No Wonder the Market Is Skittish
The equity, real estate and bond markets all rode the coattails of the Fed’s ZIRP and easy-money liqudiity tsunami for the past 13 years. As those subside, what’s left to…
Continue readingThe equity, real estate and bond markets all rode the coattails of the Fed’s ZIRP and easy-money liqudiity tsunami for the past 13 years. As those subside, what’s left to…
Continue readingBubble activities cannot sustain themselves without support from central bank monetary pumping…
Continue readingThe boring market action in gold, a form of money that has protected against financial and societal chaos for all of recorded history, looks like…
Continue readingThe current inflationary concerns are less important than current global market expectations…
Continue readingIn the real world, one has to become a producer before one can demand goods and services…
Continue readingThat the era of stability has ended and a new era of increasingly chaotic volatility has begun is not on anyone’s radar as a possibility…
Continue readingInterest rates in developed countries have been falling for years as governments prop up economies with easy credit. This comes at the expense of…
Continue readingAnother vaccine, another rally. Easy money is here to stay no matter what happens with COVID…
Continue readingEven those in the nonfinancial media have noticed the skyrocketing price of gold this year. Some partially identify, but don’t quite understand, some of…
Continue readingThe same time as we see the largest support plan since WWII, we are witnessing two dangerous collateral effects: the rise of zombie companies and the collapse of…
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Charles Hugh Smith joins us today to discuss the economic reality on Main Street that’s totally disconnected from Wall Street. From the abrupt loss of jobs, to a consumer that’s […]
Continue readingSince superfluous demand was the core driver of most consumer spending, and that demand is in free-fall, what’s the upside of re-opening?
Continue readingThey’re not kicking a can down the road; they’re kicking a ticking time bomb of social unrest & civil disobedience directly into the laps of their children…
Continue readingThe money printing continues, which will result in short-term deflation followed by stagflation or hyperinflation. Here’s what it means for gold & silver…
Continue readingThere has been long and virulent asset inflation in which financial engineers have…
Continue readingWouldn’t that mean that Fisher himself helped create that dependency?
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Central Banks and Governments are trapped…
Continue readingInvestors should be aware that the dovish U-turn among the central banks may boost risky assets in the short-term, however…
Continue readingSD Friday Wrap: It is all too clear that President Trump & the Fed are losing their control over the economy & the markets…
Continue readingSD Outlook: Get ready for MSM hit pieces on gold & silver, but the anti-gold propaganda might just truly be trumped by Trump’s bullying…
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