Short-term interest rates are now as negative as they were in the inflationary 1970s. But that’s where the similarity ends. As the above chart shows, 1970s indebtedness was relatively modest as a percentage of GDP, which gave that financial system the resiliency to withstand the double-digit interest rates necessary to throttle inflation and bring things […]
Top Ten Videos — July 18 2021
Alasdair Macleod: If interest rates go up, the bubble pops … Greg Weldon: We’re facing monetary Armageddon … Russell Brand: Think politics is corrupt? Watch this! … Steve Hanke: We’re in the worst of all possible worlds … Rick Rule: Silver set to outrun gold … Axel Merk: Investing for the coming instability … Chris […]
Glenn Greenwald: Nancy Pelosi Making Millions Trading Stocks of Companies She Regulates
From Glenn Greenwald’s Substack: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the sixth-richest member of Congress, according to the most recent financial disclosure statements filed in 2019. As the California Democrat has risen through party ranks and obtained more and more political power, her personal wealth has risen right along with it. Pelosi “has seen her […]
Thanks For Your Concern, Mr. Fink
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s biggest investment company, just went on CNBC to commiserate with today’s savers. You may need to work longer, ramp up investment risk to afford retirement, BlackRock CEO Fink says “Unquestionably, as central banks keep rates low, or negative in Europe, the savers are getting slammed,” BlackRock’s Larry Fink […]
Retiring Boomers Are Deflationary, Right?
There’s never been a generation as influential, for good or ill, as today’s Baby Boomers. So our mass retirement over the next decade should, in theory, be a big deal. One scenario has us selling our stocks and either spending the proceeds or moving them into less risky assets like bonds and cash. This reverses […]
Top Ten Videos — July 11 2021
Russell Brand: If you don’t trust the media, watch this … Joe Mazumdar: Why this commodity supercycle is different … Peter Grandich: We’re in the mother of all financial bubbles … Clem Chambers: Bitcoin winter is here, $10,000 coming … JP Sears: When the government comes knocking on your door … ——————————– Prediction: Major economic […]
When Did College Turn Into Just Another Scam?
From today’s Wall Street Journal: ‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off Recent film program graduates of Columbia University who took out federal student loans had a median debt of $181,000. Yet two years after earning their master’s degrees, half of the borrowers were making less than $30,000 a year. […]
Charts For A Crazy World, July 5: Soaring Debt, Negative Interest Rates Set Up Gold’s Next Run
One glance at this chart should silence any talk of “a return to normalcy”. We are emphatically not headed in a normal direction. The liquidity being generated by this debt binge is pushing up prices in a wide variety of sectors. Shipping costs, for instance, are soaring… … which is raising manufacturing costs for any […]
Top Ten Videos — July 5 2021
Pawn Stars’ Rick Harrison: Physical silver is very hard to find right now … Lobo Tiggre: Should silver really be $150 and gold $3k? … Max Keiser doubles down on bitcoin $220,000 … Joel Kotkin: Are elites the new ruling class? … Michael Oliver: Gold is about to get irrational to the upside … MSNBC: […]
These Big Inflation Numbers Are Interesting But Ultimately Unimportant
It’s been hard, lately, to untangle the many causes of inflation’s sudden surge. How much is due to the pandemic lockdown distorting year-over-year comparisons? How much to crippled supply chains forcing manufacturers to pay up for needed components? And how much to good old-fashioned excessive money printing? Whatever the cause, headline inflation numbers have been […]
Michael Pento: How Central Banks Murdered The Markets
From Pento Portfolio Strategies: The Japanese Government Bond market is nearly $10 trillion in size. It is the 2nd biggest bond market in the world. However, it comes as a shock that this humongous market barely trades any longer. The government of Japan has systematically supplanted and killed the entire private market for its bonds. […]
Top Ten Videos — June 27
Keith Neumeyer: Currency collapse, $3,000 gold imminent … Robert Kiyosaki: How to survive a market mania … Harry Dent: The greatest bubble in history is about to burst … Lynette Zang: Positioning for the end … Max and Stacy: The “great bond market rug pull” is coming … Rick Rule: The Reddit silver short squeeze […]
Welcome To The “Pre-Taper” Tantrum
In 2018, the Fed tried to moderate its post-Great Recession emergency policy of low interest rates and torrential money printing. It reduced (or tapered) its asset purchases and, in a series of tiny steps, boosted short-term interest rates by about one percentage point. And the financial markets, by then addicted to easy money, threw what […]
Top Ten Videos — June 20
David Garofalo: For gold miners, declining reserves are an existential crisis … Ronald Stoeferle: Silver is looking explosive … Chris Martenson: When this runs short, look out … Lacy Hunt: Inflation today, but deflation tomorrow … Robert Kiyosaki: A storm is brewing in the US … Alasdair Macleod: After Basil III, gold will rise by […]
Top Ten Videos — June 13
Wall Street Silver: “Welcome to the jungle” … Robert Kiyosaki: You need an escape plan with untraceable wealth … Ronni Stoeferle: Why $5,000 gold is in the cards … Russell Brand: They’re lying to you about the pandemic … Doug Casey: Utter financial chaos is the only guarantee … Alasdair Macleod: Will Basel III end […]
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