Financial engineering that preceded the last two financial crises is back, International Monetary Fund warns An illusion of liquidity has beguiled financial markets across the world and spawned some of the worst excesses seen on Wall Street in modern times, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Investors are borrowing money to buy shares on the US stockmarket at a torrid pace and are[...]
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It’s Not The Weather: Industrial Production Is Rolling Over, Yet The Fed Is Clueless About Its Own Index
Another day of “incoming data” and still more evidence that this isn’t your father’s business cycle. This time it comes from the Eccles Building itself, but don’t expect the Keynesian money printers domiciled there to recognize that the industrial production report they issued today constitutes yet another rebuke to their entire macro model. The March index slipped badly (0.6%)[...]
Rickards, Paradoxes, and Getting Ahead
By Chris Campbell We have three big announcements for you today… First: You are no ordinary person. These are no ordinary times. And this is no ordinary episode. The second: I was just inside the White House yesterday. For reasons I’ll tell you later. And our third announcement, which I’ll get to in a moment, is even bigger than the first two. I’ll announce it in just a moment. But[...]
Rick Rule: Have the Cash and Courage to Sustain Your Trade
For the past five months, we’ve been writing in the DR’s email edition, about the danger debt and derivatives tied to the U.S. shale gale posed while crude oil lingers in the $40-60 range. We had occasion to ask Rick Rule about this thesis and more recently. Rick needs no introduction. He’s founder of Sprott’s U.S. Global Holdings and is considered one of the most able natural resource[...]
50-Year Veteran – This Global Crisis Is Incredibly Dangerous And More Western Government Theft Is On The Way
With continued uncertainty in global markets, today a 50-year market veteran warned King World News that people should not believe the Western mainstream media because this crisis has now become incredibly dangerous. He also discussed the coming theft of people's money by Western governments. John Embry: “I must say that the current news in virtually all areas must be very troubling for[...]
Hedge Fund Legend Julian Robertson Warns Of A “Complete Explosion” Unless Fed Contains “Boiling, Bubble” Market
Legendary hedge fund manager Julian Robertson, who has been conspicuously absent from CNBC in recent months, spoke with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo about his take on markets. He was hardly bullish, which may explain his absence from the cadre of CNBC bubble cheerleaders. Robertson (in addition to some generic comments on the weather impacting the jobs numbers: apparently the weather only[...]
5 Charts Which Show That The Next Economic Crash Is Dead Ahead
By Michael Snyder When an economic crisis is coming, there are usually certain indicators that appear in advance. For example, commodity prices usually start to plunge before a recession begins. And as you can see from the Bloomberg Commodity Index which you can find right here, this has already been happening. In addition, I have previously written about how the U.S. dollar went on a great run[...]
Australia Wants to Tax Bank Deposits. Does Anyone Think the US Won’t?
bySimon BlackonApril 1, 2015 Several months ago, the government of Australia proposed to tax bank deposits up to $250,000 at a rate of 0.05% (5 basis points). Their idea was for the money to be invested in a rainy day Financial Stabilization Fund to insure against in the unlikely event of a banking crisis… or all-out collapse. And as of this morning, it looks like the levy might just pass and[...]
Beware the Money Illusion Coming to Destroy Your Wealth
By James Rickards Editor’s Note: Jim Rickards has published a third book entitled “The Big Drop: How to Grow Your Wealth During the Coming Collapse.” It’s available exclusively for readers of his monthly investment letter called Strategic Intelligence. Before you read today’s essay, please click here to see why it’s the resource every investor should have if they’re concerned[...]
“Earnings Estimates Haven’t Declined By This Much Since The Financial Crisis”
by David Kranzler Investment Research Dynamics All ten sectors [of the S&P 500] have recorded a decline in expected earnings growth since the beginning of the quarter due to downward revisions to earnings estimates… – John Butters, FactSet I guess declining earnings estimates for America’s biggest companies are the perfect reason for the S&P 500 to have popped 1.22% today.[...]