ZeroHedge: Trump’s Right – Paying Back The National Debt With “Discounts” Is...
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food. Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, Donald Trump says a lot of whacko things, and his recent...
View ArticleZeroHedge: Copper Slides To Three Month Low Despite Flat Futures, Oil; Dollar...
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food. After two violently volatile days in which the market soared (Monday) then promptly retraced all gains...
View ArticleZeroHedge: The Inflation Tipping-Point
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food. The non-linearity of inflation psychology and the present danger of stagflation Submitted by John Butler at...
View ArticleZeroHedge: Why This Friday’s Payrolls Report Could See A Big Miss
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food. When the main economic event this week hits this Friday at 8:30 am EDT, when the BLS releases the May payrolls...
View ArticleWhat Is Helicopter Money? Goldman Explains
Whether Japan admits it or not, helicopter money – thanks to Ben Bernanke – is here, and the market’s reaction this week was simply the first stage of pricing it in, as confirmed by the biggest drop in...
View ArticleThe FOMC Butterfly That Will Ruin The World
Submitted by Eugen von Bohm-Bawer via Bawerk.net, Imagine the financial crisis knocked you out and you did not wake up from the coma that followed until this day. Then, presented with the following...
View ArticlePreview Of Key Events In The Coming Week
After last week’s central bank and GDP fireworks, we have another busy week on deck culminating with Friday’s jobs report. This morning in Europe the early focus is on the final revisions to those July...
View ArticleThe Bank of Japan Will Be The Top Shareholder Of 55 Companies By The End Of 2017
In the aftermath of the BOJ’s announcement that it would almost double its ETF purchases to ¥6 trillion, or $58 billion, up from the current ¥3.3 trillion, we put this number in context. Over the next...
View ArticleIt’s All About This Friday’s Payrolls: Key Events In The Coming Week
After Friday’s Jackson Hole repricing of Fed hike expectations, which made it clear that the fate of a September (and perhaps December) rate hike is now in the hands of the August payrolls number, the...
View ArticleAlbert Edwards Sees Shades Of 2007 In The Biggest Risk Facing The US Consumer
One month ago, when the first Q2 GDP estimate was released, we reported that if one strips away the consumer part of the economy, the US was already in a recession. Overnight, In his latest letter...
View ArticleThe Elephant In The Room: “What Else Could Go Right?”
Via ConvergEx's Nicholas Colas, The equity market question of the hour is “When will U.S. stock market volatility return?” History tells us this is purely a question of “When and why”, not “if”. A...
View ArticleThe Economy, The Stock Market, & The Fed
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com, John Hussman on Recent Developments We always look forward to John Hussman’s weekly missive on the markets. Some people say that he is a “permabear”,...
View ArticleLoonie Tumbles After Canadian Inflation, Retail Sales Plunge
A slew of disappointing data out of Canada has sent the Loonie tumbling this morning (despite higher oil prices). Canadian Retail Sales and Inflation data missed across the board… Multi-year lows in...
View ArticleNIRP is the Fuel that Will Rocket Gold to $5,000 or Higher
For decades, the primary argument by Warren Buffett and other financial elites for not owning gold was that “gold doesn’t pay you anything.” Once the ECB took interest rates to NIRP in 2014, this...
View ArticlePreviewing This Week’s Most Interesting Central Bank Decision (No, Not The Fed)
While most attention over the next week will be focused on the fascinating slow-motion-train-wreck developments in the US political arena over the next week, let’s please think of the central banks,...
View ArticleKey Events In The Coming Busy Week
The key economic releases this week include the personal income and spending report on Monday, ISM manufacturing on Tuesday, ISM non-manufacturing on Wednesday, and the employment report on Friday. The...
View ArticleBank Of Japan Leaves Policy Unchanged; Warns Growth, Inflation Outlook Skewed...
Expectations for the BoJ meeting tonight were for no change (and perhaps lowering its inflation and growth outlooks) and markets were braced for a whole lot of nothing with overnight USDJPY vol at its...
View ArticleGoldman’s Bear Case In 7 Steps: “We Are In The 98th Percentile Of Historical...
Having been on the fence about an upside case for the S&P for the greater part of 2016, Goldman’s chief equity strategist David Kostin finally threw in the towel earlier this week when, as we...
View ArticleSomething Wicked This Way Comes
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, I stopped trying to predict markets back in 2008 when the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Wall Street bankers, and their propaganda peddling...
View ArticleGoldman’s 10 Most Important Questions For 2017
Goldman Sachs is relatively optimistic about growth in 2017, for three reasons: first, despite the lack of spare capacity, US recession risk remains below the historical average; second, financial...
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