The extended period of monetary accommodation and the accompanying search for yield are leading to credit mispricing and asset price pressures, increasing the chance that financial stability risks could derail the recovery. Concerns have shifted to the shadow banking system, especially the growing share of illiquid credit in mutual fund portfolios. Should asset markets come under stress, an[...]
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The Super Rich Are Preparing For A Crash…Are YOU?
By Graham Summers We are getting clear signals from the “smart money” that something bad is looming on the horizon.The most obvious signal comes from the ultra-wealthy (those worth $20 million or more) who are rapidly moving out of paper assets and into real assets. For this reason, I want to draw your attention to the fact that the super-wealthy are currently moving their money out of[...]
Here Is The Most Frightening Prediction To End 2014 and Enter The Future
Today King World News interviewed a 60-year market veteran who made some absolutely frightening predictions as we head into the end of 2014. He discussed what to expect in the major markets, including stocks and gold, and he warned that despite the propaganda and recent stock market action, the West is literally “destroying” itself. Below is six-decade market veteran Ron Rosen’s remarkable[...]
‘Mediocre and a Bit Worse’: IMF Trims Global Growth Forecast
IMF Trims Forecast for Global Economic Growth to 3.3 Percent The International Monetary Fund slightly lowered its outlook for global economic growth this year and next, mostly because of weaker expansions in Japan, Latin America and Europe. The IMF said Tuesday the global economy will grow 3.3 percent this year, one-tenth of a point below what it forecast in July. World growth should then pick[...]
Fed Renews Zero Interest Rate Pledge, Restates Jobs Concerns – Duration of Action for “Considerable Time”
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday renewed a pledge to keep interest rates near zero for a "considerable time" and repeated concerns over slack in the labor market, standing firm against calls to overhaul its policy statement. Many economists and traders had expected the central bank to alter the rate guidance it has provided since March, given generally improving data on the economy's[...]
Fed Incompetence: Your Financial Bubble Indicator – Bill Bonner
by Bill Bonner The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. – Jesse Livermore, How to Trade in Stocks The trouble with capitalism’s guardians is that they have no respect for it. Markets have been around for[...]
Janet Yellen Gives Her Clearest Comments Ever About How She Missed The Crisis And How She Sees The World
In Nicholas Lemann's profile of Fed Chair Janet Yellen in this week's "New Yorker," Janet Yellen says she knew the housing market was dangerous before the financial crisis. "In 2005 and 2006, [Yellen] began to be concerned that there was a dangerous bubble in in the housing markets," Lemann writes. From Lemann's profile: "'I'm sorry that light bulbs didn't go off in my head a couple of years [...]
Gold Climbs Above $1320/oz Ahead Of US Federal Minutes – Holding onto 2014 Gains
by Reuters LONDON: Gold prices firmed on Wednesday, climbing back above $1,320 an ounce, as fresh inflows into bullion-backed funds indicated rising investor confidence the metal ahead of the release of the latest Federal Reserve minutes. The world’s largest gold exchange-traded fund, New York-listed SPDR Gold Shares, reported a second straight session of inflows on Tuesday, taking its[...]
Why You Feel Poorer
Source: Zero Hedge You feel poorer because you are poorer. In the last fourteen years, has your income increased over 50%? If you think it has, has it done so after taxes? Even if it has, you likely have not kept up in terms of inflation. If you are a retiree, living on fixed income, a pension or bonds, you certainly have become poorer. If you had bought the Dow-Jones on 12/31/1999 you would[...]