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Federal Reserve Hot Air Pumped Up A Stock Market Bubble; 93% Of Gains Due To Monetary Policy
By Samuel Bryan The mainstream financial media is like a stopped clock. Every once in a while, it stumbles into being right. Last week, we had a veteran trader on CNBC Futures Now telling everybody to buy gold as long as central banks continue their expansionary monetary policy, all the while swearing he isn’t a “gold-bug.” … Continue reading
The Fed Is Already Easing Policy
By Joseph Y. Calhoun, Alhambra Investment Partners The Fed threw in the towel this week and acknowledged what the market has known for some time. The four rate hikes previously envisioned for this year are now just two – the dots are falling. According to the Fed, the economy is just fine, just not fine enough … Continue reading
Weakness In The Global Economy: Japan Edition
By Jeffrey P. Snider, Alhambra Investment Partners Setting aside all other considerations and doubts about QQE, there was one factor that was supposed to be unassailable. That was the yen. QQE as a “money printing” operation was understood to act heavily on the exchange value of the Japanese currency so that it would drastically alter the … Continue reading
U.S. Recession Data Shows It’s A Very Short Road To Capital Controls
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man “Prosperity is like a Jenga tower. Take one piece out and the whole thing can fall.” That’s a direct quote from John Williams, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in a speech he gave a few weeks ago. He could have just as easily been talking about propaganda. The … Continue reading
Rapidly Declining Exports Signal A Death Blow For The U.S. Economy
By Michael Snyder Exports fell precipitously during the last two recessions, and now it is happening again. So how in the world can anyone make the claim that the U.S. economy is in good shape? On my website I have been repeatedly pointing out the parallels between the last two major economic downturns and the … Continue reading
U.S. Stocks Plunged 43% The Last Time This Happened
By Justin Spittler, Casey Research A key stock market indicator is flashing danger… U.S. stocks had a horrible start to the year. The S&P 500 fell 11% in the first six weeks, one of its worst starts on record. However, stocks have come roaring back recently. The S&P 500 is up 7% in the last month, and … Continue reading
A Warning From The BIS: The Calm Before The Storm
By Mike Whitney The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that recent ructions in the equities markets could be a sign that another financial crisis is brewing. In a sobering report titled “Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence” the BIS states grimly: “We may not be seeing isolated bolts from the blue but the signs … Continue reading
This 4,000-Year Old Financial Indicator Says That A Major Crisis Is Looming
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Over 4,000 years ago during Sargon the Great’s reign of the Akkadian Empire, it took 8 units of silver to buy one unit of gold. This was a time long before coins. It would be thousands of years before the Lydians in modern day Turkey would invent gold coins as a form … Continue reading
Global Trade Imploding As Chinese Exports Plunge 25.4%
By Michael Snyder We just got more evidence that global trade is absolutely imploding. Chinese exports dropped 25.4 percent during the month of February compared to a year ago, and Chinese imports fell 13.8 percent compared to a year ago. For Chinese exports, that was the worst decline that we have seen since 2009, and … Continue reading
Peter Schiff: Growing Signs Of U.S. Recession As Obama Peddling Fiction, Ignoring Fact
By Peter Schiff, CEO and Chief Global Strategist for Euro Pacific Capital In his seventh, and final, State of the Union address this January, President Obama, clearly looking to bolster his legacy as the president who vanquished the Great Recession, boldly asserted that “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” Unfortunately for the President, more and … Continue reading
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