As reported two weeks ago, following a stunning announcement by the head of Ukraine's central bank, Valeriya Gontareva, on primetime TV we learned that (virtually) all of Ukraine's gold was gone, or - in the parlance of Jon Corzine - had "vaporized." And as we also predicted two weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before Ukraine's people - the vast majority of whom are innocent pawns in a[...]
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The Retail Apocalypse Accelerates: Collapsing Holiday Sales Are A Signal That A Recession Is Coming
By Michael Snyder, on December 1st, 2014 Retail sales during the four day Thanksgiving weekend were down a whopping 11 percent from last year. This is a “make or break” time of the year for many retailers, and if things don’t turn around during the coming weeks we could see a tsunami of store closings in January and February. As you read this article, there is already more than a billion[...]
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…
By Michael Snyder There has only been one other time in history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 40 dollars in less than 6 months. The last time this happened was during the second half of 2008, and the beginning of that oil price crash preceded the great financial collapse that happened later that year by several months. Well, now it is happening again, but this time the stakes[...]
Here We Go: Yen Goes Parabolic, Begins to Hyperinflate
The Japanese yen is now collapsing. If the yen goes “super-nova” – i.e. collapses - it could bring down the U.S. The U.S. QE/Keynesian Ponzi scheme relies on Japan to help keep the scheme together. The yen is beginning to hyperinflate and it is now entering “parabolic” mode. First, this will cause the Japanese banks to implode because they’re loaded up with Japanese stocks and[...]
Obamacare = A Death Panel For The U.S. Economy
By Michael Snyder, on November 16th, 2014 Did you know that some Americans are being hit with health insurance rate increases of more than 500 percent? Taking advantage of "the stupidity of the American voter", the Democrats succeeded in ramming through one of the worst pieces of legislation that has ever come before Congress. The full implementation of Obamacare has been repeatedly delayed, but [...]
Open Windows of Opportunity With Jim Rickards
Formulating a Strategy when Inflation and Deflation Stare You in the Face by James Rickards Today’s investment climate is the most challenging one you have ever faced. At least since the late 1970s, perhaps since the 1930s. This is because inflation and deflation and deflation are both possibilities in the near term. Most investors can prepare for one of the other, but preparing for both[...]
This Will Dislocate Every Market In The World – David Stockman
Today David Stockman warned King World News about what he says will dislocate every market in the world, including stocks, bonds, commodities, and real estate. KWN takes Stockman’s warnings very seriously because he is the man former President Reagan called on in 1981, during that crisis, to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget and help save the United States from collapse.[...]
Here’s What Central Bankers Will Do Next
by Bill Bonner Worse Off We’ve been meaning to write about what hasn’t happened yet. Not that we claim any knowledge of tomorrow or the day after. But we can look at the present. And here’s a guess about where it might lead. The middle classes – aka “the voters” – expressed themselves last week. They have been sorely used and they know it. The biggest money-fabricating program of[...]
US Economic Growth is All an Illusion
by John Crudele New York Post As voters were coming out of the polls on Tuesday, pesky reporters were asking why they voted the way they did — and what was going through their heads? The most popular response — from 45 percent of the voters — was the economy. Only 28 percent said their families were doing better financially. The economy is always the major issue in an election during[...]
They’re Burning The Furniture Now
by David Kranzler Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. Francisco’s Money Speech – When Atlas Shrugged Last night around 12:30 a.m. EST, $1.5 billion of paper gold was dumped into the Comex Globex computer trading system[...]