Alasdair Macleod: Currency destruction is coming this year … Danielle DiMartino-Booth: Is the next Great Depression here? … Classic 2019 Matt Tiabbi on the Joe Rogan Show … McAlvany: Living in the long emergency … Max Keiser: The Fed can’t print a supply chain … Emigrate While You Still Can – To Finca […]
Now Comes The Real Crazy
A recurring theme of modern financial crises is the “temporary” nature of the extreme steps governments take to fix the system. Recall that the massive increase in the Fed’s balance sheet during its Great Recession asset-buying binge (which is another way of saying “currency printing binge”) was going to be reversed out. But a funny […]
What Happens When The Pandemic Ends?
Let’s assume that by the end of this year a combination of social distancing and some new and effective treatments convert covid-19 from existential threat to chronic nuisance and the economy starts to assume an air of normalcy. Which is to say that people go back to traveling and eating out and buying Chinese-made things […]
Top Ten Videos — April 11
Matt Taibbi: Why this bailout is worse than 2008 … Epoch Times: Covid-19 is “definitely laboratory driven” … Max Keiser: Why you need gold, bitcoin … Mike Maloney: Should we be bailing out billionaires? … Charles Nenner: The world has never seen a crash this big … Emigrate While You Still Can – […]
The Housing Bust Will Take Longer This Time
Let’s start by sketching out a rough spectrum of the pandemic’s impact on major industries. At the hellish end of this spectrum is hospitality, where cruise ships, vacation resorts, and other crowd magnets have been rendered toxic and therefore useless overnight. Most of these companies will fail and their flagship assets will be repurposed or […]
Top Ten Videos — April 5
Mike Maloney: This is going to take years to recover from … Rick Rule: What’s next for the gold shortage … Michael Pento: This is a global depression … James Rickards: How to protect your wealth going forward … Grant Williams: Desperate central bankers will try anything … Catherine Austine Fitts: We’re in a spiritual […]
James Grant: The Firemen Are Also The Arsonists
James Grant, the venerable publisher of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, just wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal that, had it appeared on a free site, would have been at the top of today’s “Best of the Web” links list. But since it exists behind the WSJ’s paywall, here’s an excerpt to illustrate […]
A Perfect Storm For Emerging Markets
Pretend for a minute that it’s 2019 and you’re Brazil. Or maybe Turkey, your choice. You’ve got a lot of infrastructure to build if you want to keep your people happy, and to fund those projects you’ll need to borrow a lot of money. That’s not a problem, because borrowing is easy. The whole world […]
Top Ten Videos — March 29
Nouriel Roubini: This recession will be worse than the last one … Chris Martenson: The high cost of being wrong on coronavirus … Alasdair Macleod: Will financial cancer plus Covid 19 end fiat currencies? … Craig Hemke: Mints and refiners shut down. But wait, there’s more … Doug Casey: We’re on the cusp of the […]
Gold Is Now “Unobtanium”
The Wall Street Journal just published the kind of article gold bugs dream of seeing in the mainstream press. Here’s an excerpt: Coronavirus Sparks a Global Gold Rush Epic shortage spooks doomsday preppers and bankers alike; ‘Unaffordium and unobtanium.’ It’s an honest-to-God doomsday scenario and the ultimate doomsday-prepper market is a mess. As the coronavirus […]
James Howard Kunstler: When The Financial World Broke With Reality
In the sound money world there are a lot of journalists, a few serious analysts, and a handful of effective polemicists. But James Howard Kunstler is an artist, whose work frequently rises to the level of literature. His latest illustrates the point: Forced Liquidation Historians of the future, pan-roasting fresh-caught June bugs over their campfires, […]
Watch The Virus Checks Become Permanent Income
Two things about the coronavirus relief checks the government will soon start sending out: First, it looks like they’ll take a while to arrive: Show Me The Relief Money – No Promises On When Coronavirus Checks Are Coming About 90% of households — approximately 165 million — will benefit from direct payments, according to the […]
Retirees Getting Screwed — One Last Time
To understand the impossible situation in which most retirees find themselves, let’s begin with interest rates. When governments raise or lower the cost of credit, they’re communicating with the rest of us. Higher interest rates send the message that “cash is more valuable, so save more and spend less.” Lower rates say the opposite: “Cash […]
CRISIS INVESTING 2020: Emergency Briefing
Sponsored: Marin Katusa details how the moves you make today are once in a generation opportunity for wealth creation. The Fed fired its bazooka and is looking to cut rates to near ZERO. Why you MUST pay attention to the massive rush into U.S. Dollars. Energy companies are leading a meltdown in the resource sector. […]
Top Ten Videos — March 24
Jim Rickards: Economic freeze is here, get gold, silver if you can and get ready … Egon von Greyerz: Fake markets are supported by fake money … Martin Armstrong: Fake epidemic brought on by fake news … Chris Martenson: The system just broke … Emigrate While You Still Can – To Finca Bayano
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