Why 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…
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When 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…
Continue readingSilver Myths Smashed, Pt. 4: The Coming Silver Lie You Simply Must Be Ready For
The Federal Reserve and bullion banks, through decades of body-slamming the silver “market”, have actually removed silver so far from “Bubble” status, that you couldn’t see it with the Hubble […]
Continue readingBIS Issues Strong Warning on “Asset Bubbles”
In its just released annual report, the Bank for International Settlements has issued a strong warning that “dangerous new asset bubbles are forming“, & warned that: “the world could be hurtling […]
Continue readingAlasdair Macleod: The Current Asset Bubble is the Biggest in the History of Currency Itself!
Asset classes from bonds to fine art are rising, underwritten by zero interest rates. The underlying bubble is the biggest and deliberately synchronised bubble in history, of currency itself. The […]
Continue readingMarc Faber: We Are in a Gigantic Financial Asset Bubble
In this excellent interview with Bloomberg, Marc Faber gives his bold predictions for 2014, and discusses why he believes the US economy is setting up for a massive crash. Faber […]
Continue readingTwo Great Bubble Threats, One Great Opportunity
Carl Icahn is right to call “a lot of” corporate earnings a “mirage” because by reducing borrowing costs via ongoing QE, The Fed has artificially elevated earnings. Thus Corporate Earnings […]
Continue readingChris Martenson: Four Signs That We’re Back in Dangerous Bubble Territory
As the global equity and bond markets grind ever higher, abundant signs exist that we are once again living through an asset bubble – or rather a whole series of […]
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