corner but to the edge of a precipice…
Continue readingOur Wile E. Coyote Economy: Nothing But Financial Engineering
Ours is a Wile E. Coyote economy, and now we’re hanging in mid-air, realizing there is nothing solid beneath our feet…
Continue readingThe Bull Move In Gold, Silver And Mining Stocks Is Just Getting Started
The financial and economic environment supporting a big move in the sector is similar to conditions that fueled the run from 2000 – 2011. Only this time…
Continue readingFirst the Deflationary Deluge of Assets Crashing, Then the Tsunami of Inflation
Once the pool of greater fools dries up, stocks crash regardless of what the Fed does or bleats…
Continue readingOK Boomer, OK Fed
Eventually the younger generations will connect all the economic injustices implicit in ‘OK Boomer’ with the Fed…
Continue readingWhy Is What Was Once Affordable to Many Now Only Affordable To The Wealthy?
With these skills accessible only to the wealthy, no wonder only the wealthy have gained purchasing power…
Continue readingWhen Everything From Bat Guano To Quatloos Is Soaring, Speculative Euphoria Reaches Extreme
The more extreme the speculative euphoria, the greater the risks of a reversal…
Continue readingFund Manager: MASSIVE Asset Bubbles And CHEAP Gold & Silver
Real money, gold & silver, are EXTREMELY UNDERVALUED while financial “assets” are EXTREMELY OVERVALUED. Dave Kranzler explains…
Continue readingChris Martenson: Off The Cuff – Living With Integrity As A Guiding Principle For A Better Future
A growing number of people are watching the “prosperity” around them – record high asset prices, record-low unemployment, new technologies, – and yet…
Continue readingThe Perils Of Pursuing Monetary Policy That Explicitly Makes The Economy ‘Reliant On Bubbles’
Once this happens, no amount of Fed easing will be able to prop-up the bubble any longer as the Fed lives by the bubble, and dies by the bubble…
Continue readingMarc Faber: Huge Asset Bubble Will Deflate
Marc says that no matter what’s done, this asset bubble will deflate, and it’s going to be very painful. Here’s why it’s deflating, and what to do about it…
Continue readingThe Doomsday Scenario For The Stock And Housing Bubbles
It was always folly to believe that inflating asset bubbles could solve the structural problems of a post-industrial economy…
Continue readingHomeless Encampments and Luxury Apartments: Our Long Strange Boom
The cold truth is homelessness and soaring rents are the only possible outputs of central bank policies that inflate asset bubbles…
Continue readingJohn Rubino: Fed Tightening Is Over – Markets Now Expect Cuts In 2019
There’s a problem with Fed policy going forward – the Fed is in a box. What does a boxed-in Fed mean for the economy & the markets? John explains…
Continue readingBoom-time America, Brace For Economic & Financial Impact
As credit-asset bubbles pop, the dominoes start falling. The economy is far more precarious than the surface boom and bubbles suggest…
Continue readingWhy Are So Few Americans Able To Get Ahead?
Our entire economy is characterized by cartel rentier skims, central-bank goosed asset bubbles and stagnating earned income for the bottom 90%.
Continue readingNomi Prins: The World’s Most Important Bank Just Issued A “Zombie Alert”
The risks posed by the largest institutions still exist, only now they’re even bigger than they were before. Here’s how…
Continue readingThis Bubble Ain’t In Stocks, It’s In Mass Hysteria Explains Scott Adams
Here’s how to spot it and what to do about it…
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