Criticizing the “public sector” is tricky, because teachers, firefighters, cops and bus drivers are by-and-large great people doing hard things that benefit the rest of us. But there’s this problem, which is that once a country’s public sector grows beyond a certain size, it takes on a life of its own, demanding more resources even […]
Really Bad Ideas, Part 8: Yield Curve Control And Mega-Stimulus
It’s been obvious for a while that the next phase of global monetary madness would be both spectacular and very different from the previous phase. The question was whether the difference would be in degree or kind. Now the answer is looking like “both.” Let’s start with “yield curve control,” in which central banks, instead […]
Top Ten Videos — December 8
Atlantic Report: If Deutsche Bank goes down, it all goes down … George Gammon: Jim Rickards’ gold price prediction explained … Rick Rule: I feel great about the precious metals market … Mike Maloney: The chart that changed my career … Saagar Enjeti: Corporate media melts down as bias utterly exposed … Emigrate […]
Top Ten Videos — December 1
Kyle Bass: China is the most reckless financial experiment in history … Gwen Preston: Gold’s fundamentals are stronger than they’ve been in years … Max Keiser: The economy died in 2009 and no amount of money will reanimate the corpse … Mike Maloney & Ronnie Stoeferle: The #1 performing asset around the world is… […]
Top Ten Videos — November 25
Egon von Greyerz: Unprecedented risks — are you 50% in gold? … Dr. Mark Skidmore: $21 trillion is missing and I think we’re in trouble … Novo Resources: We’re on the verge of costs that are an order of magnitude lower than normal … Karl Denninger: Student debt is an epidemic and and a national […]
Civil Unrest Is The New Normal Out There
This is getting ridiculous. Every few days another country blows up, as their citizens take to the streets with little warning and no apparent interest in a quick settlement. Here’s the first part of the “War…Civil Unrest” section of today’s DollarCollapse.com links list. As you can see the peasants have grabbed their pitchforks and besieged […]
Top Ten Videos — November 16
Martin Armstrong: This time bomb is worse than subprime mortgages … Marin Katusa: Negative rates have changed the rules of economics … Peter Hug: Get ready, gold prices in 2020 will rock and roll … Rick Rule: In a resource bull market, just capture the beta … Think Epstein didn’t kill himself? Here’s why you’re […]
Top Ten Videos — November 10
Doug Casey: We’re looking at an actual collapse of Western civilization … Harry Dent: Stock market crash looking imminent … Peter Schiff: Destroying savings doesn’t create jobs … Lynette Zang: How close are we to the meltdown? … Claudio Grass: The euro may not survive the next crisis … Emigrate While You Still […]
As Solar Eats The Energy Sector, It’s Time To Revise The “Real Assets” List
In the energy market, there’s always a revolution going on somewhere. For most of human history, light and heat were provided by wood and candles. Then we discovered whale oil, and in the early 1800s lamps replaced candles. Later in that century, kerosene, a petroleum derivative, became the lamp oil of choice, and the whaling […]
The Social Security Crisis that Millions of Americans Don’t See Coming
Sponsored: This is the “economic time bomb” Alan Greenspan worries about most. Deficit spending is parabolic, and it’s destroying the savings of unsuspecting Americans. To preserve your savings, Greenspan offers one simple piece of advice: Gold. In short, he says, “Gold stands in the way of this insidious process [wealth confiscation].” Here’s how savvy investors […]
Too Bad They’re Not Gold Bugs: A Review Of HBO’s Years And Years
HBO’s new series Years And Years begins in the more-or-less present, with the Lyons, an aggressively diverse UK Family that’s trying – and mostly succeeding – to navigate life’s complexities. There’s the acerbically funny grandmother, the gay grandson and his illegal immigrant mate, the African wife of another grandson, the wheelchair-bound sister who nevertheless gets […]
Top Ten Videos — November 2
Craig Hemke: The financial crash is near … James Howard Kunstler: We may not have a 2020 election … In Gold We Trust: time to buy … Max Keiser: What is the Fed hiding? … Peter Schiff: It’s bad monetary policy, not a good economy … Edward Snowden tells his (amazing) story … Jim Rickards: […]
Financial Markets To Federal Reserve: Is That All You’ve Got??
So the Fed, as expected, cuts interest rates again. And – also again – Fed Chair Powell implies that he’s done cutting for a while. The financial markets – also once again – react like junkies contemplating their final hit. Stocks are falling… …and Treasury yields are plunging, which is to say Treasury bond prices […]
Welcome To The Third World, Part 30: California Burning In The Dark
Venezuela has suffered through recurring power outages this year, as money for routine maintenance dries up and power plant employees flee the country (and, okay, as the US practices its cyberwar skills on a vulnerable target). Some of the blackouts have lasted as long as a week. Here’s an aerial photo comparing Caracas on a […]
Top Ten Videos — October 27
Money Show: The great old rush of 2019-2021 … Ronni Stoeferle introduces his “In Gold We Trust” chartbook … McAlvaney on “the coming superstorm” … Gerald Celente: Orwell was an optimist … Michael Pento: Coming market meltdown is going to be brutal … Max Keiser: Paper is poverty; a ghost of money … […]
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